reBlog – hacking a simple metablogging system out of Feed on Feeds. I’ve been kicking around the server-side Aggregators that I could find. Feed on Feeds certainly kicks the stuffing out of rNews (and is cleaner as well: all the code isn’t in one big file). I’m in the process of making some changes, including republishing (either as a post or linklog format) and some interface changes that I’ll hope to send upstream soon.

Things I’m working on:

• Multiple category filtering and visual grouping
• One-click link-logging (w/ via), reposting
• Entry diffing/updates
• Ability to parse invalid feeds

• The Trouble with RFID (/.)
• The Stanford WebBase Project – where Google and Kaltix come from
• heerforceone – google + friendster = eurekster?,google buys kaltix
• Kaltix and personalized search
• Elucidon, Grokker
• FuzzyBlog
• Eastgate – Tinderbox, Storyspace
• sxswBlog – back up and running

• unstruct.org – Unstructured Information Management
• One-Way and Collision-Resistant Functions [PDF]
• Just out of curiousity: Comparative Review of Secure GUI FTP Clients, Daring Fireball: MacSFTP,
• the Anomy mail tools – once you get started w/ mail processing tools, it can be downright addictive
• Gush – Jabber/XMPP IM + news aggregator; must look into it
• Blogdigger Development Blog
• PubSub vs. Feedster
  

  The key difference between PubSub.com and previous free systems is that we provide, or *will* provide, “Push” delivery mechanisms. There are other differences, but that’s probably going to be the most noticeable one for awhile.

• PubSub – PubSub blog
• Alarm Clock with iTunes & Cron Solution
• iTunes Scripts for iCal v1.5.1
• Want her? You cadaver! – fascinating sculpture made from plastinated cadavers (creepy)
• Social Routing
  

  This is my attempt to build a model of how implicite SocialNetworkingSoftware could work. The reasons why explicite SocialNetworkingSoftware I presented in CritisizmOfExpliciteSocialNetworkingSoftware. Alternatively one can treat that as a ThinkingFramework of how to analyze SocialNetworkingSoftware.

• XNS Public Trust Organization
  

  The XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG) works with the Internet community to determine the future direction of the open eXtensible Name Service (XNS) protocol. XNS is an open, XML-based protocol for identifying and linking any resource participating in any kind of digital transaction. You’ll find the complete technical specifications on this site.

• Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
  

  Most unix text editors cannot (easily?) be set up to reflow a paragraph
  automatically if you edit it somewhere in the middle. In vim this means
  a bit too much typing of the gqip command when editing a paragraph to
  reflow it. Like changing modes, this becomes second nature — I’ve
  probably done it at least twice while composing this paragraph.

• Alex King’s Blog – some good webdev content; I really like his Tasks tool as well
• RASMUS’ TOYS PAGE
• Jamie Zawodny blogs about his house-buying experiences
• Common Sense for a New Century – Howard Dean’s platform makes sense

• Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose – highlights vim’s lack of ability to automatically reflow text. In theory one could bind a script to run on each keystroke and constantly reflow (or count and reflow when necessary?)
• SourceForge P2P projects
• Semantic Blogging
  

  The central idea is to apply ideas, techniques and tools from the semantic web and apply them to blogging. Our intuition is that semantic principles can be applied to enrich and extend the blogging metaphor. We use the bibliography management domain to focus our efforts and to provide grounding for our demonstrator. However, we envisage that our efforts will be (or should be) applicable to more than just the bibliography domain. In addition, if we can show how the semantic web can add value, within the context of a pre-existing, popular and powerful metaphor, then it will make a convincing showcase for the semantic web.

• The Center for Public Democracy: Who Bankrolls Bush and his Democratic Rivals?
• SF IndyMedia: Kerry & Bush are both of Skull and Bones (Secret Society)…see the streaming video (FYI, Kerry is also a member of the Bildeberg club [more info])
• Yale bones dug up in fight to be president
  

  The phenomenon of the “Yalies”, as Yale alumni are known, has provoked intense debate, since in a democracy of about 300 million people, the battle for power will be waged among candidates drawn from the 4000 who graduated from Yale in different years of the 1960s. [Bush, Kerry, Dean, and Lieberman]

While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral “6” in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse direction.

Cory Doctorow has published his second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe. Like his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory’s made his book freely available for download under a Creative Commons License.

Cory has a write up of what he’s trying to do:

The future is my business, more or less. I’m a science fiction writer.
One way to know the future is to look good and hard at the present.
Here’s a thing I’ve noticed about the present: more people are reading more words off of more screens than ever before. Here’s another thing I’ve noticed about the present: fewer people are reading fewer words off of fewer pages than ever before. That doesn’t mean that the book is dying
— no more than the advent of the printing press and the de-emphasis of
Bible-copying monks meant that the book was dying — but it does mean
that the book is changing. I think that literature is alive
and well: we’re reading our brains out! I just think that the complex
social practice of “book” — of which a bunch of paper pages between
two covers is the mere expression — is transforming and will transform
further.

(The comments are also quite worth reading.)

Excuse me while I pick up my jaw.

• MagpieRSS with REX parser – to handle invalid feeds using REX: XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions
• U.S. rejects Japan’s mad cow test
  

  Investigators have found only 27 of 98 animals that were raised together and may have shared the same source of feed before being shipped to the United States in 2001.

  More discussion at: Mad Cow Killer Worries About ‘The Magic Burger’

In an unscientific poll, currently, over 93% of voters would prefer a peanut butter sandwich over George W. Bush as the next president.