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Dave Winer registered the domain blogdad.org, is this where he’ll move to from scripting.com to spend his golden blogging years?

tags: blogdad winer

Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
This tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float.

Cascading Style Cheatsheet
Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples.

Even Microsoft Designers Have Problem with IE
Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values at the top.

Lightbox JS v2.0
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

tags: css javascript

I, Woz
Short interview with Steve Wozniak. He is publishing his autobiographie ‘I, Woz’ somewhere in the near future.

Solar Eclipse

The PLAINTEXT Virus!
This will eat your aggregator

tags: wozniak eclipse virus

I’m trying to get a better understanding of the semantic web and since this is quite a hard and complex subject i thought i’d start with studying the foaf-project and do some tinkering with that. But when reading the available documentation on foaf i get the feeling that this project is dying a slow death (i might be wrong…).

While reading the available documentation i remembered the ‘what cars did you own opml miniproject’ some months ago. Structured personal information related together. A bit like the foaf idea.

One and one is two. It should be possible to do a foaf project with opml. You could display your personal information in outlines and link to the foaf-opml files of your friends with opml-inclusions. Using an opml browser (i.e. grazr) you could easily browse from your own friends to your friends-friends to your friends-friends-friends etc. (you should stumble on yourself in 10 hops i think ).

What do you think, should we build an opml-friends-network just for the fun of it?

update: like this i.e. : Pieter Overbeeke (yeah, it’s kind of sad, i link to myself…)

tags: foaf opml

ps. It takes 2 to tango, wanna be my friend?

Update: Found a friend

Steve Rubel points to Touchstone, an attention management system

An Attention Management Engine is an engine that proposes to solve the latest Attention Deficit Problem by combining your Attention Data with a set of presentation rules in order to manage and filter the flow of information into your consciousness.

I’m going to give it a try!

Update: no public download yet, maybe i can become an alfa-tester?

tags: attention touchstone rss

Opod is a mini opml-browser you can include easily in your page by just adding a few lines of javascript. Opod is build on top of the Grazr api.

tags: opod grazr opml

Firefox 3 to usher in a new paradigm for the web?

How does this vision relate to the semantic web?

Update:
Adam Green (Grazr developer project member) has thoughts on this subject.
I share his feelings:

I tried reading about RDF and the Semantic Web, and I had to stop because I was afraid I was coming down with narcolepsy. I don’t think I’m smart enough to grok the Semantic Web yet, and anyone who reads this blog knows I think I’m pretty smart. I need to work my way up to that level of complexity, and the way I do that is by blogging, and writing code, and helping to design tools with a simpler, more accessible format like OPML. I’m conceited enough to believe that I’m at least as smart as the average computer user, so if I need to work myself up to the Semantic Web one step at a time, they probably do also.

Really Simple Spiritualism:

I reckon the number one reason most Semantic Web developers aren’t interested in OPML and RSS is because they don’t really offer them anything they need, or at least could achieve by building on firmer foundations like XHTML and Atom. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but there’s already a general-purpose serialization format - RDF/XML.

tags: opml firefox (more…)

The Future of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee gives a lecture on the semantic-web (video + slides).

FeedDemo 2.0 releases
You can find out what’s new in the release notes.

XoXo meets OPML

Suckerfish HoverLightbox
A really creative way to show a collection of images in a gallery.

Alertbear
A new free windows rss-reader that uses the river-of-news principe.

Eye tracking Web usability
Jakob Nielsen: Understand the F principle, write eye-catching, concise headlines and display crisp images.

tags: Tim Berners-Lee Semantic web FeedDemon xoxo opml Alertbear rss

My attention readinglist is slowly growing:

- The attention economy and the net - Michael Goldhaber
- The intention economy - Doc Searls
- Alex Barnett’s writings on the subject

And also some information that needs to access the brain through the ears: here and here.

ooohhh, thats just too much info…. and there is more….

tags: Attention

Garrick Van Buren and J Wynia (i’m pretty sure they both have dutch ancestors) share their thoughts on attention in this half hour podcast: First Crack 76

They recommend to start recording your attentiondata even now there are not that many usefull services for it, there will be in the future and you don’t want to have lost all your today’s attentiondata then. They make the comparison to books you inherit from i.e. your grandfather, the most interesting in those books are the scribblings in the margins.

Other interesting posts by J. Wynia on attention:

Recording Your Attention: Spying on Yourself
Dissecting the Attention Recorder: Write Your Own

tags: Attention