At Linden Lab we use an internal wiki, and I wanted to subscribe to the recent changes feed in Mail.app. The wiki uses HTTP authentication. When I tried updating the feed after I added it, instead of asking for my credentials, Mail threw an error dialog reporting that the feed was password protected, but didn’t ask for the credentials.

Click on the poorly named ‘RSS’ button in the address bar and get a list of all the feeds available at the current URL.

Torley, we need to talk about upgrading you to WordPress 2.3.

Cynthia and I have tickets for the Nozomi Shinkansen to Hiroshima tomorrow morning at 7. The typhoon’s track cuts across the main bullet train route, so our trip may be delayed.

Right now we have heavy rain and wind, and many blown-out umbrellas at Ueno Station down the street from our hotel.

Japan’s National Institute of Informatics has a visualization of current and previous storms incorporating satellite images, other data sources, and reports posted to weblogs and emailed from ketai (mobile phones.)

The NII also publishes an Atom feed of typhoon reports.

People don’t tag multiples: Using tags like folders is like drawing Venn diagrams with no overlapping circles — possible, but so destructive of the value of the system as to make the effort pointless. — Clay Shirky

Analogies

LC subject headings apply as many as are appropriate for later retrieval

Tagging’s an overloaded operator

• later retrieval
• collaboration
• publicizing
• categorization
• hard to get people’s head wrapped around the idea

Technical barriers

• People don’t know about pinging for indexing.
• Using feedburner to automate pinging
• You have to understand RSS, search, pings and the rest of the Web 2.0 technologies
• Hard to get photo sharing users to cognitive shift
• Need a tagging tool for HTML adverse writers. Blummy a good approach.
• IE7 restrictions on bookmarklets.
• Tagging UI’s intimidating Furl’s sucks, but not intimidating
• LJ shift from memories to tags confused and angered users

Functional tagging

• Flickr and Technoratti tags for publicizing
• Tags for retrieval
• Gutenberg Project around tagging
• Tagging gap – economic/cultural
• Portablity of attention data
• emotional tagging
• snark tagging

Power dynamics

• Maintaining privilege — you’re not Glenn Reynolds, Xeni Jardin, or Atrios, how do you get heard.
• iTunes sharing in workplaces — selective sharing to establish idendity, then the boss looked in, and everyone shut up.
• the universe of taggers is full of young white men
• tagusablity for these conversations

ETA Marshall wrote with a corrected attribution to the ‘venn diagram’ quote. Thanks!

Why?

In Mark Pilgrim’s world of the future, where your web browser does more than just display HTML documents, it means that when you want to add a site to your aggregator, your aggregator wouldn’t look for an Atom feed. Instead it’d parse the site using an hAtom filter (XSLT, JavaScript, DOM, XQuery) and pull the content into the aggregator’s database.

Um, sorta like what services such as Feedfire do already.

The XML version of Atom would become your aggregator’s format for sharing feed data.

• Rich Manalang
• Aristotle Pagaltzis

A little tweaking and they’d be ready for Atom 1.0.

There are plenty of people pointing at my old RSS feed.

But the feed had been replaced with a script that was supposed to tell you that the feed was gone and to switch to the Atom feed. However, I also sent a 410 Gone header, and it looks like browsers and aggregators did not bother showing the content. I missed the semantic, and I think this blog dropped off the radar.

So, if you request the old /rss URL, you’ll get the 2.0 feed via a redirect.

The RSS feeds go away tonight. If you request them, you’ll get a 410 Gone and a stub entry telling you to switch to the Atom feed.

Sam Ruby’s announced a timetable for transitioning from 0.3 to 1.0, and I plan to honor it.

I’ll update the Atom feed from 0.3 to 1.0 soon, but NetNewsWire expects the old namespace declaration. So I’ll wait for an update before the switch.

I hope to see a Magpie RSS update for Atom soon.

The alternative feeds in the sidebar will change to Atom.

• Source site
• URL of item
• Last Modified
• Title
• Author, if source site has multiple authors
• Full Markup of Entry