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WebLearn by writing
Mark Pilgrim: "I take in a lot of raw data, synthesize it, and spit it back out in ways that many people can understand."Mark Pilgrim and Neil Deakin are two very smart web developers, but more importantly they both have the ability to document complex web technology in laymans language - so that wannabes can learn...
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Save the Web
Dave Winer posts a link to a DaveNet from 2 years ago:"If it were not possible to read my words without annotation, we'd have to invent a medium that allowed that. But in 2001 we already have such a medium, it's called the Web.We have tools and servers and all kinds...
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Apple and the Universal Canvas
Micah Alpern asked via my Comments form: "Wasn't this term [universal canvas] first popularized by Apple with their failed OpenDoc program?" Only one way to find out and that's pay a visit to Google. I found a definition of OpenDoc, but I didn't see anything that had OpenDoc and Universal Canvas in the...
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The Universal Canvas System
Last night I wrote about the Universal Canvas. Today in my RSS newsreader, what should appear but a great post from Steve Gillmor on the same topic. Of course being a pro, Steve made his point way better than me. Microsoft has all the pieces, says Steve, to "create a...
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Universal Canvas – In the Beginning…
I've become very interested in the "Universal Canvas", a term popularized by Microsoft and subsequently analyzed by Jon Udell. First of all, here are two definitions of the Universal Canvas:a) From a Microsoft White Paper dated June 2000, entitled Microsoft .NET: Realizing the Next Generation Internet: "The universal canvas builds upon...
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Adaptability
Asterisk: "...the one thing every Web professional needs, regardless of their main job function, be that IA, Design, Development, what-have-you is adaptability. You know, the ability to wing it."In New Zealand we have a similar concept called No. 8 Wire mentality, or "kiwi ingenuity" - based on the architypal New Zealand farmer who can...
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Triangulation
RWW Word of the Day: triangulationDave Winer (via Denise Howell's weblog): "...Question about journalism always having to be the sophisticated big stuff? Dave says know (sic), importance of triangulation, getting news on an event from many sources."
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Generalists and Specialists in harmony
Ever listen to The Velvet Underground's 9 minute live version of 'What goes on', from their 1969 Live album Volume 1? The first couple of minutes feature Lou Reed singing verse and chorus. The rest of the song is an extended instrumental and this is where it gets interesting. Each of...
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Rich XML writing tools
I read with interest Jon Udell's OSCOM keynote slides. The main subject is how to write the web "in a rich way" - and by "rich" he means semantic. Udell talks about there being a lack of easy-to-use XML writing tools for the Web. Weblog tools are user-friendly and they...
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Lightweight browsers
I've installed the W3C web browser/editor, Amaya, onto my PC. I've only just begun to test it. But with all this talk about Microsoft abandoning its IE browser, it may pay to actively look at alternative browsers. This article at freshmeat.net has a good write-up on lightweight browsers, including Amaya.
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IE is dead – long live Longhorn
A hot topic in the blogging world recently has been: is Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dead? Ironically, most of the good stuff to read has been via "Comments" forms - ie readers writing back to a weblog post. Robert Scoble from Microsoft said "The right question is: 'is the Web dead in Longhorn?'...
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How to implement ENT into your Radio RSS feed
After a few late nights, I've successfully implemented Easy News Topics (ENT) tags to my Radio Userland RSS feed. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. It involved rooting around in the Radio.root file of my weblog and upskilling myself in UserTalk, Radio Userland's scripting language. But...
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Web-based future of Intranets
D. Keith Robinson has written an interesting article about the future of Intranets. He writes:"...a company's Intranet would be better served as more of an enterprise-wide, network-enabled application than anything resembling a Web site or Web application."It seems likely that content management systems will over time integrate with office systems. Products...
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Blogroll bug update
I posted a question onto the Radio Userland discussion list. I asked why updates to my OPML blogroll don't automatically update my weblog menu. Nobody had an answer. A Google search came up empty too. But from my own checks it does seem that when you update your blogroll.opml file in your Gems folder,...
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What became of the Browser/Editor
I've been re-reading Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee. As inventer of the World Wide Web in 1990 and current director of the W3C, Berners-Lee is a visionary and innovator. His current obsession, the Semantic Web, is not yet widely understood or appreciated. Just like the Web 10 years ago. Indeed one of Berners-Lee's earliest...
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Blogroll bug
There appears to be a problem upstreaming changes to my opml blogroll. The XML file updates, but the blogroll on my menu doesn't. I got around this by manually deleting the blogroll from my homepage template, publishing, then adding the blogroll back in - i.e. in a roundabout way I...
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Userland macro for story list
Wouldn't you know it, I came across a Userland macro today that lists recent titled blog posts. Where was this macro when I needed it yesterday? :-) Anyway, I'm playing around with this macro now. Still getting used to Radio Userland's dev environment......Got this working OK and I now have my 10...
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Story List macro
Tonight I added an OPML blogroll to my menu - easy thanks to Jake Savin's instructions. Then I set about trying to implement a "Last 10 Entries" script into my weblog menu. Because I tend to write long-ish articles, I'd like to have a dynamic menu that lists my 10...
