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Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.

Archive for March, 2005

RSS adoption

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Handling RSS in the browser :: Adam Kalsey
I have often thought that we have to have RSS because the few geeks/savvy visitors who get it will want it and think poorly if we do not offer some feed.
Why don’t more people use RSS? Because it involves something other than Internet Explorer.
Adam Kalsey continues a conversation [...]

MT Post with web form tutorial

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Movalog: XML-RPC & forms
Have not examined this yet… I wanted to implement the digests this way. They got built another way but this idea could still come in handy.
I have known the meta-how to do this but never did a prototype.

More Ajax

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Adactio: Journal – Progressive enhancement with Ajax

A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis
The purpose of this study is to propose a simplified model for facet analysis that incorporates the principles of facet analysis proposed by both Ranganathan and the CRG. The purpose of this simplified model is to act primarily as a teaching tool to introduce LIS students to a consolidated, and [...]

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Apple G5 LED Hack

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Accurate Monitor for Search Engines

Friday, March 11th, 2005

k5n.us: WebCalendar

Bill wakes up

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Microsoft to Debut Real-Time Tools
“You could say it’s one of the big frontiers that Office is moving ahead on,” he said.
Wow. AOL 1.0 comes to Microsoft. OK that is a stretch but what makes this a frontier? This “real time collaboration” has been happening with common internet tools for over a decade. Arguably it was [...]

Weeks Notes

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

IBM backs open-source Web software | CNET News.com
IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.
I’ve never heard of PHP — what is that??
:)
SAJAX
This is not another XMLHttpRequest article
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Treehugger: Recycler: 5 Sexy and Sustainable Picks from TreeHugger

Gmail and mail lists

Friday, March 4th, 2005

Gmail – Search results for: label:css-d flash z-index
I use Gmail for my personal account. Immediately I set my list subscriptions to this account.
The search is fabulous, faster than any desktop client (until Tiger’s new Mail with Spotlight), and using the interface is a pleasure.
How many copies of email digest messages do you think [...]

Bowdoin College Archives?

Friday, March 4th, 2005

Press Information | NYPL Digital Gallery Launches
Free Online Collection of 275,000 Images from World-Renowned New York Public Library Launches March 3
Civil War Photographs, Illuminated Manuscripts, Japanese Prints, New York City Views, Early American Maps, and More Available in Unparalleled Database of Rare Items
This is a huge wow. They had to temporarily take the site offline [...]

Laszlo Calendar

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Laszlo Calendar
I like Laszlo as a concept. A rich server framework for delivering (and deriving) flash based content.
This calendar has some cool features but everything is all click this and click that.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

south by southwest festivals conferences
Actually, all the entrants for SXSW awards are always worth checking out…

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Vote: The Machinery of Democracy