Year: 2002

De-link this De-link that

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 20, 2002

A couple of people have discussed de-linking in their weblogs (Dorothea and Elaine). Life goes on. Personally, I wish I hadn’t brought up delinking in my discussion about replacing the blogroll.

I’m replacing my blogroll with something else because I’m trying out new technology. An experiment, if you will to see how well it works and if it is an improvement on existing blogroll linkage. I’m doing so because I am a technologist. Sometimes I get paid for my effort. Sometimes I don’t. But it’s what I am and what I do. I’m a code machine, a COC (Coders Only Club) wanna be.

And because I do happen to believe in community, I’ll pass on the code to you. To use, or not, in your own weblogs. That’s what you do, being whatever you are.

Specs

Mark Pilgrim’s What is RSS

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 19, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Mark Pilgrim has a new article over at O’Reilly Network: What is RSS. It focuses on working with the major varieties of RSS out in net land.

Considering that Mark isn’t exactly the greatest fan of RDF/XML, I thought his coverage of RSS 1.0 to be unbiased. He didn’t holler out with, “RDF sucks but it’s out there, so we’ll have to live with it!” I’ll make Mark a fan of RDF/XML yet.

Tags RSS

Weblogging

Non-Tech content

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 19, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I am going to be heavily involved with technology and technology-related writing in the next few weeks. For those of you who aren’t interested in technology (and why aren’t you?), I would like to point you to some excellent non-tech related posts worth your read:

Steve Himmer’s The Words behind the Words

Jeff Ward’s response

Steve Himmer’s response to the response

AKMA’s two posts on learning: here and here

Though somewhat technical, Jonathon Delacour’s continuing series “Conversation with Joe Clark”, such as the third entry are well worth a read.

Loren Weber’s continuing series on the poet MacLeish, including the latest entry

Back to the technology. Back to the book.

Weblogging

Where’d they go?

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 19, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

In case you’re wondering what happened to several posts, I’m in the process of moving all RDF-related weblog entries over to the Practical RDF weblog.

The great thing about Movable Type on top of MySql is how easy it is to move entries around among weblogs. One SQL script is all it takes. The archives will continue to show in both areas until I add the moved entries into PostCon and have it manage the re-directs for me.

Tags RDF

Writing

Practical RDF Weblog—Back in Action

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 18, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

The Practical RDF book weblog is back in action. I’ll be posting chapters, slowly, starting in the next couple of days. We’re trying to get the book into the publication process by end of the year, which means less weblogging, more book writing, and more coding.

Discipline. Aren’t INTJ’s supposed to be disciplined?

The material has been altered, considerably, from the first draft. I’ve added coverage of additional technologies, refocused the audience a bit, and updated the material to reflect the newest edition of the RDF specification documents. Still, the material is in draft form, which means no editorial polish and the usual Burningbirdisms. In between releases of chapters, I’ll also be covering other RDF-related topics, to add a bit of variety. Keep you all hungry for more.

The release of the chapters will also signify the release of some new goodies I’ve been playing around with for a time. All open source, of course. Many are weblog or web site-related so I hope that they might be of interest.