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Tags on delicious flickring Steroids: Taggregator (January 10, 2005 04:13 PM)
Last week it was Tags on Speed. That was then, this is now... Richard S writes "More on Social tags" pointing to "taggregator" an experiment with allows you to provide one "tag" and it generates a side by side view of del.icoi.us and flickr results: Someone built a thing I... «more»
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Feed2JS Updates: Has Its Own Feed (published via MT) (December 30, 2004 12:25 AM)
Thanks to some good feedback from suers, I've been able to make some needed corrections to our Feed2JS (RSS Feeds rendered via JavaScript). Like a Homer Simpson Doh! slap across the forehead, I realized that while I was faithfully adding to the main page's history, it certainly could use an... «more»
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Blogging Gone Wild in Greensboro (December 27, 2004 05:08 PM)
People and journalists ;-) are writing about a blogging phenomena n Greensboro, North Carolina, which apparently is becoming a critical mass as maybe a hub in public engagement in blogging (reading, writing, commenting), Jay Rosen in Greensboro Newspaper Goes Open Source: A Follow Up: I am going to stay on... «more»
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Yawncasting (December 19, 2004 10:42 PM)
I feel pretty much late to the dance with podcasting. It is a technology phenomnma that seems like it happened more or less while I was out of the country 3 weeks in November. My colleagues D'Arcy and Brian are all over it, and I have give high credence to... «more»
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It's Brown But Looks Awfully Familiar (December 19, 2004 10:10 AM)
Imitation and flattery aside, just curious if anyone thinks RSS-to-Javascript bears any resemblance at all to our Feed2JS? I do not really care all that much since Feed2JS code is open source but some credit would be nice, egos can always use some stroking now and then... Ours was pretty... «more»
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The Dawn of the End of the Golden Age of RSS? (December 11, 2004 10:26 AM)
It's a sunny day in Phoenix, but a cloud of pessimism is on the horizon, an unfortunate evolution of innovative internet innovations that start as open environments, only to become more convoluted, and polluted as they mainstream. This came as I examined a series of new borg-like "RSS Services" that... «more»
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Minor Enhancements For Feed2JS (December 2, 2004 04:50 PM)
I just made an update to our RSS Feed2JS service and free code. This changes will not break any current use, just adds some new options for some of the parameters, including: David Carter-Tod suggested a new line of code that allows the output to use the Atom fields... «more»
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DJ Scott Mixing Up the Edublogger Feed Bag (November 26, 2004 10:52 PM)
Scott Leslie recently wrote about using Rollup to put together a super feed of his favorite educablogger's furl and deli.icio,us feeds: lots of folks have separate Furl and del.icio.us sites/feeds. I've been subscribing to one or two of them in the past, but wanted to get all the ed tech... «more»
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Tasty del.icio.us feeds with PHP (November 19, 2004 01:40 PM)
Via open artifact cam this link to MovableBlog's Integrating del.icio.us with PHP and Magpie describing a way to embed the output of your del.icio.us links in a web page. As always, there are many paths to the same destination. As frequent readers know, this can be achieved via the JavaScript... «more»
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Feedster Blog Search (November 17, 2004 12:26 PM)
Feedster is offering a new search tool to help you find content that comes from weblogs, a handy way to scope your web searches. For the uninitiated, Feedster provides a google-like interface for searching things found in RSS feeds. It offers tools to store your own set of feeds (like... «more»
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Flickr Tags to The Next Level: Related Tags (November 4, 2004 08:11 PM)
The tagging features of flickr have taken the next step- elevating results of a display of shared photo tags to other relavant tag sets (see tag relatedness features). For example, the flickr wide tags for where I am right now to more specific results as well as related topics. How... «more»
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And Speaking of Ripping and Mixing.. How Are the Objects Churning at Blogdigger? (October 2, 2004 07:33 AM)
I seem to keep forgetting to take a look at the nifty Blogdigger service- a site that allows you to drop in a pile of RSS feeds, and have it return to you a single RSS that represents a combination of all the content. And there is more every time... «more»
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Blogging Blips on the Radar (October 1, 2004 07:59 PM)
