Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came together when I was chatting to Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), at a GeekUp event in [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Piers and I noticed some odd system messages on gnu.pipetree.com’s console. It looked like we might be under attack. Following some oddness all round, including the network interface not coming up after a reboot, we decided that the best thing to do was a fresh install of everything. So after [...]
2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück. Although I’ve tried to avoid meta-blogging, I’ll make an exception this time. For whatever reason my blogging went quiet towards the end of last year. Work and home life kept me nicely busy.
Actually, as you can see from a few recent posts here, what online time I’ve had [...]
Our talk on SAP R/3 and Open Source went down well at OSCON this year. Especially of interest was the section on producing RSS from R/3 to carry business data.
Continued …
[From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by DJ Adams]
Q: When is a blog not a blog?
A: When it’s an RSS feed.
I’ve pondered the relationship between weblog and RSS before, and in an Old Speckled Hen-induced philosophical state of mind, have decided for experimental purposes that for all URI intents and purposes they are one and the same.
With that in mind, my thoughts turned [...]
My favourite blogging software just got better.
Congratulations to Rael in releasing the plugin-enabled 2.0 Beta1 of Blosxom. I dropped it into my cgi-bin directory, tweaked a few things, and it worked like a dream.
One of the plugins available already is RSS 1.0 plugin, which I’m now using to generate RSS 1.0 - see the Syndication [...]
Prompted by a post on the re-awakened WriteTheWeb, I made a small mod to Blagg so that more detailed information is sent in the User-Agent header - announcing that the RSS aggregator ‘blagg’ is the agent requesting the RSS feed.
Following it’s sibling Blosxom’s philosophy of simplicity and reuse of existing tools, Blagg uses ‘wget’ (or [...]
It seems that beyond carrying syndication information, RSS is a very useful and flexible way to get all sorts of application data pushed to a user over time. In the same way that a web browser is a universal canvas upon which limitless services and information can be painted, so (in an albeit [...]
At one end of the spectrum, along which building blocks for future cooperative web applications lie, we have the library software vendors who were unwitting participants in a great web service experiment “LibraryLookup” built and described by Jon in a recent InfoWorld column. While I’m sure everything is fine now, I don’t think their [...]
If nothing else, RSS 1.0 is a great source of contemplation and wondering. This morning, I’ve been considering the thoughts surrounding the rdf:about attribute in the channel element:
<channel rdf:about=”…”>
…
</channel>
What should the value of the rdf:about be? The URI of the RSS file itself or the URI of the document that the RSS [...]