Sunday, August 31, 2003While many new news aggregators come with built in Feedster support, allowing you to monitor up the minute what blogworld...
[hebig.org/blog]
5:41:15 AM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft Bloggers Multiplying Exponentially
It had been a while since we updated the Microsoft Watch list of current and former Microsoft employees who are bloggingThere are now more [sigma]
lots more. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
5:22:28 AM
comment [] trackback [] RSS Feeds are the Better Email Newsletters
According to Heinz Tschabitscher from About.com; "Email newsletters are great, but spam is not. The deluge of junk mail has made it increasingly painful to follow the news and what's happening on your favorite web sites via email." They also added; "Either the newsletter you're eager to read is hidden in a massive spam attack or it doesn't arrive because your ISP is blocking spam and your favorite newsletter falls victim to the filters, too (now you know why a 'false positive' is something negative)." Read the rest here......
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
5:08:17 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tagging conventions for microcontent
Jon Udell has put up his structured blog search which allows you to write XPaths over an XML representation of his blog and get some useful information out of it. In the accompanying blog post he makes the plea for well formedness, since that makes things easier. No argument from me. What I'm more interested in is a description of his tagging conventions.
[Ted Leung on the air]
5:06:19 AM
comment [] trackback [] The September That Never Began
I have been watching and waiting for the impact of AOL Journals. Back in January I outlined the business case for AOL to enter the market, using LiveJournal stats to suggest a $48m revenue stream as the prize. I wondered...
[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
5:01:43 AM
comment [] trackback [] Categorical indirection
Don Park's post on how to link blogs and wikis is actually an instance of the following. Take a category, or view (if you prefer database terminology) and send it off to somewhere else. This is cool, and another reason why multiple categorization would be useful. Each category can do its own rendering, transmission, etc.
[Ted Leung on the air]
4:35:21 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 29, 2003Lest we forget, the geeks came first; in the global South, however, they're seeing it the other way around.
[Blogalization Community]
3:07:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] Thursday, August 28, 2003Perish the thought...
Washington Post: President Bush's campaign will unveil a Web site today that allows proprietors of online journals -- Blogs or Web logs -- to "get the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop posted instantly to your site through a live...[The Blog Herald]
6:37:16 PM
comment [] trackback [] Tripod Blogs better than Blogger?
PC Mag has rated Tripod Blogs higher than Blogger, Live Journal and Weblogger in a review published today that is bound to attract criticism. Lycos is trumpeting its win with a release to Yahoo! Finance, although the Blog Census figures...
[The Blog Herald]
6:33:57 PM
comment [] trackback [] Update: My.Yahoo RSS Aggregator is live
Just tried it myself - works like a charm.
You have to add the Blogs section, available here:
http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/add_module?.module=xcontent
The interface is nice. Summaries of the latest entries, headlines for older entries. [Blogdigger Development Blog]
5:15:10 PM comment [] trackback []
My.Yahoo is now an RSS Aggregator!
"Sneak peek: Yahoo RSS module
"The My Yahoo RSS module appeared briefly yesterday on the Choose Content page under Personal Information Management with the name "Blogs", but it seems to have disappeared now. Here is a screenshot of the config page for the module:"
(via Blogdigger, BloggingRoller, Arjun) [Blogdigger Development Blog]
5:03:27 PM comment [] trackback []
Wednesday, August 27, 2003"This is no "for money" product. We have developed that for our own needs and because we are educators and will use this code base in excercises with our students and therefore will give it away for them to play with, anyways, we can just as well share it with the rest of the folks out there, too.
This is "free software" without the politics. The software license we chose for DasBlog is plain and simple: BSD. You may use, modidy and redistribute our stuff as long as you keep us out of trouble and leave our and all of the other contibutor's copyright notices in. If you want to derive a closed-source, proprietary product from it ... just go right ahead. We don't like the GPL and the whole "must disclose source of derivative works" interpretation of "free"."
(via dasBlog.net) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
6:34:07 PM
comment [] trackback [] BlogPlanet
Moblog tool for Nokia 3650 camera phones and similar camphones with Java Midlet camera access.
"With BlogPlanet, updating your blog while you're on the go is as easy as writing an SMS. It runs on your mobile and lets you write new blog entries, send them to your blog, edit them afterwards and delete them. On top of that, you can take pictures with the mobile's built-in camera and include them in your posts. Here's an overview of BlogPlanet's features:[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
* Create, edit and delete posts
* A user dictionary which lets you add shortcuts for frequently used words and phrases
* Take pictures with the built-in camera
* Easily include the pictures in your posts, without having to enter HTML code
* Supports the BloggerAPI and MetaWeblogAPI for compatibility with a vast number of blog sites
* English, German and Spanish language support
BlogPlanet has been tested with the Nokia 3650."
