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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-10-12T11:11:23Z]

2006Oct1211:11

Links by joeflintham at delicious imported from del.icio.us:joeflintham

Blogs for Learning | Articles - The Technology of Reading and Writing in the Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom
Tags: blogging learning pedagogy writing rss
Connectivism Blog
Tags: pedagogy
Bully gets bullied
Tags: game us law media-effects
BBC NEWS | Technology | Warning over 'broken up' internet
Tags: network-neutrality internet future
Boing Boing: China unblocks Wikipedia, even though it won't censor
Tags: China wikipedia censorship
DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Tags: lichtenstein art illustration copyright reference
Slashdot | China Unblocks Wikipedia
Tags: wikipedia China censhorship culture ideology
We-think: The power of mass creativity - Charles Leadbeater
Tags: collaboration participation social creativity
Table of Malcontents
Tags: video stop-motion animation

Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, blogging, learning, pedagogy, writing, rss, game, us, law, media-effects, network-neutrality, internet, future, China, wikipedia, censorship, lichtenstein, art, illustration, copyright, reference, censhorship, culture, ideology, collaboration, participation, social, creativity, video, stop-motion, animation,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-07-02T22:19:30Z]

2006Jul0222:19

Links by joeflintham at delicious imported from del.icio.us:joeflintham

Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, cybersex, virtual, reality, social, sexuality, marketing, rss, blogosphere, blogging,
Comments: 0

Feed fatigue

2006May3023:46

Imported from Menticulture

Owing to a singular concatenation of events, such as Mars moving into Aquarius, a black cat crossing the grave of me in a previous life, dissertation marking and a wheelbarrow of work on my desk, I have just gone twelve whole days without reading any of the news feeds I subscribe to.

Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-05-26T22:23:39Z]

2006May2622:23

Links by joeflintham at delicious imported from del.icio.us:joeflintham

Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, selfish-gene, determinism, philosophy, syndication, search, rss, feed,
Comments: 0

Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-05-18T08:55:36Z]

2006May1808:55

Links by joeflintham at delicious imported from del.icio.us:joeflintham

Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, surveillance, privacy, law, US, network-neutrality, aggregator, rss, syndication, feed, publishing, film, history, poetry, copyright, australia, DRM,
Comments: 0

postel's law and nicotine

2006Mar3121:50

Postel's law states that you should:

"be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."

So when you're dealing with interoperable content from third parties using standardised formats (eg RSS), then you should anticipate variations in the implementations (aka errors...) you receive from others. When you create such interoperable bits and pieces, you should however be rigorous about being right on the money in terms of standards-compliance.

It's a lovely rule in theory, and a huge pain in the arse in practice.

If you put html links (whether they're href or img src or whatever) into content that you syndicate via RSS, then obviously using relative paths for your links is just stupid. In fact, its a violation of the RSS standard, and if you validated your RSS feed, you'd know that.

So anyway, I just spent 3 hours adding some error-sniffing code to my content aggregator, which now detects if someone uses relative paths in their urls in RSS content, and fixes it for them.

At first, I thought my sheer hatred of this person who forced me to do this was due to the lunacy, the cavalier bloody-mindedness of the rank-amateur.

Actually, I realised that that isn't the case at all. I wish to add a third clause to Postel's Law:

"be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send, but if you've just quit smoking, do it another day."

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Author: joe
Categories: aggregation, postels law, smoking, RSS, standards,
Comments: 0

IMP Aggregator

2006Mar2712:35

IMP Blog The Interactive Media Production Blog

The Interactive Media Production Blog is for staff and students in the Interactive Media subject group at Bournemouth Media School, as well as a public-facing site for prospective students and candidates. Most of the content is aggregated from the personal blogs of students already on the courses, using their RSS feeds. Graphic design by MAIMe student Hongy