Archive for June, 2005
June 30, 2005
Nick Bradbury on Microsoft & RSS
You may have heard that Microsoft announced recently that they will be building in RSS support to a great extent in their next operating system. Nick Bradbury provides his perspective on the move. He talks about some interesting possible outcomes and how, as a newsreader developer, he isn’t worried about MS eating his lunch, something they have been known to do in the past.
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June 30, 2005
5 Years Makes a Difference
Jeffrey Veen talks about how the web world has changed since he wrote his ‘Art and Scient of Web Design’ book 5 years ago.
I wrote The Art and Science of Web Design five years ago. That doesn’t seem like all that long ago, really, but when I recently paged through the book I was pleasantly surprised to find just how much had changed. When I started writing the book in the winter of 1999, there were no large-scale commercial sites built with standards-based markup. Every single design decision we made factored the dial-up experience. Personal home pages were still a handcrafted-html effort; blogs had only barely emerged on the scene.
I was frustrated with the state of things back then. I was building a team at HotWired, which had become a division of the Lycos search portal. That was the height of the boom, and hiring designers meant talking to dozens of people who thought being a good designer meant not collapsing layers before throwing the Photoshop file over to “one of those HTML people.”
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June 30, 2005
Source for my favorite William Gibson quote.
For my own future reference:
Tim O’Reilly checked with Cory Doctorow who checked with Lorna Toolis who checked with Barry Wellman who checked with Ren Reynolds and Ellen Pozzi who point out that there’s an NPR Talk of the Nation broadcast from 1999 where Gibson says, “As I’ve said many times, the future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.”
The actual citation:
NPR Talk of the Nation
30 November 1999
Timecode: 11min 55sec
Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220
Also: www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=5&prgDate=30-Nov-1999
(Via Brainstorms.)
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June 29, 2005
EVDB
Rich just discovered EVDB. EVDB is a site for posting information about events. I got early word about the site via The Well since one of the founders posted about it there. I created an event record for the ASAE Annual meeting in Nashville a while back.
One way this could be used is for people blogging about an event to ping the event record in EVDB to keep a central log of all the activity. Here is the trackback URL for the ASAE Annual meeting record on EVDB: http://api.evdb.com/trackback/E0-001-000179291-2
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June 22, 2005
Blogging for Educational Associations
I am speaking to a lunch meeting of the Consortium of Educational Association Publishers today, along with Franklin Bradley who works for the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. I will be introducing the concept of blogging and how it might be used by associations. Bradley will be doing a case study on how his association recently used an event blog tied to their annual meeting.
I am going to ask the attendees to post their feedback on the session here after we are done.
Here are a set of links for some of the sites and services I will mention during the session.
I would also like to offer a big thank you to FeedBurner, SixApart, Ranchero, and NewsGator for contributing discounts and freebies for me to give away at the session.
Update: Here is the handout from today’s session. I moved it into HTML since the PDF ended up being rather large.
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June 21, 2005
Screencasting Strategies
Jon Udell on screencating strategies. Screencasting is nothing too new but I think there are lots of applications (that Jon is exploring) that have not been taken advantage of yet.
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June 21, 2005
Corporate Blogging Policies
Here is a comparison of corporate blogging policies.
On four points, all of the eight most well-known corporate blogging policies agree — corporate bloggers are personally responsible and they should abide by existing rules, keep secrets and be nice. Those four principles are the core of today’s corporate blogging rules.
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June 21, 2005
Technorati Redesign
Eric Meyer discusses his role in the recent redesign of Technorati.
I was pleased to have Eric work on a redesign project when I was at ASHA where he optimized our xhtml/css design. Eric does great work, as he should since he literally wrote the book on CSS.
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June 20, 2005
MIT Weblog Survey
MIT is conducting a weblog survey. It takes only a few minutes to complete. It is targeted at the authors of weblogs and tries to understand how blogging has influenced their communication activities. From the survey site:
This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically we are interested in issues of demographics, communication behaviors, experience with weblogs and other technology, and the meaning of various types of social links within the blogosphere.
The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and we are asking anyone with a weblog to participate. The larger the sample of individuals we can get, the better our picture of the community will be.
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June 18, 2005
Mojave Airport Weblog
Want to keep up with the latest in private space travel and experimental flight in general? Check out Alan’s Mojave Airport Weblog.
Welcome to the Mojave Airport Weblog. This is one of the most unique airports in the world, with a huge variety of different aviation and space activities centered here, from flight test to airliner storage, from spacecraft development to antique aircraft restoration. This blog is an attempt to provide a glimpse at some of the more exciting happenings. “
The 2 most recent entries are about a scrubbed X-37 flight and a junior rocketeers event. Most entries have excellent pictures as well. I was a model rocketry geek in my youth and hope my daughter has an interest. :) Of course, I would probably need to take her about 100 miles out from DC so as not to attract the Cessna interceptor squadron.
(Via MAKE Blog.)
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