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Radio UserLand, RSS, Weblog Tools and Design
Saturday, October 05, 2002
system.verbs.builtins.radio.macros.viewWeblog changed on Thu, 05 Sep 2002 06:17:39 GMT: Added support for weekly weblog archives. [Radio.root Updates]
Weblog as my backup brain. It's the primary reason that I tend to take advantage of Radio's news aggregator to post mostly complete copies of the items that I want to remember. I also use Mark Paschal's Kit tool to search my weblog archives. I can usually manage to remember some fragment or key phrase about something I've posted. I can then usually find the original item in my archives.
The notion of personal knowledge management hasn't been explored enough. Maybe I'm sensitized to it because of my aging brain cells and general absent-mindedness. But I can't see how organizations are going to progress with knowledge management unless the individuals in those organizations learn how to unpack what they know. [Seblogging News]
Mining your Weblog content. In a recent post Will Richardson is thinking "about the really important need to find stuff once you post it." Dale Pike touched this topic too, when he wrote the other day: "How does it pop back into my workflow? The most basic of models seems to be, "Didn't I make a post about that? Hmmm... Did I use the phrase "image management" or "picture database"?" Seems klunky". A one-fits-all solution to this problem doesn't really exist. Full text indexing your Weblog through a free search service is a valid strategy but delivers mixed results. I have recently played a bit with the Metadata plugin for Manila and some of the available macros like "include message" and "view newsItem".
The DataMining page I have thrown together already solves a few issues for me. First of all, it allows the quick monitoring of all posts, and comments. Just looking at the list of "headlines" I can see where the latest statements came from. Since Seblogging is focused on the voices of particular people, names play an important role for the organization of this log. If I want to check out an original post I can simply click on the headline. I can also comment on an item directly from this list view. What you cannot see is that I can even edit it from there, too. The way I have indexed my items allows me to search for any name or surname of a seblogged eduBlogger. If I target my search to the "body" of all items instead of the "newsItem.department" meta type I receive a list of all items that include my search term somewhere within the item text. Of course, I can construct more metadata types like "topic"or "keywords" to classify the items in a more elaborate way. What I really like about this approach is that I can construct and edit metadata types whenever I want. I don't have to anticipate a full metadata sheme right from the start. [Seblogging News]
Tracking activeRenderer. Thanks to Mike Cannon-Brookes, the activeRenderer project is now hosted at Atlassian JIRA. You can browse the project's current issues, and the roadmap ahead. [read more] [s l a m]
Learned something interesting here.... Morbus Rides In. Morbus has created an excellent resource of places to find RSS feeds.... [Content Syndication with XML and RSS]
A while back, there was some talk about why LiveJournal sites are ignored. Someone had said on their blog that users' journals weren't available as RSS, which is incorrect.
Adding metadata to my template (per Syndic8). Peering into my referrer logs this morning, I saw a reader coming from Syndic8, so I decided to take a look at how this site looks through that syndicator's display. I noticed that RFB is listed as not having the metadata that Syndic8 looks for, so I followed a link to some metadata help, followed a further link to the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names to get the longitude, latitude, and a numerical code for Oakland, and came up with these new metadata entries for the HEAD section of my home template:
Radio UserLand, RSS, Weblog Tools and Design
Saturday, October 05, 2002system.verbs.builtins.radio.macros.viewWeblog changed on Thu, 05 Sep 2002 06:17:39 GMT: Added support for weekly weblog archives. [Radio.root Updates]
12:12:51 PM
categories: Radio Fun
Weblog as my backup brain. It's the primary reason that I tend to take advantage of Radio's news aggregator to post mostly complete copies of the items that I want to remember. I also use Mark Paschal's Kit tool to search my weblog archives. I can usually manage to remember some fragment or key phrase about something I've posted. I can then usually find the original item in my archives.
The notion of personal knowledge management hasn't been explored enough. Maybe I'm sensitized to it because of my aging brain cells and general absent-mindedness. But I can't see how organizations are going to progress with knowledge management unless the individuals in those organizations learn how to unpack what they know. [Seblogging News]
11:58:07 AM
categories: Radio Fun
Mining your Weblog content. In a recent post Will Richardson is thinking "about the really important need to find stuff once you post it." Dale Pike touched this topic too, when he wrote the other day: "How does it pop back into my workflow? The most basic of models seems to be, "Didn't I make a post about that? Hmmm... Did I use the phrase "image management" or "picture database"?" Seems klunky". A one-fits-all solution to this problem doesn't really exist. Full text indexing your Weblog through a free search service is a valid strategy but delivers mixed results. I have recently played a bit with the Metadata plugin for Manila and some of the available macros like "include message" and "view newsItem".
The DataMining page I have thrown together already solves a few issues for me. First of all, it allows the quick monitoring of all posts, and comments. Just looking at the list of "headlines" I can see where the latest statements came from. Since Seblogging is focused on the voices of particular people, names play an important role for the organization of this log. If I want to check out an original post I can simply click on the headline. I can also comment on an item directly from this list view. What you cannot see is that I can even edit it from there, too. The way I have indexed my items allows me to search for any name or surname of a seblogged eduBlogger. If I target my search to the "body" of all items instead of the "newsItem.department" meta type I receive a list of all items that include my search term somewhere within the item text. Of course, I can construct more metadata types like "topic"or "keywords" to classify the items in a more elaborate way. What I really like about this approach is that I can construct and edit metadata types whenever I want. I don't have to anticipate a full metadata sheme right from the start. [Seblogging News]
11:56:35 AM
categories: Radio Fun
Tracking activeRenderer. Thanks to Mike Cannon-Brookes, the activeRenderer project is now hosted at Atlassian JIRA. You can browse the project's current issues, and the roadmap ahead. [read more] [s l a m]
Learned something interesting here.... Morbus Rides In. Morbus has created an excellent resource of places to find RSS feeds.... [Content Syndication with XML and RSS]
A while back, there was some talk about why LiveJournal sites are ignored. Someone had said on their blog that users' journals weren't available as RSS, which is incorrect.
LiveJournal is a free service that lets anyone keep an online journal, readable to anyone who happens by and updated whenever you deem necessary. Your journal can also be retrieved in RSS format, simply by adding /rss to the end of your journal's standard URL (like this)...That's good to know... [jenett.radio]
Adding metadata to my template (per Syndic8). Peering into my referrer logs this morning, I saw a reader coming from Syndic8, so I decided to take a look at how this site looks through that syndicator's display. I noticed that RFB is listed as not having the metadata that Syndic8 looks for, so I followed a link to some metadata help, followed a further link to the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names to get the longitude, latitude, and a numerical code for Oakland, and came up with these new metadata entries for the HEAD section of my home template:
<META NAME="dc.creator.e-mail" CONTENT="contactus@radiofreeblogistan.com">
<META NAME="dc.creator.name" CONTENT="Christian Crumlish (xian)">
<META NAME="tgn.id" CONTENT="7014250">
<META NAME="tgn.name" CONTENT="Oakland">
<META NAME="geo.position" CONTENT=" 37.800;-122.267">
<META NAME="geo.placename" CONTENT="Oakland, California">
<META NAME="geo.country" CONTENT="US">
<META NAME="dmoz.id" CONTENT="Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/"> While investigating that last meta tag (name="dmoz.id"), I discovered that Radio Free Blogistan is not listed at DMOZ, so I submitted it in the Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs category. [Radio Free Blogistan] 11:25:14 AM
categories: Radio Fun