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Author: fioritto
From Scripting News: RSSCalendar
Here’s an example feed from RSSCalendar. Looks pretty good.
Here’s my wish: reBlog integrated into Bloglines
I’m a reBlogger. I don’t post much original content and that was never my intention in the first place. My weblog was meant to be a repository of information. I’m a curator, a distributor of relevant content mostly for myself and maybe others who have similar interests. With that in mind, I have been looking for an easy way to…
Search, And Ye Shall Maybe Find
A little bit o’ company promotion here. Jeff and Darcy recently published “Site Content Search: A User Experience Analysis”, an in-depth review of search engine interfaces, what works, what doesn’t. Boatloads of examples, screenshots, etc. Use the coupon code SEARCHDEAL to get 15% off your whole order, as long as the search report is in it. To get a taste,…
Information routing
Everybody processes a ton of email. And nowadays, some of us also process a ton of RSS feeds. In both cases, inbound items fall into three categories …
Olympics online with Reuters
Reuters is offering it s customers a dedicated online Olympic news service. The dedicated news service plugs straight into client websites and can be customised to fit with their own look and feel….
Bots, blogs and news aggregators
The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I’m working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I’m about to announce….
Enhance your creativity through synchronicity
Making creative connections with other people is a powerful avenue to personal creativity, according to Jordan Ayan, in his excellent book, A-ha! 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas.
ChangeThis: Up And Running
Don’t think my “quiet period” about Seth Godin’s publishing effort — ChangeThis — last Friday had anything to do with a lack of enthusiasm for the project — not at all, I was just out and about, off to Vermont and generally very busy. So it’s even more fun to gush about it here on a Monday morning. It’s live…
Web as Platform
Jason Kottke writes: a distributed data storage system would take the place of a local storage system. And not just data storage, but data processing filtering formatting. Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account;…