elearning2.0 linklog

...who are actively building a better world. Themes:Collaboration Culture,Relationships and Networks,Branding and Storytelling,Open Business and Campaign Models

The Network of Oregon Watershed Councils is dedicated to supporting the work of watershed councils throughout the state by increasing council capacity, improving key relationships and promoting public awareness of watersheds and watershed councils.

Earth Share of Oregon is a federation of America’s leading non-profit conservation organizations, working to promote education and charitable giving through workplace campaigns.

promotes the understanding, enjoyment, and protection of native birds, other wildlife, and their habitats. We focus on our local community and the Pacific Northwest.

The Oregon League of Conservation Voters is a non-partisan organization with a simple mission: to educate voters about how their legislators vote on the environment and to hold those legislators accountable.

Wow. That is one slick and easy blog setup tool. I shouldn’t have been too surprised, having already seen a preview of it implemented on James Farmers‘ Edublogs.org site,

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many lovely effects, well explained - all pure CSS

nice collection of basic tips for the CSS/DOM box model(s), including MSIE5 workarounds

nice collection of useful little abstract blocks [ All Mandarin images and pictures in the Gallery can be used without permission. Right-click to copy the images or use the copy-and-paste code to link to an image.

Computer programmer Igor Kholodov has created a game that he says can entertain while teaching the basics of computer programming languages like Java or C++.

BlogPulse Conversation Tracker provides a missing element to the blog world: a tool for assembling snapshots of weblog "conversations." How? It creates a threaded view of the conversation by performing a depth-first traversal of the conversation graph, st

BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is brought to you by Intelliseek.

Organized by Wynton Marsalis and graced by a bevy of outstanding performers -- Norah Jones, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, James Taylor, Dianne Reeves, Robin Williams and Bill Cosby, to name but a few -- the "Higher Ground" concert held Saturday at New York'

Alan Brown pointed out this site - has interesting LMI interface

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.

This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept. I hope it's short enough to read, long enough to be useful, and organized to let you skip around and dive into detail only where you want detail. It doesn't cover every nuan

The idea to promote the development, use, and reuse of freely available high-quality academic content emerged through careful review of the technology landscape in K-12 and higher education, and was stimulated by our first investment in the area, the MIT

Usage patterns of web search engines suggests that people conceive of these tools as access points to a world digital library. This is not surprising since search engines return information on any topic, wherever the information may be stored. It is also

Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research

As part of a larger project to develop repository tools and resources, the Academic ADL Co-Lab conducted a series of informal surveys, surveying partners, project representatives, and interested parties regarding the functionalities they expected and pref

Open content, coined by analogy with "open source," (though technically it is actually share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the

Very extensive and thoroughly catalogued list of projects related to digital libraries.

This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005.

Phrases like "more" or "find out more" are not very informative (and possibly highly irritating) for screen reader users. Having a link read out as "more" gives them no idea what they will link off to. This is even more confusing if there are numerous ins

I read the article by maxdesign about - well - simple, accessible "more" links. I really liked the idea but instantly thought there was some room for improvement. why not show that hidden information when the user is hovering the link?

good, growing series of artlicves and presentations on web standards, css, design and information design issues

By Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley and Peter Firminger. Originally presented at OZeWAI 2004 Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia - 2 December 2004.

also available in finnish, spanish and korean! Good, basic intro [html presentation] by oz web standards/accesibiliuty evangelist

Topics (6), Articles (25), Best-Of-Web Recommendations (2). Subject Heading: Music trade -- Vocational guidan

destination for millions of Internet users who want to learn, express themselves, and share ideas, interests, and expertise with other like-minded individuals. At the core of our website are over 530 dedicated Feature Writers who publish over 600 articles

Starting July 14th, 2005 Suite University became your place for FREE online learning. Here you will find a wide variety of general interest courses designed with you in mind and now offered at NO COST to you.

In his reply to the Massachusetts decision to use only documents in OpenDocument format, the Microsoft manager Alan Yates writes: (paraphrased) Star Office, Open Office, KOffice and IBM Workplace are all derivatives of the same codebase. Thus there is onl

Gobby is reminiscent of SubEthaEdit but will work in a mixed environment of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other UNIX flavors (SubEthaEdit is Mac only). It's a collaborative editing environment in which multiple authors on the same network can collaborate o

Gobby is a free collaborative editor based on libobby, a library which provides synced document buffers. It supports multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms. It u

it's going to be a serious social blogging platform, with features to make it easy to fine-tune who has access to which parts of your data and media. next-gen platform, codenamed Project Comet, is going to go head-to-head with flickr. And Yahoo Groups. A

Project Comet will launch in early 2006 and will combine the publishing power of TypePad, the community aspects of LiveJournal and the years of insight garnered from Movable Type. Project Comet is focused on creating an advanced weblogging technology plat

eZ publish is an open source platform for web publishing, e-commerce, intranets, document management, blogs, photo galleries and more. Learn why it is trusted by thousands of enterprises globally and downloaded more than one million times.

The main objective of the tOSSad project is to start integrating and exploiting already formed methodologies, strategies, skills and technologies in F/OSS domain in order to help governmental bodies, educational institutions and SMEs to share research res

One of the very best things about Flickr are the ways in which people extend the platform and play with the system. Here are some recent examples, and comments are open so you can add your own to the list

YubNub is a command-line for the web. After setting it up on your browser, you simply type "gim porsche 911" to do a Google Image Search for pictures of Porsche 911 sports cars. Type "random 49" to return random numbers between 1 and 49, courtesy of rando

DotNetNuke is an open-source content management system ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, and online publishing portals. It is also a project with a vision: to evolve its software th

Making multiple simultaneous asynchronous requests in AJAX applications using the XmlHttpRequest object can be difficult, but this generalized XML response-handling code will help.

he Spring framework, a lightweight open source J2EE container, is about to introduce a significant new feature.Spring WebFlow is a new Web framework that brings an innovative and highly structured approach to building Web applications. Get a sneak peek of

My verdict: The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail. Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect. Gmail, by contrast, is quirky and limited.

The interface is very fast and slick for me. Rich and beautiful: This interface is impressively clean. They have done a fantastic job there. I love the color, I love the mouseovers. I love it. Tabs, Folders, Calendar

collection of articles on subjects like ajax, multiuple user personalities, and non-Gibsonian uses of the word 'affordance' :O)

Bindows is a full desktop application framework, within the browser, in the same class of dev frameworks of SmartClient.com, where you want an application to look and feel exactly like a rich desktop app, versus a webby app.

worked for me!: scroll down to mervTormel [ in itunes, you could select all tunes in the Library, hit the delete key, (of course, answer no to the second dialog - delete, if you get one; we're just trying to clean out the library listing) then drag the ~/

The technology is nothing new, of course, and has been part of every server-side developer’s standard toolkit for years, but whilst some browsers have maintained support for XML HTTP for a few years, it’s only recently that support has been widespread

The Brit Pack is more than a blog roll. It's a bunch of designers and developers who share a passion for web standards and accessibility. In the words of that gentleman of British design, Jon Hicks, Look out Johnny Foreigner, the Brits are coming!.

too many inline URIs can make printed pages hard to read. Aaron Gustafson comes to the rescue with a JavaScript add-on that’ll have you loving your linkage again.

Eric Meyer presents the ALA 4.0 print styles and discusses the challenge of translating a complex screen layout into a well-designed and useful printed page.

Technologies such as JavaScript programming language and cascading style sheets (CSS) have matured to the point where they can be used effectively to create very dynamic web applications that will work on all of the major browsers. This article will detai

list of [ currently 14 ] open-source TTW WYSIWYG editors hosted on sourceforge

By showing code to correctly calculate real PageRank I hope to achieve several things in this response, (Chris Riding' “PageRank Explained: Everything you’ve always wanted to know about PageRank”, pointed to by many people, contains a fundamental mi

[re Chris Riding's earlier paper] a fundamental flaw in the implementation of MiniRank means that it models an equation very different from Google’s PageRank! Most of the conclusion in the paper, therefore, are not applicable to real websites

The power of del.icio.us stems from the clicking keyboards of its many members. The service was a homegrown project created in late 2003 by Joshua Schachter, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, to track and share bookmarks. As the system took off, Schachter qui

To view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list below and press the "View Earth from Satellite" button. The satellite database is updated regularly but may not reflect the current position of satelli

{from a talk?] - terse semantic-map-ish figure of definitive Web2.0 attributes from O'Reilly the influential publisher

With the assistance of a few free utility programs, routine maintenance under OS X is very easy. The very same procedures and utilities that are used for routine maintenance under OS X are what I recommend for generic troubleshooting. You should perform g

These utilities will help you to clean up and optimize your Mac

[ performance tuning and benchmarking apps ] ..All Intech MacOS X software updates are compatible with versions 10.2 through 10.4.X. (Including MacOS Extended Journaling).

