Just switched to AT&T and of all the phones they are offering for free, the Nokia 6126 looked like the best bet to me. It’s got a Micro SD expansion slot and a slightly better camera than the others I had to choose from.
Unfortunately, in Tiger, iSync doesn’t work with the 6126 by default but I was able to find a work-around and it’s fairly simple. All it takes is a quick edit to an XML “.plist” file.
Here’s how you do it:
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From: Rosemaryky14
Subject: hi.. how’s it going!
Date: 10 Feb 2008, 13:32
So, i guess the time has come for me to start using this account. I can hold back no more! I wandered into your page and well, I liked what I saw.. :p
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SIOC (pronounced “shock”) stands for Semantically Interlinked Online Communities. It’s the emerging standard for distributing forum and blog discussions, if I’m understanding it right. Considering the possibilities of this, I think of trackbacks on steroids.
Here’s the example of SIOC from the Wikipedia
I think the C in SIOC is a little misleading.
Is there a way to download MySpace Friends? Not officially.I used “O-Community” to scrape my friends out of myspace and I used TextWrangler to turn the file into a series of <a> tags within <li> tags that include the XFN rel=”friend” attribute. I will be looking into how I might publish this information in a more relevant structure/format, probably as SIOC or FOAF data, if I can figure out how to do that.
I wish FaceBook & MySpace allowed you to download a spreadsheet (excel or whatever) of all your contacts and their demographic information like Age, Gender, Location Etc. Some other formats I would like to be able to download my contacts in are RDF/XML, vCard, CSV Etc…
Actually, it is explicitly against MySpace’s and FaceBook’s Terms Of Service to do what I have done here. Scripts and Bots are prohibited. Perhaps this will change some bright beautiful day in the future.
We need to be able to mine the ‘Data of Our Lives,’ including of course the contacts we make through Social Software services. We also need to be able to Back-Up all our Data.
If you would like help scraping your MySpace friends, drop me a line and maybe I can help out.
I hate how our Congress slips irrelevant terms into legislation all the time. “College Affordability? What do Piracy, P2P and File-Sharing have to do with the affordability of ‘Higher Education?’
From CNET (I really like CNET lately):
“The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a higher-education funding bill that includes controversial new antipiracy obligations for universities.
The 354-58 vote to approve the College Opportunity and Affordability Act leaves intact an entertainment industry-backed provision, which makes up just a tiny part of a bill that has ballooned to more than 800 pages.
It says higher-education institutions participating in federal financial aid programs “shall” devise plans for “alternative” offerings to unlawful downloading–such as subscription-based services–or “technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.”
Bollocks.
If you look at the Yeas and Nays, you’ll see that the majority Yea votes were Democrats. Actually, the only Nays were Republicans! This is a good example of the Democratic party falling inline with Anti-Freedom, Pro-Corporate interests. I’m saying this only because many of my friends are self-proclaimed Left-Wingers and it is often assumed that the Left is more Pro-Freedom. Not so fast.
I love these Semantic Web diagrams and flow-charts that folks keep drawing up. They help me to stay excited.
This one is from Michael K. Bergman’s post, “Linked Data Comes of Age.”
Sorry for the shallow post. I do love the chart though. I mean by all means go read the article… Cool stuff is happening. There’s going to be the first ever Linked Data Planet Expo in NYC among other things mentioned there. Feels like momentum!
…and I like the pictures.
Some discussion about the concept can be found on Frederick Giasson’s blog. He’s the developer of the plugin.
It behaves similarly to the Snap Shots Plugin, the thing that makes the slick little preview windows show up when you hover over the links in this site, but rather than an image of the site being linked to, zLinks shows you a list of semantically curated resources. Hell yeah!
To see the plugin in action, check out the blogs of Daniel Lewis, Michal K. Bergman or of course, Frederick Giasson.
From the Public Knowledge Blog
Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA speaking at the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee‘s State of the Net Conference
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxYGZ7Z6joQ&rel=1]
I want to find the full length version of this. UPDATE: The entire video is available HERE. (Unfortunately it’s a RealPlayer File, and it doesn’t play back properly through my MOTU 828… The fix for this is to switch to built-in speakers. Lame. Through my 828 the sound is all garbled and slowed down and only comes out through one channel.)
There’s also a complete Mp3 download HERE.
I heard part of the panel thru an audio stream that stopped about ten minutes in. For this reason I can say at least that the jump-cuts in this youtube video aren’t edits to bend the meaning of what Cary Sherman is saying. They’re just speeding it up. I’m looking around for the full video. I can tell from what I heard that this is an enlightening panel with a nice selection of speakers on it.
Panel:
For a while now, I’ve been using Bloglines. It’s OK. But today I decided to dust off my old NewsGator account after hearing from BetaNews that NewsGator purchased the Macintosh feed reader NetNewsWire. I thought at the very least this would mean some decent drag-n-drop-ability, but that’s just the beginning.
So now, NewsGator offers a desktop client (they have one for Windows too) that syncs with the online version of the service. Of course it’s free.
The UI is very similar to Apple Mail, the advantage being, among other things, that something isn’t marked as read until you actually highlight it, revealing the content in a resizable reading area. And if you double-click on the Headline, the article maximizes to take up all the space, aside from the main sidebar on the left and a tinier sidebar on the right that allows you to toggle between the two views.
When you do read something, it doesn’t go away, it’s just ‘read,’ so it’s not bold and there’s no blue bullet next to it. Oh, and like Mail, you can reorder stuff by name or date (but not by flag or read/unread).
I noticed while using Bloglines, that my behavior started to change in a bad way. Since as soon as you see something in Bloglines, it goes away, I found myself not wanting to glance at my feeds until I knew I had pleanty of time to process all the articles. So this past week, for instance, my feeds were piling up and the more they piled up, the more afraid I became of getting started. Certainly this is not the way to go. And NewsGator solves all of this for me.
The best thing about NewsGator though is definitely the fact that when you manage (add, delete, move) your feeds locally, the online version gets updated and vice-versa. Sweet!
Unless this thing starts crashing all the time, I’m never looking back. Goodbye Bloglines. Sorry.
thanks for the heads up, Mike Hedge
Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal posted a blog about the idea of mapping email addresses to URL’s.
A protocol for making it so for anyone who has your email address, you can give them access to a specific URL automatically. This could be a homepage etc, or it could also be an RDF file, if I’m understanding this correctly.
Great idea.
Imagine all your contacts knowing where to find you! Imagine knowing where to find all your contacts! Access is controlled by whether or not we know one-another’s email addresses.
Maybe I give out one email to my closest friends and another to more peripheral social connections or business contacts… They get access to different URL’s and in turn, different information.
I love it.
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