Tuesday, January 07, 2003

BlogTalk - A European Conference on Weblogs in Vienna 23-24 May 2003 BlogTalk - A European Conference on Weblogs , in Vienna. The Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria 23-24 May 2003. I intend to write a paper for it if I find the time. Marc Barrot, the Active renderer guy will be there: a good occasion to meet many great webloggers. 8:11:16 PM Google It!      comment []

GeoURL and Local communities of bloggers 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. I stepped upon this through Ascription is an anathema to any enthusiasm's entry ICBM I now have my entry there: I used Yahoo maps to get the exact long/lat of my address in Paris, then added these 2 lines in the HEADER section of my Radio HomePage template:     <META name="ICBM" content="48.8312,2.3478">     <META name="DC.title" content="Patrick Chanezon's Weblog"> Then I used the ping form , and I was registered in 5 minutes. Here is my neighborhood. It seems like  L'oeil de Mouche is the only one from Paris to have registered yet. Incidentally she was at the FrogLog meeting in december but I did not talk to her. This is an excellent idea: the web is about connecting people, regardless of location, but I just started recently to discover its potential to also connect with people near me. My old Netscape friend Tristan sent me a mail in december about a physical meeting of french webloggers in a restaurant in Paris. I registered on the Froglog wiki, went and met with all these passionate french webloggers with whom I could talk to my heart's content about the potential of weblogs and the different uses they made of it. I met with [Manur] , [Karl], [Stephane] , and  ChristopheDucamp who co-organized this meeting. It's been 3 weeks already and I still have some catchup to do to read their blogs old posts ! 8:07:53 PM Google It!      comment []

Seattle in Winter Seattle in Winter [James Duncan Davidson] 7:11:57 PM Google It!      comment []

Is the Treo Ideal ? Is the Treo Ideal ? [Aaron Swartz] useful links to Treo soft. I have a Treo since a year now, but I just use the classic Palm apps on it, and the cell phone functionality. Is it ideal ? For me yes. 7:09:45 PM Google It!      comment []

Hep: a Universal Personal Proxy Catching up. A Personal Google and Wayback machine.  Very cool idea![Otaku, Cedric's weblog] Jog states the problem but the most interesting part is the list of links in the end, especially to decafbad's PersonalWebProxy  which goes more specifically into requirements and implementation ideas. I find this idea very interesting and Abe Fettig seems to have something implemented in Python running now: Hep. Need to give this a ride. it's been a while I wanted to play with Python. 7:05:39 PM Google It!      comment []

Cool URIs don't change ? But they may not be free forever ! JavaWorld back-issue access: $49.99 per year.  [Blogging Roller] I've always thought that Tim BL's statement "Cool URIs don't change" was a cornerstone of the web's value as a medium. I deeply regret JavaWorld's decision: I used to read all they published until I discovered  weblogs, and I usually included many links to their articles in my design documents, technical emails and tutorials. I may not the only one switching from this kind of online tech publication to weblogs as a primary source of information. I still read the articles on O'Reilly's web sites, but I am aware of them through the RSS feed on Merkaat. I guess Javaworld's move is out of desperation: I don't think this can save them though. I think of myself as a typical reader and the value of it was that I could link to it for my colleagues. So I just won't read it anymore. I wonder how they will avoid Google Cache and the Wayback Machine. Maybe with robot.txt files instructions to prevent archiving. This is a gloomy news. Or maybe a happy one: weblogs helped realize the early promise of the web of everyone as a publisher, with the help of RSS NewsReader, and other community forming tools (aggregation blogs, like javablog, Mark Pilgrim's tool to suggest what you should read based on what's on your weblog, Jon Udell's experimentation on charting community forming, etc...) to help people with the filtering and content selection, which was the traditional role of the publisher (that Tim O'Reilly described very well in one of his blog entries).   12:47:55 PM Google It!      comment []