Consider it a minor tune up, and not a day at the garage. If you're constantly creating large files (such as video and audio) a true optimizer will free up more contiguous space than the automatic defragmenting in Panther... which will leave other files (

In this series, I'll give you all the tools you need to begin developing your own applications using Ajax. In this first article, I'll explain the concepts behind Ajax and demonstrate the fundamental steps to creating an Ajax interface for a Java-based We

Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities”. People are learning together – every individual deals and engage in many different communities of practice. Here people negotiate and

nice short intro REST and why ...In essence, this is the native programming model of the web, and it works, its scalable and so easy to use, it holds few fears and this is all that REST is. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer and it’s a prog

‘Innovative Practice with e-Learning’ is a good practice guide to embedding mobile and wireless technologies into everyday practice which is aimed at practitioners and managers in further and higher education and adult and community learning. This pub

Examines critically the origins and basis of 'knowledge management', its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'information' are explored, as well as Polanyi's concept of 'ta

account of BBC using forums, people-connectors,group-forming,blogs + wikis as 'KM'...Semple is enabling the BBC to be as smart as it can be. As he’s learned, it doesn’t require a lot of tech or a huge budget. Mainly it requires letting people find one

Career Vision is the premier developer of aptitude-based career products in the country. Since 1975, the Ball foundation has researched and developed measures of abilities, resulting in the Ball Aptitude Battery, and has used these measures to help people

Review, the Education Initiatives newsletter, and Viewpoint, a stand-alone insert, contain news and stories related to our work and tools and resources that may be of use to our partners and other educators. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view thes

specialists in building websites for arts / music related organizations as well as individual artists and musicians. founders of the Plone4Artists project, a grassroots initiative to help artist communities set up scalable, standards-based websites which

In my book XForms Essentials, I originally intended to include some information on running XForms engines. It turned out that progress on XForms technology was happening so rapidly anything in print would have been quickly outdated. An online approach see

thorough job of using dom elements instead of images [ Eric Meyer had put up a neat tutorial on creating ragged floats, wrapping text around an irregular outline of an image. This, he achieved by slicing the image into horizontal strips and placing them o

8277 items total | page 331 of 332 -- 2002-02-24 -- creator of del.icio.us' own bookmarks

Displaying tags as a mindmap tree was an obvious fit. I figured it wouldn't be too hard to transform an xml format from del.icio.us to the Freemind file format. A great benefit I found when I was researching, I discovered the mindmap format could also inc

Form to send a TrackBack ping to one url from another. Useful for tests and demos! Trackback freely hosted by BrutalHugs.com

As the tag is not suited for sending large amounts of email from within Zope, and this fact has generated quite some traffic on the mailing list, *and* I was in need of such a bulkmailer myself, I looked at the matter a bit more closely.

Zope source documentation is quite good; Python provides good introspection facilities, so extract the documentation directly from Zope. That's what DocFinder does. It analyses any Zope object inside a running Zope, determines which classes have been used

The AcquisitionUnderstander product makes the command "showaq" available to Zope. You may append "showaq" to any URL to get a graphical representation of the acquisition paths involved. The graph, if read from top to bottom, shows the exact search order i

CMFTestCase is a thin layer on top of the ZopeTestCase package. It has been developed to simplify testing of CMF-based products and applications. It also serves as an example for implementing your own test frameworks based on ZopeTestCase.

Example code and presentation material for the PloneTestCase tutorial held at the Plone Conference 2004 in Vienna.

There are different opinions on the relative power of Ruby and Python. I'm not much more authoritative than other resources (though I'm not less authoritative either; most comparisons between the two languages are flawed). Ultimately I don't believe there

fvlogger borrows concepts from Log4J and its cousins, but eschews their complexity by providing a simple API and offloading the heavy lifting onto the DOM.

This article walks through the steps required to build an accessible, dynamic menu, with separate content, presentation, and behavioural layers.

YA 'pure' dropdown; kinda nicethough - simple + purdy... much else in this site, rather designed-looking :}

many articles here, looks like from extensive trial+error experience; site v busy with css tricks but some are useful

Revealicious is a set of graphic visualisations for your del.icio.us account that allow you to browse, search and select tags, as well as viewing posts matching them

...the current generation of default designs have gotten a little long in the tooth, and we wanted to make sure that designers who take the time to make templates and styles get the most value out of their effort. So, we've made some significant improveme

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages. To use the API, you need to sign up for an API key. The API is new, so there may be bugs and slightly less than perfect documentation

Firefox 1.5 will feature improved support for CSS2 and CSS3, APIs for scriptable and programmable 2D graphics through SVG 1.1 and , XForms and XML events, as well as many DHTML, JavaScript and DOM enhancements.

http://svartling.hopto.org/informatory/?cat=227

An online math calculator engine and mathematics Eclipse plugin. Uses AJAX technology for the web-client and a Java Tomcat server. Based on math libraries from jscience.org.

Thank you for the many funny and oh so sad fired stories that you submitted! Alas, there is only one winner in this cold, cruel world, and you're not it! With bated breath I'm sure you've all been waiting to hear the results... breathe easy because here t

This form can be used to send a trackback pings to any blog that accepts Trackbacks. You do not need to have a Trackback system on your blog to send pings. After submitting the form the results will be displayed on a separate screen. See below for an expl

Power Tools is one central place to get lots of open source code and components that Six Apart's team has released. Power Tools help you build better sites, apps, and platforms and to connect your applications to the rest of the web.

decentralized identity system, but one that's actually decentralized and doesn't entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business. An OpenID identity is just a URL. You can have multiple identities in the same way you can have multiple U

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJour

The tone is light, and the book is only 45 pages in length, but it manages to cover some complex ground in an accessible fashion.

These are the hot 500 links being displayed by Blogrolling users. Updated daily.

Current Repository Size: ~25 million pages (searchable index slightly smaller)

A major research interest is data mining and I run a meeting group here at Stanford. For more information take a look at the MIDAS home page or see the datamine maling list achive. Here are some recent publications:

live + continuous stream of posts in almost realtime from LiveJournal... fast & fascinating :o) danga's Brad Fitzpatrick produced as sub for pinging all those (too-slow) services

MyGuestmap allows your visitors to add pins to a map, showing where they are and leaving a message. Due to unexpected high growth of the user base, MyGuestmap is experiencing severe bandwidth issues.

Choose a category in the first column, select a style the right column, then click "Show Details" to download CSS and image files. Once you select a style in the right column, you have additional options in the left column to view other styles by the same

Arnaud Leene summaries the features of some services on 10 issues such as APIs, Feeds Galore, and ad-hoc microcontent

SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) is an ontology for describing discussion forums and posts on topic threads in online community sites. This includes but is not limited to: blogs, bulletin boards, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.

features the ability to embed content from external feeds into an eportfolio page (see the details and examples listed in the latest enhancememnts). There are two ways of doing this- one is the ability to add one or more feeds as a sidebar to any desired

Electronic portfolios are changing the way many colleges and universities handle student, educator, and lifelong assessmen

July 2005: It works like a charm. It even works better than expected. It improves search engine visibility to a great degree, as long as webmasters care what they submit to Google

even novices can build custom maps in a jiffy thanks to a free service from MapBuilder.net. It has built a Web-based interface to Google API that lets you build a mashup on your own, adding points by plugging in details and coordinates. MapBuilder.net wil

An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.

lovely to look at, effective againsttcpa.com advert putting the case againt trusted computing initiative

Let us suppose that we wish to record, in a device-independent and implementation-independent way, the kind of information about the subject matter of a document that might be included in the subject index to an encyclopedia in electronic form.... This s

Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed “the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps ar

The web is buzzing with rumors that Microsoft is about to embrace Web 2.0. It will hold its [ http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/ ]Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Bill Gates will Keynote (or shoul

Faces is based on python, an easy to learn and powerful programming language. Projects in faces are simple python programs, which can be edited by the graphical front-end or your favorite text editor. The comfortable auto completion function enables you t

lively thread in Drupal.org general discussion; eg of opinions "Drupal is more oriented toward community sites and blogs, where Plone is more oriented toward sites with lots of static content.

includes several largish link collections + digital equality focus...The National Institute for Community Innovations, in collaboration with a growing number of internationally recognized expert communities in educational reform, has developed national ne

interesting analysis/reflection on their decision process, soncidering the usual CMSs including Plone, finalising on Drupal...Most importantly, Drupal was alone among all CMS options in its compatibility with a distributed network approach. The platform i

ICDE is approved and authorized by the United Nations (UNESCO) to serve as the Global Institutional Membership Organization in Online, Flexible and Blended Learning, including e-learning and distance education. Open Praxis, or its predecessor, the ICDE Bu

useful collection of workarounds, not all well-known. eg Disappearing text or images in IE? follows on from earlier 10

useful collection of worksarounds and tips.... followed by another 10

provides an XHTML+CSS face for CalDAV servers (primarily Cosmo but eventually others as well). Chandler users can share calendar collections with friends who do not use Chandler, iCal or any other desktop clients by providing them with Scooby URLs for the

OSAF is a non-profit organization developing next-generation inter-personal information management software. Our current projects include a desktop PIM application code-named "Chandler", and a server code-named "Cosmo".

featureful. WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Interbase, MS SQL Server

Chronos is a Web agenda/calendar for Intranets (even if it can be used from anywhere). It can send reminders by email. You can schedule multi-user events. It is fast and light on resources (the balance size/speed can be tweaked by tweaking mod_perl and Ap

An Ajax enabled online calendar. Drag and drop events to change dates, drag the start/end of an event to create multi-day events, create and edit events without refreshing the page, all with an iCal style interface.

