Author: fioritto

Hook Me Up! [1]. BlogAmp…

Hook Me Up!. BlogAmp ” ‘BlogAmp is a free Winamp plugin that allows the user to keep in his personal web page a list with the last songs played in his Winamp. This list is update by FTP in real time.’ Now I can begin streaming playlists again.” […useless miscellany][The Shifted Librarian]

One of the downsides of…

One of the downsides of news aggregators is that I don’t visit the original site as often as I otherwise would. In the case of Rick Klau’s site, this means I’ve just now noticed the spiffy navigation menu he’s added at the top of each page. This is exactly what I’ve been wanting to include on my site when I…

RSSEngine [1].

RSSEngine. James Linden is going to town with RSS! He’s moving the Snewp feeds to a new location at RSSEngine, which also has its own blog (naturally you can subscribe to it). He’s providing 180 feeds right now, includingEditor & Publisher http://feed.rssengine.com/editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher.rss Eurekalert http://feed.rssengine.com/eurekalert.org/education.rss http://feed.rssengine.com/eurekalert.org/socialbehavior.rss http://feed.rssengine.com/eurekalert.org/spaceplanetary.rss http://feed.rssengine.com/eurekalert.org/technologyengineering.rss Library Journal http://feed.rssengine.com/libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/booknews.rss http://feed.rssengine.com/libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/informationtechnology.rss http://feed.rssengine.com/libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/librarynews.rss http://feed.rssengine.com/libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/prepublicationalert.rss Doing the happy dance! [via RSS News by CodingTheWeb.com][The Shifted…

Mobile Agents [1] Realized

Mobile Agents Realized My interest in mobile agents was sparked via my involvement in Macromedia Director and Lingo, the programming language that drives Director. Peter Small was thinking and writing about how  Lingo could be used to grab bits of information from the web and deliver it into graphically rich interfaces created in Director. William Cockayne and Michael Zyda in their book…

Radio comments link to posts…

Radio comments link to posts being commented on. An enhancement to Radio UserLand’s comments feature released today, provides a link from the comments back to the post that the comments are in response to. This post is an example — click the comments link below to see the feature in action. [Jake’s Radio ‘Blog]

Free Geek [1]. John at…

Free Geek. John at New Improved Media wanted me to blog something about Free Geek, so I asked him to write something about it. Here is what he wrote: “Make the needy nerdy” is the motto of FREE GEEK, a Portland based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, that takes used computers and makes them youthful and vibrant once again. The technology revolution benefits…