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.
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Fortunately, they are NOT imprinted with “I love RSS 0.91” or “I love RSS 1.0” etc. Just plain old “RSS”. Simple enough.
Regarding our post about a new RSS feed for the web’s eye view bag of urls site, Scott Leslie commented about our submission form being an ideal candidate for a web browser bookmarklet tool.
Scott has recently championed these underused tools for one’s browser toolbar, rightfully so, because they are very handy, bordering on indispensible.
I had toyed with this a year ago, especially since I end up posting about 80% of the new items to our
bag of urls but never finished.
But now I have, and it was very easy indeed to build a bookmarklet tool that shortens the steps for dropping a url into the bag
Deep philosophical questions or trivial trivia? “How many stars are there in the sky?” “How many grains of sand on the beach?”
The question of How many blogs and bloggers? How big the blogosphere? from blogcount yields an estimated 2.4 to 2.9 weblogs as of Monday, June 23, based on reports of the big centrally hosted systems, some off the cuff estimates of others, and yet another extrapolation fudge factor.
Oops! Typo patrol…. that should be 2.4 to 2.9 million weblogs. Thanks D’Arcy 😉
For even more numbers, see also the NITLE Blog Census which has spidered and indexed 655,557 weblogs as of today.
The census has been active since early May, 2003.
Our crawlers search the Web for weblogs, and attempt to categorize them by language and authoring tool.
Give me a free hour and there goes another new RSS Feed. Since 1996, we have been accumulating some 4000 interesting web sites in our web’s eye view bag of urls.
Essentially the format for the content is a site title, URL, and description (does that sound like RSS or what?)
The site has an entire back end admin system where any visitor can submit a site via our drop it in the bag form. New items go into a temp holding area, until we can review them. The added feature now posts approved sites to the new Bag of URLs RSS feed.
Finally! A test site now proves that Radio/UserLand weblogs are TrackBack enabled. And it works! Got Trackback? Yup!
My blog entry here was created by using the MovableType bookmarklet tool that automatically dissected the test source, found the embedded RDF TrackBack data, and provided the ping address directly to my blog editing environment. The proof of my ping should be registered right here
It work, and it works across different blog systems. This opens the door for maybe a lot more TrackBack activity…
If ever I think I am blogging too many things, I can use the dullest blog in the world as my reference point.
Very tongue-in-cheek (we hope), this blog includes fascinating tidbits such as:
and on and on it goes, loaded with comments to boot. While obviously sarcastic, look at this as an example of trying to blog way too much (I would have skipped the towel entry).
<tiphat>Credit to the very last line of the iCite entry, Would a blog by any other name still smell like a blog by any other name? itself a worthy read.</tiphat>
Another gem of a resource that has a hook or two into the RSS game, is the free Google Alert service.
Even if you have no clue or interest in RSS, Google Alert is an extremely useful tool to keep you in tune into web resources that cover areas that interest you.
<tiphat>Found a link to this via some long last path to an entry at IDBlog.</tiphat>
Scott Leslie recently posted some well deserved praise for Bookmarklets (little Javascripts to perform tasks), citing them as vastly under-used but powerful tools in your web browser.
The MovableType Bookmarklet makes blogging any website a snap, see our Blogging with the MT Bookmarklet summary.
But by pure accident, I discovered this tool has an added bonus.
Building on the code done for adding RSS to our DirectorWeb site, it took less than an hour to integrate it into our Teaching & Learning on the Web.
Once again, adding RSS was wonderfully simple.
You can find this new feed at
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/new.rss
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