Typo supports all 3 major API's ( Blogger, MetaWeblog and MovableType Extensions ). It supports all three because every one implements some different features. Even when you set a client to talk to the MetaWebLog API it will still use the Blogger API if y

Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy. After you install Typo, a web-based admin interface handles configuration and management. You can then post to your blog using a desktop client like MarsEdit or online, using the admin section of your blog.

This is a weblog for the ECER conference, Dublin 2005 and for follow up discussion

Mike's techie blog. Documentation and development plans from the KnowNet development team

Welcome to the new look for my personal weblog, with a new name to reflect our mission for 2006: "elearning2.0 - putting the 'oh!' back into elearning". The new name reflects our belief in 'elearning2.0' as a slogan for rallying progressive developers and

knotes provides a comprehensive suite of new functionalities to Plone sites: a very fast and effective discussion system and a complementary web-log publishing system, both fully supporting the major weblogging standards: trackback, the MetaWeblog, Blogge

Snippets is a public code repository. You can easily add code to your personal collection of code snippets, categorize your code snippets with keywords (known as 'tags'), and share your snippets via this site.

pythin code snippets contributed/tragged by open community [ Post code snippets. Sort by tags, people, people and tags, etc..

Freetag is an easy tagging and folksonomy-enabled plugin for use with MySQL-PHP applications. It allows you to create tags on existing database schemas, and access and manage your tags through a robust API.

I’ve allowed myself to dream a little about a possible future for Cocoalicious and created a crude mockup that includes some of the interface ideas I have in mind.

We'll need ways to efficiently manage and use massive amounts of content and tags in tagapp databases - tagschemas. They'll need to be stored and accessed just as easily on the web as off. Along with the emergence of AJAX and "user centered design" we nee

Underneath the trinity of User, Tag, Item is a rich set of relationships that, together with the trinity, form the foundation data model of Data 2.0. Before we get into the experimental data and numbers in future posts, let's explore these relationships a

Dimensional data models are to data warehousing as normalized data models are to transactional applications.

blog dedicated to webtech and standards identity issues

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps ins

good, sober review of the company and the early demos ... What really makes is stand out are two additional features they’ve added to build social networking directly into the browsing experience: social bookmarking and a wysiwyg blog writing tool.

main developer of Flock, the in-development 'social browser' from firefox

very comprehensive nederland-hosted firefox and thunderbird extensions resource

THE /OTHER/ FLOCK :o) Flock is an RSS aggregator written in Java. It is a server-side web application accessible with a browser, similar in spirit to AmphetaDesk . Take a look at the completed tasks for a list of features.

Simplog provides an easy way for users to add blogging capabilities to their existing websites. Simplog is written in PHP and compatible with multiple databases. Simplog also features an RSS/Atom aggregator/reader. Powerful, yet simple.......

The Socrates programme is an educational initiative of the European Commission; 31 countries currently take part. The initial Socrates programme ran from 1994 until 31 Dec 1999 when it was replaced with the Socrates II programme on 24 Jan 2000, scheduled

another gorgeous, simple web2.0 service from 37 signals [ Web-based project management the way it should be

Here's a little list of some of the things that seem to suffer the most from pushing too far past that "Happy User Peak"

From usability to pricing models to support to communication with users... everything they do at 37 Signals demonstrates that users matter most. And they're especially brilliant at knowing what not to include-- i.e. the happy user peak.

another lovely little 37 signals productivity web2.0 app [ Ta-da List makes list making and tracking easy. And, since it's web-based, you can make a list at work and still get to it at home or anywhere else you have a computer or internet access (even on

This article outlines the development of a website in the UK that seeks to bring guidance research and practice closer together. The shared knowledge base underpinning the website was created from the contextualised problems faced by potential user groups

oh dear. With the whole of Europe to pick from, the European Parliament has somehow managed to get a site built by people who don't know how to build web sites. Who'da thunk it?

intro to web2.o trend for designers..."These tools, the interfaces of Web 2.0, will become the frontier of design innovation.

the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) online registration site for disaster help is Internet Explorer-only....The registration makes use of JavaScript, but there's no functionality being provided that could not have been provided in a more brow

[Sun COO] In my view, Massachusetts is more than a little tussle - and FEMA's screw up is more than an indiscretion - they represent the beginnings of radical change around the world, toward a truly comprehensive definition of Industry Standards. The type

...software development teams and digital library experts from six NMC universities + five major museums to create a new, open source authoring environment for creators of web-based and multimedia learning experiences.

When you have your data organized, post it publicly. Post it as XML. Let people take it. Let everyone take it...even some competitors. And use the Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution ShareAlike license to protect yourself. Each item will conta

Understand the dynamics causing digital identity systems to succeed or fail in various contexts, expressed as the Laws of Identity. Together these laws define a unifying identity metasystem that can offer the Internet the identity layer it needs. (14 prin

[no rss?] Wondering who runs Writely? Real people, that's who! We're Sam, Steve and Claudia.

AOL and Jabber announced (on April 14th this year) they have formalized server-to-server communication between their clients. Google Talk is based on Jabber -- could [via Digg] Google take advantage of this agreement to allow some kind of interoperability

Alphabetical List of projects and products that use Rails.

Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available.

not entirely wishware then -- list here of possible components. Good list of ajax apps / examples relevant to the mission

[re-usable library zip] A collection of Direct Manipulation examples that work in modern browsers. Each example is a proof of concept. I'm answering the technical question "Can I do this?" as opposed to the interaction design question "Should I do this?".

(looks quality :o) ...fully object-oriented JavaScript library. Recently we refactored the library to extend the excellent prototype.js effort from the Ruby on Rails folks. Rico is just one small part of a larger effort at Sabre Airline Solutions to creat

(looks qualkity :o) Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 developers everywhere.

That's why I came up with Behaviour - my solution to unobtrusive javascript behaviours. Behaviour lets you use CSS selectors to specify elements to add javascript events to

Provides a set of helpers for calling JavaScript functions and, most importantly, to call remote methods using what has been labelled AJAX. This means that you can call actions in your controllers without reloading the page, but still update certain parts

Nevow (pronounced nou-veau) is a web application construction kit written in Python. Finally, Nevow includes LivePage, a two-way bridge between JavaScript in a browser and Python on the server. For 0.3, LivePage has been updated to operate on Mozilla, Fi

I played around with Nevow's LivePage, which enables one to write so-called "AJAX" (Asyncronous Javascript And XmlHttpRequest) web applications. Like most else with Nevow, it's ridiculously easy to do. I wrote a simple app that lets the user enter an RSS

Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. 2000 unit tests. Open source.

offers on-the-fly translation between email protocols (POP and IMAP) and web formats and protocols (RSS, Atom, and the Metaweblog API). Hep lets you read and write the Web from the comfort of your favorite email client or newreader.

problem is once the page reloads it’s often difficult to spot and confirm the change (especially if the change occurred somewhere in the middle of the page). The YFT uses JavaScript to create a yellow highlight that briefly spotlights the change when th

Auditing [37 Signals'] code gave me some good ideas for improving the technique further. I set out to solve some of the hurdles such as affixing a pre-defined ID on the element, embedding inline JavaScript, and manually specifying individual frame colors.

Janice Fraser, CEO of Adaptive Path, has a great article "It's a whole new Internet". If you haven't read about "web 2.0" yet, and don't know what AJAX is, it's time to learn.