I'd say it is nothing new these days to highlight or discover a new use of weblogs... No wait a minute, it still is interesting to see what pops up on the blog-o-verse. I've been at it since April 2003 and have helped a few groups and individuals in our... «more»
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Holy Rip-Mix-Burn-Churn! I am Feedburned! (September 13, 2004 08:47 PM)
I cannot breathe! The feeds are swirling! Snatding on the shoulders of giants, Brian Lamb and David Wiley (imitation and flattery apply here) I mixed up my furl bookmarks and flickr photos with the cogdog feeds and voila! the uber feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogblog This just rocks! I have just skimmed the... «more»
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Blogdigger in Action at UBC (September 9, 2004 09:54 PM)
More fun for Greg at Blogdigger ;-) My colleague Brian Lamb shared some nifty web resources for a class he is teaching at University of British Columbia. Remember, Rip-Mix-Burn... Specifically, he has created (rip) a Bloggdigger Group (a collection of chosen RSS feeds), that is itself turned into an RSS... «more»
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Checking Back On Bloggdigger (September 2, 2004 03:36 PM)
A few clicks back I had played with a test Blogdigger collection - this is a service that allows you to take a pile of web/RSS feeds, and then have that itself be able to collapse into its own feed- an uber feed if you will. My test was to... «more»
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RSS Feeds for Maricopa ePortfolio (August 24, 2004 05:52 PM)
Today I cleaned my desk of paper piles, revamped the "todo" list that overflows from my whiteboard, and finished up a little experiment I had started on our ePortfolio site. Audree Thurman, the clever programmer of this nifty system, had developed a nifty approach for RSS feeds. There is a... «more»
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RSS Feeds for Comments/Trackbacks Per Blog Post (August 18, 2004 11:52 PM)
I cannot remember why I started down this MT template path, but it was a fun journey. Somehow I stumbled into Phil Ringnalda's explanation on how to create RSS feeds for individual entries and comments. This seemed interesting- often when you write a comment to someone else's blog, there is... «more»
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Blogdigger- Wow (August 18, 2004 07:15 AM)
Within three hours of writing yesterday about Blogdigger (an RSS feed combiner that returns a group of feeds as a single feed), I got a nice comment from Greg at Bloggdigger who let me know that the filtering tools were still being tinkered. It's rewarding to get direct responses like... «more»
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EDUCAUSE Seminar: Objects, Trackback, RSS... maybe even the kitchen sink (August 17, 2004 10:56 PM)
FYI and for self (and colleague Brian Lamb) promotion... if you are attending EDUCAUSE 2004 (October in Denver), sign up now for our pre-conference seminar Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies: Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple,... «more»
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Rip. Mix. Feed. How? (August 17, 2004 05:33 PM)
Apple had the perhaps now ill-fated "Rip, Mix, Burn" concept for music-- I am looking for something similar (less lawyer intensive) for RSS feeds. It is taking feeds breaking them apart, and rebuilding them into something new. We can rebuild 'em. Stronger. Faster. The Six Million Dollar Feed.... So it... «more»
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XSLT + RSS: Why Pretty for only some browsers or is some implementations? (August 13, 2004 10:40 PM)
I've been mildly curious about some of the new attempts at making RSS feeds more human readable at first click- rather than seeing ugly XML code, these "new" feed displays use CSS (Style sheets) and some sort of magical transform method called XSLT -- basically it means if you click... «more»
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Feed2JS Build and Style Tools (August 4, 2004 05:56 PM)
Back to code. I modified the download-able version of our Feed2JS to provide local installations the same build and CSS select/modify tools we offer on the main site. The primary reason is getting it set up on a server in New Zealand for my pending visits there for workshops in... «more»
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The Power of Grouping RSS Feeds (July 31, 2004 08:36 AM)
I've been using my CDB Bloglines site mainly to run a master copy of my regular RSS feeds (keep my home and work computers in synch). But playing with grouping of feeds, I've found some new tricks to play with. I had just been dumping all feeds into one Bloglines... «more»
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Staking My Claim (July 27, 2004 03:32 PM)
No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster... «more»
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More RSS Joins for the Ocotillo Action Groups (July 27, 2004 10:43 AM)
