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May 13, 2005 | Classics
Salon now features Technorati trackers that tell you who is blogging in response to any given Salon story. This would be a great feature for lots of sites, and while I can imagine some workarounds that would allow sites to effectively achieve this, the…
Quick Online Tips: The Great Flickr Tools Collection
May 11, 2005 | Classics
The Great Flickr Tools Collection: From Quick Online Tips — the people who brought the world the del.icio.us tools collection — an equally fabulous collection of tools to make your all-Flickr lifestyle that much better. Flickr is a terrific photo sha…
Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation (C2D2)
May 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
The first-ever Canadian Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation is scheduled for October 27-30 in Ottawa. The web site is now online with lots of opportunity for further input into the conference agenda.
15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) – Tim Yang’s Geek Blog
May 10, 2005 | Classics
Tim Yang’s list of fifteen things to do with RSS is the blog meme of the week. Only fifteen! What does he do with all the hours left over?
Keep an eye on this space for many more — today’s posts re: Feedster should give a few hints.
Kitsilano with Character: Your Home in Vancouver
May 9, 2005 | Classics
It's official: we're now planning our move to Toronto, aiming for August 05. As a result our FABULOUS house is up for rent or exchange — and our ideal situation is to find some charming soul in Toronto who will trade houses with us for some extended peri
More kudos for Feedster
May 9, 2005 | Classics
Another great discovery: Feedster lets you create a feed based on a search that is limited to the feeds listed within a given OPML file. An OPML file is better known as a blogroll -- basically list of RSS subscriptions (such as the one created by Bloglines when you...
Cisco product placement?
May 9, 2005 | Classics
On 24 tonight, in the face of a fictional denial-of-service attack, the fictional cyberwhiz of the fictional intelligence agency notes that they're in good shape because "the Cisco network is self-defending."
Tag-friendly Feedster
May 9, 2005 | Classics
Since Technorati does not yet provide RSS feeds on its tag pages, I've been looking for an alternate way of subscribing to RSS feeds for particular blog categories/tags (the way I subscribe to del.icio.us tag feeds). The happy discovery is that Feedster supports...
Read/Write Web: How To Subscribe To Topic Or Tag RSS feeds
May 9, 2005 | Classics
A nice summary of different options for creating RSS feeds for searches you want to access on an ongoing basis. Includes pubsub and technorati, among others.
Contentious » Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together
May 9, 2005 | Classics
This blog post outlines one workflow for using Furl and del.icio.us togther, treating Furl as a personal archive and del.icio.us as a way of sharing resources. It’s an interesting reflection of the strengths and limitations of each tool: Furl is certainly a better option for archiving and retrieval purposes, while del.icio.us is far more powerful as a social and collaborative tool. It’s also a reminder of why Spurl is uniquely valuable for its combination of archiving and sharing functions: by facilitating both personal archiving and social bookmarking via del.icio.us, it allows personal information management to be integrated with collaboration. This seems like a much more realistic way of making collaboration a natural part of workflow, since it makes sharing a byproduct of work effort rather than another item on the to-do list.