Posts Tagged ‘rss’

I am at the same time honored and deeply scared that a lot of people use my Feed2JS tool created like in 2003 or 2004 for helping people embed RSS feeds in their site using cut and paste JavaScript.
If my stats are right, in the 6 hours since the cache was cleaned out [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by ejhogbin
Calendar data has always stumped me- on one hand it seems rather structured — something (data) happens on a date (data) maybe at a place (data) but it is something people much more savvy than I struggle with as it gets more complex… but I am not writing about [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Wade from Oklahoma
… in which the technology blog author bares his ignorance by discovering a tool that is several years old….
With a new sense of urgency, I implore that some big web company buy and save Yahoo– if not just to preserve the most valuable important vital web 2.0 app [...]

After all these years (like maybe 7? 8?) RSS is still so hot some regimes may wish to ban it, but it is the magic magic magic glue that makes content move around the web.
Here is one little story.
At NMC, I run a WordPress powered site to publish stories our Second Life work at [...]

In my everyday technology browsing I see a fair number of interesting tools, sites, ideas, that come my way via RSS, twitter, etc. A lot of them I give a quick look, say “Hmm”, tag ‘em, and move on.
Besides almost every post of unbelievable wizardry and in depth explanation of Tony Hirst, not often [...]

Ah, my poor RSS Reader, not nearly given the devoted attention once reserved for it. Maybe a year, maybe two ago, I’d focus on at least scanning all my sources and marking them read by end of the day, even if it was in one fell keyboard stroke.
That was BT (Before Twitter), BSL (Before Second [...]

Someone should be worried. With just a few sniffs, I might be getting hooked on Google Reader for my RSS habits. I’ve not really like using web-based RSS readers for scanning, as checking each site’s news required a wait for a web transcation, whereas a desktop reader grabs allt he stuff quickly, or in the [...]

I’m not sure where or why I would ever do this, so put this in the category of “curious, but some day I will slap my hand on my forehead and say, ‘I have a need for this’!”
RSS2GIF can render, dynamically (I guess) the headlines of an RSS feed as an image, so you could [...]

I feel moderately good about our experiment of “tagging” the NMC Summer Conference this year. We put it in the printed program that we were asking participants to tag blog posts, flickr photos, and del.icio.us bookmarks with an “official” tag of nmc2006.
I used a local copy of Feed2JS and flickr’s Javascript badge to bring them [...]

flickr foto

Holding Handsavailable on flickr

A fascinating sculpture outside a Department of Education building in Calgary

My other web experiment today for the NMC Conference is setting up a page to provide some persuasion and aggregation for my goal of having participants “Tag This Conference”.
The site I set up:
http://www.nmc.org/events/2006summerconf/tag.php
is aggregating the public tags of nmc2006 from [...]