Archive for July, 2002
July 21, 2002
davidwatson.org review of amazon web services
www.davidwatson.org has posted a good overview of the Amazon’s new web services API. He even provides a sample script that he integrated with his weblog.
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July 21, 2002
TrackBack Code for Radio
Ron Lusk has posted the code he has developed to configure Radio to ping entries to KMpings. This code could be modified to ping any TrackBack-enabled site. Way to go!
KMPings Trackback Code
KMPings code is located at
http://home.netcom.com/~luskr/weblog/radio/code/pingKMPingsForPost.txt
Treat it gently, it’s young and naive. It is intended to ping only for posts in the “K-Log” category, and is set to use the test URL for now.
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July 20, 2002
Low-cost Klog Network
The level of investment required for really excellent km tools, such as weblogs, has gotten so low that it is much easier for a relatively low level employee to start a grass-roots movement within the staff if they are motivated. Given the failure of enterprise level KM initiatives and the burst .com bubble, this could be the perfect time to stealth in some web-based knowledge sharing tools.
In this article I will discuss how you can create a low-cost knowledge weblog (klog) network using free and/or donor supported software. This method is well suited to the stealthy introduction of weblogging as a knowledge management tool. All you need is one server to host the klogs and you can be off and running before senior management has a chance to quash your initiative. Or take credit for it. :).
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July 20, 2002
More Aggie Stylesheets
Perceive Designs has created an excellent Aggie stylesheet that incorporates stock quotes, local weather, tracking keywords hits in blog entries and more. Amazing what you can do with this xsl stuff. (Found via Bitworking.org.)
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July 20, 2002
Linkback Referrers
I spotted Stephen Downes Referral System via www.davidwatson.org.
Very cool little script. I have added it to my templates here on high context. It will display the referrers to each individual page. So if you link to anything on this site your page will be listed on the sidebar as people follow the link.
One small bug I’ve discovered with Mozilla is that a local referral within the same site creates an unexpected value for document.location in the javascript code. No problems in IE so it must just be Mozilla.
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July 18, 2002
Legislation XML
From the Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog:
US House of Representatives and XML
The US House of Representatives has made a significant effort in developing DTDs for describing bills. My authority as Utah CIO doesn’t extend to the Utah Legislature (you can tell from their URL), but I’d still love to see them adopt something like the House standards. They might be able to just use the House DTDs directly. A recent article in Government Computer News writes about the House XMl efforts.
This could be quite useful for tracking legislation for association government affairs programs. It will be very interesting to see how this is deployed. I’d love to be able to make an xml-rpc call to a government server to get the latest version of a particular bill in xml.
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July 18, 2002
Adding MT css to Aggie
Have you ever hit one of those little technical challenges that keeps you up half the night until bleary-eyed and tired at 1 in the morning you have finally triumphed over it? And going to bed before figuring it out is not an option?
I had one of those last night. I’ve always wanted to customize the page that is generated by the Aggie newsfeed aggregator. I poked around in the install directory and noticed an Aggie.xsl file. Aha! I had read about transforming XML by using stylesheets but had never explored how it was done.
So what I ended up with several hours later was an xsl/css skin for Aggie that lets you apply any of the standard Movable Type styles (which are beautifully designed) to the output. I also added a sidebar blogroll list of all the blogs with entries displayed on the page. If a feed you subscribe to does not have a new entry then it will not appear in the blogroll since Aggie does not include it in the aggregate.xml output file that gets parsed to create the html page (unless you have checked off the show all entries box).
That blogroll is the piece that kept me up late. XSLT is hard.
Here are the files (right-click on the links to save the files to disk):
Just drop these files into your Aggie directory (back up the originals if you want to be able to revert the look and feel). To apply a different MT style simply open up Aggie.css and swap out all the code for that of the style you want to use.
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July 17, 2002
This is Leadership
Found this via John Robb:
Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog
I believe that the 900 or so IT employees of the State of Utah would benefit from speaking and listening to each other more. I think we need groups of specialists inside various departments to communicate with others in their specialty and without. Consequently, I’d like to see more people writing blogs and communicating their ideas through an open forum like the one blogs engender. To that end, I’m willing to pay the licensing fee to Userland for the first 100 employees who start a blog. Here are the conditions:
1. Download the software and begin using on the 30-day free trial. I’d like to see you get a start before I pay the fee. Let me know when you’re up and running.
2. I’m biased toward IT employees, but other are welcome too, particularly if they’re interested in eGovernment.
3. You’re responsible for what you post. If you’re going to talk about things that shouldn’t be public on Userland and need to be kept behind the state firewall, let me know and we’ll set up a place inside the state network for that. We could even set up an authenticated area, if needed.
Leading by example. Leading by making resources available to follow the example.
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July 17, 2002
Face Time
I’ll be at the Rockville Starbucks for the local blogger meet up tomorrow evening. Looks like 8 or so folks are planning on showing up.
In mid-August I’ll be at ASAE’s Convention in Denver.
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July 17, 2002
User Error
Sysop error actually. In an effort to clean out the test page pings on KMpings test page I accidentally dropped all the pings for both the test page and the main page. That is what I get for manually tweaking the database without backing up the data. I have saved the last version of the RSS newsfeed from KMpings that has the old entries before the little database accident.
Sorry about that everyone. Please feel free to reping your entries if you want to get them back on the page.
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