I’ve created an RSS newsfeed for the Google Sci/Tech news. You can find it here. It could be better. My attempt took three minutes to put together. The only hard part is picking out the repeatable HTML at the start and end of each story section. I did this with eVector’s RSSdistiller tool (all you need to do is download…
Author: fioritto
Channelroll bugfix, RSS continuity [1]….
Channelroll bugfix, RSS continuity. Yesterday my channelroll broke, and began displaying the message: The server returned a SOAP-ENV:Client fault: Can’t create item “.” because “” is an illegal name. I think I’ve seen this happen on other sites, but I never got the chance to figure out what it meant until it happened to me. Here’s the explanation, and the…
Aggregation For The Masses! [1].
Aggregation For The Masses!. RSS for All Major Newspapers and Websites “I am working on an tool (as part of my Reptile project) that can take any website (CNN, NYTimes, Pravda, People’s Daily (Chinese Newspaper), etc) and produce a high quality (verbose descriptions) RSS 1.0 feed with the mod_content module. For the most part it is functional…. What this enables…
Keeping your intranet sticky [1]….
Keeping your intranet sticky. Langdon Morris and Tim Dorey write about how to ensure an intranet is frequently used. They list the following key… [Column Two]
The dollar value of an…
The dollar value of an intranet?. Toby Ward has written two articles on measuring the dollar value of an intranet. In Part 1 he introduces the… [Column Two]
Klognets as enterprise early warning…
Klognets as enterprise early warning system.. Dewayne Mikkelson pointed to a post by McGee about knowledge sharing, knowledge logs, and the unexpected. (Emphasis mine.) Do you live in a changing world? New rules? New problems and threats? New opportunities? New world views? Are you in touch with reality? Are you keeping it fresh? Challenging your assumptions? Are you doing it alone? McGee: Their…
Radio Wishlist – Multi-payload klogging:…
Radio Wishlist – Multi-payload klogging: a world of content.. I?ve been screaming for this in my own quiet way since Radio?s Pike days. Make us payload masters! You started with the “blog item” payload. Radio lets us navigate through a database of our items; render them in html and xml; publish, syndicate, and aggregate them. Radio creates web forms that…
Visio – the interaction designer’s…
Visio – the interaction designer’s nail gun?. Christina pointed to Henrik Olsen’s article on using Visio to rapid prototype. The article talks about the process of using background pages and links to create clickable prototypes. I tipped this technique in the discussion of Dan’s Visio article on B&A. [ia/ – news for information architects]
My Aggregator is Dead….
My Aggregator is Dead…. Looks like I spoke too soon. My channels started to update last night and a few updated this morning, but not much as happened in the last two hours. Back to the drawing board I guess.
My Aggregator is Back
My Aggregator is Back For the past two weeks or so I noticed that many of the sites I subscribe to were not showing up in my news aggregator. Finally had time to do some digging on the discussion groups today and ran the following script in Radio:user.scheduler.everyMinute.aggregator = @xml.aggregator.everyMinute So far that seems to have done the trick. Kinda…