Friday, June 28, 2002

Dave points us at this: 802.11b News: Warchalking Hits Government. [Scripting News] First, we really, really like the Warchalking meme, and hope that people start chalking in River City soon.  Second, the "Government" that warchalking has hit is the Utah State gov't, and a little known fact about Dr. Bonzo is that he's from … UTAH! Anyway, the 802.11b News blurb points to a comment in the (Radio!) weblog of Utah's state government CIO.  We're excited to find his 'blog, since many of his interests (in enterprise and distributed computing) parallel Dr. Bonzo's. The blog itself is at http://www.windley.com/, and Dr. Windley also syndicates many parts of his BYU course in Enterprise and Distributed Computing (the course site is a Slash site — too cool!). 8:13:43 PM

Note to self: read this! Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web "In this workshop you'll learn how to create, validate, syndicate, and view your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of RSS XML/RDF metadata for dynamically publishing...." [via Serious Instructional Technology] Now this is an excellent resource! Put up by the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) folks in Utah, this one-page tutorial gives a brief overview of RSS, what it looks like, aggregators (they call them "viewers"), how to locate feeds, how to create your own feeds, how to validate your RSS, and more. I'm not sure what impresses me the most - the link to Metabrowser (their "recommended tool for creating and editing UtahGILS and Dublin Core metadata"), their Metabrowser tutorial, the reminder about David Carter-Tod's Javascript code for embedding an RSS feed in a web page, that they're doing RSS with meta tags, or that it's the library folks doing it! I r-e-a-l-l-y need to get these people to talk to the folks at the Illinois State Library so that they'll understand my vision of news aggregation for Illinois libraries. [The Shifted Librarian] 7:46:31 AM