Friday, April 09, 2004
The Occupational Adventure (sm) Blog: Getting unstuck OK, nothing is quite as "sticky" as trying to write about a dozen aggregators at once, with a deadline that coincides with a certain IRS one... so I'm quite happy to have stumbled on Curt Rosengren's blog. I followed a link to it from Steven Cohen's Library Stuff. Actually, having two real deadlines actually helps with the unsticking, providing the "Future focus" he mentions.
300 Years of News Aggregation?
As part of my research on XML feed aggregators, I'm trying the NewsMonster aggregator, which installs into Mozilla and lets me subscribe to an RSS feed with a right mouse-click.
While doing that, I noticed that the right mouse button menu also has a "blog this with Blogger" item on the menu, so I'm giving it a try. I knew I was keeping this old blog around for something!
As part of my research on XML feed aggregators, I'm trying the NewsMonster aggregator, which installs into Mozilla and lets me subscribe to an RSS feed with a right mouse-click.
While doing that, I noticed that the right mouse button menu also has a "blog this with Blogger" item on the menu, so I'm giving it a try. I knew I was keeping this old blog around for something!
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Blogger is now offering "Atom" syndication feeds, a standard different from the RSS syndication feeds used by my other blogs. Although I don't blog regularly here these days, I've activated the feed and added this item to see what it looks like.
The Atom file is called "atom.xml" and is located at this blog's main folder:
http://boblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
I knew it wouldn't work, but attempted to subscribe to it with my usual aggregators (Radio and NetNewswire) to see what would happen. Both are designed for RSS XML feeds, and both failed. Radio's message says, "[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "channeltitle" hasn't been defined.]"
One interesting feature of the Atom feed is that its XML file includes a link to a stylesheet, which tells browsers how to display the file in human-readable format, although the feed is really meant to be read by an aggregator. Radio's RSS files are also XML, but with no stylesheet.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/rss.xml
The human-readable version is the weblog itself, at http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/, which you can also get to from my homepage or through my shortcut at stepno.com/weblog
I don't have time to read all the debate about the RSS syndication format or the reasons Blogger (owned by Google) decided to use Atom instead. RSS works for me and for places I read -- including The New York Times, the BBC, and my weblogging friends at Harvard and MIT. From my point of view as a user, RSS lives up to its name as "Really Simple Syndication," in addition to being my Dad's initials.
The Atom file is called "atom.xml" and is located at this blog's main folder:
http://boblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
I knew it wouldn't work, but attempted to subscribe to it with my usual aggregators (Radio and NetNewswire) to see what would happen. Both are designed for RSS XML feeds, and both failed. Radio's message says, "[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "channeltitle" hasn't been defined.]"
One interesting feature of the Atom feed is that its XML file includes a link to a stylesheet, which tells browsers how to display the file in human-readable format, although the feed is really meant to be read by an aggregator. Radio's RSS files are also XML, but with no stylesheet.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/rss.xml
The human-readable version is the weblog itself, at http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/, which you can also get to from my homepage or through my shortcut at stepno.com/weblog
I don't have time to read all the debate about the RSS syndication format or the reasons Blogger (owned by Google) decided to use Atom instead. RSS works for me and for places I read -- including The New York Times, the BBC, and my weblogging friends at Harvard and MIT. From my point of view as a user, RSS lives up to its name as "Really Simple Syndication," in addition to being my Dad's initials.
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Happy New Year, New Blogs & Blog News
My homepage has officially moved to stepno.com.
My two most current weblogs are my Other Journalism Weblog and the Red Liner. I'll be making changes to the way I use both of them (and this long-neglected one) in January.
My homepage has officially moved to stepno.com.
My two most current weblogs are my Other Journalism Weblog and the Red Liner. I'll be making changes to the way I use both of them (and this long-neglected one) in January.
Thursday, June 06, 2002
Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog
The link above goes to my Userland Radio site, which I put most of my energy into in 2002 (and beyond?).
The link above goes to my Userland Radio site, which I put most of my energy into in 2002 (and beyond?).
Thursday, April 18, 2002
Wired 10.05: Must Read (Sullivan) and Weblogs to outrank the Times by 2007
The sidebar is a point-counterpoint between Dave Winer of userland.com and Martin Nisenholtz of NYT Digital. Meanwhile,
Andrew Sullivan, who has written for The New Republic and The New York Times, says blogging is "a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press. Blogger could be to words what Napster was to music - except this time, it'll really work."
The sidebar is a point-counterpoint between Dave Winer of userland.com and Martin Nisenholtz of NYT Digital. Meanwhile,
Andrew Sullivan, who has written for The New Republic and The New York Times, says blogging is "a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press. Blogger could be to words what Napster was to music - except this time, it'll really work."
Sunday, March 31, 2002
The FuzzyStuff Weblog
This weblog interpersonal hypertextuality just keeps going... Scott Johnson fell into one of my browser windows today and the name rang a bell.
It only took a few clicks to get to his log -- which confirms that he's the guy I met when I was writing about hypertext in 1987. That was before many people could spell it! Small world made of bits, isn't it?
This weblog interpersonal hypertextuality just keeps going... Scott Johnson fell into one of my browser windows today and the name rang a bell.
It only took a few clicks to get to his log -- which confirms that he's the guy I met when I was writing about hypertext in 1987. That was before many people could spell it! Small world made of bits, isn't it?
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