Recently, I outlined our "small pieces (not so loosely) joined" approach for setting up a system of blogs + wikis + discussion boards for the work next year by our faculty-led action groups. These groups will be leading activities next year related to Learning Objects, ePortfolios, Hybrid Course structures, and... «more»
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Todd Steps in with the First Feed2RSS New Style (July 21, 2004 02:28 PM)
At least someone out there is reading my drivel. Todd Slater responded to the call for CSS Bonsai Gardens and quickly shared a new style available for anyone, "ZanestatefeedsYahoo". I added some tweaks that allow me to share a demo of what this new feed looks like. Check it out!... «more»
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Feed2JS Style Tools: Bonsai CSS Zen Garden? (July 20, 2004 10:57 AM)
I have just twiddled some new tools to help users of Feed2JS to create their customized styles for output created by this service/script. In a total and polite rip off of the css Zen Garden site, I am hoping some designers out there might mess around with the new style... «more»
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Nice PHP, with Class: FeedCreator (July 15, 2004 01:50 PM)
FeedCreator.class.php- File this one away for future or near future code use. FeedCreator.class.php provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP using ease to use classes. * creates valid feeds according to RSS 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0 as well as PIE 0.1 (deprecated), OPML 1.0, Unix mbox... «more»
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Small Pieces (Not So?) Loosely Joined (and already spammed) (July 15, 2004 12:24 AM)
Our NMC 2004 Small Pieces session intended to make a case for creating effective net-based collaboration using a discrete set of free tools, not so tightly controlled. This was fine, fun, and (frilly), but I wanted to describe here how we are trying to implement this for some real work.... «more»
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Cocktails Needed Feed (July 11, 2004 08:28 AM)
Browsing sites registering as users of Feed2JS I discovered this morning that there is now a feed to provide updates on the Cocktail of the Week. Who would know there was such a thing? Apparently David Berghouse has been publishing this site from Australia since 1995, quite a nice stretch!... «more»
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quickSub: A Path Around the Pesky Little Bothersome XML Icon? (July 7, 2004 08:27 AM)
Once again serendipity on stumbling intoquickSub - a little piece of CSS and JavaScript code to perhaps add some more usability to the RSS links? I agree mostly with others contentions on the problems with posting an or icon on a web page where the human followed link is a... «more»
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Tiny Improvement for Feed2JS and New Site Features (July 7, 2004 12:12 AM)
Just for fun, I added a rather small feature to the Feed2JS script/service; Curt Whittaker had emailed requesting: It would be nice if the script could have alternate text if there are no items in the current feed. For example, we are looking to use this for our Calendar of... «more»
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RSS Equalizer- Order Before Midnight Tonight and Get the Free Turnip Twaddler! (July 3, 2004 11:41 PM)
Beware of long scrolling web sites that start with: Attention: If you would like to get your Web pages to the top of search results (with very little effort), this letter is for you... "Discover An Amazing 'Technology' That Will Give You An Unfair Advantage Over Your Competitors And Increase... «more»
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NMC 2004 After the Pieces (have not fallen) (June 18, 2004 02:58 PM)
It's been more than a day since our Small Technologies Loosely Joined session and Brian, D'Arcy and I are pleasantly amazed that 35+ turned out for the last session of the day, put up with a small cramped room with not enough electrical outlets, and a zany activity of task... «more»
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What the Wiki is Happening? A Blank Wall, Free Spray Paint, and .... (June 8, 2004 10:28 PM)
We're closely watching the NMC 2004 presentation on "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" wiki, checking the changes.. but beyond a few individuals, it is a pretty quiet place. Okay, so I wrote a bit harshly on Martin for his own thoughts on the Pieces, but hey, I was bored! I fessed... «more»
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NMC 2004 Feeds For Martin: Catch the Small Pieces Clue Train (June 6, 2004 05:10 PM)
Martin was a bit peeved at not getting an RSS Feed for the "NMC Continuing Coverage" blog aggregator provided by Stephen Downes (and he gets the concept). Then Martin still was not satisfied when we provided him a URL for an RSS feed for Stephan's tool, found with a few... «more»
