Aggregator Overload - Good Stuff - Some Explored - Some Not
Saturday, March 08, 2003Phoons From Around the World. The pose in the accompanying image is supposedly known as a "phoon." This amazing web site has a collection of phoon pictures from all over the world. Each photo is meticulously catalogued, so you can quickly find the phoons you're looking for. Permalink Created Sat, 09 Mar 2003 15:29 GMT ### [The JWalk Blog]
PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites. They call it the Top 100 web sites you didn't know you couldn't live without. Unfortunately, the layout of this article is atrocious. It's obviously designed to maximize the number of ads served. Permalink Created Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:54 GMT ### [The JWalk Blog]
Aggregator reviews: "If you use [...] rss feeds then you will need an aggregator service. There are more than you would suspect. Once and Future has done some research and shares his discoveries with various aggregators available, both as desktop versions and web browsers." [Private Ink] [Universal Rule]
The horror of blimps.
The Horror of Blimps. Scylla: Some blimps are better off dead.
I laughed so hard, tears came out of my eyes. Thanks Ingo!
[Sam Ruby]
This has popped up in a number of places. Be careful.
[McGee's Musings]
Searching the Collective Mind of Your Blogroll.
Wow, I love the blogosphere (the capital "B" one and all the little ones)! First Scott Johnson creates Roogle, an RSS search engine (sorry, James), and then Micah Alpern just happens to have written an answer to my request for a search engine for my aggregator.
"Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from over 70 websites. This list of RSS feeds includes friends, publications, and domain expects; all people whose opinions I value. If Googling my weblog is like searching by backup brain, then searching all sites in my RSS news aggregator is like searching the brains of people I respect and find interesting.
Some times I want to know what the world thinks (google)
Some times I want to know what I think (my weblog)
Some times I want to know what those I respect think (blogs I read)....
I’m using the Google Soap API and PHP to do a series of domain specific searches with the site:foo.com advanced operator. Where do I get the list of news feeds to search? Radio Userland, the RSS news aggregator I use produces an OPML file, which is an XML document that lists all my news sources. All the results are collected together and presented on a single page....
As the quote by Alex Halavais at the top of this article notes, there are multiple blogsphere’s. These intersecting spheres are broken down by, among other things, interests, associations, geography, and responsibilities. We each live in several sphere’s simultaneously. Identifying and exploiting these sphere will require technical infrastructure in identify and reputation that are still being developed. As always the failure of geeks to find what they’re looking for will drive this development."
Basically, Micah has created an engine that searches the web (Google), your blog, or the blogs you read in your aggregator. It can even be incorporated into your web site! Wow. Majorly suh-weet with book-ending happy dances! Of course, you're still relying on Google's indexing of the blogs in your aggregator, but talk about a giant leap for blogkind. Thanks, Micah!
Isobel also suggests trying Agent Frank, which looks quite intriguing. I need more hours in the day!
[The Shifted Librarian]Doc and Dave sitting in a tree: "Doc sent an email out to a bunch of folks this morning, pointing to a new work he and David Weinberger created, World of Ends." [Burningbird] [Universal Rule]
Where all of us live.
Lance Knobel posts a very nice map of where people live:
Update: Excellent! Thanks! Eric Eisenhart says:
A higher resolution version with an explanation and credit is available at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030305.html
Posted by Eric Eisenhart at March 6, 2003 04:06 PM
Update: And there is the still bigger version at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0303/peopleearth94_usda_big.gif. [Semi-Daily Journal]
Fascinating info-graphic
[McGee's Musings]Worlds of Ends is a Cluetrainish manifesto by Searls and Weinberger. Of course what they write is right. The Internet is not complex and it resists being made complex. [Scripting News]
[lawrence's notebook]
MSFT's braindead back-door reveals sneaky spyware hidden in Windows Update. Windows Update spies on your XP box and sends information about your installed software back to the MSFT Death Star. Best of all, this was discovered by sniffing the "secure" SSL protocol that MSFT uses to communicate. How? By exploiting an undocumented API in MSFT's own system.
Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update. When patches are downloaded, a few kilobytes of data are sent in the opposite direction over a secure SSL channel. Because the data is encrypted a simple packet sniffer can't be used to see what this data contains. However tecChannel's tecDUMP utility takes advantage of an undocumented WinInet API, enabling an examination of the data before it becomes encrypted. According to tecChannel, the information sent to Microsoft includes details of all the software installed in a machine, not only Microsoft applications.Link Discuss (Thanks, Pablos!) [Boing Boing Blog]
Blog early, blog often.
Mike Sanders has been exploring habits of highly effective blogging. The series starts here.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]