Friday, January 09, 2004

rawdog. rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network bandwidth usage.... [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 1:32:51 PM    Trackback []

TiVo to go. In the PVR blog, Matt Haughey reports on the HDTV TiVo, due in spring, and also this: TiVo to Go is what they're calling their new video extraction, which sounds like it will be some DRM protection scheme applied to... [JD's New Media Musings] 11:46:48 AM    Trackback []

Syndicated Photography Feeds. Pheed.com is a database of information about photographs available on the web. We present the work of photographers who have made information about their images available as an RSS feed. RSS is a simple document format based on XML that is used to syndicate web-based content. A pheed is simply an rss feed that has been extended to include information about photographs; a photo feed. The links to the left will show you how to create an rss pheed and include information about your photographs in our database.... [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 11:36:14 AM    Trackback []

How to make a faceted classification and put It on the web. William Denton has written a truly excellent article on using faceted classification on the web, in which step-by-step practical details are provided on creating and applying faceted classification in the real world. To quote: This paper will attempt to bridge... [Column Two] 11:35:12 AM    Trackback []

Web and Weblogs. Kevin Werbach writes: "While the Web dramatically lowered the cost of publishing and accessing information, it kept the static and impersonal page metaphor of older media. Weblogs, aided by syndication mechanisms, remove that crutch...Some day we may look back and identify the rise of blogs, not the Web, as the decisive development that changed our relationship to information... and to each other." Excellently put...and we are just at the start of the blogs (and RSS) revolution. We are still using tools and lenses from the previous generation - what we need are the next generation of applications which recgonise that we may use multiple devices to access the same information store, that content is no longer just text, and that we like to share things we like with friends. This is the Publish-Subscribe, Always-on World. [E M E R G I C . o r g] 11:32:57 AM    Trackback []