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Archive | 2004
Convention Bloggers
Fifty bloggers were credentialed as journalists to blog the convention from the Fleet Center. I just saw CNN cut to Dave Sifry of Technorati fame to tell CNN what the blogosphere was saying. Keep up with the bloggers at ConventionBloggers.com
NPR RSS Feeds
It’s too tempting not to peek: the six feeds from NPR are links of the
format
http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?topicId=2
topicId=3 and so forth., You just gotta know, dontcha? It looks like
topicID=1 is for the real NPR news junkies – everything! Mmmmm, news
from the firehose!
NPR does RSS!
Dave Winer blogs “Major major: [Ed: 2nd updated link]. I’m all over this!” Via Scripting News
Brian Livingston: Run from IE, but test with FireFox
Brian Livingston opines “Run, Don’t Walk, from Internet Explorer“, but asks “Can Your Site Survive FireFox?” with some good pointers on interoperability.
Installing and Tuning OpenOffice on Mac OS X
Marc Liyanage supplies this great page on “Installing and Tuning OpenOffice on Mac OS X.” I’m running OpenOffice.org cross-platform on Windows, Linux and OS X, and I’m working at finding the optimal configuration to produce sharp PDF files.
Joi Ito’s blog RSS feed bad? Radio thinks so…
I enjoy Joi Ito’s blog – he’s got his
finger on the pulse of the blogging companies, and shares an insightful
and different perspective on world and technical affairs. I am sure I
was reading his blog via my Radio Userland aggreagator, but spotted
articles on my NetNewsWire
aggregator on the Mac I knew I hadn’t seen. When I looked at my list of
subsciptions, his was missing. When I tried to add it, I got an error
“”. Feed Validator says his feed is fine. Must be a bug in Radio Userland….
Alex Feldstein syndicates his Visual FoxPro Tips and Tricks pages
[Alex Feldstein]
blogs: “My VFP Tips & Tricks have an RSS feed. My Visual FoxPro
Tips & Tricks pages which I have been maintaining for years, now
have an RSS feed…I publish them in English and Spanish. You can find
both feeds at the following links:[Spanish] [English]Enjoy!”
Very cool! I notice that Alex is also generating the list in ListGarden
as well. I’ve been very pleased with it, as well. I’ve got it installed
in three places: locally on a Windows workstation, in server mode on a
Linux intranet server and on my OS X iMac. All work well. Imagine that!
Cross-platform, compatible, standards-compliant Open Source. Remarkable.
Handy free reference cards for XML, XSL, emacs, Apache, MySQL and more…
[Andrew MacNeill – AKSEL Solutions] blogs “The Furrygoat Experience – Reference Cards. Steve Makofsky referenced this great reference cards site earlier last week. The XML and XSL stuff is very handy.” There’s also links for emacs, Apache 1.3, MySQL and many others…
Where can you ping that your weblog is updated?
One of the problems with the blogosphere, like the web in general, is
that a passing reference may fly by only once, and if you don’t grab it
then, it may be disappear forever. I’ve been searching for a reference
“someone” made to a website “someone” mentioned that would let you
submit a URL for your XML feed and it would, in turn, ping the major
news aggregators that there was something to read at your site. Google
turns up a disturbing number of *marketing* web sites that explain how
to juice the RSS search engines with your press releases {*shudder*},
but I’d like to think I’m actually posting news. I suppose they
probably do, too. So, anyone else catch that reference and hold onto it
better than I did?
Reminds me of one of the hundreds of incredible quotes from “Ocean’s Eleven” Laura and I saw last night:
Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I’ll never forget it.
Danny: That was our pleasure.
Rusty: I’d never been to Belize.