3228 Posts Categorized "Blog Pile"

Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.

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Little Bits of Syndication

Maybe some readers are all over RSS and massive amounts of syndication of content, but I am jazzed whenever I discover some small, useful, time saving way to make use of the Small Technologies Loosely Joined. Using free web content services like flickr, del.icio.us, Technorati that can travel the RSS road to dynamically update content […]

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On The Cover of the ….

flickr foto Flickr-ed Magazine: Wiki Wiki Worldavailable on my flickr More flickr fun! The Flickr Magazine Cover allows you to turn any flickr photo into your own cover. Why? Because you can? More flickr fun… Use Magazine Cover to turn a flickr photo into a magazine cover of your own title! And just to show […]

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Feedng, grazing, Ignore

No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster Update: WTF with Feedster? I’ve had an account there since they’ve been out but their “MyFeedster” interface is acting like bad alpha software- the change password form uses Text input fields rather than password types, it does not process the change request, […]

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Play Flickr Tag With Me

flickr foto Cool Dogavailable on my flickr Possible new logo? To answer Cadu’s request, I’m starting a new tag game– find photos of signs featuring dogs, and tag them with dogsign (and might as well tag them dog as well to beef up the canine tag rankings). What could make a better logo than a […]

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FlickrTagFightClub

The first rule of FlickrTagFightClub is we do not talk about FlickrTagFightClub… nah, talk about it. Blog about it. See FlickrTagFight, a site that lets you compare two tags, side by side, head to head, in a knock down, winner take all tag fight– see how “Man vs Machine”: And it’s not even close! Machines […]

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Google News Squirrelly Feeds

Good News: Google News and custom searches are available as RSS/Atom Feeds. Bad News: Has anyone at Google actually googled the RSS 2.0 formats? They have taken a weird approach to the format, double listing the title and publication date items inside the description! Okay, technically it meets RSS 2.0 rules, but functionally, it is […]

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Dirt Burner Expertise

flickr foto SAC 2005 at Snowmasavailable on my flickr Not convinced of the “expertise” around Snowmass Village? This is the way to start a conference morning at the Seminars in Academic Computing (SAC) conference. Monday was an early morning hike “up the hill” (past the ski lift end) with Phil Long, Trent Batson, and Cyprien […]