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Aggregators as Referrers? (June 4, 2004 08:59 AM)
There are people, likely those trying to make a buck off of RSS, who would like to measure how much "hit" there is from information syndicated as RSS Feeds, consumed, and hopefully clicked at. Checking your web server log for access of the RSS URL do not mean much, as... «more»
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Audio Chattin' With the Aussies (June 3, 2004 08:55 AM)
After yesterday's online audio LearningTimes session with the Australian Flexible Learning folks, I am again impressed with the fluid exchanges possible with the Elluminate Virtual Classroom-- I lost count, but there may have been at least 30 participants not only from Australia, but Denmark (it was 2:00 AM for her)... «more»
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The Word is Out: Small Technologies Loosely Joined - NMC 2004 (June 2, 2004 01:47 PM)
Diffusing through blogspace, beyond our control, goes an upcoming "presentation" at the June 2004 NMC Conference, what we have cobbled together is called "Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" that I am doing with colleagues Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman. Here I will talk a bit... «more»
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Feed2JS: A Few More Tweaks and WordPress Date Woes (June 2, 2004 10:30 AM)
Thanks for the comments that have helped identify some minor and not so minor issues with our new Feed to Javascript site. See below for updates! Some updates for folks that have implemented their own versions of this: A few early versions had a typo where the MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR was defined... «more»
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Dave's Definitive RSS Abbreviation (May 31, 2004 08:24 AM)
The URL declares what RSS stands for? http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/ peeked open just recently, Dave Winer's effort (I llike the initial tone) to have a place to talk more about what RSS can do rather than what it stands for or the intracacies of XML. The revolution of RSS is what people... «more»
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LearningTimes Interview Down Under: Alan on the Barbie? (May 29, 2004 07:58 PM)
From some previous visits with excellent learning leaders in Australia and continued contacts with colleagues there, I was asked to be audio interviewed online June 2 (here) via the LearningTimes site "Live Session: RSS, Blogging and What it Means for Teaching and Learning" (It is free, but you need to... «more»
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Feed2RSS: Minor Cleanups and Fixing My Goofs (May 26, 2004 01:22 PM)
It's been nice getting wide and praising notes, comments, trackbask about the new Feed2RSS-- I must admit being eager to rush it out and while the MagpieRSS seems to be running smoothly, I had a few minor goofs that others have nicely pointed out. If you started using the new... «more»
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Feed2JS - First Out of the Gate... (May 25, 2004 08:34 AM)
Just in a few hours of announcing yesterday our new version of the Feed2JS (RSS to JavaScript service/code), David Carter-Tod zoomed out the gate, downloaded the code, and had it up and running in Virginia. As well, he found a minor bug (pesky missing semi-colon) and reminded me to deal... «more»
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Here It Is! A New Feed2JS (and source code) (May 23, 2004 11:37 PM)
As hinted, I have just posted an updated version of the RSS to JavaScript service/code we created in April 2003. The new one is now called Feed2JS and features a number of enhancements- primarily an adoption of the open-source Magpie RSS parser, to replace the unsupported OnysRSS parser previously used.... «more»
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Google.Vanity: RSS2JS Sprinklings (May 17, 2004 05:57 PM)
Again, I should be working on something important, but for idle curiosity I was fishing in the Ocean Google to try and find where other folks have been using our RSS To Javascript code/service: http://www.google.com/search?q=rss2js.php%3Fsrc%3D It is an interesting mmix of people running off of our server as well as... «more»
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Prototype for New RSS to JavaScript Code (May 13, 2004 12:06 PM)
I ought to be something else, but have been bothered by two items regarding our often used RSS2JS (allows humans to use RSS by cut and past JavaScript, processed by a PHP middle ware script). It hinged upon the defunct, gone, and un-documented OnyxRSS Parser.It could not handle Atom feeds,... «more»
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Blogs and RSS WebQuest (May 7, 2004 06:32 AM)
Nice.... "Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online" , presented as a WebQuest: "Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site" This has your basic... «more»
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How about some Zempt! for your MovableType Blog Writing (May 5, 2004 06:02 PM)
