Application icon template. Here's another little gift to help fellow OS X developers whose design skills ... [Irate Scotsman] 
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Purple as in the number.

Oxen bloxsom purple communities. EE Kim speaks!.

Eugene Kim has started blogging: EEK Speaks.

Eugene and his partner, Chris Dent (who blogs at Glacial Erratics), of Blue Oxen Associates, both have PurpleNumbers on their blogs, where each paragraph has its own fragment permalink.

Eugene wrote a plugin for his bloxsom blog, and Chris is generating his in Moveable Type. Chis also sends these paragraph level links out in one of his RSS 2.0 feeds.

PurpleNumbers are something totally good for the iCite net, which likes links to content at as fine a granularity as interesting, like a paragraph.

[the iCite net development blog]

I had the pleasure to meet Gene during Planetwork conference.  Somehow they convinced Pierre Omidyar to fund them! 

[Marc's Voice]

I have a question about PurpleNumbers which is:

• What happens when the paragraph gets edited?

Does it get a new purple number?  If so, where does the old purple number go?  If not, how do you find out that the paragraph you are linking to is no longer the paragraph you thought you were linking to?

 

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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RSS innovation with source GUID.

We've not made much noise about it but something that Paolo and I have been doing is working within the framework of RSS2.0 to deliver what we see as useful functionality.  ENT 1.0 is one of those things, another is SGUID.

SGUID allows an aggregator to unambiguously identify the post that an aggregated post is referring to.  By default RSS2.0 only allows you to identify the feed.  The upshot of SGUID is that aggregators could implement simple threading and allow readers to browse back through a series of postings with ease. Whenever I repost an item from my aggregator now, my post get's the appropriate SGUID.

SGUID is simple.  We're hoping it is useful as well.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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Programming is an Art. First I would advise you to read this conversation over at SimpleGeek to get an idea of why I am writing this post. Then if you get a chance, read this book titled, Software Craftmanship, and come back to this... [Artima Web Buzz] 
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Wrappers, injectors, and writing tools. I gather that this way of representing my RSS feed is ready to declare victory over this way. Wake me up when it's over. At the end of the day, any XML metadata wrapper around the content of our blog entries will do the job, and it's trivial to transform one flavor of wrapper to another. If there were no legacy to consider, it'd be a toss-up as to which I'd prefer. Since there is a legacy, I'd rather preserve it, but that's a complicated matter about which too much has been said, and I'm only one of many voices. ... [Jon's Radio] 
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RSS to (not)Echo.

Want an idea of what your RSS feed would look like as Echo? Tristan Louis has a converter to do just that. Here is BitWorkings feed as (not)-Echo, which by the way, validates using the recently updated Feed validator.

[BitWorking] 
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Feed validator. There's a new RSS validator in town. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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Sins of omission. In yesterday's discussion of Iconfactory's new stock icons service, we neglected to mention that the site on which the service lives is nicely done in CSS layout and XHTML Transitional. In an earlier entry on Coudal Partners's Summer Reading 2003 omnibus, we likewise neglected to mention that it, along with the rest of coudal.com, was redone with CSS layout. Two companies, both known for their design smarts, both now designing with web standards. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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