Need to keep an eye on this for my debian box, because this will make my life so much easier when trying to work out where things are in Debian.
Month: April 2004
20th May: Copyright vs Community
Things have got bigger, alot bigger… Not only do we have the one and only Richard Stallman at 1400, we now have the recently moved to London Cory Doctorow from the EFF at 1630. and the legendary Fravia from Searchlores at 1100.
Found a useful video of Cory talking earlier this year at an american university.
Let me just clear it up again…
Fravia, Stallman and Doctorow on the same day in Ravensbourne College… Boy oh boy this is going to be the best day in Ravensbournes history. Even beating all the Rave on air's I reckon. But on with the plan…
higher level aggregation
The higher level aggregators have started coming about. One of notice is Kinja which uses xhtml 1.0 strict and css in its site. But doesnt give off another feedm which is a real shame. So I count this as more a end of the line aggregator, kinda of like google, etc. Still prefer bloglines, but ultimatly the best is still something like flock, which gives off a rss feed too. I have started using cocoon's aggregator, which is pretty awesome too. Specially because any one with a bit of xsl can knock out decent feeds.
Is a picture worth a 1000 words?
I heard somewhere HP are working on a wearable system which records pretty much all of your day. Its being pioneered by HP labs in Bristol, yep the same lab the semantic blogger came out of… I still stick by my thoughts that HP are really doing some interesting research in the semantic web area.
The whole concept of a always-on camera isnt a new one. Hell even I thought about it when I was doing work with Trium back in college. But the thing which comes to mind instantly is the privicy issue, you only have to look at slashdot to see what I mean. And even though I see all the points, what I'm more interested in is, the link with semantic blogging. Adding words to the pictures?
The year of really simple syndication?
I was speaking to an ex-student on jabber instant messager tonight, and he said something which was out of the blue.
[23:52:43] David> this is going to be the year of rss [23:52:52] Ian> lol why do you say that [23:53:15] David> last year was im [23:53:15] Ian> have a answer already but just wondering why you say that [23:53:18] David> this years rss [23:53:58] Ian> hummm yes i guess [23:54:26] David> and coss your working on it! [23:56:12] Ian> just finished new intranet, uses rss all the way through [23:57:18] David> for rave? [23:57:34] Ian> yep [23:57:52] David> so give me an rss demo feed
Now I've been using rss for a while now, but not in the tradional sense most people use it for. I'm tending to use it for serious syndication. As mentioned the new rave intranet and website is based on rss through and through-out. I was dropped a link by dave to live streams of new bit torrent downloads in rss, which I have aggergated into a nasty fat feed. And there is the webbased xmlrpc client which is built on jsp and html forms. All coming together really nicely, but i dont buy the this year
crap – specially when you consider the Atom threat, Soap and others… But also I cant decide where the rss fits in the grand scale of things. Personal publishing or the Semantic web? And of this all links back to my one voice thought, which I still havent finished yet…
Xbox media centre skin
Found Project Mayhem's website today, they adapted there amazing classic skin for the new version alpha of Xbox media centre.
Record TV from your mobile
If it wasnt the 30th March on the press release, I would say it was a April Fools trick. But it seems Opera have been working on a Programming guide for mobile phones. I think it only works on symbian devices, which is a shame. Please please Opera I beg you, develop your lovely browser for the windows mobile 2003… And a mobileIPG would be cool too.
Spiked online finally get RSS feeds
At long last Spiked online gets RSS 0.91 feeds. Well its about time… Maybe at somepoint they may adopt a nicer stylesheet driven website, as those tables and javascript really is heavy and a not needed.
Trailblazer
Miles dropped this in my email box last night.
Watched the demo, which seems interesting…
However trailblazer does look quite useful, the lucece searching is a nice touch.But I would prefer it to generate xlinks (or even rdf) with thumbnails.As it could make for some very rich data while researching around. Also I bet Google and others would love to get there hands on such data.
Novell and opensource
Had a quick look at the range of very interesting opensource projects Novell are working on. Some great stuff, specially ifolder. Edd Dumbill has a huge review on his blog worth reading. Also mentions the nice looking F-Spot which seems to support FOAF depiction data. I dont know how it compares to my favourate photostudio which fully supports EXIF data. But we shall see…