[free pdf or $10 book] by Geoff Mulgan, Omar Salem, Tom Steinberg, 2005. The rise of the Internet has made it possible for knowledge to be created and shared in ways that emphasise its character as a common good, rather than as something to be owned.

social event scheduling, 'integrates with outlook' ( via .ics iCal format?)

instead of asking [who invented the parachute?], you can enter the query [the parachute was invented by *]. (The blank, or wildcard, search is marked by * - an asterisk.) we've improved the way results are found in response to queries containing such bla

web form to specify button, then download zipped images (png, jpeg, gif, readme) ( not accessibility's best friend, but may help users to skin

Invision Power Services is a leading provider of site and community-building products and services based in Virginia, USA.

This program is available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or above

Edit in place (also called in-place editing) follows the axiom Alan Cooper calls "allow input wherever you have output". The combobox – a form element unfortunately absent from HTML – demonstrates this. In the same place where the current selection is

TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very e

Team Development with Zope (7) can be problematic (1). The ZODB is a large binary file (var/Data.fs) that stores all information about a Zope instance, the ZODB is opaque to all but python. The ZODB is typically accessed Through The Web (TTW) using the Zo

WebAIM`s mission is to expand the potential of the Web for people with disabilities by providing the knowledge, technical skills, tools, organizational leadership strategies, and vision that empower organizations to make their own content accessible to pe

The BBC is beginning to leverage, in some ways clumsily, in other ways brilliantly, the aspects of the internet that make it into a development platform, namely user-generated content, and content APIs.

i do believe that a shift is occurring and i find myself emotionally invested in it. So then i had to ask myself: what is Web2.0 and why does it matter? The answer is glocalization.

Slashdot is planning to implement cascadingstyle sheet (CSS) and get a html redesign for a new look. And they need your help to beta test it.

plans to open access to its MSN and other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites--a technique used successfully at Google and at other Web companies to promote their properties.

Microsoft's business model depends on everyone upgrading their computing environment every two to three years. Google's depends on everyone exploring what's new in their computing environment every day.

"...As for how its customers access the Web, well that's at the heart of Microsoft's strategy for Web 2.0. If they can't own the platform, they want to own as many of the paths onto the platform as possible."

looks naff but v freq bm'd [ script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries

The FeedBurner Awareness API (AwAPI) allows publishers of FeedBurner feeds to reuse the detailed traffic statistics we capture for any of their feeds. Third-party applications and web services that consume feeds can leverage this data to provide useful fe

25USD DVD 2.5 hours... basics of using Pages - AL + GRAHAM YOU MAY FIND THIS HELPFUL

I use Pages every day. I like it, but I don’t love it. It’s a good, but not great, app... so where’s Pages 2? Here’s some changes I want to see

6 page pdf: basics of writing for web content ... possibly useful intro ... In this paper, we’ll talk about some style tips, ways to keep readers coming back, ways to get readers in the first place, and hopefully how to create an honest, worthy, and in

I worked on IE 1.0 thru 5.0, and was one of the people that designed much of its UI. But my love for the past has faded. Last week I switched to Firefox: and I’ve been happy.

critiques of 37signals recent blogging, buzz and apps [..not trying to be harsh or insulting, but this blog has taken on a infomercial/sales pitch atmosphere that was not noticeable a year ago. Do you think we subscribe to this blog because we want to kno

Mash-ups, or the use of distinctive services for the creation of new and interesting applications, are one of the most interesting concepts behind the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Here on Techcrunch, we’re always up for the challenge of talking about innovation

Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox Web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways

Firefox extension creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen reader. The extension and source can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page.

[via robin good] builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). It then sends the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Ev

I'm pleased to announce our new API which will allow any web-capable application on the internet the ability to use Prodigem's creation, hosting and management of torrents through a nice standards based interface. The docs are located at http://torrentocr

Quite a few bloggers tend to post large videos to their blogs. we settled on a REST API not unlike Flickr's API. Obviously, ecto for MacOSX and for Windows will fully support this API and offer users a one-click sharing of their media files. Since I'm pla

The Wireframe module allows designers to create information architecture designs for user testing. Web page wireframes are an information architecture deliverable that convey the information, the structure and relationships between information, and the fl

using HTML as the basis for your wireframing and prototyping can be a quick and rewarding experience with fabulous benefits, including easier user testing, improved client communication, and faster, more effective use of design time

Siderean has always allowed their customers to embed hierarchical trees within their faceted classification system (example here) when appropriate. E.g., if someone is navigating via the geography category, the system can know that SoHo is in NYC which is

To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the discuss Archives.

Summary: A quick overview of Page Description Diagrams and how I use them / Wireframes can be problematic

A woman we can call Sarah Wyndham, a defense-industry consultant living in Alexandria, Virginia, recently began to feel that her two daughters weren't listening when she asked them to clean their bedrooms and do their chores. So, one morning, she sat down

This proposal aims to describe some of the goals and guidelines for bootstrapping the move of Plone to using Five/Zope 3 Views.

Web 2.0 is a blog dedicated to finding and discussing the latest Web 2.0 applications being developed, tested and beta'd.

many power features + syncs with delicious + rest api [ Full-text Search bookmarked pages' content, not just meta-data | Attach searchable notes to bookmarks | Save private, taggable, and searchable free-text Notes

The Bizgres Project aims to make PostgreSQL the world's most robust open source database for Business Intelligence. A Greenplum sponsored community project, Bizgres has already begun attracting participation from developers and companies around the world.

[ assumes same username everywhere :o( ] Identity Burro is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that gives quick access to all the public aspects of a person: photos, blog, preferred sites, preferred songs, etc.

[enjoyably right-on rant] ... terms and phrases that I learned to hate. The terms themselves are not the cause of my feelings towards them; it is this echo chamber of Blogosphere (another nice word), where everyone who wants to appear as an in person blo

Robert writes "Microsoft finally released more information about their Sparkle product on a Channel 9 MSDN video. Sparkle is vector based XAML system for doing applications that may have traditionaly been done in flash. Ars Technica's Josh Meier has a few

a spate of promising innovations on Gap.com, BananaRepublic.com and OldNavy.com... mouse-overs and pop-up windows eliminated the need to bounce the shopper off her browsing path each time she needed information.

The Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces (RCHI) is a not-for-profit agency working to build user interfaces and design ways of interacting with computers that start from an understanding of human cognition and the needs of people. We believe this is a mora

29 thought-provoking notions for UI widgets

Bazaar is a distributed version control system. Bazaar 1 (baz) is an implementation of the GNU Arch protocol, designed for usability and performance. Features include:

A weblog by Tom Coates who works at BBC Radio and Music Interactive: social software, mass-amateurisation, design, and future media

clips of funny bits of narrated for the blind Simpsons [ Below are thumbnail images from the show which, when clicked, launch a Quicktime [.mov] file in a new window... most are under 1mb, but some are larger (as noted), and may load a little slowly (alte

a dozen or so cute Flickr image manipulation services: frames, magazine covers, calendars etc

The summit will focus on web spam and include product development updates since the first web spam squashing summit in February. Web spam includes comment spam, link spam, TrackBack spam, tag spam, and fake weblogs.

In the architectures and infrastructures theme there was a lot of talk of service oriented architectures and approaches. Over the past year there have been a number of JISC funded projects developing web service toolkits and e-learning tools adopting a se

In this new open-source/cluetrain world, I *am* a marketer. And so are you. If you're interested in creating passionate users, or keeping your job, or breathing life into a startup, or getting others to contribute to your open source project, or getting y

The second you dim the lights and go into "presentation mode" is the moment you move from a two-way conversation to a one-way lecture/broadcast. It's hard to be interactive when you're behind your laptop, at a podium, watching your slides on the small scr

Networked markets are beginning to self-organize faster than the companies that have traditionally served them. Thanks to the web, markets are becoming better informed, smarter, and more demanding of qualities missing from most business organizations.

[but what *is* a z-space interface?] The Billy Harvey website is one of the most engaging sites I've ever experienced. Be sure you explore, and click the "HEAD CONTROL" link to see what the Billy Harvey world looks like.

[well-put common sense pedagogy :i] Think of a time when you wanted to learn something because there was something you needed to do. Now think back to most of what you learned in high school. How much biology do you remember? I mean, really remember? (Ass

...itching to try out/update Firefox to the new 1.5 beta but put off because it won't work with the Web Developer Toolbar? - Chris Pederick has done a minor update to make it compatible with the new browser. Form an orderly queue now [Download the extensi

long thoughtful piece, many comments; A discussion about creating a new metric for understanding blogs is something I think the community should have the chance to participate in to find a different way of perceiving a blog, or the ripples a blog makes.

