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Twitter's success
Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came...
read postA fresh start
A couple of weeks ago, Piers and I noticed some odd system messages on gnu.pipetree.com’s console. It looked like we might be under attack. Following some oddness all round, including the network...
read postHello, 2004
2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück. Although I’ve tried to avoid meta-blogging, I’ll make an exception this time. For whatever reason my blogging went quiet towards the end of last year. Work and...
read post'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs.
Q: When is a blog not a blog? A: When it’s an RSS feed. I’ve pondered the relationship between weblog and RSS before, and in an Old Speckled Hen-induced philosophical state of mind, have decided for...
read postBlosxom 2.0 Beta1
My favourite blogging software just got better. Congratulations to Rael in releasing the plugin-enabled 2.0 Beta1 of Blosxom. I dropped it into my cgi-bin directory, tweaked a few things, and it...
read postRSS aggregators and user-agent information for Blagg
Prompted by a post on the re-awakened WriteTheWeb, I made a small mod to Blagg so that more detailed information is sent in the User-Agent header – announcing that the RSS aggregator ‘blagg’ is the...
read postThe universal canvas and RSS apps
It seems that beyond carrying syndication information, RSS is a very useful and flexible way to get all sorts of application data pushed to a user over time. In the same way that a web browser is a...
read postThe disruptive engineering spectrum, and "booktalk", an AllConsuming app
At one end of the spectrum, along which building blocks for future cooperative web applications lie, we have the library software vendors who were unwitting participants in a great web service...
read postNotes to self: What should the rdf:about point to?
If nothing else, RSS 1.0 is a great source of contemplation and wondering. This morning, I’ve been considering the thoughts surrounding the rdf:about attribute in the channel element: ... What...
read postA moment of clarity: The significance of RSS 1.0 as an RDF application
Walking on the beach this morning (yes we’re on holidays) I suddenly had a moment of clarity. It may be obvious to you, but I’ve been struggling to see what the theme was that lay beyond the clutter...
read postMore thoughts to ponder
Here are two or three, er, thoughtbites, that I’ve come across over the past few days and that have stayed with me. I just thought I’d share them here as it’s the weekend and often a good time to...
read postFrom RSS 0.91 to 1.0
Now that I understand what the RDF in RSS is, I’m ready to move up to RSS 1.0. I’m using Blosxom which generates RSS 0.91 by default. Flushed with a previous success using XSLT, I thought I’d use that...
read postThe RDF in RSS
Ironically, it’s only been the recent and ongoing hubbub about the direction of RSS that’s got me wondering what the real truth is about the RDF in RSS. In a still handwavy sort of way, I understand...
read postSidebars, Mozilla, RSS: old and new
Back in the spring of 2000, I wrote MySidebar, a concoction of Mozilla sidebars, XUL and RSS. It allowed you to specify an RSS URL and would generate XUL from it and install it in Mozilla’s sidebar....
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