March 19, 2007
Grazr
An article in Mass High Tech about RSS startup Grazr caught my eye, so I went to the Web site and played around with their widget.
It seems pretty cool. You can build your own here if you have an OPML files to start with.
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December 24, 2006
Relational database integration with RDF/OWL
Bob DuCharme, one of the smartest guys in the business, reports that his XML 2006 paper is done and available. You can download the paper here and the PowerPoint slides here.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:43 AM | Comments (1)
December 2, 2006
The State Of Magazine Websites
PaidContent.org points to some research, The State Of Magazine Websites.
(via Buzzmachine) The Bivings Group, which earlier this year did a comprehensive review of newspaper websites, has done it again with magazine websites: it researched the websites of the top 50 most circulated magazines in the U.S. and evaluated them.
Among the findings:
-- RSS feeds: 48 per cent of magazine websites.
-- Message boards/forums: 46 per cent
-- 38 per cent require registration to view all of the site’s content.
-- 38 per cent of the magazines offer at least one reporter blog.
-- Video is an offering on 34 per cent of websites.
-- Just 14 per cent of websites use podcasts and bookmarking; eight percent allow comments on articles; and six per cent use tags.
I want to know about the 52% of websites who have not implemeneted RSS yet. Hello, McFly!
Posted by Bill Trippe at 3:03 PM
July 27, 2006
What is RDF?
Over at XML.com, Joshua Tauberer has updated a very useful article, "What is RDF."
Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:27 PM
April 13, 2006
Atom
Looking at my logs, I noticed I was getting a lot of 404s on index.atom. I guess the default file naming from MovableType is atom.xml, so I have redirected hits on index.atom to go to atom.xml. I hope this solves the problem. Let me know if you still have trouble with this.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 6:31 PM
April 9, 2006
A Few Changes
I added a few more categories, and am going through the process now of re-tagging some old entries. I now have separate categories for publishing, baseball, and poetry. They only go back a few months right now, but that will grow as I have more time to re-tag older entries. I also have a nascent category on RSS, as I expect to write more about that in the future.
UPDATE: Oops. I failed to mention an obvious thing. I have disabled trackback pings, and have decided to default to "no comments" on entries, though I will open up some entries to comments. I have been dealing with too much comment and trackback spam (and some other related abuse, such as referral spam), so I had to take a few corrective actions.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:35 PM
April 8, 2006
Folio 40
Folio Magazine has listed their Folio 40, "the oldest and most prestigious list honoring publishers who’ve had a significant impact on their own products and the magazine industry in general." It honors individuals, and this year included Jon Udell. Jon is always worth reading, Folio is to be commended for recognizing Jon's leadership among technology writers, and Jon offered a gracious acknowledgment. But I couldn't help but be struck by the irony that Folio, a magazine about the magazine industry, is smart enough to recognize Jon but does not have an obvious RSS feed.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:47 AM
April 1, 2006
Really Simple, Really Useful
I have been doing some research recently into the overlap between content management and translation technology. This necessarily brought me to the SDL-Trados site. Poking around the site, I discovered an RSS feed for their news releases. Simple thing, indeed, but I can't tell you how useful this is for someone like me. I get a couple of dozen emails a day with press releases from various vendors. They are lost in the flood. About half of them seem to end up in one of my spam filters. I make a point of rescuing them when I remember, but I don't always remember. Really, RSS is perfect for this sort of thing, and I suggest software vendors do it as soon as they possibly can.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:30 PM | Comments (0)
