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I’ve been mumbling in twitter (like anyone notices) about a very interesting data gathering/visualizing tool that rides the back coat tails of twitter in a clever way. I’ll spill the beans first, but stick around for the story and the after blog coffee, okay? Your Flowing Data (YFD) is described by its creator, Nathan, as “a Twitter application that lets you collect data about yourself.” but that does not really capture the magic essence. I stumbled here in one of those lovely incidents of web serendipity aka happy accidents. I was being interviewed last week by someone asking about emerging technologies, and I mentioned being interested visualizations of data. We started talking about great sites and tools- I mentioned Information Aesthetics and the interviewer mentioned another site called Flowing Data a blog about “Data and Visualization (subtitle “Strength in Numbers:). It took about one glance and I was subscribing to [...]

Almost by definition, RSS, in its full XML glory, is ugly, and I have said before, “unsuitable for human eyes”. it is machine language, and there is no reason a person should look at it very long (geeks aside): But I’ve known in the back of my mind, it does not need to be so, as shown by the feeds displayed at Feedburner, e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogbloglab– that is the URL you can use anywhere RSS is accepted, but viewed in the browser, well it looks like a nice pretty web page. Peek at the source, and you are back in code-ville. Howzit done? Through the magic of XSLT, a means to transform XML with stylesheets into something easier on the eyes, By no means do I really understand it, and the more I looked, the more complex it grew– it is almost a logical language in itself, that is.can be used [...]

Leave it to Zeldman to cut Web 2.0 hype to the bone. I relish the bite and fury of the words (plus the beautiful, elegant, Web Standard layout of A List Apart): To you who are toiling over an AJAX- and Ruby-powered social software product, good luck, God bless, and have fun. Remember that 20 other people are working on the same idea. So keep it simple, and ship it before they do, and maintain your sense of humor whether you get rich or go broke. Especially if you get rich. Nothing is more unsightly than a solemn multi-millionaire. To you who feel like failures because you spent last year honing your web skills and serving clients, or running a business, or perhaps publishing content, you are special and lovely, so hold that pretty head high, and never let them see the tears. As for me, I’m cutting out the [...]

Sometime before the end of December. my colleague Tom Foster at Chandler-Gilbert asked me to co-lead a workshop for Maricopa library staff. Tom has helped me a lot, so of course I said “yes”. Then last week, he reminded me we had a week to prepare for our session just completed. So what does one do in a pinch, to create quickly some online workshop materials? Quick? Ride the bus… wiki wiki that is. This workshop was for library technical staff from all of our colleges. I am still not sure what they do, but apparently there are some divisions among reference and circulation people. They provided the broad, nebulous request, to “do something with new technology”. So we went with a “buffet” theme. Starting from scratch just 2 days ago, I turned to PBWiki to hoist the site. PB is great because of its simplicity, plus you could have [...]

Spam for breakfast, spam, for lunch, servings of spam keep coming at all times. Yummy, yummy spam. And it is so personal and it speaks to me: Subject: Gastroenterology Opportunity From: “Xxxxx Xxxxx” <xxxxxx@xxxx.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:21:30 -0400 To: “XX List” <xxxx@xxx.com> Hello Doctor, How are you? I understand that you are interested in discussing practice opportunities. I represent an outstanding practice opportunity in a major city on the East Coast. This is to join one of the top hospitals in the state and U.S., have an academic appointment, practice in a wonderful, collegial environment and live in one of the top cities in the U.S. If this would be of interest, please give me a call to 1-888-xxx-xxxxx and I will be happy to discuss it with you. While it is nice to not to be offered to enlarge/shrink body parts I am or may not [...]

Google is certainly sitting idly by while Yahooo ramps up its personal services. Check out the new Google personal home page, where you can select from a number of RSS sources, or connect your own: This was a quick set up with some of my own feeds, important weather selections, and a few of the presets that Google provides. Note many of the cool (yummy Ajax) in page editing. It is smooth. Note how can can re-arrange the layout by just drag and drop. Wishing a pachyderm might do that some day. I’m still musing how one might truly use this– it would be nice for folks like me who move from computer to computer. What sorts of feeds might one want to fit into a page. It’s kind of interesting when you plug in keywords to the create a section — somehow Google is searching for RSS feeds to [...]

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 approach using our Feed2JS service or standalone code. Of course there is a round trip delay for this as a PHP script must be called which then fetches a fresh feed from the source (or loads a cached one). Or maybe JavaScript is just too clumsy for your tastes, If you are on a PHP capable server, you can install Magie (which you need to do with the approach described via MovableBlog), but if you also use our PHP version of Feed2JS you can achieve the same effect. The advantage of our approach over the one described above is that [...]

flickr foto Not So Yummyavailable on my flickr I cannot get past the smell when the Marmite lid opens- how do the kiwis stand it? As Richard calls, it “axel grease” (but then again, he likes it) I have yet to really develop my taste for this stuff. I doubt I ever will. This is just for a quick demo of posting a weblog entry from my flickr account. Love these small pieces of technology.

By way of Dave Winer (by way of NetNewsWire on my desktop) come these nifty graphic badge icons from Bryan Bell. Get yours today in delicious pink, blue, green, as PNG or GIF files, nicely provided to match your site. Yummy candy. Show your love. Fortunately, they are NOT imprinted with “I love RSS 0.91″ or “I love RSS 1.0″ etc. Just plain old “RSS”. Simple enough.