The cloud would be a picture of a conversation surrounding a person or a topic. The picture would show the relationships between the participants in a conversation. The densest areas would represent people who frequently cross-reference each other over ti

What I say is: companies will need to start to share the information they gather and analyze in the same way they share their APIs. It is a premise of the Web 2.0: the information will be decentralized in such a way that people will have information to sh

...its mass migration from Windows to Linux on the desktop, and accompanying plans to switch from Microsoft Office to the OpenOffice.org personal productivity suite, will take at least six months longer than expected.

this website tells you how to make a thought screen helmet, the materials and tools you need to make one, and where you can obtain the materials

MentorNet is the award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network that addresses the retention and success of those in engineering, science and mathematics, particularly but not exclusively women and other underrepresented groups

user reviews incl: "buy it!', " I learned more in the first 100 pages of this book than from my years of experience in the industry"

To obtain a demographic report, simply select the desired report from the drop-down menu below, and click on the map.

put together the Prodigem Enclosure Puller ( which he blogs about here), an example of Prodigem's new API. Give it a feed — say, the del.icio.us feed of popular videos — and it will create torrents of every enclosure it finds.

The Prodigem API is an interface for programmers to gain access into the Prodigem Bit Torrent Hosting Service. It allows the possibility of designing new Prodigem interfaces and making Prodigem a part of other services (eg. blogging tools, content managem

[sigh... what next?] ....A few parties now appear to have a spambot capable of spamming wikis from several different wiki engines, analogous to the submitter scripts for guestbooks and blogs. They have a database of a few hundred wikis. Typically they ins

As the online world moves towards Web 2.0, the concept of digital identity is evolving, and existing identity systems are falling behind. New systems are emerging that place identity in the hands of users instead of directories. Simple, secure and open, t

Much of the data available to view on Last.fm is available in several formats through the Audioscrobbler Web Services API.

In fall 2005, Jaded Pixel will be releasing Shopify 1.0! Shopify is a hosted e-commerce solution that removes the traditional barriers that have kept many individuals and small business from selling online. It is a Web 2.0 product that focuses on providin

[auto-updating TTW even better than its RSS] "The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions. Auto-updated every 5 minutes, it uncovers the most relevant items from thousands of news sites a

if you use Google's search syntax to its fullest, the Web is your research oyster. In this article you can find some techniques which will help you to use the features of Google in an effective way.

combined view of recent popular items in flickr, delicious, furl etc

tagbert is a tag service aggregator - type in a keyword, and you will find photos, products, links, goals, and more

Netvibes, a project started in France by Florant Fremont, is the latest web-app based on the idea of personalized homepages and like some others (like Start and Google’s personal homepage), it is powered by some nicely developed Ajax.

ajax instant messaging: supports AIM or ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber or GTalk, MSN

Start.com is comparable to Google’s IG or personalized home product. The primary features include a drag and drop interface, easy addition of RSS feeds (although auto-discovery doesn’t seem to work very well, it hung multiple times on me), and integra

good introduction with vivid modern examples ... Garrett Hardin is professor emeritus of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

simple script that fetches my subscription from Bloglines, then go and looks for geo metadata in each of the blogs listed there.

[SVG, canvas, JavaScript 1.6] ...SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha has been released. Compared to Mozilla 1.7, SeaMonkey contains many new features, bugfixes, and performance improvements

ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is a powerful technology for creating and processing XML content within JavaScript. We're going to continue to improve our E4X support, including adding transparent integration with the existing DOM, but developers who are buildin

YA AJAX free social calendar [ nice open feel ] ... Share your calendar everywhere; Tons of features; AJAX, RSS, Web 2.0, XML, SMS...

IE7 is an amalgamation of solutions to Explorer’s quirks. The web development community has been fantastic at sharing their solutions to these problems. Listed below are some web developers with similar goals.

Dynamic HTML samples that you can use on your own pages, all the samples may be used freely for personal use or you may change the source code for your own applications.

[great idea to simplify ugly DOM code] cssQuery() is a powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. All CSS1 and CSS2 selectors are allowed plus quite a few CSS3 selectors.

eg find all paragraphs that are direct descendants, elements with the "href" attribute, anchor elements with "href" equal to "#" - even query an external xml document

Skype API for Mac OS X has currently Cocoa, Carbon and AppleScript interfaces. Cocoa and Carbon interfaces are implemented in Skype.framework. The recommended way to use the Skype framework is to include it in your application as an embedded framework. Co

OLAT is a web-based Open Source Learning Management System (LMS) / Learning Content Management System (LCMS) used in the public sector of Switzerland. The initial development started at the University of Zuerich, Switzerland where it is deployed on the ma

MetaWishlist.com is a community built around the things you want. This is a place to gather your wish list items from anywhere on the net and keep them all in one, convenient place. Sign up, add the bookmarklet to your browser, and you'll be on your way t

social software for organising lists of your own books [ Enter 200 books for free; enter as many as you like with a $10 lifetime membership.

hackers are combining the data and features of two or more Web sites, creating entirely new, independent Web mash-ups that in the best cases transcend either of their forebears. Heralding a new Web in which users call the shots, most mash-ups are free, no

This chart is a companion to the article "Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?," published July 14, 2005 in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review. Do note that this chart reflects only standard features of the tools' installation, an

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-clic

ka-Map ("ka" as in ka-boom!) is an open source project that is aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.

a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, a

eWeek.com and internetnews.com report that RSS just became more secure and thus more appropriate for wider enterprise use.

Slow, featureless online calendars are so Web 1.0. Kiko Calendar provides all of the functionality of offline calendar software, and all the convenience of online access. Plus, it's free!

USP seems to be it's more searchable than delicious? [ RawSugar lets you save and tag your favorite Web pages and create your personal searchable Web page to share with your friends. Tagging is a quick and flexible way to categorize your favorites.

browser-based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript to send and receive commands to and from the server. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this "web application" to work, as everything is updated in real-time

yes - they host the rss-to-js for you! --People are pounding our little old server pretty hard... as of April 2005, we are looking for other sites willing to become public Feed2JS mirror sites

fetches 80 compact results from two leading authorities on web search and shows you what BOTH of them think are good results (the STARS). These are the most relevant results from their mutual agreement. It also shows you were they conflict (the ORPHANS).

eg bookmarklet for clippings and saving pages [ Nextaris is an entirely new concept; an all- in-one set of web-based tools for searching the Web, capturing content, saving/sharing files, publishing blogs,

reference-collection for the NGRF in the connotea social-citation service from Nature

Recent papers added to NGRF's library. You can also search NGRF's library or view all of NGRF's authors and tags.

This extension adds OpenURL 0.1 buttons to the results of a search in Google Scholar. The purpose is to enable users at an institution that has an OpenURL link-resolver to use that resolver to locate the full text of articles found in Google Scholar, ins

mike's ongoing collection of google-scholar information and 3rd-party mashup tools

We are going to let you in on the ground floor of an exciting, not so new technology... No this is not a get-rich-quick scheme; it is more like a get-informed-quick strategy. This technology, "RSS," allows you to choose specific sources of information fro

RSS feeds come in lots of formats, and ways you find them on web sites. It starts out confusing because they are typically direct links to the XML formatted file, and if you actually click the link, what you see looks like gobbledy gook.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to RSS Feeds, but the following resources may be of assistance.

Results 1 - 10 of about 31,500,000 for introduction rss

These are basic-intro links Mike is collecting which explain RSS to the general public

Plone 2.1 was officially released today. Congratulations to all the folks who worked so hard to make this release “not suck.” It definitely doesn’t.

This release of Plone focuses on Archetypes-based default content types, user interface improvements, speed improvements and new navigation tree/site map.

the captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being 'far far away'....

knotes provides a comprehensive suite of new functionalities to Plone sites: a very fast and effective discussion system and a complementary web-log publishing system, both fully supporting the major weblogging standards: trackback, the MetaWeblog, Blogge

Google Sightseeing is brought to you by Alex, James & Olly who take you to the best tourist spots in the world via satellite images from Google Maps & Google Earth.

Welcome to flickRate! This is an attempt to enhance flickr's favorites system. This is beta, everything may change, and data can be lost.

Bookmarklets generally try to cram all of the code into a 255 character space A megamark, on the other hand, doesn’t try to actually do all of the work in the code. Rather, it uses the 255 character URL field in the bookmark as a bootstrap loader to pul

a one-year, AUD$15million national strategy... provides the VET system with e-learning skills, professional development opportunities, products, resources and support networks to meet today's increasingly technology-driven learning environment.

