Motility (Pun Intended): October 2003

Friday, October 31, 2003

Microsoft Research Packs 'Wallop'

Microsoft Research Packs 'Wallop'

Seems like MS will be adding Blogs to Longhorn.... I need to read this article....

Thursday, October 30, 2003

Cover Pages: Atom as the New XML-Based Web Publishing and Syndication Format.

Cover Pages: Atom as the New XML-Based Web Publishing and Syndication Format.

More on ATOM.....

REST ? RESTian? RESTful ? - are we talking about taking a break here ?

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

Roy Thomas's thesis describes the REST architecture. or, if you are one of those powepoint fans, try this. A few more interesting reads are:

Earl Strain http://earl.strain.at/space/REST

O'Reilly http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2002/02/06/rest.html

Cognitive Web http://www.cognitiveweb.org/technology/rest.htm

XFront http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

Peej http://www.peej.co.uk/rest/

Atom Wiki

FrontPage - Atom Wiki

Note to self.... look ino this

RSS feeds integrated into Longhorn

Gates trots out Longhorn

According to CNET.com:

"Among the features shown off were transparent windows, animated windows that pop open and a new taskbar on the righthand side of the screen that displayed a clock, buddy list, and news and other information streamed onto the desktop via an RSS feed. "

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

GeoURL API - sorta...

GeoURL News: Localfeeds

Joshua sent me a response to my request for an API for accessing the GeoURL database:

"Yep! Look at the "As XML" links on the front page for a RESTful query
style..."

Looking at the 'as XML' link:
http://www.geourl.com/xml/?lat=40.7650070&lon=-73.9861298

it seems simple enough to generate an XML representation of blogs close to the give lat,long tuple, and the url:
http://geourl.org/xml/?dist=500&p=http://geourl.org

works for finding blogs within 500 miles of geourl.org. Distance is a parameter in this case, but in the case of the url, if I give, distance as a parameter:
http://geourl.org/xml/?dist=1&lat=40.7386&lon=-73.9828

it makes no difference - its as if the distance is not counted as a paramter when lat and long are entered as parameters. There seems to be a trail of postings at:
http://geourl.org/news/archives/000025.html

regarding this.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Metafilter | Community Blog

Metafilter | About

Note to self: Look at what this community blog is all about. Seems to have a lot of press and coverage on blgodex, so I guess its rather popular.

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Grab headlines from a remote RSS file

Grab headlines from a remote RSS file

Some code for XSLT in case of RSS to HTML

RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0

RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0

RSS 1.0 specs.

A set of links on RSS are available at http://blogspace.com/rss/resources

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

Mark Nottingham's (Principal Technologist, BEA Systems and former Research Scientist Akamai) tutorial on RSS. I think this is rather comprehensive. I used to follow his work on ICAP when I worked on IETF OPES-based intermediaries.

Room 209 - A Blog by second graders

Room 209

A cute blog by some second graders learning about animals. Its even got comments by some blog-celebrities like Joi Ito (talking about Fugu) :-)

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

The Comment API

The Comment API | 2003-01-17 | The Well-Formed Web

The Comment API as compared to TrackBack, Ping-Back and Post-It

Friday, October 17, 2003

Geo-tags or GeoUrl

Geotags

Ths link above is for the IETF draft for geotags. I can't seem to access the geotags web site(from Motorola - it works from my comcast account at home): geotags.com, supposedly a precursor to geourl.org.

Either way, geoURL.org supports the geotags metadata convention. GeoURL recommends:

<meta name="ICBM" content="XX.XXXXX, XX.XXXXX">
<meta name="DC.title" content="THE NAME OF YOUR SITE">

while geoTags.com recommended:

<META NAME="geo.position" content="-123.84,48.54,115">
<META NAME="geo.placename" content="London, Ont">
<META NAME="geo.country" content="ca">

GeoURL location resources

GeoURL location resources

A list of tools to identify your GPS coordinates without any expensive hardware.

globe home

Blog Mapping

A really neat global mapping of blog postings. Also see:
http://geourl.org/gserver/

Thursday, October 16, 2003

BlogSnob - WebRings for Blogs

BlogSnob is a web-ring-like mechanism for blogs, where you get an 'ad' for another random blog at your blog. Clicking on it takes you there. Strangely, I haven't seen any blogs listed by them that actually sport the small snipet of code they require members of the ring to host.... hmmm....

