Flyblog: Blogging

Googled

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:45:20 GMT

Teehee. So by a subtle change and the right posting I moved up to number 7 on the Google search "rss flight hang gliding".

Hmm. Not in Google

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:01:42 GMT

Well, checking Google out for "rss flight hang gliding" my Flyblog didn't come even close (and the Oz Report got several mentions on page 1).

So here's a bit of cheating. See if it comes up now...

Another HG Blog. Wow.

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:54:11 GMT

At last, another HG blogger...

http://wonderwinds.com/blog/index.php

RSS readers?

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:41:12 GMT

Introducing Aunt Tillie to RSS. This morning a story on RSS newsreaders appeared in the Personal Tech section of my local paper. The title was A simple program to 'refresh' the news; the byline was The Washington Post. I'm keenly interested in how the story of RSS is being told to Aunt Tillie, so I deconstructed this one with some care. ... [Jon's Radio]

A rather nice way of telling others how to tell others about RSS, and with some useful links. Nicely done, Jon.

OzBlog

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:08:13 GMT

8.038#09: RSS?. What is this RSS stuff? [The Oz Report]

Well, maybe this will be fun. The OzBlog now appears complete and correctly displayed in my news aggregator. And continues to be...

It's official - the OZ Report is a blog

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:08:51 GMT

For the time being at least, a Radio Userland site too. That makes two of us... http://ozreport.com/toc.php?Ozv7n308.shtml#5

To RSS or not to RSS

Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:16:39 GMT

My Radio Userland license comes up for renewal real soon. The software's been good, I think the site looks nice and I like the ease of posting. But the reality is that the RSS side is overkill - I don't think anyone is subscribed to my site.

This is mainly because HG pilots have better things to do (flying) than browse their news readers. I rarely look at mine; and there aren't any other flying RSS blogs to my knowledge. (The OZ Report is a blog of sorts, but it's pushed rather than pulled.)

So this blog is in fact "just" a web site. Do I really need RSS? (Basically, no) Do I need RadioUserland to host it? (Not if I don't need RSS)

I think I'll go with it one more year and try and get my site hosted elsewhere. This doesn't mean blogs aren't useful or RSS a waste of time. But I can't see this being used in industry since it's too open, to personal, not groupware, not controlled. Groove would be way ahead, I guess.

A comment

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 20:09:26 GMT

I'd actually turned the comments feature off (it was getting a bit silly seeing all those "comments: 0" messages) when Dave Harrison actually put one in...

So they're back on again.

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 14:32:18 GMT

A conversation with Jean Paoli. Next week's issue of InfoWorld includes an article on the new XML capabilities of Office 11. While researching the story, I interviewed the architect of XML in Office 11, Microsoft's Jean Paoli, one of the primary co-creators of XML. Here are some of his remarks. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio]

More on Office 11. Best try and make the most of it.

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 14:31:24 GMT

XML for the rest of us. ... [Jon's Radio]

Is what I would like.

Blogging about maps

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:39:05 GMT

Just have to try and get this little number to link my flights over maps. Not sure if can wait until the get round to scanning Lago Maggiore...

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:54:46 GMT

So what if you blog all you want, and no one looks. Or worse: you don't even know that no one is looking.

Well, a few people are. (My NedStat counter tells me). 'Course I haven't checked to see who is subscribed.

It's a bit like screaming into an abyss. You have to have a certain masochistic streak to do this - since feedback seems limited (never received a mail from a stranger, so far).

It's the lack of intersection that I think makes a blog something less than full groupware; at least with a newsgroup, you are sharing the terrain. here, it's all mine, but I'm not sure anyone else is interested. Are they?

Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:37:56 GMT

Time to try out more of this image insertion stuff.

I find this editor a bit clumsy, but it seems to work if I then mess around with FrontPage afterwards.

Anyway, nice picture of my kids, thanks Wim.

Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:24:47 GMT

Google, PageRank and k-logging. My weblog buddies will enjoy this sidebar to an article on the Google search appliance. When I say "Google" in that piece, I mean it in a generic sense. Today we associate PageRank with Google. There will be other ways to pool human evaluation of information, and Google will not be the only inventor of such techniques. ... [Jon's Radio]

Jon's at it again. Stretching my brain.

Placing pictures in your weblog

Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:55:49 GMT

Seems like the definitive text. Cut and paste into this wizzy box seemed too dumb. Oh well.

Thanks, Russ.

GIST? Get it?

Fri, 31 May 2002 12:34:05 GMT

Seems like they have the same problem as everyone else.

Go to http://wt.jrc.it, what they announce as their flagship site. Try and find a doc, message, anything, that isn't years old. Even the "news" scroller has only two messages this year...

As another indicator:

Welcome to the site of the Web Technologies (WT) Sector. We are part of the Reliable Information Technology Unit (RIT), ISIS, Joint Research Centre.This web site both summarises our past and present work and acts as an information hub for our day to day work.

Neither the unit nor the Institute exist.... not exactly reliable information... not exactly an information source for day to day work.

It might have the tools there, but it might just be a system implemented for geeks for projects for geeks. I suspect it is too heavy for most kind of projects that need a "lighter" approach. I'm not trying to undermine what they've obviously done, but the sublteties and purities don't exactly compensate for the sex part that is needed pull people in....

Thu, 30 May 2002 08:35:17 GMT

I'm always getting probs how to fix the categories tool bar on the left. Here's the link:

http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=2.6

Under Prefs, Nav Links. Why isn't this more obvious? As a newbie it's the kind of stuff you hit three times a day.

Thu, 30 May 2002 06:58:14 GMT

Personal RSS aggregators, and a personal note about BYTE. Here's my final column for BYTE.com, on personal RSS aggregators. Pardon me while I wax sentimental for a moment. It has been a long and meaningful relationship. ... [Jon's Radio]

Well this was what you call was (un)timely. Jon's column in Byte had my mind buzzing back in 1997 or whatever about a rich NNTP archive. I tried to explain it to my IT guys, but they didn't get it, despite contacting Jon directly and getting lots of ideas and support. We never managed to get the Netscape Suite working like it should, I moved projects and it died.

Two months ago, I moved back to the same project, after a 3-year gap. In April, I re-activated the NNTP idea with the (new) IT guy; he got a server running by the next day (Microsoft, of course), but everybody in the group thinks I'm weird and doesn't yet understand what this is all about.

But already since yesterday it is clear that NNTP, for what I was going to use it for, is dead. Looking at Jon's Byte.com column, I guess that's almost official, no? Gone are Byte's newsgroups, instead there is a low-throughput cutdown version of Yahoo's web groups... and everyone who's anyone is using Radio, Moveable Type, Blogger etc.

Jon, if you read this, a few of your articles (the ones I could understand) have been surely among the most influential in the way I've made paradigm shifts in my thinking about information management. Please keep it that way. Thanks.

Wed, 29 May 2002 16:28:57 GMT

What is a k-log?. Some people are taking the concept of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps? [WriteTheWeb]

Yes it will. In effect I can see that what I've been doing for three years at work - keeping a static web site using an O'Reilly freeware from 1996 because... well that's another story... can be completely revolutionised by a blog. It's just what I've always wanted, really. And it sure beats playing with Frontpage, so far.