CommentPress and Writing on a Roll of Towels

July 25, 2007 – 9:58 pm

Back in 2004, Kathyrn Cramer, a veteran hypertexter, described blogging as “writing on a roll of papers towels” [1], so I’ve been on the lookout for blogging tools that behave more like hypertext.
The Institute for the Future of the Book released CommentPress, a WordPress Theme, that breaks out block-level elements of a blog post into [...]

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No, really, catalogs matter.

January 18, 2007 – 10:56 am

Back in 2004, I wrote up my harsh lesson in using a validating parser and why you should use an XML Catalog in your systems.
Last week, Netscape temporarily removed the DTD for RSS 0.91 from their site, and things promptly went south.
In response to that mess, Henri Sivonen points out that if you’re sending XML [...]

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“HTML, XML, JSON.”

December 21, 2006 – 3:10 pm

Tim Bray has the right take on the JSON/XML kerfluffle.

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Server-side blink tag

April 24, 2006 – 8:47 pm

Re-implementing the blink tag in Ajax. [ via Waxy ]

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Subscribing To hAtom Feeds With NetNewsWire

March 28, 2006 – 12:38 am

hAtom’s not useful until you have a way to get from a blog’s summary page to an Atom feed. Chris Casciano wrote an AppleScript wrapping xsltproc that reads an hAtom page, applies the hAtom2Atom.xsl transform, and hands the result back to NetNewsWire.
Note: Scott Reynen points out that the script doesn’t work with NNW 2.1 beta.

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