5:48:25 PM
comment [] trackback [] Stock market blogs
Here are some more blogs that contain trading and/or stock market information. This is a continuation of the list I made back in May. These have been on my blogroll for a while, but I thought I'd highlight them here.(via Trader Mike: More Stock Market Blogs) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
- The Capital Spectator
- The Learning Curve
- Stable Value
- Stingy Investor
- The Gagalac Style - Charles has merged his stock blog, It's All About the Benjamins, into this blog. If you like, you can filter the stock market commentary via his archives by category.
5:42:32 PM
comment [] trackback [] Text America
... The problem is, moblogs are too uninformative. Here, take a look at the moblog from our dinner. I see the team now is off drinking somewhere. But, no context. No text. Here's a hint from the guys...that'll soon change.... [The Scobleizer Weblog]
5:29:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] Yahoo! News RSS Feeds Launched
This has been in the works for a while and it's finally up for for real. Visit http://news.yahoo.com/rss for details. RSS is alive and well at Yahoo. Watch for more in the future. :-) Congrats and thanks to Jeff and team for making it happen!...
[Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
4:27:44 PM
comment [] trackback [] eBay to RSS Generator
Via Tareq Tujjar: "I have been a subscriber to the Lockergenome for almost 2 years. Being a dedicated GEEK myself I find the content to be very useful. I particularly appreciate the new website about RSS. It actually gave me the motivation to finish this eBay to RSS generator. It is a FREE utility that generates RSS feeds for your favorite eBay search. I have been testing it for the past 5 days, and it seems to be doing good. This is a BETA version and could still have some bugs. I built it using .NET without using the COSTLY eBay API. Therefore, I can offer it for free. Please check it out, and let me know if you have any suggestions."
By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
5:02:44 AM
comment [] trackback [] blogs+im
Wikis, blogs, IM and other collaborative tools are going through a variety of trial matings as part of a grand experiment that is searching for new utility. I've been very interested in blogs and email (more precisely rss+news aggregator email)...
[tingilinde]
5:00:28 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tuesday, August 26, 2003"The message we should all have tatooed on our forheads should read: Integration, aggregation and customization. Everything we need has been invented. Now it's just time to get it all to work together."
[Marc's Voice]10:23:58 PM
comment [] trackback [] People Out Post Commerical Feeds
A keen observation which I can confirm:
I noticed for the first time this morning that the majority of my news aggregator content was from individuals rather than media organizations like the New York Times, CNET, or InfoWorld.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
What are the implications?
7:17:31 PM comment [] trackback []
RSS is/is not....
the point and a well-done counter-point on RSS. It shows that some people naturally see things as challenges to the status quo, while others see them as opportunities to disrupt the status quo. Which are you? Do you see things as threats to what you're doing? Or opportunities to improve...
[Teal Sunglasses]
7:12:12 PM comment [] trackback []
MetaWeblog API
"It is now safe to deploy applications based on this spec."
[Scripting News]
7:09:24 PM comment [] trackback []
AOL launches blogging service (News.Com) [Scripting News]
2:34:10 AM comment [] trackback []
Monday, August 25, 2003"BlogTV is a fun and easy way for you to create your own personalized blog. Not unlike television, BlogTV offers several channels for you to "STAR" on.Whether it is you.BlogAmerica.com or you.BlogSports.com you can create your own channel to begin publishing and documenting your life without having to know how to program and design a Web page. If you can use email you can use BlogTV.
Because you can create your own channel which reflects your personality, your interests, and lifestyle you have a distinct advantage when it comes to acquiring and maintaining an audience. Not just any audience mind you, but a relevant audience (people that you enjoy writing for and communicating with). This is where your relevant community begins--on your own BlogTV channel."
2:36:10 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 24, 2003"Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions. "
"This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself."
[via John Robb's Weblog]10:18:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] My Boston Globe op-ed on net-politics
I've got an op-ed in today's Boston Globe about the relationship between the Internet and poltiics:
"When Trent Lott's revealing faux pas about Strom Thurmond was lightly touched upon by the press, the Internet's howling masses seized on the story, reviving it with a fresh angle -- Lott backhandedly endorses segregation! -- and kept the news cycle going long beyond its expected lifespan, until Lott crashed and burned and lost his post as Senate majority leader.Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]Huzzah. Of course, Lott is still a senator. In fact, every scandal exposed by or through the net -- INS witchhunts, stubbornly illusory WMDs, awarding of war-pork to Halliburton -- has yielded a decidedly hollow victory.