Good links [[ In February 2004 the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLC) began an Online Forum, "Getting Started in Flexible Learning", moderated by Judy Fawcett, targeted especially for practitioners who were new to flexible learning and wished t

allows you to easily develop and deliver peer evaluations to your students. You can compile evaluation results by student or group and this greatly simplifies instructor workflow.

iEvents is a powerful client-side tool for quickly creating custom calendar websites that can then be easily uploaded to any internet server or iDisk. It is ideal for individuals, schools, user groups, or any organization that wants to share their calenda

Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Type™, TypePad™, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto.

7 simple steps in easy workflow from finder into flickr

incorporate blogs as key, task driven, elements; use assessment tasks that incorporate subversion; use blogs for what they are good for;

good intro to flickr; os-x specific power tips; good links

Driving awareness of the Flickr API, projects that use it and those incredible ideas that programmatically exposed systems produce. Think Google API + Amazon API + Flickr API with a bit of GMail thrown in.

Flickr Secrets & Arcana; Non-API ways to get the most out of Flickr; Greasemonkey scripts & other cool third-party tools.

opensourceeln.org is the home of the Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook (OS-ELN) project, a community initiative initiated by Amphora Research Systems to develop a web-based, Open Source ELN.

Thoughts on social bookmarks, folksonomies, tag-based aggregated blog portals…a quick outline on some of the unique features …these are based on some of the tagging services I have covered, too many to keep up with…

The change does not affect on-screen Flickr IDs. But it means Flickr account holders with no Yahoo login will see their presence and photos disappear in 2006 unless they sign up with Yahoo.

A growing number of "social content" applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, audioscrobbler, and AllConsuming are making open web services part of their core offering to end users. Based on a brief review of the common features of a selection of these s

iTunes isn't the end-all, be-all podcasting application - and iPodderX proves it. There are many more power user features to be found in iPodderX, yet it's simple enough that a podcasting newbie could pick it up as easily as they pick up their portable me

at Podcast.net you can find podcasts on your favorite topics via tags as well. You can navigate our tags via the "Browse Tags" feature at the top of each page (just below the search bar) or by clicking on Keyword/Tag links found throughout the directory.

Welcome! This Road Map contains hand-picked links from the last 6 Road Maps, including our newly released 2005 edition.

online journal publishing ed-tech, reviews and elarning experiences; also big links lists

site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.

National newspaper article on a plone site [ ...the diocese is discovering that Web content management is a vital part of working together. It has also discovered that an open source tool called "Plone" is just the software for the job

[special markup]...Everybody loves rounded corners. A plethora of articles have been written about how to do it, but this is going to be different. This article is going to show you how to make rounded corners without images. That’s right. Without image

Startplane is an attempt at a directory based on the popular del.icio.us bookmarking application. Categories are determined by the most commonly used tags, and sites are ranked based on how many unique users used the tags of the current category to descri

coolest is clustering of 'expert' users Del.icio.us users who bookmark helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) will be rewarded with higher CollaborativeRank, which means that they will have greater influence on s

Experts in plone: 1. dehora, 2. jemisa, 3. winjer, 4. miziodel, 5. sports_betting, 6. pwaring, 7. jyap, 8. moriwaka, 9. markthomas

good review of API, intro to service, python wrapper [ The del.icio.us-space has three major axes: users, tags, and URLs. These axes are reflected in the clean URL design used by the site:

The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available. ormed in January 2003, the Open Source Portfo

There are quite a number of tools out there to help you build rich user interfaces using Javascript and HTML. Some are free and others are commercial. Here's a short list i compiled a while back:

Yahoo! is currently searching for XUL developers (rumours said they want to deliver their PhotoMail application on a XUL based UI). There are some fancy and fantastic XUL applications out there, for example Bloxor or the Mozilla Amazon Browser.

A JetPak is a little bundle of content on a particular topic, which can include links to sites and images from around the Web, plus your own comments. You can build JetPaks quickly by pointing and clicking, share them with other JetEye users, and view the

Closures are one of the most powerful features of ECMAScript (javascript) but they cannot be property exploited without understanding them. They are, however, relatively easy to create, even accidentally, and their creation has potentially harmful consequ

Instead of throwing messages at people, messages are sent back and forth across secure RSS feeds. How it works (FAQ) FeedMail sets up an individual, encrypted, private RSS feeds between you and each of your contacts.

This week I've been noticing a lot of Web 2.0-style Office apps coming out. Here's a selection of some of them...But really the most interesting web-based Office apps are the current crop of Web 2.0-style apps, built by small start-ups or open source deve

Rojo is a FREE web-based service that lets you efficiently read RSS feeds: unique features: the only social network for content; TAGS & COMMENTS; recommeded links based on subscriptions

Server-side RSS feed aggregator written in PHP and heavily based on XmlHttpRequest and related technologies for user interface and operation.

Launched six months ago, the live question-and-answer service (http://www.wondir.com) has attracted 175,000 members who ask and answer the kinds of questions that stump regular search engines.

What we're trying to do: Wondir is trying to find a way to help people who are posting questions as blog posts get those questions answered (via our pool of answerers at Wondir)

the first question is, what the structure of the MicroContent is on Wondir. One of the central things is a question, a piece of text posted at a date by a user. Answers are attached to questions and consist of a piece of text, a username and a posting dat

Instead of designing instruction (which we assume will lead to learning), we should be focusing on designing ecologies in which learners can forage for knowledge, information, and derive meaning.

October 2001 issue [ CIVIL ENGINEERING ] -- A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of sout

with the new system, I can put the format where my mouth is... In my old system I could create some structure, but it was limited to six fields. Now I have an unlimited number of fields. For my review blog I am using 12 fields and impromptu fields will en

reviews of librarian / library-scientist bloggers [ this is an informal study of a “top 50” library-people blogs, including some metrics.

thoroughly realised spoof site occupying 'whitehouse.org'. Looks like loads of well considered parody and pastiche as well as a lot of the kind of cheap gag that pleases people like me :O)

[also good eg of amazon advanced search :o) ... either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or eve

Enter your recipient's email address, choose a file to store on YouSendIt server, click on Send It button to send a link. Your privacy is guaranteed.

Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system. But chances are, you’re too busy using Tiger for more-important tasks

If you bookmark the Ping-O-Matic ping results page you can simply load that directly and have fast pinging of almost a dozen services a single click away.

The WiredReach Platform, built on a set of open standards and technologies, allows users to selectively and securely share “content” with others in a completely decentralized manner. That means your content does not have to be uploaded to any central

This presentation is a brief introduction describing the emerging class of software collectively labeled 'social software,' examining several implementations, and also taking a look at where this might be leading.

This week in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker reprints an excerpt from this piece, from 1987, on the Army Corps of Engineers’ efforts to tame the waters of Louisiana. Here is the full text of the article.

jenny et al... this is my tag for clients for reading RSS

[highly skinned plone site] Raise cash for a shared beach house, a group skydiving trip or a communal margarita machine by creating an all-or-nothing fundraising campaign at fundable.org. Set a economic goal--say, $1,000 to rent a house--and ask pals to c

[commerce-trading plone site] Open Portfolios is a free, powerful tool for charting the performance of your investment accounts. Open Portfolios lets investors see the performance of their accounts, and share their information with others. Most sites only

I've never gone through the Explore section on Flickr before. I just checked it out, and holy crap! Interestingness everywhere! There are some absolutely amazing photos on Flickr! What they’ve done is come up with a great way to mine user-generated

Now anyone will be able to benefit from Skype’s platform and will be able to integrate both presence and instant messaging features into websites and applications. By opening up its platform to the web, Skype will instantly be creating the largest open

Click upon your area of interest and a marker will appear showing the estimated water depth at that location. If this value reflects "0.0 ft" no standing water should be expected. A value of "4.5 ft" means that approximately 4.5 feet of standing water sho

friendly rant on why / how web professionals can force the standards issue [ Standards can be hard, but they’re not impossible;What they don’t know won’t hurt them;Conversion of legacy code; Pride

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on

Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday.

exemplary Plone skinning [ Like all of the websites we do, Snowleopard.org is powered by Plone, the most powerful and easy-to-use open-source content management system around. Plone makes it easy for Snow Leopard Trust staff to maintain a large, complex s

Is your business or non-profit gaining the benefits of using the latest website technologies?

My brilliant colleagues at ONE/Northwest and our talented collaborators at LightSky Designs and RagingWeb just helped Snow Leopard Trust launch their new website. It’s a beautiful site, with a ton of great content and some eye-popping photos of these ma

ever since she got her acceptance letter she's been meeting her future classmates virtually. They're easy to find on Vassar's Web site as well as at Thefacebook.com, the online phenomenon that's probably sucked up more free time than videogames Halo 2 and

VERY HIGH UPTAKE! [ The Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools. Now there are two Facebooks: one for people in college and one for people in high school.

