Wireless Hacks by Rob Flickenger. Wireless Hacks hits the stands: teaches you exciting new tips: Rob Flickenger’s latest book, Wireless Hacks, has been out for a few weeks and I wanted to share my delight with the title. I have the privilege of having been asked to write the foreword, and so read the book completely a few weeks ago.…
MailBucket: an email-to-RSS gateway [1]….
MailBucket: an email-to-RSS gateway. Back in March, I mentioned that Tom Dyson is working on XPath bindings for PostgreSQL. Today he wrote to announce something completely different: an email-to-RSS gateway called MailBucket. It couldn’t be simpler to use. Moments ago I sent an email to clever@mailbucket.org. Almost immediately, I was able to subscribe to http://www.mailbucket.org/clever.xml, which is also rendered here.…
Leo Creates grabrss.pl [1]. “If…
Leo Creates grabrss.pl. “If your pages are static, you’re not sunk as long as you have access to some form of CGI to run server-side code. I’ve created an example Perl script, grabrss.pl, that runs as a CGI that will transform an RSS feed into an HTML bullet list. As an alternative to using XSLT, grabrss uses only an XML…
RSS for Python [1]
RSS for Python
Jason Calacanis launches Weblogs, Inc….
Jason Calacanis launches Weblogs, Inc.. From BoingBoing: Jason Calacanis, founder of Silicon Alley Reporter and Venture Reporter magazines, launched his new venture this morning. Weblogs, Inc. is sort of a profit-based micropublishing system for niche, business-to-business blogs. Here’s a snip from the company’s manifesto. Weblogs,… [JD’s New Media Musings]
Science Toys You Can Make…
Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids. Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids. Best amateur science source [Recomendo] Another treat from Kevin Kelly’s Recomendo site.[McGee’s Musings]
Neal Stephenson launches a Wiki…
Neal Stephenson launches a Wiki to explain his new novel. Neal Stephenson launches a Wiki to explain his new novel Quicksilver. Very cool. via Boing Boing via JeremyBy Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com. [Joi Ito’s Web]
Picking out the gems [1].
Picking out the gems. Adding Waypath Referencing to My Weblog. Summary: A chance to scan weblogs that also deal with the same topic? Useful, helpful, even to the writer who in some real sense discovers the subject after having completed the effort. But useful, certainly, to the reader who found the blog entry through, say, Google, and then has some…
*WebFountain: The Next Big Thing*…
WebFountain: The Next Big Thing. : IBM’s new Web Fountain platform is cauing a lot of whoopee in the arcane world of B2B content…figure out for yourself: — IBM’s WebFountain Launched?The Next Big Thing? — Can Factiva Redefine Premium Aggregation Value with IBM?… [PaidContent.org]
Joi [1] worries about weblog…
Joi worries about weblog syndication and Microsoft. One thing everyone needs to understand is that in this syndication debate, the juice in the aggregator tool space and not with weblog tools. Weblog tools are the weak sister in this relationship. Why? There is so much out there that is worth subscribing to if it had a feed (from HBO high-definition schedules to low cost…