Thursday, January 16, 2003

The Weblog MetaData Initiative: Automatic Scanning Demo Live OK, so here's an opportunity for distributed resource sharing -- markup your weblog with dc+ metadata and submit it for scanning twice a day for inclusion in an aggregator. 10:28:30 PM    comment [] FBI in Your Library Pay attention... 5:02:05 PM    comment [] Smart Mobs - About the Book "Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive. " 4:39:51 PM    comment [] Instant Messaging in Frontier/Radio "tcp.im is an instant messaging client and server framework for Frontier and Radio UserLand. With tcp.im, you can create applications that call through IM, or receive calls through IM. The architecture is open: There's a driver architecture which allows developers create their own drivers to handle any IM protocol. This release includes drivers for Jabber and AIM. In addition to the driver framework, there's a responder framework based on user.webserver.responders. Several sample responders are included." 4:20:13 PM    comment [] META Tag Snob: Proprietary Engine META Tags "The following search engines, web directories, and indexing programs all use proprietary tags not supported by other sites or software. In fact, some of these tags are no longer supported by the engines that promoted them, but are still listed here in case you're wondering about a META tag you noticed in some obscure corner of the Web" 3:58:38 PM    comment [] Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data 3:57:04 PM    comment [] yale rare book photonegatives This site has an interesting method for creating a collection of photos and publishing them  3:47:44 PM    comment [] Balloon v1.0 "This is the story of how I designed, built, launched, and recovered a high-altitude weather balloon. Actually, the term "weather balloon" might be a bit of a misnomer, because aside from the physical latex balloon, and the payload's ability to measure temperature, this project bears little resemblance to a traditional weather balloon. The design and engineering process encompassed more disciplines than anything I'd ever undertaken before -- system engineering, software design, hardware design, basic electrical concepts, radio and RF engineering, and even some plumbing. I have two aims in writing this article. The first is to share the story of Balloon v1.0, which I think is one of the coolest things I've ever done, and the second is to provide information (or pointers to information) that might be useful to other would-be balloon builders. Non-technical readers may want to read the first two or three sections and then skip down to the section titled "The Launch." If you're really impatient, you might want to go straight to the gallery of aerial photos or the gallery of launch and recovery photos. " 3:37:27 PM    comment [] Gizmodo : Onkyo's new digital music server "Speaking of connecting the PC to the stereo, the Integra NAS-2.3 from Onkyo has an Ethernet port and an embedded 80GB hard drive so it can both stream music off of your PC, or act as a digital music server in its own right. It can support up to 12 simultaneous streams, so people in different parts of the house can listen to different songs stored on the same box. And for the geeks, it runs on Linux." 3:09:57 PM    comment [] GeoURL ICBM Address Server: "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you." 1:59:57 PM    comment [] Novissio - liveTopics: "liveTopics is a simple but powerful application for building knowledge based websites. We have taken the simplicity of weblogs and added a powerful new layer of metadata to help organise your posts into a knowledge space. By adding topics to your weblog posts they can be automatically threaded into a Table of Contents for your weblog. Each weblog category can have itâ019s own table of contents allowing you to safely publish private and public k-logs." 1:43:20 PM    comment [] The Internet Topic Exchange: "This is the first public implementation of the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept. It's a central server to host TrackBack-powered channels. It's designed to let anyone effortlessly create a channel to archive pointers to information on a given topic." 1:42:01 PM    comment [] CommunityServerWiki: CommunityServerWiki: "This is a public discussion area for people to talk about weblog CommunityServer software, blogging and KnowledgeManagement" 1:41:11 PM    comment [] Seb's Open Research: "Weblogs have a potential for group-forming like no other medium. However I'm convinced that much of it to this day remains untapped. I'd like to explain an idea that I have been bouncing around for a while. It might well be a reformulation of what others have said previously. I believe that implementing this properly would give a nice boost to the blogosphere's social aggregation capability..." 1:40:21 PM    comment [] Advogato's trust metric: "This document briefly describes the technical details of Advogato's trust metric. The basic trust metric evaluates a set of peer certificates, resulting in a set of accounts accepted. These certificates are represented as a graph, with each account as a node, and each certificate as a directed edge. The goal of the trust metric is to accept as many valid accounts as possible, while also reducing the impact of attackers. Advogato performs certification to three different levels: Apprentice, Journeyer, and Master. This is actually done by running the basic trust metric three times, using the "level" value in the certificate as a threshold. Thus, certification of Apprentices is computed using all certificates, while Master is computed using Master certificates only. " 1:39:14 PM    comment [] Meatball Wiki: MeatballWiki: "MeatballWiki aspires to be a community of communities: an intercommunity or metacommunity. It deals with online culture, especially how people online come together naturally in groups. Along with that, some of us also like to talk about building our own communities. That even includes this one, eating [editing?] its own tail." 1:38:06 PM    comment [] Meatball Wiki: PeerToPeerSyndication: "Making content available to move between different sites on the internet. A special case of this is HeadlineSyndication. Two relevant communications protocols are RichSiteSummary and ResourceDescriptionFramework. Specific to wikis, there is also the RSS extension module ModWiki. " 1:37:19 PM    comment [] Meatball Wiki: ModWiki: "RSS 1.0 Wiki Module is an extension module for RSS to describe metadata particular to wiki applications. As such it's an XML application conforming to the W3C's RDF Specification and the RSS specification of the RSS-DEV Working Group." 1:35:09 PM    comment [] CommunityServerWiki: RidiculouslyEasyGroupForming: "How it works You make a post in your favourite blogging tool. You classify your post as belonging to a topic, with a plain-English name. Perhaps a description as well. The topic gets created somewhere, and given a blog and RSS feed. Your blogging tool leaves a link to the topic blog somewhere around your post, so visitors can see it. Now, anyone subscribed to the topic (that's you, anyone else who has linked a post to the topic, or anyone who has subscribed with RSS or somesuch) sees this topic in a drop-down list next to the text entry box in their blogging app whenever they post. This is very similar to TrackBack. Most of it is TrackBack. The cool thing is that is will be easy to use. Currently TB requires you to create a whole new blog for each topic. This sort of thing would require one mega-blog server that would only work accept posts via TB. " 12:31:53 PM    comment [] TrackBack Development 12:26:58 PM    comment [] TrackBack Technical Specification: "This document describes TrackBack, a framework for peer-to-peer communication and notifications between web sites. The central idea behind TrackBack is the idea of a TrackBack ping, a request saying, essentially, ``resource A is related/linked to resource B.'' A TrackBack ``resource'' is represented by a TrackBack Ping URL, which is just a standard URI. Using TrackBack, sites can communicate about related resources. For example, if Weblogger A wishes to notify Weblogger B that he has written something interesting/related/shocking, A sends a TrackBack ping to B. This accomplishes two things: Weblogger B can automatically list all sites that have referenced a particular post on his site, allowing visitors to his site to read all related posts around the web, including Weblogger A's. The ping provides a firm, explicit link between his entry and yours, as opposed to an implicit link (like a referrer log) that depends upon outside action (someone clicking on the link). " 12:26:10 PM    comment []

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