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Testing a crosspost to this blog using the OPML Editor and wordpress.root Tool.
Will test insertion of media types which native WP does not support – ie: Flash.
Trying my Flash OPML Blogroll from my old OPML blog:
Hmmm… it should be there above this. it isn’t. I imagine they must be stripping out the OBJECT and EMBED tags using the PHP strip_tags function – where it’s easy to strip out tags you don’t want from a post – and allow those you do.
Oh well.
Well done Niall Kennedy on his move to Microsoft, to work on the feed syndications elements of Live.com
At least we know they have someone there who really knows their stuff. Cool!
Yes, today's Beard 2.0 is much like the Beard 1.0 of yesterday. Only this time it's better! More agile!
Hirsute no more!!!!!
By the way. I have started to blog again over at opml.org. http://blogs.opml.org/koz It simply does more. And gives me the flexibility I need to do the things I need to do. And one of those things is to make a few things more easy for you too. 😉 I hope!
Also, stay tuned over at blog.podcast.com where we should be opening up the blog to let you all in on the developments over there, this week. Also we plan on setting you loose on one of the big toys we've been building for you. 🙂
Wish us luck!
Originally uploaded by kosso.
yes… the Kool-Aid!!!
And then guess what happened???
I bought TWO iPods!!!! (I feel so dirty)
I decided I have to know the 'dark side' at first hand, if I am going to require universal justification of opinion 😉
[weird: wordpress says I dont have permission to categorize this post as I'd like??]
Wow. Apple are officially supplying some software for the new Intel-based MacBooks which lets the user install their copy of WindowsXP alongside the Mac OS X, providing a dual-boot setup!
Now, I'm just about to get in the market of choosing a new laptop, as the one I have just doesn't have enough grunt to do the things I want to do, while on the move. This could well be the solution I have been looking for, as I like to use a Mac too, to test things and also to utilise the great UNIX-like development system (Darwin) which the Mac OS X has under the bonnet. The 'Boot Camp' software will appear in the next release of OS X, due for preview in August.
I wonder how well my Windows apps will perform though, compared to native Windows/Intel setups. Also, will this present a load of support issues with those apps that might not work correctly, once people intall them to this new platform.
Surely a matter of a short time until we see some benchmarks appear from people who have tried this.
I just got round to having a good read of the two patents out there linked by Adam Green regarding feeds and aggregators and auto-discovery of feeds in a web page.
All this would be a huge fly in the ointment for just about every feed aggregator, feed parser, feed browser/grazer out there!! WTF?
I cant tell if these filings (one from Apples' Steven Jobs) have been accepted and processed yet, but buy, this could pose all sorts of problems.
OPML is not mentioned, per se, but there are so many methods of collecting and presenting feeds mentioned here, that various problems could arise, I think.
Has anyone else seen any further discussion and dissection of these patents? If so, could you let me know, as it could put the kibosh on a few things that many of us are working on.
It was great to meet up with Steve Garfield and Carol the other evening, here in Boston. We went for dinner then off out to see Monty Python's Spamalot at the Colonial Theatre, which was a hilarious musical based around the story of the 'Holy Grail' movie. [The Colonial Theatre might be having a bit of disruption now, since being situated right next to where the crane accident happened the other day]
I was telling Steve how his video podcasting /citizen journalist efforts remind me of Max Headroom. For those of you that have never seen the movie, I suggest you do. The character played by Matt Frewer was a video/tv journalist, operating as a one man band, in constant direct-feed contact with his producers, roaming around investigating stories with just him and his camera. The character was investigating 'blipverts' and the explosive effects they had on viewers when he had an accident and hit a Max Headroom sign in a car park. It was the last thing he could remember. In the film, they managed to communicate with a catatonic Frewer by plumbing his psyche into a computer. Hence the animated character was born.
Coming up in May at the Berkman Center in Harvard, the first OPML Camp will be taking place. Organised by Adam Green, this looks set to be a interesting couple of days where lots of OPML geeks will get together and talk about some of the stuff they are building around OPML and share ideas and help eachother understand it. [I hear that Tom Morris may be on his way over to that, too.]
It's possible I may be over in Boston at this time, depending on schedules etc. And if I do, I may be able to show some people some of things I have worked on over the years, around OPML and also the stuff we are building over at podcast.com. I have created many products for the BBC in the past, where I used a 'made-up' format of a similar XML structure to OPML, and now I'm using OPML 'proper', along with extending it again, with some 'made up' attributes which I ned to get things done. It's OK – it's doesn't 'break' anything. 🙂
The week before the OPML Camp is anoyther great looking event at the Berkman Center called Beyond Broadcast, which does sound reeeeally interesting indeed. I was told about this, and invited by, Jake Shapiro of PRX.ORG [The Public Radio Exchange] who is also a Berkman Fellow. It was great to meet up with Jake the other evening, over in Cambridge and share thoughts and ideas about stuff like podcasting and public radio. Lots of synergy. I like it.
PRX.ORG is a very interesting thing indeed. It is a "web-based marketplace for public radio pieces. Programmers find and air work from other stations, independent producers and international broadcasters. Producers – station-based or independent – license their work directly to stations."
This is such an interesting idea and the list of shows and content picked up and used by other stations continues to grow, year on year. Impressive stuff. I'd like to see this idea go global and into the UK, since our BBC's 'Nations and Regions' seem to be continually marginalised in what they can do, I hear.
So, I hope I would be able to make both of these events, however it's very likely that Dr. Jo will be able to come over for the Beyond Broadcast event too, as it is right up her street, since she started as Senior Research Fellow in Digital Society & Media for the Institute of Public Policy Research – a thinktank which helps to inform the government on public policy. They set up OFCOM for example, a ombudsman for the communications sector which was much needed as communications and media technology evolved beyond telephones and television etc.
So. Lots going on before the summer time, when we have Gnomedex 2006 to look forward to and possibly SuperNova 2006. Phew! It's a good job that Glastonbury Festival is having a fallow year, this year! 🙂
Is was told to expect changeable wetaher here in Boston. Last week was like a UK summer!! Now it's snowing!!! Madness!
Originally uploaded by kosso.
Just earlier, up the road from the office here in Boston, a large piece of crane holding up a construction gantry on the front of Emmerson College, facing Boston Common came away from the building and fell on top of a car killing all three people inside. A pedestrian was also killed in this tragic accident.
UPDATE: It turns out that the victim count was three. One man in a car and two construction workers. Two shocked survivors, who were friends, were in driving together through Boston in two seperate cars and one car had pulled between them. This was the car which was crushed.
Another man who managed to walk from the accident, after having his car severely damaged from above is the grandson of former Boston mayor, John Hynes.
The were two more people injured in this tragic accident, which could be heard around the area as the lift supports of the construction gantry came crashing down this afternoon.
