Expressions

"So how did yoga class go?" "Fine...until we started poses to work on balance." "Did you fall down?" "No, nothing like that. We were working on this pose called tree..." "Uh, oh." "...yeah, I don't know where they come up with these names. Anyway, the yogi told us to bring

Custom RSS Meta Feeds?

I know it's possible to scrape a feed for a particular site, but what about scraping a feed consisting of many sites? I ask because I find that when I'm in a hurry, I click on category names in Bloglines and read everything under that category. It made me wonder

Putting a Name to RSS

I've been mulling over the mess that my RSS subscriptions were/are/will ever be and I haven't come to any conclusions about categories and how to consistently apply them to feeds. However, I have been busy renaming the feeds that I subscribe to -- my feeds now begin with the person's

Personal Education Archives

Sometime ago, Will Richardson of Webblog-ed News was talking about how it may be possible for grade school/high school students to have a complete records of their educational experience -- papers, essays, assignments, etc.-- in one place via the magic of blogs and/or wikis. Students could build on past work

Feeds of Feeds vs. Individual Feeds

I've pared my Bloglines subscriptions from a high of 154 to 148, and I'm feeling pretty good. There were a few echo-chamber feeds (same info, different person) that needed to go, and I trimmed a few under-producing blogs (sorry, Textism, but you don't write often enough to warrant the space).

Let Organization Stand on Its Own?

Lou Rosenfeld has his take on folksonomies, referring to them as metadata ecologies. It's a good log on public-driven metadata and the issues surrounding it. *sigh* I was hoping for a nice solution from Lou...but maybe I haven't defined the problem well enough... Anyway, the point I think he makes