Author: fioritto

Welcome to [1] “a demo…

Welcome to “a demo of Feedster’s soon to be officially released Feed Compare feature. What this feature does is let you see the postings from Blog or Feed A in comparison with Blog or Feed B, C, D and E.” [Scripting News]

3d17.org: Another stab at communal…

3d17.org: Another stab at communal editing (Clay Shirky). Ian Clarke, of freenet fame, has lauched 3D17.org, a Web-based tool for creating communal documents. 3D17 isn?t a wiki. Though most of the documents up now are tests, it?s already clear that 3D17 differs from wiki logic in 3 ways:… [Many-to-Many]

For Lisa:

For Lisa:Free sign-language course. The LifePrint ASL 101 course is a free online introductory course in American Sign Language. Looks pretty thorough. Link (Thanks, John E) [Boing Boing Blog]

Building bridges back to the…

Building bridges back to the rest of the world. Jargon Builds Walls Not Bridges. David Giacalone: Jargon Builds Walls Not Bridges.  [Scripting News] David has a lovely rant here about the self-inflicted damage we’ve created with ugly labels like ‘blog’ for the powerful tools and ideas we’ve invested in ahead of the curve. Not that I would have been happy…

Wireless Hacks by Rob Flickenger…

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…

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]