Comment Icons drawn from author's RSS or FOAF files
This is an interesting thing over at Life on Mars: Comment Icons. Post a comment, supply the URL to your blog, and if your blog has a locatable RSS feed which points to an image, that image will be...
View ArticleRSS-Data: XML-RPC encoding in RSS 2.0
A few months ago I approached Dave Winer and a few other people with a very simple idea.? Why not use XML-RPC's data serialization format to create a simple data language for object meta-data in RSS...
View ArticleAn example of an RSS 2.0 namespace versus RSS-Data usage
Okay, just for the sake of tinkering, I'm poking at embedding data from the Amazon Web Services into an RSS 2.0 feed. On one hand, I just shoehorned the Amazon XML schema into an RSS 2.0 namespace, and...
View ArticleRSS 2.0 namespace versus RSS-Data, Part 2: First impressions
Okay, I got the example data out there. Here's what's first on my mind about it: Man, that RSS-Data is one verbose piece of XML. The Amazon-specific namespace version looks much more compact and...
View ArticleRSS 2.0 namespace versus RSS-Data, Part 3: Electric Boogalee
So, for the same of argument, yesterday I threw together examples of what a use of RSS-Data might look like alongside what the same data in an RSS namespace extension might look like. I promised code,...
View ArticleA quick SOAP primer via IRC (but not SOAP via IRC)
After making those RSS namespace examples, I was thinking aloud about SOAP on #joiito yesterday and how it compares to what I did with the Amazon data. Sam Ruby happened to be in the room: deusx: want...
View ArticleRDF representations of HTTP transactions?
13:52:29 is there a notation for capturing browse histories in rdf? 13:53:25 good question, monkeyiq... I wanted something like that a while ago... 13:53:30 I didn't find anything in particular....
View ArticleRSS-Data and Schema: Thinking about structure and data
Dare Obasanjo has provided some initial bullet points of what a vocabulary gets from having an XML Schema : * Usually provides a terse and concise description of the vocabulary [relative to the prose...
View ArticleSchemas, Freedom, and Control
I'll be at the Enterprise Architect Summit in Palm Springs next week, on a couple of panels. One's entitled Schemas in the wild: XML takes on the vertical industries, and the panelists are Jon Bosak...
View ArticleMicrocontent and RSS-Data
In response to the opposition to RSS-Data, Marc asks, "Where are the Reviews, Resumes, Recipes, Topics and other cool new forms of micro-content?" Well, I did a bit of Googling this morning, and this...
View ArticleWhen RSS Developers Attack
I agree with Derek Balling [who criticized Foo Camp], and when you come back to earth, I bet you will too Jeremy. Did I read that you guys had meetings about RSS? At a private invitation-only event? Do...
View ArticleSeeking Out Opposites
For the past year or two, I've been trying an experiment in my personal research and learning. I've been seeking out tools and technologies which are as different as possible from those with which I...
View ArticleA thought about the Nokia N-Gage
After playing with an N-Gage, I think sidetalkin.com is freakin' hillarious. One thought on this sidetalking thing, though: At least it keeps the screen from getting all schmutzed. My Treo 300 screen...
View ArticleLate to the Panther party
I know I'm late to the blogosphere release party for Panther, but I just got it last night and, biting the bullet, installed it with only minimal effort toward backing things up. I intend to eventually...
View ArticlePanther, forgotten connections, and no more lockups
Oh yeah, and, just noticed this upon arriving at work. In the past 6 months, forgotten mounted shares and the subsequent filesystem-related lockups and beach-ball-spinnings in Jaguar have been my sole...
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