Posts from ‘August, 2003’

Lines at the gas stations, tempers flaring… Wow- it is almost a flashback to the 1973 oil embargo but this is 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona where a pipeline shutdown fuels gas shortage.
The events in ‘73 are a bit fuzzy, but I recall my Dad waiting in long lines for hours to get gasoline that had [...]

This post is as tangential as the twisted web path it took to get there. The ending is at Allen Smith’s Web-A-Sketch, a detailed description and parts list for how he hooked up some motors to an original Etch-A-Sketch and made it so anyone could remotely control it via a web interface.
An Etch-A-Sketch that can [...]

I am not in too many (or maybe zero) Yahoo Groups (and if so I never have them sent to clutter my email) but this Yahoo Groups RSS URI Generator is ideal for keeping updated on public groups without trudging through the Yahoo site.
This page contains JavaScript that will accept a Yahoo group name and [...]

Building from the same path we have added RSS to 4 other resource web sites, we just added a feed to Multimedia Authoring Web. Get the feed (RSS 2.0)
“AUTHORING” here refers to “programming by non-programmers.” This site is a resource collection of pointers to Internet sites for those that develop or “author” multimedia.
This has [...]

Bless Joe Clark.
Not only does he write a stunningly useful book, but he also provides all of the chapters (for free) to Building Accessible Websites.
When you buy the book, you get the entire text (but no graphics) on the included CD-ROM, along with a few extras, like fonts and utilities. Now the whole book [...]

Yet another useful avenue for RSS- stay in tune with all or part of the open source software projects at

Regarding our RSS to JS demo (code that allows you to embed RSS into any web page using a script that returns RSS as a series of JavaScript write statements), Michelle appropriately noticed that this approach would leave in the dark anyone using a screen reader (or just having JavaScript turned off).
Bad dog.
The problem is [...]

Fresh off the press! See a take on blogging in Doonesbury.
None of us would troll for search engines, would we?
<tiphat>found via RSS aggregator feed from the Shifted Librarian</tiphat>

Chris Pirillo has a new comprehensive site on Lockergnome’s RSS Resource (tip of the blog hat to Will for this one). It features a wide range of stories on new types of RSS uses (e.g. notifying beta testers of software updates) and the latest in tools and technology, written by a team of contributers.
We [...]

A little bit of echo to Brian’s analysis of our conference ending session on RSS and Learning Objects. You can find the paper there as well as a hefty 6 Mb PowerPoint (if I have time, I will at least post a MS mangled HTML version), plus there is a streaming quicktime version too.
There seemed [...]