Feedster Adds ... (drum roll please!) Creative Commons Support !

Guess what this is:

by-nc-sa/1.0

That tells Feedster what the Creative Commons (CC) status for Jason DeFillippo's blog is.  Thanks to inspiration from Lawrence, Dave, Joi and with some assistance from Aaron with a dash of Mark Bernstein in there and all the heavy lifting done by Francois (so far; read on for my part), I'm happy to report that Feedster now understands CC syntax.  So now here comes the obvious question -- Now What?  How do we make use of this?

Well I know what Joi wants having listened to him tell me at SuperNova and we're implementing that.  Another use is to show it and explain it on the Feedster Cache page.  But what else can we do with this?  Comments please.  When we know this more then my part in using this starts.

Oh and by the way we implemented "Find me blog posts like this one" on an experimental basis tonight.  Not quite perfect yet so we won't turn it on for a bit but for all those who've asked, we did it.

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Feedster Images Take 2

Ok.  Feedster Images take two is up.  Images are now searchable.

Goto Feedster Images

Search Feedster Images for Pictures of a Nokia 3650

Search Feedster Images for Any Images from Inluminent 
(result set is work safe / results may not be depending on your perspective)

I know the result set needs to be a graphical matrix of thumbnails.  We're working on it and should have it by Monday I suspect.  Just a php / gd conflict.  You should also have a Feedster Identity feature by early to late next week which lets you control how we index you.  Hopefully this will address the few complaints we've had.

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Bye Bye Geobytes !

It seems that www.Scottah.com was just on the FuzzyBlog and got a popup ad / page concerning their services.  This must have been coming from their free service which is apparently not so free now.  So its pulled from my blog templates.

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Let's Rename WW to What it Is: Redlining or Versioning And What If It Was Opt In ?

Ok.  What I called "Winer Watcher" what it really is -- post versioning or what lawyers call redlining.  And here's the real question:

What if Feedster made post versioning opt-in ?

Is post versioning acceptable if it is opt-in ?  Now this clearly raises some other issues about privacy and identity and how you tell Feedster that your blog is actually yours but we know how to solve that.  Comments?

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Excellent: RSS 2.0's Evolution

I don't normally post in full but this is important in my opinion.  From Dave.  Good move!

RSS 2.0 News 

There's lots of movement with RSS to announce today.

1. On Tuesday, July 15, UserLand Software transferred its copyright in the RSS 2.0 spec to Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. This addresses one of the major concerns about RSS 2.0, that it was published by one of the competitors in the RSS application space. That no longer is true.

2. The spec is licensed under terms that allow it to be customized, excerpted and republished, using the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license. So Berkman is basically acting as a distributor for the technology. We hope that this will inspire new profiles that extend RSS so it can meet the needs of diverse applications.

3. Since UserLand specifically disclaimed ownership of the format that the specification describes, no transfer took place on the format itself.

4. An independent advisory board has been formed to promote the wider use of RSS, to maintain the spec according to the roadmap, and to remove one of the major objections, that only UserLand could answer questions about RSS. The three-member board votes, the majority rules. The three board members are Brent Simmons, Jon Udell and Dave Winer.

5. The first task for the advisory board is to carefully review the RSS 2.0 specification in its new context. Quite a few documents moved, there probably are broken links. Help from the community is requested.

6. A place for comments, questions and suggestions.

A caveat to people concerned about edits, this section will certainly be edited over the next few hours

More....

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Wanted: Ability to Log All Get / Post Requests via Apache

A friend of a friend of a friend is having some issues with debugging some problems with get / post requests asked me if there was a way to do this at the apache level.  I'm so not an Apache demi-god that I thought I'd just ask.  Heck I'm not even an Apache acolyte -- perhaps I might qualify as a "Small Apache Toad who someday wants to be a frog or even a tadpole". 

All he wants is to turn on a logging option and have a single file generated (or one file per vhost) so he can look at the raw data streams.  Comments?  Sure it would take up disc space by the wazoo but for this kind of stuff it seems useful.

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Announcing Help!Blog!

This seems like a really good thing. 

Utilizing blogs and newsfeeds, HELP!blog is a vehicle to connect people with needs with people with solutions. It might as be as simple as an easy answer to a question or it might be more significant help to someone's desparate situation.

Either way, HELP!blog is there to put out the word of needs to folks listening who might have answers.

HELP!blog URL: http://www.helpblog.com
HELP!blog News URL: http://www.helpblog.com/newsblog/

Nice job.  Recommended.

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