A lot of blog development of late has been directed towards establishing connections between multiple weblogs via mechanisms such as Trackback, Pingback, and friends. Throw in a little RSS and a news aggregator that can tell you where to go to comment on an article. Maybe add a dash of FOAF…. The result is that multiple websites become part of one big conversation. Well, if it’s a conversation, how about we add a splash of … Continue reading
Eric Sigler has whipped out a prototype of the FOAF Comment Identity idea. It’s still in its early stages, but it’s a good proof-of-concept!
I’ve updated my RSS 2.0 feed to include some additional information after reading this, which in turn links to this. I’ve also added <author> info to the <item>s, and <webmaster> and <managingEditor> info to the <channel>.
Ben Hammersley has taken an idea of Dave Winer’s and added a cool twist to it: Using FOAF For Comment Identity and Followups. I’ll probably work on implementing something like this on my site…in my Copious Free Time. Ahem.
Sam Ruby (who I really should add to my blogroll) is testing excerpts for his pingbacks. Here ya go, Sam, excerpt away! BTW, my blog auto-excerpts pingbacks, too. But I’m scraping the HTML, not the RSS.
Geek alert: RDF API for PHP Maybe one day I’ll have time to use it for something 🙂
The Macintosh crowd is all abuzz about the new Apple web browser, called Safari. It’s apparently based on the KHTML rendering engine, and has a few bugs. The problem is, this makes Yet Another Browser that web designers have to worry about, because Safari has it’s own unique set of bugs different from other existing browsers. Mark Pilgrim asks should Safari be intentionally buggy? My answer would have to be, “Yes. Temporarily.” Since the Safari … Continue reading
Yesterday was just full of map references. Another cool thing I found out about is the Jabber World Map. If you are a Jabber user, you can register with the map notifier, and your status will show up on the map. You’ll have to email your location name and lat/long coords to the administrator (instructions are at the bottom of the web page, below the map). I’ll probably hack some Jabber features into my blog … Continue reading
Looks like Rev. Jim (no relation to the evangelist who used to visit college campuses, I’m sure) has also been thinking about blogware. “A weblogging application? Okay, that’s pretty easy, really. Just build a model to access the data and work from there. Well, what should the model include? Weblogging stuff, obviously. How about comments, trackback and pingback? I guess I could stuff that in here, but that might be overloading things a bit. They … Continue reading
Geography rules. GeoURL Bomb my house GeoTags The Pepys Project I’ve been trying to work out some sort of concensus for how to include location info in FOAF files. It seems that my current implementation is too US-centric. The folks in the UK don’t like the use of the “StateOrProvince” terminology. I’m going to try switching to vCard terms (“Locality”, “Region”). vCard also has support for lat/long coords, so that might be better all-around.