Maybe people tire of blogging not because of lack of things to write about, but Interface Fatigue?? Back and forth from the MovableType editing screens, wating for those CGIs to pop, makes one s-l-e-e-p-y... Another stumbling along the blog roads came up with a link to a new desktop editor... «more»
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FeedSweep- Free RSS to JavaScript But Broad Claims (May 3, 2004 08:41 AM)
Just like wildflowers or weeds, springing up across the net are more services to help you use RSS in your web sites. FeedSweep just came on the scene, in time to help Amy sweep her "webfeeds": Anyone that wants to syndicate RSS and Atom feeds on their web sites would... «more»
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3 College Centers for Teaching & Learning Are A' Bloggin' (April 28, 2004 11:21 PM)
A number of our Maricopa colleges have their own faculty support centers for faculty development and technology infusion... we try and build some collaboration amongst them. Three of them now have been or are starting to, use weblogs to publish resources and events of interest tot heir faculty, actually all... «more»
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RSS School Time: RSS115 (April 28, 2004 08:39 AM)
An online workshop of interest (tip of the blog hat to my colleague Jim Tipton) "RSS115: The Beginners Guide to Weblogs and RSS" led by Library Stuff guy Steven Cohen: If you have ever thought about creating your own weblog or utilizing an aggregator to read news but have been... «more»
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SciencePORT: Scientists Get Fed Here (March 28, 2004 11:27 PM)
I think that SciencePORT is a directory/search site of RSS feeds in the sciences. It is hard to tell since the "About" link is just a bunch of links to RSS aggregator downloads. Well it does have "bugs" on the logo and a BETA stamp. Nuff said. But they have... «more»
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Two Rivers Mix: RSS and e-Portfolios (March 23, 2004 11:46 AM)
I do not want to go out on a limb, but I think we have done something for the first time- a combination of two technologiies I have had my paws in this year, electronic portfolios and RSS. It reminds me of a trip to the Lee's Ferry crossing of... «more»
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Cleaning Up The Syndication Pile (March 10, 2004 02:30 PM)
Just like my bookmarks, for a while I have noticed (and done little) about the discrepencies of the RSS feeds I have on my work and home computers. So in the contnued spirit of the work of Brian "Housecleaning" Lamb, I devoted some time to cleaning up the doghouse. Mainly... «more»
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Furl-ing Syndicated (to the right) (March 9, 2004 04:14 PM)
Niiiiiiiice. I have been mildly using Furl because I tend to bookmark things on my home computer I end up needing at work, and on my work computer I end up needing at home. Call it Murphy's law of bookmarks. Furl does this with little fuss, just a bookmarklet link.... «more»
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ePortfolio Beta Opens (March 9, 2004 03:02 PM)
Last Friday's Ocotillo Online Learning Group meeting was the first announcement and access provided to a new experimental electronic portfolio service we are hosting. This is a new installation of the software developed at Chandler-Gilbert Community College-- we have set up this new server so that faculty form our other... «more»
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Sit. Down. Roll over. RollUp RSS Feeds (March 7, 2004 06:41 PM)
Trying to teach and old RSS feed some new tricks? At first RollUp seemed like a nifty idea- build a customized collection of RSS feeds into one site, theoretically coalescing a pile of feeds into one sensible pile. And that becomes a web page you can customize some layout- colors,... «more»
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Amy Is Sadly Excoriated (February 23, 2004 08:04 AM)
Alas, the blog go around. Apparently Amy is.... sniff..... sniff.. sad about our recent barking on her "Re-name RSS contest". On her latest update (wow, "Elert" and "Newsfeed" have moved up on "Grapevine") Amy sobs: Also, "Grapevine" was recently excoriated in the geek-oriented weblog CogDogBlog. Sadly, this is yet another... «more»
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Ahhh, this Makes RSS More Understandable (February 19, 2004 07:47 AM)
Amy Gahran, publisher of CONTENTIOUS (all caps) thinks RSS is confusing because of the acronym. So she is running a "contest" aimed to "rename" RSS (this dog thinks the cat, er, meme, is out of the bag). So here is the update on the "front-runners", and judge for yourself how... «more»
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Vultures Circling RSS (February 6, 2004 04:53 PM)
As we predicted, the time is ticking on the young, naive open-ness of RSS; witness the gathering vultures circling overhead. Greed, chasing of a dollar, and even the smallest crack are an open invitation for the party-crashers who will usurp everything that is open and collaborative just for a few... «more»
