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Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
OPML Editor - Wordpress hacking. I don't have enough time to do more than start hacking on the OPML Editor - Wordpress connection, so here's just that: a very small plugin that adds a handler to Wordpress for the opmlCommunityServer.saveFile XML-RPC method and parses just enough of OPML to be able to extract blogroll links.
Rename the .php.txt file linked above to opmlcommunityserver.php and drop it in your wp-content/plugins directory, then activate the plugin, and go into your OPML Editor's dotOpmlData.root database and change the XML-RPC URL to point to your Wordpress blog's xmlrpc.php file instead of /RPC2 on the community server. Now when you save your blogroll.opml file, you should see your blogroll change on your WP blog.
Note that it will blow away any existing links on the WP blog, so please only install this on your testing blog. It's intended as a starting point so someone else can build what Dave's asking, not as something for "end users" to use!
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[link] Apple has launched iTunes U, a platform for universities to publish podcasts. University webmaster listservs are all a-buzz over it.
Some are seeing this move as a renewed commitment on Apple’s part to serve the education sector. Note that they also recently launched a podcasting server for schools.
Read more on TUAW.
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9:29:48 AM
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NYT on Podcasting in Education. The more I read mainstream articles like this one from the New York Times on podcasting in K-12, the more urgent it seems for college and university instructors to understand and begin using this technology. The phenomenon is no longer new. Students are going to expect a way to get their college classes via podcast.
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8:57:53 AM
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Adventures in lightweight service composition. Three years after I started the LibraryLookup project, people are still regularly discovering and enjoying the ability to automatically broker a connection between Amazon (or another book site) and their local libraries. In a screencast entitled Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation I showed a more advanced version of the conventional bookmarklet: a Greasemonkey script that modifies an Amazon page to include a notice about the book's availability in my local library. The screencast ends with a demonstration of another kind of connection brokering. If a book isn't available at the library, I add it to my Amazon wishlist. Then, when it becomes available at the library, it shows up in a special RSS feed that watches my Amazon wishlist.
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8:31:05 AM
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