RSS2Necho
A quick and dirty implementation in php that parses a basic RSS feed and turns it into a basic necho one. This is just a toy for your enjoyment but here it is: RSS2necho implementation. If you want to point it to your own feed, just include the feed after the rss2necho/ part of the url and you're done. It's very rough and if you want a copy of source (largely a lift of someone else's code (attibution is in the php comments) revised for my own purpose), drop me a note....[The TNL.net weblog] 
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Stock icons for developers, designers. Iconfactory has designed the interface widgets for Windows XP, Netscape 6, Extensis Suitcase, Panic's Transmit, Microsoft Messenger, and many other products. Now you can afford to add their potent blend of information design and illustration to your own software projects and websites. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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Swift 3D: Vector Animation for the Web. Swift 3D is a plug-in which converts 3D geometry into Vector animation which can be imported into Flash. Swift 3D is available as a plug-in for 3D Studio Max and Lightwave and also functions as a standalone application. By Nathan Segal. 0709 [WebReference News] 
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Adaptive Path Redesign. Doug Bowman and Adaptive Path have launched the redesign of the Adaptive Path site. It's well worth exploring: the site looks gorgeous, and is a great example of best practise structural markup, CSS and web standards compliance. Doug has an overview of the highlights of the new design, which includes a brief explanation of the brilliant CSS double... [Artima Web Buzz] 
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Converting HTML documents to XHTML -- an essential XHTML Tutorial. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Vox Populi: Web Services From the Grassroots. In Rich Salz's latest column, he examines the effort to redefine simply site syndication, claiming that it's already technically superior to RSS 2.0. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Drop shadow effects using only two nested divs and an alpha-transparent PNG. They look passable in IE as well. Another gem from Paul Hammond's link blog. Incidentally, Paul has written up some interesting observations on how a previous item from his link blog spread itself around the 'net after I linked to it a few... [Artima Web Buzz] 
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Jeremy Helms converted his logo to ASCII. Cool!

[The Scobleizer Weblog] 
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RSS Validator advice changed. Sam Ruby has fixed the RSS Validator, which was responding to duplicate elements in a way he didn't expect.

It no longer suggests an element to remove in response to invalid RSS 2.0 (and perhaps other versions).

He also says this about the validator, which is an open-source project:

The RSS validator has always been neutral in the RSS wars. In particular, it provides valuable feedback on the quality of RSS 1.0 feeds as well as RSS 2.0. In fact, most of the code is common between the two.

If somebody were to wish to constructively contribute to this effort, particularly one with strong Python skills, he or she would be eagerly welcomed by me.

[Workbench] 
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Xanadu: stately, unpleasant, dumb. Clay Shirky in the Echo Project wiki's "project motivation" discussion:

Almost nothing of what [Ted] Nelson imagined has come to pass. He was wrong about transclusion, wrong about stateful conversations, wrong about how to handle unique IDs, and almost everything that [Tim] Berners-Lee did right -- limited semantics in the application protocol; made it stateless; and created the 404 error, living embodiment of worse is better and savior of scale -- violated Nelson's bankrupt vision. Xanadu was the wrong answer, REST (Representational State Transfer) is the right one. If you thought that all that was wrong with RSS 1.0 is that RDF didn't make it confusing enough, attach the twin boat-anchors of OWL and the Semantic Web to Echo and see what happens.

[Workbench] 
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Here's something so cool. Today, for the first time, I ran my aggregator at the office with the harmonizer installed. Now, back at home, I have all these feeds that I used to only have at the office. I feel harmony. Hmmmm. [Scripting News] 
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Quick links.

• Teal Sunglasses: Dear Dave...
• XPath

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Value-Added RSS Feeds.

Gary Lawrence Murphy reached a similar conclusion as I have: emergence of value-added RSS feeds.  Checkout the second half of his "Echos of RSS" post.

[Don Park's Daily Habit] 
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Echo Project News.

If you don't have the time to keep up with the Echo Wiki stop by Aaron Swartz' Echo Project News for all the latest developments.

[BitWorking] 
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EchoAPI Draft RFC Rev 02.

The next revision of the draft EchoAPI RFC is now available:

http://bitworking.org/rfc/draft-gregorio-02.html

and if your are curious, the original XML is also available:

http://bitworking.org/rfc/draft-gregorio-02.xml

Changes from the last version:

1. Entries are no longer returned from POSTs, instead they are retrieved via GET.
2. Cleaned up figure titles, as they are rendered poorly in HTML.
3. All content-types have been changed to application/not-echo+xml.

[BitWorking] 
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