My notes for this afternoon's presentation at JFK. [Scripting News]
1:53:10 PM    
  
Edutools Course Management News (but displaying on the EdTechPost site). I help maintain the news page at Edutools where we post timely items of interest to the course management system industry. Our developer kindly enabled an RSS feed of the page, so I can also see it in my aggregator, and will occassionly repost relevant items to this blog. But I thought it would be nice to offer the same content on this site, and this handy code from Dave Winer allows one to display the contents of another RSS feed directly in ones' own Radio blog. How's that for write once/publish everywhere! I'll put a link to this page on my regular nav bar at some point, but for now it seemed like an interesting experiement. - SWL [EdTechPost]
1:06:46 PM    
  
Wiki and Weblog Packages. This via the extensive article I posted on yesterday by david Mattison on all things wiki, a wiki page listing every piece of software they know about that combines both wikis and blogs. Now if we could patch these together with some other personal information management tools and other general office tools...scratch that - I actually like getting up from my computer and I fear the combination of these would simply be too addictive ;-) - SWL [EdTechPost]
1:05:43 PM    
  
CMSML - XML to describe content management frameworks, systems and editors. I had to post this because it is the expression of what I was hoping we could do in the course management world with the edutools feature set. This project is an attempt to create "XML to describe content management frameworks, systems and editors. The project will develop a comprehensive feature list for CMS, a controlled vocabulary to describe these features, and appropriate names for each in the XML Schema Document. Features will be grouped in three broad areas (content creation, management proper, and delivery), plus overview information (name, company, website, technology, license, etc.). The current CMS Matrix will be expanded to display a side-by-side comparison of any two CMS." But I'm not sure I see the business model - maybe there isn't one, not everything needs one, but I need to find one for the work we are doing at edutools. Still, really encouraging sign - SWL [EdTechPost]
1:05:22 PM    
  
Blazing trails with RSS.

"What do content syndication, Vannevar Bush's Memex trails, RSS feeds and Radio UserLand have in common? Read this to find out!"

Once again David Davies is himself blazing new trails in the Radio tool figuring out a way to use it to produce RSS feeds of URLs that represent paths through the net (or collections of URLs) instead of blog posts. - SWL

- by [David Davies: Edtech]

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1:04:55 PM    
  
Fagan Finder - Search Weblogs, Journals, and RSS.

New to me - a comprehensive list of (and interface to) ways to search (and be found in) the blogosphere. I knew of and have submitted to a number of these, but they are literally coming so fast and furious that I can't keep track. Thus this will become an invaluable resource - SWL

- via [Seb's Open Research]

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1:02:23 PM    
  
Radio Userland Community Tools Directory : Master Tool Directory. I've been using Radio8 since last August, and if I have any complaint about the tool it's the fact that you end up spending more time searching for documentation than you do actually using it. It desperately needs one central place in which links to all relevant documents, and links to all 3rd party tools, can be found. This post is simply just a breadcrumb that I am dropping so that one day I may find my way back to this collection of community developed tools. - SWL [EdTechPost]
12:48:22 PM    
  
One year ago: Shortcuts in Radio. [Scripting News]
8:23:23 AM    
  
Question. Is there a test site that fully supports trackback? I get confused reading the spec. Why do none of the sites support the RDF snippet that they're supposed to? Is that part optional? Or maybe I misread the spec. How do you discover the url to ping? A human-readable howto that's not tied to a specific product would be very useful. I think it must exist by now. Pointer please. [Scripting News]
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