Author: fioritto

Syndicated Photography Feeds [1]. Pheed.com…

Syndicated Photography Feeds. Pheed.com is a database of information about photographs available on the web. We present the work of photographers who have made information about their images available as an RSS feed. RSS is a simple document format based on XML that is used to syndicate web-based content. A pheed is simply an rss feed that has been extended…

How to make a faceted…

How to make a faceted classification and put It on the web. William Denton has written a truly excellent article on using faceted classification on the web, in which step-by-step practical details are provided on creating and applying faceted classification in the real world. To quote: This paper will attempt to bridge… [Column Two]

Web and Weblogs [1].

Web and Weblogs. Kevin Werbach writes: “While the Web dramatically lowered the cost of publishing and accessing information, it kept the static and impersonal page metaphor of older media. Weblogs, aided by syndication mechanisms, remove that crutch…Some day we may look back and identify the rise of blogs, not the Web, as the decisive development that changed our relationship to…

del.icio.us [1].

del.icio.us. Delicious is a social bookmarks manager. It is still pre-pre-alpha, but it’s already become quite a useful part of my daily routine. You bookmark sites as you surf and you can subscribe to bookmarks of your friends and receive them as RSS feeds. It all started during a rare productive discussion between tangra and _joshua on #joiito. The two…

XML for the rest of…

XML for the rest of us. “The relational database is designed to serve up rows and columns,” said BEA’s Adam Bosworth in his keynote talk. “But our model of the world is documents. It’s ‘Tell me everything I want to know about this person or this clinical trial.’ And those things are not flat, they’re complex. Now we have the…

rss winterfest 2004… [1].

rss winterfest 2004…. DecisionCast announces IDG’s InfoWorld as Media Sponsor for RSS WinterFest 2004, a free, two day Webcast, wiki, and Weblog event on January 21-22, 2004, that will explore the uses, applications, and future of RSS and Internet content syndication. “More and more companies and organizations are using RSS to alleviate e-mail overload as well as to manage projects,…

Editor’s Choice Awards in Open…

Editor’s Choice Awards in Open Source…. Rajesh Jain blogged the The 2003 OSDir.com Editor’s Choice Awards in Open Source – I added the ‘links’ and the ‘Best of Platform’ category. Summary: Best Application in…Java: EclipsePerl: MovableTypePython: BitTorrentPHP: PHPXML: Jabber Best Applications:Instant Messaging: GaimEmail: SpamAssassin (Double Winner)Overall Desktop App: OpenOffice Database: MySQL Web: Tiki Best of Platform:Linux: openMosix and EtherBootMac &…

intersection of knowledge management and…

intersection of knowledge management and blogging…. Back on 19 September 2003, Jim McGee referenced a post by Jon Udell on Kimbro Staken‘s new science experiment, Syncato. And now – actually twelve days ago – Silicon Valley Biz Ink published a press release – Sleepycat Software Honors XML Innovators. Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB announced results for the 2003 Berkeley…

Gazing at the online news…

Gazing at the online news horizon. In OJR Mark Glaser looks at what’s on the horizon for the online news universe, and at the top developments of 2003, with blogging topping the list. I even get quoted, indirectly: Participatory journalism “I think more and more non-journalists… [JD’s New Media Musings]