What I haven’t seen is much discussion about a standard way to encode, upload, or manage microformats, except for Structured Blogging which defines a way to structure blog entries and has a plugin for one blogging application, WordPress. Somehow, I don’t think having a plugin for each blogging application that has to implement an editor [...]
You know, I think I fully realized why microformats seem so appealing and familiar to me:
The appealing part stems from that fact that I’ve been working on building web scrapers for years now, using a slew of languages (Perl, Java, Python, XSL, JavaScript, bash scripts) and approaches (HTML parsing, regexes, XSL, tidy-and-XPath). Anything to [...]
Implementors should be aware that the software represents the user in their interactions over the Internet, and should be careful to allow the user to be aware of any actions they might take which may have an unexpected significance to themselves or others.
In particular, the convention has been established that the GET [...]
I’ve suddenly gotten very interested in microformats, especially since it struck me very soundly that they belong in this final chapter of my book about extending feeds.
I started off writing a bit about mod_event and RVW with respect to extending feed formats with additional metadata, but then the microformat thing hit me: [...]
I wish I could have “soft” desktops/displays on my Mac.
That is, I’d like the second (or third or more?) desktop to display to a VNC server while still maintaining the hardware LCD screen as an independent desktop. Then, I could open a VNC client on my work machine and move some windows [...]
Is a feed the right place for your data?
Do reviews belong in the feed or in the content?
How about calendar events–in the feed or in the content?
If it’s just generated via template, why not both? Or is this where the law intends I should be conservative?
Is anyone working on a Markdown of microcontent?
I know lots of people have had their differences and disagreements with you, me included. But I have to give props where they’re due:
It was Radio UserLand and your evangelism that finally got me into RSS and pushed me down a lot of threads of inquiry into programming in general. And [...]
Just finally caught an episode of Robot Chicken. It’s kinda like videos we tried making in high school, only with a budget. I can’t breathe, and coffee keeps shooting out my nose. I can only hope that this condition isn’t permanent.
Considering the mdls and mdfind commands on Tiger gives me an idea [...]