Fairvue Central >> Features >> Third Annual Weblog Awards

Fairvue Central >> Features >> Third Annual Weblog Awards

Yup, the title says all...

Metadata, Mark II

Dublin Core

A quick brief on the Dublin Core scheme.

MTLocation - An AMAZING Movable Type plugin!

Bru - A Diary: MTLocation - MovableType plugin

An AMAZING plug in for Movable Type that allows you to set your location info with the blog posting. Check out the demo at:
http://www.codewitch.org/locationlog.html

Localfeeds.com

Localfeeds.com

This site lists blog feeds that are local to you. Quoting thier site:
"Localfeeds.com combines geographic data and syndication information to organize weblog posts and articles by city or region."

GeoURL ICBM Address Server

GeoURL ICBM Address Server

The definitive GPS-2-Blog locator registry.
"GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you."

To add yourself to this registry: http://geourl.org/add.html

An interesting article on webmonkey: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/03/24/index0a_page3.html?tw=e-business

Chronicle Lite, The Blogger.com client for all platforms

Chronicle Lite, The Blogger.com client for all platforms

A XML-RPC based blogging client for Blogger.com and Blojsom

Blojsom vs. Roller

Blogging Roller

Here's a good debate between Dave Johnson and David Czarnecki on the relative differences between Blojsom and Roller - two open source Java weblogger implementations. My personal preference is for Blojsom due to its extremely flexible architecture.

XML.com: The Atom API [Oct. 15, 2003]

XML.com: The Atom API [Oct. 15, 2003]

A tutorial on the Atom API. I need to research some more on this....

Monday, October 13, 2003

Blojsom - I thought it was an Apache project

Ooops.. my mistake. Looking at the template of the Blojsom project, I thought that it was an Apache sponsored project. Its not. But it has enough features to call it a blog server - although a little primitive with the file modification based blog entries. But, still very useful thanks to its support of the XML-RPC APIs and Syndication support. I'll be working on it soon.

XPath search for Blojsom

taking out the garbage beotch

Mark from Blojsom has also gotten into the XPath-Blog-search frenzy and come up with his own XPath search module in the new version of Blojsom.

blojsim - index

blojsim - index

The IM plug in for blojsom

blojsom

blojsom

Blojsom - A lightweight blog package written in Java that is inspired by blosxom. Why didn't I see this earlier ?!?! :-o

Social Software Alliance Wiki: Generic Weblog API

Social Software Alliance Wiki: Generic Weblog API

The Generic weblog API aka the MetaWeblog API - an enhancement to the Blogger API.

Semantic Blogging

Semantic Blogging

HP Lab's semantic blogging project.

Sunday, October 12, 2003

Confluence Project: A unique picture of the world, in 16,146 frames

Confluence Project

The BBC talks about the Confluence Project - aimed to " visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location".

An interesting concept if you ask me - sort of like Geocaching where the 'cache' is the location - but at a much larger scale.

Educator World has a reference to it. Undoubtably, this is an invaluable reference for any grography educator.

Thursday, October 09, 2003

Jon Udell: XPath everywhere

Jon Udell: XPath everywhere

Jon says:
"XPath-aware blog engines are sprouting like weeds"

Well, thats neat ! But how scalable are these XPath based blogs - I understand that they are fine for single or a limited set of users. But are there any that work on a carrier scale ? I need to look into this.

XML Database Products

XML Database Products

Speaking of XML-Db's..... here is a very comprehensive list of Db's and related middleware

eXist: Open Source XML Database

Open Source XML Database

The eXist XML-db seems to perform better that Xindice in most counts - especially for selections in the descendant axis. See the paper by Wolfgang.

Friday, October 03, 2003

Apache Xindice

An XML Db built on the dbXML core. dbXML is the commercial enterprise equivalent.

Control Freaks and Sprint

Reiter talks about Sprint's efforts to control the fast growing moblogging market in his blog entry - "Is Sprint PCS making it difficult to post camera phone photos to moblogs?"

Thursday, October 02, 2003

Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator

Web based Aggregator. Bloglines claim to monitor 4 million blogs.

Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Jon's Radio

Jon Udell's got more links on XPath-based searchable blogs. I'm watching this space.....

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