Information is power, but it's not enough. Modern emperors have learned the knack of spinning revelations of wrongdoing and bouncing back. Thus far, the Internet has lacked the follow-through necessary to make a lasting difference. That's changing. As the Internet matures as a place for political action, services like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Action Center (punch in your ZIP and e-mail your lawmaker), MeetUp's coordinated nationwide kaffeeklatsches for every Democratic candidate (but especially Howard Dean) and MoveOn's thronged mailing list millions (who can conjure the budget for a major media-buy on 24 hours' notice) are providing the bodies, budget and means for advancing proposals and seeing them through to their ends."
10:05:25 PM
comment [] trackback [] Technological Acceleration - A Hidden Law of Nature?
"What will happen if technology is, as Ray Kurzweil claims, exponentially accelerating?..."
[Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs]
Also see: Institute for Accelerating Change
5:53:45 AM comment [] trackback []
The shape of things to come:
mt courseware documentation and templates
Okay, I think I’ve “gone about as fur as ah c’n go” for this first version of the courseware. I’m ready to call it version 1.0, I guess, with all the caveats that go along with that. You can see it in action on my fall course site, though I’d respectfully ask that you not post comments related to the courseware itself there—it’s a production class site. This post would be a better place to discuss process....
[mamamusings]
Awesome!
4:32:35 AM comment [] trackback []
Inspired inspiration
The positive energy and motivation radiating from this post is tangible.
How BloggerCon has changed me.
"A single event has given me a focus that I haven't had for four years..."[house of warwick]
I'm reminded of the energy that eminated from DaveNet and Scripting News in those early days of RSS, XML-RPC and weblogs.
It's very gratifying to witness that same spark of "infectious enthusiasm" continuing to spread.
Go for it, Steve!
4:09:16 AM comment [] trackback []
Saturday, August 23, 2003- You always see Microsoft coming.
- They never get it right the first time.
- They never go away (unless the market is proven not to exist)
2:21:56 PM
comment [] trackback [] Jon's Radio
Microsoft senior developer Chris Brumme doesn't post often to his weblog often, but every one of his essays is a lengthy, authoritative, and candidly self-critical exploration of .NET and CLR arcana, the sort of thing you might expect to read on MSDN (minus the self-criticism, that is). And in fact, the absence of this material from MSDN is controversial.
[Daypop Top 40]
5:15:37 AM
comment [] trackback [] Using RSS to Deliver Newsletters
"Barbara J. Feldman publishes Surfing the Net with Kids and recently joined the growing list of publishers who have added Web-based RSS feeds to deliver newsletters without going through email. Ezine-Tips asked Barbara to explain why she added an RSS feed and to outline the process." By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
3:31:58 AM
comment [] trackback [] BBC online probe to begin
The BBC's websites contain more than two million pages and reach up to 43% of the UK population each month...
[BBC News | Technology | World Edition]
2:52:02 AM
comment [] trackback [] XML machine the successor to von Neumann
Really bring data and programs together.
(The Register) [via Der Schockwellenreiter]
12:31:05 AM
comment [] trackback [] Understanding Web Services [via Der Schockwellenreiter]
12:04:56 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 22, 2003Every once in a while one comes across a post that ignites a whole bunch of ideas. This one from Mathemagenic did it for me: BING!
Sebastien Paquet asks about value/problems of using Trackback in Radio and use of other add-ons too. This is what I think about it:
1. In spite of Trackback in Radio bugs and features it was easy to install and it works. It just doesn't make all the things I want. No breaking Radio in my case.
I agree with Stephen Downes who is "not sure trackback is the way to do it, because it means that we listen only to those with specialized software". I'm not relying much on incoming trackback, but I don't mind pinging others (especially Movable Type users) who use it more.
For me the main value from using Trackback would be in tracking connections between your own posts. For example, if you write something now and link to your earlier post there is no way that readers of that post know that there is a follow up. Trackback can solve this problem. I'm not sure if it does now because it worked for some of my posts and not for others. Will try to get some clarity on this.
2. This brings me to the broader issue: tools to digest your own blog.
I use my weblog as a learning diary. In this case connections between posts (=development of ideas) is one of the most important things (Jay Cross about this) and one of the less supported. Do you have the same pain of finding earlier posts relevant for your current "to be post"? I have, even with many ways I use to seach my weblog. Yesterday I tried to find posts that I could use for my PhD literature review. It pains.