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Catwalk? SiteBites?Nufo? This is better than "RSS"? (February 4, 2004 04:04 PM)
According to Amy Gahran, RSS needs a better name. These are suggestions for a new colloquial name for RSS, since acronyms are inherently geeky and tend to alienate nontechnical people. The intention of this contest is to come up with a common-usage term that will help make RSS more accessible... «more»
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PubSub Offers a Neat Twist on Eating RSS Feeds (February 4, 2004 02:13 PM)
I've just taken a brief look at PubSub following some mentions at the RSS Winterfest. This service takes a different angle on aggregating feeds, almost "Downse-ian" like EduRSS in that you can track among thousands (they say) of RSS feeds for particular keyword searches. And the results are presented to... «more»
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Furl Those URLs (February 3, 2004 04:33 PM)
Just took a quick at Furl, a new web site for organizing bookmarks centrally (tip of the blog hat to Seb). The concept is not new at all, but I have found most of these sorts (e.g. BackFlip) too tedious to maintain. It's gotta be simple. Bookmarks/favorites in web browsers... «more»
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This is the "Simple" Way to Build RSS? Yikes! (January 30, 2004 07:49 PM)
Building an RSS feed made simple" href="http://www.uberasp.net/getarticle.aspx?id=17">Building an RSS feed made simple came the link in my blog. Hmmm, we can alway use more simplicity...... «more»
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RSS2JS Docks at Blog Harbor (January 21, 2004 10:48 PM)
Got a nice email and link from the folks at Blog Harbor, a blog hosting service that offers a number of worthy add-ons for those who prefer not to tinker (and mess up) their own blog server. They have created a nicely formatted and structured guide to a hosted version... «more»
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I Missed the RSS Winterfest (January 21, 2004 03:12 PM)
These winters in Arizona are tough. Some days the temperature drops into the mid 60s. Likewise was my vain attempt today to tune into the RSS Winterfest. Every attempt use the link provided by the automatic email registration message, took me to a promising entry lobby, but every click of... «more»
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This Week RSS Winterfest - Same Old, Same Old Format or Not? (January 19, 2004 09:04 AM)
I am curious to "be" at the January 21-22 online conference, RSS Winterfest. Most conferences, in person or online, I generally approach with low expectations-- mainly out of frustration over the years that the only format for professional communication that seems to be used is the 50 minute lecture to... «more»
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Dave's Roundup at the OPML Corral: Share Yours (January 6, 2004 11:59 PM)
Dave's got an interesting round-up at the OPML corral, "Share your OMPL".. Yikes, another acronym! If you dig a bit deeper it comes up as Outline Processer Markup Language , now that is much more clear! Huh? Think of of it as a way to use XML to represent outline... «more»
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Ari's Big List of Blog Search Engines (January 6, 2004 06:46 AM)
Ari Paparo assembled a longer than you might expected list of web search tools for specifically searching weblogs and/or RSS feeds. My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can't find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What's the point of all... «more»
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RSS WinterFest 2004- Party at Dave's? (December 22, 2003 09:40 PM)
Just announced, Jan 21-22, 2004, RSS Winterfest: a free Webcast, and hear from some of the world's foremost experts and commentators about RSS and the future of Internet content syndication. We'll give an overview of RSS and look at its future. We'll feature case studies that will examine the applications for enterprise content syndication.... «more»
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Governing Board Member Digs RSS (Film at 11) (December 18, 2003 11:42 AM)
Now that the copies of our mcli Forum have gone out to our colleges, we are getting a lot of interest, questions, head scratching about RSS from the "Pssss... Have You Heard About RSS?" article. An email came today from one of our Governing Board members who found the article... «more»
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Jade Takes a Break... (December 15, 2003 11:57 AM)
This blog will blink off line around Dec 30 or 31 when I hope to migrate our content and assorted scripts to the new XServe-- I had thought it would happen by the end of the week before I vanish 10 days to my retreat, but it is rushed, and... «more»
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VersionTracker Does RSS (Sensibly) (December 14, 2003 12:49 PM)
