Just back from Opentech, so here are a few random notes. I’ll hopefully fill in more details later. I started by listening to Danny O’Brien talking about “Living Live in Public”. Danny discussed his theory of how the geek world has a weird kind of celebrity where you can be incredibly famous to a very… Continue reading Opentech
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Bad People
The people running Eyeconomy are bad people. They encourage people who have web sites to use bad practices. Take a look of their section on sub-sites. What they so innocuously call “sub-sites” are better known to the rest of the world as “pop-unders” – that is those extra windows that open underneath your existing browser… Continue reading Bad People
Google Moon
It’s nice that Google have set up Google Moon so you can take a closer look at the Apollo landing sites. But have you seen what happens when you zoom right in?
RSS Feeds
Anyone who was subscribed to the full.rdf or full.xml feeds from this site would have stopped getting updates for a couple of weeks. Sorry about that – I’ve fixed it all now and you should have just recieved many days worth of bloggy goodness. It’s worth pointing out that full.rdf and full.xml are both deprecated… Continue reading RSS Feeds
BBC Streams
I’ve made some pretty sweeping changes to the BBC streams page. Some of the Real Player links are now gone and there are now links to play everything in the BBC Radio Player application. You’ll notice that there are still some links to Real streams on my page. These mainly point to talk shows where… Continue reading BBC Streams
Firefox Tip
A little Firefox tip that I just discovered. It makes it far easier to use web search interfaces. Let’s take for example the TV programme search box on the Radio Times web site. It’s nn the left hand side of the page – a little text box labelled “search tv”. Now the usual way to… Continue reading Firefox Tip
iRiver Update
An update on the iRiver after a couple of days usage. In general, it’s great. I’ve had no trouble loading files onto it and it’s a lot of fun having 40 Gb of music in your pocket at all times. I even got iRipDB working really easily, so it has a database of my music… Continue reading iRiver Update
He Shall Have Music Wherever He Goes
So I finally joined the iPod generation. Except, of course, I didn’t buy an iPod. Firstly, Mac hardware and I just don’t seem to get on. Secondly, the iPod doesn’t play Ogg Vorbis files which is the format that most of my digital music is in. And finally, the iRiver (which is what I ended… Continue reading He Shall Have Music Wherever He Goes
Telegraph on RSS
Interesting article from the Telegraph about the rise of RSS and its (potential) impact on news media. To the consumer, the main benefit of RSS services is that they make receiving news more efficient. Instead of looking at one news website, then another, and then another, each time looking for stories that are interesting, RSS… Continue reading Telegraph on RSS
Styling RSS
I’ve just noticed that the BBC have started styling their RSS feeds using XSLT. Take a look at this one for example. It all looks a lot nicer than the raw XML version. I may have to consider doing something similar for my RSS feeds.