Archive for October, 2004
October 25, 2004
del.icio.us
I’ve been using del.icio.us to store my bookmarks lately. If you haven’t seen it yet, del.icio.us is a social bookmark application. You can add your bookmarks to the site and store them under specific keywords. You can then easily browse your stored links by the topics you have added.
Where it gets extra-nifty is that you can also see what other users have been posting under the same keywords. Each keyword provides an RSS feed of new entries, so you end up with nice feed on a particular topic. For example, here is the feed for KM. You can even subscribe to an RSS feed for all the links posted by a particular person. Here is my del.icio.us feed.
Del.icio.us also provides web service access to its data, so you end up with tools like Foxylicious, which is a wonderful extension for the Firefox browser that imports all of your del.icio.us entries into your Firefox bookmarks. Excellent.
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October 21, 2004
Great Association Web Site for Volunteer Leadership
IEEE has a portion of their web site dedicated to their volunteer leadership, providing links to training and reference material they need to fulfill their duties in the governance of the association. Nice example of how to provide simple self-service support to the big kahunas.
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October 15, 2004
Somebody please update the style guide.
I’ve written several articles on weblogs for various publications over the past few years. Each and every one of them has changed ‘weblog’ into ‘Web log’ per some style guide rule during the editing process, over my objections. This always gets my goat for some reason. It’s weblog, people!
On a related note, I came across this page on how you can cite a weblog entry in MLA style.
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October 13, 2004
Managing a Domain Name
Here is a tip that we used during a recent move of ASHA’s web site to a new hosting provider: a week or so before the switch, set the time-to-live for your domain name record to a very short interval. This will ensure that domain name servers around the web will be constantly updating your domain record so that when you map the domain to a new IP address (almost always required when moving your production servers to a new hosting provider) the change will quickly propagate across the Internet. If you don’t do this, some of your site visitors may have to wait several days for the change to make it out to their corner of the Net.
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October 7, 2004
Process before system, grasshopper.
Keith Robinson makes the case for outlining your publishing process before determining what system you need (if any) to support it.
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