While working on Particletree’s shopping cart system for our magazine, we decided that we wanted to create a flawless user experience for all users without having to sacrifice the added user interface benefits provided by Ajax goodness. A lot of places

Last night was a big night for numbers with the release of Shaun Inman's Mint. To celebrate, I thought I'd gather a few other ways to help you obsess over your site's status on the web

Over the last several years I've been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards. Usually, I'll just send them 300 links and wish them a lot of luck. This overview is sort of my

Our implementation loads the XML file and draws a polyline between each point on a small delay to give the animated effect and route taken. We thought it would be cool to spice it up and added some other calculations like total time, total distance, pace,

TargetAlert is an extension for the Firefox web browser that provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks. If a hyperlink points to a something that is not a web page, then TargetAlert will try to append an icon to the hyperlink that represents

js required for 'hot' to exclude bots... sophisticated interface...Mint provides a fresh look at your site. It is concise, flexible and timely. And to sweeten the deal, this delicious little bundle of PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript joy is referrer-spam-proof.

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graph

very fast ZOPE site running SILVA

faces is a powerful and flexible project management tool. It not only offers many extraordinary features like multiple resource balancing algorithms and multi scenario planing, but can also be easily extended and customized. Faces consists of a Python cla

This document describes TrackBack, a framework for peer-to-peer communication and notifications between web sites. The central idea behind TrackBack is the idea of a TrackBack ping, a request saying, essentially, "resource A is related/linked to resource

Movable Type's TrackBack system allows peer-to-peer communication and conversations between weblogs. Imagine that you write about a movie you just saw in an entry on your Movable Type-powered weblog. Another MT weblogger reads your entry, and wants to wri

Running on any OSX machine in your network (from a Mac Mini up to powerful Xserve configurations), SeeFile lets you put your filesystem up on the Web, live. SeeFile lets you make specified areas visible to one or more colleagues, each with their own login

thoughtful analysis and visionware scoping covering ed-tech standards, open and oersonal learning and open standards

Blogging platform built with PHP, designed with maximum customizability, speed and ease of use in mind. Forums and bugs reports can be found at http://www.plogworld.net/

On paid assignment for one of the companies competing in this field, I have taken to test the major multi-user and group blog publishing tools for an independent comparative review. In this introduction to the public release of this report, I want to clar

DrupalED is a Drupal-based distribution optimized for use in educational contexts.

Being asked to put together my reflections on why do the MA in Careers, Education and Guidance for this newsletter has been an interesting exercise, not least because when I think about why I did it in the first place I have to truthfully record it was qu

[Tim Bray writes} Since Scott McNealy doesn’t have his own blog, I’ll post the email he sent to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts today.

we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. ...we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relati

[lovely] This started as a project to see if Google Maps could be made better using Flash — and it ended up exceeding my own expectations.

[ good up-to-date links] Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by ot

Rooted in constructivist theory, BlinkList is designed to act as a facilitator, providing users with the tools to chunk, scaffold, and organize knowledge in a format that best suits them. In a nutshell, BlinkList opens the path to knowledge instead of bei

Blended Edu is dedicated to providing web-based social media resources and curriculum materials for teachers, students, researchers, and others interested in the convergence of cyberculture, social software technologies, and e-learning.

Organize Your Web, Your Way. Organize all the web pages you find into groups of easily manageable lists of things to buy, music to download, blogs to read...you name it. It's Fun, Free and Saves You Time. Get started by signing up for an account and impor

DataBlogging is the notion that traditional blog entries have extended data fields appended to them to track various things.

Join us October 5-7, 2005 at the Argent Hotel located in beautiful San Francisco for the second annual Web 2.0 Conference.

Welcome! This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with.

Welcome! This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with.

Leigh Dodds wrote a survey of web services APIs for XTech 2005. Speaking as the author of one of the surveyed APIs, you do this kind of work in a vacuum, and I found his survey incredibly useful. I'm going to respond in detail here

The next generation of identity architecture is emerging. Identity 2.0 will provide the online mechanism for authenticating and managing real-world user-centric identities.

weblog of Marc Cantor, covering toppics including microcontent / microformat, web2.0, structured blogging.. Apparently collaborating with Dave Winer on structured blogging

article on overloading html attributes or coining new ones to control markup-script triggering

succinct arguments why xhtml constrains richness and ease of maintenance of web interfaces [ Here are my top eight reasons on why XHTML is Considered Harmful

beta temporarily suspended, so do not know how well it works. Not open-source. Docucentric. Insert-image supprot. Multiple simultaneous editors - changes automatically sync'd every few seconds.

very useful top 10 + extensive runners-up free, compelling AJAX apps. Comments in the entry seem to be collecting even more suggestions. From a venture-captial perspective.

Backbase provides Rich Internet Application (RIA) software that radically improves the usability and effectiveness of online applications, and increases developer productivity. With Backbase you can build web applications with a richer and more responsive

good, cleare intro examples to the 'A' in AJAX - client-server interactions

commercial, windows-only... Capture and organize scholarly research and references in one step. Store PDFs and references together in searchable local collections. Synchronize with Endnote®. Includes all Onfolio Professional features.

Web 2.0 API Reference is a database of Web 2.0 APIs. Organized into a structured format for easy reference.

Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. The proponents of this thinking expect that ultimately Web 2.

The reason that the term "Web 2.0" has been bandied about so much is because it does capture the widespread sense that there's something qualitatively different about today's web.

What are "learning objects"? One could spend a lot of time wading through definitions, but they can be looked at as potentially small chunks of digital content that can easily be found and re-used in different contexts of learning. Over the last few years

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It's primary role is to make web designer's life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

an AJAX dictionary with google-suggest-ish javascript keystroke triggering. uses a public domain word database

a simple site where you can connect Wikipedia articles with places, and then make use of our database either to browse, or syndicate the whole lot. We hope that lots of people will connect places they know with their corresponding Wikipedia article, and t

placeopedia is googlemaps mashed up with wikipedia entries. This permalink points to Bangor, Gwynedd ( to the KnowNet offices actually :O)

The ternary search tree (TST) is the champion of data structure acrobatics -- it finds all keys having a given prefix, suffix, or infix. It even finds those keys that closely match a given pattern. You can easily search the tree for partial matches -- aut

[Updated: 2005-06-24] As deployment of XML data and web services becomes more widespread, you may occasionally find it convenient to connect an HTML presentation directly to XML data for interim updates without reloading the page. Thanks to the little-kno

[poss rel. to social story-telling??] Introducing FilmLoop, a visual communications network that uses client-server architecture to provide direct, real-time, and bi-directional updates to the user’s PC desktop. Strings of images called “loops” move

from readers' poll, top 6 or so in each of 30 or so useful; categories. good intro

Mefeedia is a video aggregator, like Bloglines for video. Also allows: Blog it (thumbnail etc), Quote it (best 10 seconds), Tag-it

YA social-images startup sim to FilmLoop [ Slide is a free Windows application (Mac version coming soon!) for finding, playing, and instantly sharing photos, videos, and other media. Slide will help you group digital photos into channels to share with fri

Over the weekend we implemented the “nuclear option” and moved from Textpattern 4.01 to Movabletype 3.2. It was tough decision because 1) Textpattern is a great product with a great community, 2) Movabletype definitely has it’s own set of unique pro

XSL(T) works nicely because it can be done strictly on the server, or you can create a client/server mix using JavaScript. This is where the problems begin.

SocialText's Mayfield noted in a recent blog post, "They Google (GOOG ), Flickr, blog, contribute to Wikipedia, Socialtext it, Meetup, post, subscribe, feed, annotate, and above all share. In other words, the Web is increasingly less about places and othe

After you sign up you can add notes to your unique list. You can view anyone else's notes and they can view yours. Extra user-defined data can be added to each note entry to organize and describe the note further such as descriptions, links, and tags. You

fyuze is a personal information aggregator that automatically collects information from the internet so you don't have to. Sign up for an account, tell fyuze what you're interested in, and you'll be able to -- at a glance -- see what's new on the web ever

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

A continuation of a good article on forms design ...

A good artcle on when to use or not use forms. Good real-world examples ..."Once an online form goes beyond two screenfulls, it's often a sign that the underlying functionality is better supported by an application, which offers a more interactive user ex

An argument for using the user's current knowledge as a guide rather than consistency ...

