CSS and XHTML are still dominating my mind's attention.xml file. As you can see in my menu, they're numbers 1 and 2 in my Weekly Topic Top 10. btw the Topic Top 10 is going to be a weekly record (pardon the pun) of the most popular topics on my...
I've been fixing up some teething problems with my new CSS design and I'm quite pleased to report that my homepage is now 100% valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional! I checked this at the W3C Validator. A couple of days ago I had about 360 errors on my test page, but...
Andrew Chen wrote a response to my previous post about Syncato. He thinks I want to create something called a "distributed conversation protocol" and then take over the world. Actually creating a protocol would be the difficult part, given what is happening with Atom :-) So no, I'm not advocating...
Jon Udell is getting very excited about a new weblog product called Syncato, which is described here:"Syncato is a weblog system designed to extract the maximum potential from the content of your posts. All posts in Syncato are stored as XML within a native XML database and are searchable using...
Matt Webb blogged the Hypertext03 conference and the resulting notes are a good scan. Thank goodness for people like Matt who blog conferences, because those of us who live on the other side of the world don't get to go to these flash harry conferences *sulk*. Matt's notes on Ted...
On a less serious note than my previous post, it also occured to me that bloggers are like rock n roll bands. The best bands explore a different theme each album, just like the best bloggers (imho) write on an ever-changing series of themes. My favourite band The Velvet Underground...
As per my previous post, I've updated my blogroll to include topics and conversations. I just manually updated my blogroll OPML file, but I envisage a web frontend for this in future - kinda like Phil Pearson's web form for his Feed Combiner.A bit more about the two new sections...
Don also mentioned auto-population of blogrolls, which is something that Phil Pearson has been experimenting with and I've been commenting on. My view is that the "blogroll" can be extended to incorporate not only links to weblogs (people), but links to topics and conversations (weblog comments). Later on you could...
Don Park has come up with some promising ideas on how to link weblogs with wikis. One of his ideas is for weblog comments to be cross-posted to Wiki pages, via some scripting that "can create or find" a matching Wiki page for each comment. For this to work, comments on a weblog post will need to be assigned...
I've been wondering whether to get myself a FOAF file. FOAF stands for "friend of a friend" and it is a method of publishing personal information about yourself in a machine-readable format. Or as the FOAF Wiki puts it:"If you're familiar with 'blogging and providing RSS syndication of the content...
Dave Winer links to an essay he wrote 4 years ago about decentralized syndication:"In our [UserLand's] system, each story has a *single* location, the site where it originated. We think this is the way the web was meant to work. Stories can live and grow while new information is obtained....
Weblogs and Wikis are authoring tools that enable everyday people to write to the Web. However one part of the Writeable Web is often overlooked: weblog comments. Often some of the best nuggets of content can be found buried in a comment attached to a weblog post. I've even coined a phrase...
A few days ago John Robb complained about his Google PageRank being zero after he moved to his new domain. I was in the same situation, but this morning I noticed my weblog has a new Google PageRank of 5/10. I see John Robb's PageRank is back too (6/10). Another...
Dave Winer, on political campaign blogging: "The first candidate that helps voters publish their own stories and ideas and drive the campaign is the one who really captures the energy of the Web."I agree, the essence of the Two-Way Web is that everyone has the right to publish. That could almost be "the...
Soon I'm going to shut up and do some actual work on my Web of Ideas application. But I have to note a few interesting things that have surfaced recently on the topics of ideas and microcontent. Firstly, Erik Benson has just released his own Ideas Database. As to be...
Today, August 25, is Elvis Costello's birthday. It's also my birthday :-)Co-incidentally, we also share the same surname. Elvis Costello's real name is Declan MacManus. How cool is that! That's why I affectionately refer to him as Uncle Elvis.Hey, maybe I'm the Elvis Costello of Weblogging... only less cruel :-)...
Yesterday I wrote about Sparrow Web, a 90's web application developed by Xerox Parc. I discovered that Sparrow Web was like a Microcontent authoring tool. It divvies up information on a webpage into discrete chunks. So when you edit content in Sparrow Web, you're editing a part of a webpage not the whole webpage (as...
A little while ago I wrote on the topic of "Smart Clients", a Microsoft catchphrase for non-browser-based web applications. In my article I mentioned an interesting browser-based RSS News Aggregator being built by Lucmo. Today I read the following post in the Lucmo weblog:"The Read/Write Web blog writes that Lucmo...
I have moved to a new domain name. Please update your records:New weblog address: http://www.readwriteweb.comNew RSS feed: http://www.readwriteweb.com/rss.xmlps the reason I am re-posting this, and my XML as Literature story below, is that my PC crashed tonight and I lost some of my recent posts. Not to mention MS Outlook...
The problem with blogging is it's easy to get distracted by ideas you can't do anything about. My previous post illustrates this. In it I railed against Microsoft for wanting to build its own proprietory platform for Web applications. I wrote about it because I'm concerned about the future of the World Wide Web, in...
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