Google now has a built-in calculator. Coool. How about a built-in dishwasher? [Scripting News]
J.D. Lasica [1]. Personal Broadcasting…
J.D. Lasica. Personal Broadcasting opens another front for journalists. Excellent. The only thing I want to reinforce is the idea of audio and video weblogs as discreet entities is wrong-headed. It is the combination of all media in a single weblog that has power. The only element that is missing from taking video and audio weblogging mainstream is an efficient delivery network. It is…
NewsKnowledge [1], a spin-off of…
NewsKnowledge, a spin-off of NewsIsFree, provides topic, corporate and custom feeds for clients to integrate into corporate portals. RSS based.
Jon Udell [1]: “There is…
Jon Udell: “There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces.” [Scripting News]
Crude classifications and false generalizations…
Crude classifications and false generalizations. Those that belong to the emperor. UUIDs in Python. In defense of Fahrner Image Replacement. That famous quote from Jorge Luis Borges. New writing from Leslie, Michael, Michael, stavros, and JD. (589 words) [dive into mark] A short catch-all post from Mark Pilgrim illustrates the wonderful serendipities of the blog world. In amongst his brief…
Rendering PHP Files with Radio…
Rendering PHP Files with Radio UserLand. A Workbench visitor asks: How can I use Radio to render .php files instead of .html files when upstreaming? The file extension is determined by the #renderedFileExtension directive. By default, files are rendered with the .html extension. To set the extension to .php for an entire folder and its subfolders, edit the #prefs.txt file…
With Google News Alerts [1]…
With Google News Alerts you get filtered stories that can be posted to a cateogry weblog via a “mail-to-weblog feature.” This in turn generates an RSS feed that can be subscribed to. Simple. This is going to be an ongoing thing. Google slowly rolls out services they think they can control and end-users find ways to route around them. [John…
Media map of New York…
Media map of New York City. Do you know the way to Conde Nast? Or NBC? The Publicity Club of New York has developed an interactive online map to New York City’s leading media companies. Cool map. Wish it were a lot bigger, though. It’s currently… [JD’s New Media Musings]
For Aspiring Raconteurs, an Online…
For Aspiring Raconteurs, an Online Portal to Public Radio. Transom.org provides tools and training for those aspiring to the public-radio airwaves. By Clea Simon. [New York Times: Technology]
A series on participatory journalism…
A series on participatory journalism. A few hours ago the Online Journalism Review posted what I consider to be my most important series of articles this year (not counting the book I’m working on). The subject is participatory journalism. The three-part package includes: ? Personal… [JD’s New Media Musings]