News.com Leads Blog Communication
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all year. Check out the HTML of this article I linked a few days ago. Notice anything at the top?
<link rel="pingback" href="http://tb.news.com/p2t.cgi/2100-1032-5368454" />
Houston, we have Pingback support! Let’s dig deeper:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">
<rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5368454.html"
dc:title="Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog"
dc:identifier="http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5368454.html" />
trackback:ping="http://tb.news.com/tb.cgi/2100-1032-5368454"
</rdf:RDF>
Ugly as sin, but that’s trackback. It gets better…
A little URI hacking takes us to this page which lists all trackbacks and pingbacks the article recieved. How cool is that?
It’s my understanding that even though they’ve had the trackback autodiscovery code for a while they’ve been recieving mostly pingbacks, which makes sense given that it’s more fully and elegantly automatic. It would be cool if they could add support for the nascent rel="trackback" discovery method and save themselves the trouble of the RDF hack. Hopefully spammers won’t exploit their trackback server too soon and they can support legacy systems that don’t implement Pingback yet.
The implications of this are fairly large. News.com is obviously bootstrapping code that will involve their readers with the blog conversation surrounding their articles. How long for other sites to catch up? Will they plug into Technorati or Pubsub next? As far as I know this is the first major media organization to implement Trackback and Pingback. The team at News.com should be commended for their effort and leadership in this area.
New Music Tuesday
Jean-Louis is Everywhere, which has my favorite bass clarinet solo.
Broken 100
The Technorati 100 looks like it is broken. It wasn’t me.
Moblogging
Adam Greenfield on Moblogging. I’ve been lessblogging since 2002. (I’ll also admit at one point I thought moblogging was silly.)
Lindows Chat
Om talks with Lindows/Linspire founder Michael Robertson.
Gallery: 9-21-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Gallery: 9-20-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
I Found Some Of Your Life
I Found Some Of Your Life, the anonymous diary of someone who found a digital camera memory card in a taxi with a year’s worth of photos and is recreating the person’s life through the pictures, day by day on the blog. Hat tip: Tantek
Steal From the Best
When Blogger ditched the banner ads for that small tasteful bar at the top that was both attractive and functional, I loved it. Now I’m going down my blogroll and I noticed Hanni has created a version of the blogger nav bar for WordPress. It’s got the WP logo, a search box, a Press It link, et cetera. I haven’t even looked at how she’s doing it yet, but very cool!
Gallery: 9-19-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Om
Had a great lunch and coffee today with Om Malik, an interesting guy with a lot of insight into nascent markets and opportunities.
Apache Playboy
I just downloaded Apache and was surprised to see “The currently selected mirror is http://mirrors.playboy.com/apache.” Apparently the tech team over there mirrors a few other projects. “Playboy’s resident tech nerds would like to thank the authors, contributors, bug testers, and everyone else involved in the Open Source software we use on a daily basis. THANK YOU!” What a strange world.
Trac
Trac, integrated source control and project management. I’m getting this set up for all my personal projects, including this site. Update: If I can ever get the dang thing installed.
The World is on Fire
72 hours later: The world is on fire, from Blake Ross. It mentions WordPress, the number of referrals we send should go up when 1.3 comes out with the Firefox button in the footer. People have asked why we’re supporting Firefox like we do, but it’s just one underdog open-source project helping another.
Gallery: 9-18-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Day Zero
Yesterday was fun, got settled in and indulged myself a bit. Had some Korean BBQ, drove all over the city, walked on the beach and watched the waves and stars, geeked out for a little, and finally looped by Tantek’s. Another good but tiring day.
Gallery: 9-17-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Crash Internet Explorer
Eric Meyer discovers how to lock up a Windows computer using only CSS. On IM the other night he blamed it on WordPress. I’m not crazy about IE, but I wouldn’t go that far. (Opera people hush.)
Arrived
The flight was good, the iPod rocked, weather is beautiful, the hotel has internet, life is good.