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BURNINGBIRD
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a node at the edge
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September 02, 2002
 Tech Stuff
Back is still quite painful, and has now been joined by cable modem. A case of new technology on old wires -- for the modem, that is, not the back. Until the repair person comes out a week from tomorrow, my online access is going to be sporadic. Sam Ruby has provided a very abbreviated introduction to RSS. I appreciate Sam's effort, though I think it's important to note that the RSS 0.9x and the RSS 1.0 efforts are following two separate and not necessarily parallel paths. Small correction -- I believe the original expansion for RSS was "Rich Site Summary". (Thanks to Mark for link.) There's a new effort for defining weblogging data with the BlogMD initiative. I'm not sure whether the group would be interested in the RDF vocabulary I designed for ThreadNeedle. From current discussion in the associated forum, probably not. Speaking of which: the active effort of embedding RDF (data) for ThreadNeedle in each weblog posting is out -- doesn't work with existing weblogging tools. I'm now working on a webbot and scanning for links and building discussions from same, which will then be stored in a respository. From this I will then generate RDF documents of a discussion. Frankly, after the rather unenthusiastic response I'm seeing with TrackBack, I'm not sure weblogging really needs or wants some of the technology the techies keep wanting to provide. Posted by Bb at September 02, 2002 07:37 PM Comments
What makes you say the reaction to TB has been unenthusiastic? I'm seeing it implemented quite a few places, and now that the standalone version has been released, it should pick up even more steam. I grant you I am a strange one to evangelize for it, seeing as I don't use it -- but that's me being antisocial, not me being anti-tech. Posted by: Dorothea Salo on September 2, 2002 08:19 PMCould just be my reading of it, Dorothea. To be honest, TrackBack with the new stand alone functionality is ThreadNeedle, sorty of. Especially with the new treeview functionality. Since the processing is on each person's machine, the application is even distributed. That's me -- a week late, a thousand bucks short. Aren't we all glad that the world of technology isn't dependent on me? Posted by: Shelley aka Bb on September 2, 2002 08:37 PMAs one of the people involved in the BlogMD project and someone who's been working on his own RDF vocabulary for describing blogthreads, I would definately be interested in seeing what your work. Is there a description or an example of it anywhere? Posted by: Dave Menendez on September 4, 2002 12:26 AMAnd as the idiot who came up with the BlogMD idea, I'll second Dave's motion! I apologize for not being up-to-speed on ThreadNeedle, Shelley, but it's a knowledge gap I'll fix shortly. But as Dave says; we're interested in any and all ideas (even those who just want to play devil's advocate and throw rocks at ours). We'd very much welcome your (and anyone's) participation... -NZB Posted by: N.Z. Bear on September 4, 2002 06:22 AMPost a comment
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