The rise of Ajax represents the new and widening recognition that the days of “Yes, if…” are numbered. It’s analogous to the realization we had a couple of years ago, when it became apparent that maturing browser support for CSS and XHTML would fi

incldes reminder that "one of the most expensive resources for a browser to download is script. Typically, the client opens two connections per domain for requesting content. However, if you analyze the load patterns of any web-page, you will almost alway

IE 7 implements a native XMLHTTPRequest object for Javascript applications, instead of requiring an ActiveXObject to be created. This also means XMLHTTPRequest will function on machines that have ActiveX disabled.

Surfwax Tom Holt, is launching today a new search technology called LookAhead and which may likely be the first tool to provide a first full-fledged solution to enhance content scoping and look-ahead of content clusters by topic or keyword.

this time, it's Your Web. No longer content to be merely viewers and consumers, people increasingly are taking an active part in creating their online lives.

In the search for more intuitive user-interfaces appropriate for young children, we have proposed a play system featuring a set of physical and virtual tools, which explores the qualities of different input and output modalities. The system provides a set

Tagalag lets you tag email addresses. You can see what others have tagged you as and remove tags if they are inappropriate.

... it turns out that there are far worse sinners. Apple, for one. Derek Beatty here at Sun ran across this write-up on their iWork (Keynote, Pages, and so on) file formats, which are XML-based. Item: there’s no attempt to conform to OpenDocument or any

As opposed to there being a random and persistent RSS button in the sidebar, the “subscribe” link would be at the heading of the blog and make clear for the reader what exactly they are subscribing to.

In building new community sites, I think a lot about the new member registration experience. It is one of the only parts of the site that *every* new member experiences and making it friendly and effective gets things started on the right foot for you and

an interesting discussion about the us vs. them attitude between users of blogs and message boards. Alan’s post Conversations: Tree People and Cave Dwellers offers food for thought via the attitudes shared by users of Moodle. They make Alan wonder if we

well reviewed at boing boing for instance

overview of recent improvements to conveneience of interacting with google indexing

great example of their lookahead indexing in action ... Start typing; select (single click) from the list that appears

Serendipity is a weblog/blog system, implemented with PHP. It is standards compliant, feature rich and open source (BSD License).

Blogging is helping students to think and write more critically, says an Australian researcher, and can help draw out people who would otherwise not engage in debate...reliminary findings of PhD research by Anne Bartlett-Bragg, a lecturer at the Universit

Blogware was created to meet the needs of both retailers looking to sell a blogging service and you, the blogger. Blogware’s great features include photo albums, visitor interaction, privacy, rich text editor, statistics, the ability to syndicate and mu

This document describes the format required by the Movable Type import mechanism, which can be used to import entries and comments from other content management systems.

The first challenge to moving a weblog is getting a snapshot of your weblog data in a format that can be imported into the new tool. To create an export that works with most tools, at least for moment, you’ll want to export your existing weblog’s data

cute 100 moments rollover a grod of thumbnails interface (sadly in flash instead of web tech)

Connotea Announced in Nature CB... Nature Publishing Group has just released a free online service called Connotea (http://www.connotea.org). This tool belongs to a new class of 'social bookmarking' applications that has already made its mark in the publi

This site is an open source / free website repository for research which we are conducting into the awareness, selection, availability, implementation and usability of open source software solutions and proprietary free systems in course preparation and m

Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera's growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made today's milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is available.

leverages campus identity and access management infrastructures to authenticate individuals and then sends information about them to the resource site, enabling the resource provider to make an informed authorization decision.

Microsoft's IE blog is reporting on the behind the scenes efforts which lead up to the recent announcement that IE7 will support A9.com's OpenSearch interface

headlines and links to White House news releases on www.whitehouse.gov/news, including events, speeches, statements, and press briefings from administration officials. In addition to the RSS feed, audio files of the President's Weekly Radio Address and se

So why did Microsoft team go down this route? Because it was simple and built on stuff they had already. Ah, but what about licensing - Creative Commons rides to the rescue again!

You can use RSS in un-RSS-like ways, and when you do, it stops being like RSS (of course). I think so many people are using crappy readers, and reading feeds with these junky ads in them (even more coming soon), that net-net the user experience is almost

I've just discovered retest by Christof Hoeke which is a developers tool for testing and experimenting with regular expressions. It doesn't have a GUI so it uses SimpleHTTPServer to serve a web interface on http://localhost:8087 that uses AJAX to make the

I think this is using cmfpublicator for plone to create the panels in front of site ?

PAS is a UserFolder replacement that allows any part of its functionality to be augmented or replaced by simple plugins. The architecture allows for customizers to adapt any aspect of membership—memberdata, groups, roles, user, authentication strategy a

Anyway, where did we announce RSS support? 1) In the OS itself as part of IE 7. 2) In the OS itself as a gadget on the sidebar 3) In the new Outlook as a reader 4) In the new Sharepoint (it'll spit out all of its stuff as RSS)

We've combined Yahoo Search Suggestions with a mash-up of Feedster, MSN Search, Technorati and Yahoo to provide this "macro search." The results are returned in OPML for easy utilization of your "discovered" feeds. Just open up your favorite newsreader an

makes AudioActivism easy to subscribe to and look nice in iTunes (plus some extra metadata that I admit is cool). Though I really wish Apple would work with the RSS 2.0 dev community and help create standardized RSS podcast syntax. I mean it’s like the

BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client (RSS and Atom) written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. BottomFeeder runs on x86 Linux (also FreeBSD), PowerPC linux, Sparc Linux, Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Mac OS8/9, Mac OS X, AIX, SGI Irix, Compaq UNIX, HP-UX, and So

Feedreader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. It works under Windows 95 and later versions. Simple. Customizable

[includes v brief survey of authenticated feeds, eg gmail]... For the sake of discussion, I’m going to divide RSS/Atom feeds into four categories: Public, Customized, Private, and Authenticated.

We're a nonprofit organization specializing in technology assistance for community-based organizations and schools. Through our consulting practice, we offer technology planning, implementation, and support services. CompuMentor is also the home of TechSo

Survey: Some of the world's largest companies think the quality of patents granted in the technology industry is worse than in many other industries

The European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has said she won't be waiting for the outcome of Microsoft's appeal against the original anti-trust charges before she decides whether or not to start another law suit against the firm.

Available for Windows and OS X, Veoh creates a "virtual television network" using P2P-like architecture for content distribution. What's interesting is that, while the ability for content providers to charge for their content doesn't exist - yet, Veoh Net

Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndicatio

A presentation for the Networks September 12–14 Mini-online Event - Cool Results: Engaging Clients in E-learning hosted by LearningTimes Australia

publisher or reader can register to push or pull emails... Publisher: Register with FeedBlitz, Add a simple form to your blog template, Your readers get an email daily digest of your posts

Meerkat, O'Reilly Network's Open Wire Service, extends its open API with XML-RPC, affording a more standardized XML-based interface to its aggregated RSS database

The future, my friends, is Web APIs. Not the Web applications (or "Weblications") themselves, but their public interfaces, those parts of themselves they choose to share.

YA social-calendaring service. in limited beta. Group sharing, calendar subscriptions (roll-up), event/calendar search, drag and drop interface, simple desktop client, RSS feeds, Web API

This article assumes a certain familiarity with the basics of XML markup (the "pointies") and perhaps even a little fiddling with RSS itself. The introductory material is brief, focusing on the distinguishing characteristics of the recently proposed RSS 1

Zesty News 1.0 (and even its free sibling, Zesty News Lite) will provide incredible customizability. Many of Zesty News' features will be implemented as plugins, and you'll be able to create your own plugins to gather, display and recall any kind of infor

...discussions in the Python community about whether and where XML is useful - the Python community tends to be rather hostile to XML - mixed some of that raw scorn with a bit of nuance, and it seems a good time to examine some of the considerations that

An interesting account in the Financial Times of how the ‘open-source’ movement is now nurturing the innovation processes. It’s called ‘How open source gave power to the people’:

Our solution, the VideoEgg Publisher, will revolutionize the way videos are captured, edited, and published - removing technical complexity and empowering communities across the web with easy video publishing tools.

At first glance, VideoEgg has some really excellent features. A live demo is available on their site, and allows you to drag a video into the viewer to get a taste for how easy it is to use. Flash 8 allows the viewing of videos with enhanced quality.

Multiuser,Multiblogs,Categories,Monthly archives,Trackbacks (turn on/off, moderatable, sending/receiving, autodetect), Comments (turn on/off, moderatable, preview: yes/no, HTML tags/attributes handling)

If you thought the Web Service example on the about page of Smurl.name was complicated, here's a much simpler version. I use this code on my very own site for the email notifications which will contain long URLs.

Spam Karma 2 just keeps on chugging away, protecting my blog from the scum sucking spam roaches of the world. The roaches are getting marginally more intelligent - starting to try to game the spam blockers.