The slowness or lack of real time on RSS feeds has reared its head again in terms of getting news out quickly and in “real-time”. Erick Schonfeld on Techcrunch wants to speed them up and John Biggs has decided that RSS needs to RIP. I’ve been working on Twittering RSS feeds for the JISCMail service […]
Is a text really stable? Is it entity? In a lecture during my final year at the University of Leicester, one of the English lecturers posed a a question: What is a text? After soliciting various answers from the masses, he argued that a text is anything – email, note, manuscript and so on. So […]
Cory Doctorow has come up with a quick guide to self-serve licensing via Creative Commons which outlines the uses and advantages of the licence. The crux, apart from citation of sources, is what it allows users to do to use your data/craft/book/doohickey in innovative ways. From that both parties can learn from each other and […]
The New York Times had a piece on digital piracy of books and the contrasting views which was picked up by Slashdot. Starting out from the anti-piracy view, it does note that bestsellers are often the most pirated books which backs up Cory Doctorow‘s assertion: “I really feel like my problem isn’t piracy,…It’s obscurity.” His […]
As part of the Open Milton project, I’ve been thinking about the place of XML in it. Over Christmas, I wrote a small XSL transform using the Bosak XML Shakespeare files. Rufus took Anthony and Cleopatra and, using Latex (I gather), created the Open Shakespeare Anthony and Cleopatra pdf. At one level, this is yet […]
I’m a happy bunny this morning with regards to calendaring. I’ve finally managed to solve why MS Outlook was ignoring the events sent with a timezone stamp. If I scheduled an event without specifying the time, then no time zone id is attached to the event so Outlook parses it quite happily. If I did […]
I’ve recently been working on a plugin for WordPress to set up each post as RDF enabled using OAI_ORE and SWORD which I presented to the Oxon SWIG on Tuesday. The Berlin Declaration of Open Access states the work should be free and also that it should be deposited in a repository. This seems to […]
Nearly there with the Bedework project but just one last hurdle in terms of getting Outlook to see all the headers correctly. Squirrelsewer has one answer to the problem (basically Outlook 2007 doesn’t appear to like iCal headers very much) but I think it’s over engineered. Bedework’s core mailer takes a simpler approach so back […]
I’m going to talk to you today about opening science and some of the ways that are being used to create platforms and tools and underlying responsibilities and actions that the commons needs to take if it is to develop a truly open way of working. Technology really is a means to an end; not […]
Clay Shirky, who is currently guest blogging on BoingBoing, has a link to a fantastic article by James Grimmelmann on “Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy” which I’ve perused. I’ve been thinking about the nature of groups and how one keeps information and memberships from being inappropriately shared in uses such as scheduling events […]