I have relied for years on VersionTracker (VT) for keeping up to date with the latest updates to software or finding out about new apps for Mac, Windows, and Palm platforms. On a recent visit to another similar site (MacUpdate) I began wondering why these types of sites do not... «more»
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Reflective Portraits in the Mirror Project... and it has RSS! (December 11, 2003 10:41 AM)
I've been here before-- "Adventures in Reflective Surfaces: The Mirror Project" was a community based site where people contribute all kinds of self portraits were the photographer is somehow reflected from a mirror or any reflective surface. The Mirror Project is a growing community of like-minded individuals who have photographed... «more»
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Pssss... Have You Heard About RSS? (December 4, 2003 10:28 AM)
Just posted to the web is our newbie article "Pssss... Have You Heard About RSS?". This is one of the features in the Fall 2003 issue of our mcli Forum, a twice a year publication published by our office for print distribution inside our college system, and electronic everywhere else... «more»
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RSS2JS Update: Date Posted Fix and Future Attractions (December 4, 2003 09:10 AM)
Yet another small fix to our RSS to Javascript tool-- there was a flaw in (my) program logic so that the item posting dates from RSS2.0 feeds were not being converted correctly from their GMT+0 values. If you have a version of this running, you can make a direct edit... «more»
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Conversor RSS para JS (November 22, 2003 04:10 PM)
Nossa ferramenta de RSS está jogando agora em Brasil Conversor RSS para JS [demo]. I cannot really write Portuguese without the help of the fish, but this is saying that our RSS tool is playing now in Brazil. More scanning of the referring site sin our web server log showed... «more»
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Look What the Referer Dragged In (November 14, 2003 07:11 AM)
Now that I have an analysis tool for my server, I am digging up all kinds of neat findings. From the referer logs (links from outside to specific web pages on my site), came one from MGMT110 Class Projects / blogs At Earlham College, in Indiana. This site is in... «more»
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RSS Feeding- keep those hits coming (November 13, 2003 10:31 PM)
I was thinking about David Carter-Tod's recent note on how his RSS parsing script service was getting heavy hits, you success and all of its burdens. I began getting curious on how often our RSS2JS script was being used (and I know that the page needs some re-design and chunking),... «more»
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RSS in Governments (November 6, 2003 08:35 AM)
This one should grow.. RSS in Government: In this site, we'll monitor creative uses of RSS to provide information to the public above government information and services.... There seems to be a connection or at least a lot of content from the Utah State Library site that has a great... «more»
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RSS Feeds for MovableType Trackback and Comments (November 3, 2003 08:36 AM)
Wow, the sound of my own hand slapping my forehead with a loud, "duh!". The TweezerMan (not sure if I want to know the story behind that name) has provided easy to copy templates for creating RSS Feeds for Trackbacks and RSS Feeds for Comments from MovableTyple weblogs, all using... «more»
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Wow, ABC News has Discovered RSS (October 29, 2003 10:51 PM)
Ho hum. From the far seeing "FutureTech" at ABCNews.com, they reveal Web Tech to Keep Users Up-to-Date on News!!!! Maybe I ought to look at this RSS stuff ;-) Now it is easy to lambast a rather feather-weight overview of RSS, and frankly it is good to see more of... «more»
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NMC Presentation: "Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs" (October 27, 2003 11:28 AM)
If you were unable to attend the New Media Consortium (NMC)'s Online Conference on Learning Objects iin October, you missed out on some great sessions and exchange of ideas, as well as a brand new platform for online conferences. All presentations were created with Marcomedia Breeze (in essence streaming audio... «more»
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Syndicating "Best of Show" (October 25, 2003 04:47 AM)
I've took a little twist on RSS to deploy it in another fashion here at CDB. This was partly to response to a post by James Farmer as he tried to find an alternative approach to blogrolling. Maybe not understanding Radio as much as I should, I commented that it... «more»
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Pheed.com: RSS Phor Photos (October 24, 2003 08:37 PM)