Just think about this: if I (the author and the person who uses these pages most) have problem of tracking ideas how easy then it is for others?
3. On of the tools I use to track ideas in my weblog is liveTopics. It works well, although it's not bugs-free and it's not supported any more since Matt Mover works on k-collector.
I wrote earlier about it in comments to one of my posts:
' got to explore these thoughts a little further...
Good value! "Google has the cake, Yahoo at least is able to open up the instant cake mix and start putting the ingredients together, and Microsoft is just opening up the cookbook.""I believe in work around k-collector, but I think that it serves totally different goal - discovering emergent connections between people. I use liveTopics to provide an alternative navigation for my weblog and I value this aspect as well (especially given not-easy-to-find-a-way chronological structure of blogs). Both aspects are important for me and it's really pity that I have to make choices between these two tools. May be one day k-collector guys will also provide "one blog" functionality next to "group" functionality."
The only reason I'm not switching to k-collector is simple: I have news aggregator, Technorati and long list of other tools to track my connections with others, but I don't have many ways to connect my own posts. liveTopics is one of the tools that makes it possible. [Mathemagenic]
11:49:15 PM comment [] trackback []
Danny Sullivan
2:32:05 AM comment [] trackback []
RSS Feed Reader Extension for Mozilla Firebird
Seems like an XP-only installer so far :-(
[CSS-Technik-News]
2:15:01 AM comment [] trackback []
Blogs listed on Yahoo
[thomas n. burg | randgänge]
1:56:43 AM comment [] trackback []
Thursday, August 21, 2003A benchmark event: Idle Words' blog census reaches the million-blog mark.
[Blogalization Community]
12:40:08 PM
comment [] trackback [] Wednesday, August 20, 2003The Global Internet Geography Database and Report is PriMetrica's expanded and completely updated guide to the global Internet with in-depth statistical coverage of the world's largest Internet backbones, the traffic they carry, and the providers who operate them. Founded on four years of deepening TeleGeography Internet research, this valuable resource combines the latest international IP bandwidth, pricing, and market data with proprietary IP traffic research and expert analysis...
[heise online news]
11:11:42 PM
comment [] trackback [] My Blog Experiment
For his Ph.D. thesis project on weblog writing style, Scott Nowson, a PhD student in Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, is soliciting a month's worth of blog entries from native-English speaking authors of personal blogs. He has a page on studying blogs and maintains a weblog himself detailing the progress of the project.
[Follow Me Here...]
3:05:50 PM
comment [] trackback [] I'm Yours, Body And Soul—But Not Blog (LazyBlawg)
Phil Wolff observes that "One in 4 or 5 bloggers will start a new job this year. Maybe 750 thousand. They and their blogs are at risk." Phil is interested in developing some form language for use in employment agreements that would govern "my blog, my rights to blog, my ownership of my blog, and explicit freedom from retaliation for anything I post."
Justin Hitt offers an excellent comment in response to Phil's post, discussing employee/independent contractor distinctions and his own experiences in negotiating similar issues with employers. Justin's comment helps emphasize how a "one size fits all" approach might not be the best solution to this problem. The same thing can be said about licensing, but that doesn't make Creative Commons any less valuable, or, on the other hand, any guarantee against potential litigation. Could a Creative Commons-type system nevertheless be implemented for this situation? Of course, in theory, but Creative Commons represents a unique combination of expertise, commitment, and funding, and unfortunately I don't think it's realistic to expect such programs to spring up wherever a legal powderkeg awaits a match.
As for Phil's hope that a boilerplate "Blogging Employee's" agreement could include a provision ensuring "explicit freedom from retaliation for anything I post?" If someone manages to negotiate such an arrangement, I want that person as my lawyer. I cannot imagine any employer willingly giving any employee carte blanche to potentially defame the company or its representatives, or to disclose its competitive confidential information. That said, there may be work-related subjects an employer would be happy, even eager, to have employees blog about, and there may be employers that would make a church-and-state distinction for employee writing that is purely non-work related. More reasons why it's smart to address such concerns up front, and not to take on employment terms and conditions without some trusted legal advice.
My panel at the Weblog Business Strategies conference touched on these kinds of issues, and I have linked to all the panel coverage I could locate from B&B's About page. The panel also took a stab at answering some of Phil's further and related questions after the conference ("Drops Of Jupiter").
[Bag and Baggage]
2:57:05 PM comment []