Here is an interesting use of RSS-- Pheed.com or Syndicated Photography Feeds aims to promote the use of RSS to describe collections of photos. Pheed.com is a database of information about photographs available on the web. We present the work of photographers who have made information about their images available... «more»
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CarRP Parses RSS to JavaScript (October 19, 2003 11:20 PM)
Another option for getting RSS feeds into your own web pages, CaRP: Freeware Caching RSS news feed Parser Keep your website fresh effortlessly with RSS newsfeeds. Numerous options ensure that the feeds fit the look and feel of your site. If you already publish an RSS feed, CaRP can create... «more»
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More Fixes for RSS2JS (October 14, 2003 04:29 PM)
Wow, once you start tinkering with code, the worm can opens up. I made a few more adjustments to the RSS to JS demo due to the worminess of RSS 2.0 versus 1.0. After comments in yesterday's announced fix, I became aware that the code would not deal successfully with... «more»
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RSS2JS Script Fix (October 13, 2003 09:04 AM)
In response to observed, unexpected behavior, I made a minor tweak to our PHP script that does the RSS to JS magic, using JavaScript to embed RSS content in any page. The probllem was on the simple way I was naming my cache files (the RSS parser I use creates... «more»
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Lora and Boris Show (part deux) (October 9, 2003 09:06 AM)
Our learning object bloggers Lora and Boris are making a second appearance at the October 14-17 NMC Online Conference on Learning Objects. Taking to a new level their story presented at MERLOT 2003, a garden varierty PowerPoint, for the NMC conference they have speaking parts as well, as the presentation... «more»
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InfoZine Takes on RSS via JavaScript (September 25, 2003 01:01 PM)
A news source from Kansas City has taken on News RSS Syndication with feeds down to 20 feeds for various news interest areas. They are making use of our RSS to JavaScript script running on their own server and offering the code to allow other sites to inline synidcate the... «more»
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Sharable BlogLines (September 10, 2003 02:05 PM)
Awesome, this is a step up in usefulness for Bloglinesthe online RSS aggregator. You can now make the collections of feeds you post on BlogLines public, and thus collections of feeds can be shared via a simple URL. Actually I had submitted this as a suggested feature when I looked... «more»
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RSS feeds from my.OAI (September 9, 2003 06:20 AM)
Dynamic RSS feeds are available now from searches performed at my.OAI, the tool for digging through a series of idatabases available as Open Archives. my.OAI is a full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project. All searches performed at my.OAI, even is... «more»
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The Fuss About RSS wiki has moved (September 3, 2003 01:17 PM)
The wiki for TheFuss has moved to a new, more nicely presented location (thanks to CSS and Brian!). TheFuss wiki is a growing resource about RSS, learning objects, etc that myself, Brian Lamb, and D'Arcy Norman presented July 11, 2003 for the LOVCOP teleconference (LOVCOP=Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice).... «more»
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Sipping MERLOT's RSS Feeds: Is this Boone's Farm or Dom Perignon? (August 27, 2003 11:35 AM)
We have barked about MERLOT's lack of RSS feeds for some time. Not that anyone really listens, or that this is even announced in the woods where trees makes sounds, but you can actually find MERLOT RSS feeds. Now the question- is this a smooth vintage or supermarket swill? Here... «more»
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RSS Primer from EEVL (August 25, 2003 08:17 AM)
A very well written introduction to RSS: RSS - A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers (I cannot locate quickly what the "EEVL" acronym stands for but it is a UK resource for engineers). I like the plain language yet the forways into some of the details of producing RSS.... «more»
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RSSlets: Even More Ideas for RSS (August 19, 2003 10:52 AM)
Wow. If you are just reading some of the buzz (it's about time!) about RSS, check out RSSlets - Functional RSS Feeds a series of prototypes for getting at RSS content that may be on the fringe of your idea scope. These are a whole raft of new services that... «more»
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New RSS: Yahoo Groups (August 16, 2003 07:52 AM)
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... «more»
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New RSS: Multimedia Authoring (August 14, 2003 07:47 AM)
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... «more»
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