FINALLY, there is a reliable, free solution for Blogger users wanting to be able to offer a self validating RSS feed. Even better is the inclusion of a script that allows for pingbacks to your server. This is truly a great day for Blogger users that upload content to their own servers.
I wonder where this will end?
Pressure increases on Humberside police after the force's admission it destroyed critical information on murderer Ian Huntley.
[BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
Humberside's police chief walks out of a BBC interview over questioning about errors that led to Ian Huntley being cleared to work as a school caretaker.
[BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
Frank Paynter interviews David Weinberger. A very good interview, absolutely worth reading when you have some time.
At some point ENT is mentioned:The last time I looked, Paolo Valdemarin and Matt Mower - both of whom I not only respect but really like - were expecting users to categorize what they're writing according to some accepted taxonomy; I'm pessimistic about getting users to take that step. But if it works, it'd be fabulous and I totally support it.
I must say first that I really like David too. I'm looking forward to meeing him again somewhere in the world hopefully soon.
Then I'd like to say that when we first presented him the whole idea of ENT and K-collector in Vienna at BlogTalk 1.0, we did notice the skeptic look in his eyes and we have been working to solve this problem.
While at the very beginning we were expecting all users to use our tool to add topics to what they were writing (even back then we were trying to help users by suggesting appropriate topics for their posts), the system has evolved since then in a few ways.
What we are doing is separating the process of topics creation from the actual association of topics to content. While the possibility of adding topics to posts still exist and it's the best way of doing it, there are also other ways of associating content and metadata,
The first one is TopicMatching, which allows us to add topics to posts streaming through our servers automatically. Visiting our open w4 site, you will be able to see content from about 100 weblog grouped using topics created by about 15 "active users" (users with the k-collector client). In other words we are leveraging on the work of a few people to categorize a vast amount of content.
We are also investigating other ways of creating topics on our site. For example by analyzing words used in search engines that brought users on our sites. There are also other options we are testing which will allow to improve the results.
It's true, we have not resolved the whole problem, but we are definetly listening :-).
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
The New Wave?
India's leading software firm snaps up Australia's Expert Information Services in a $22.9m deal.
[BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
Microsoft's decision to withdraw older software from shelves will hit thousands of firms still using the programs.
[BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
Rahul Dravid leads India to their first Test victory in Australia for 22 years.
[BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
Police are trying to trace the owners of stolen goods worth £100,000 by using the internet. Burglary victims can be reunited with their stolen property through a website used by Sussex Police called Virtual Bumblebee. If more people were to use a security tagging system, like the one offered by securi-TAG-it, then there would be less of a need for the police to set up websites and schemes in order to return stolen goods.
Police are trying to trace the owners of stolen goods worth £100,000 by using the internet.
Burglary victims can be reunited with their stolen property through a website used by Sussex Police called Virtual Bumblebee.
The stolen items, which have been recovered in raids, are being kept at a secret location in the county, waiting for their rightful owners to identify them.
And now the force is promoting the website where people can search for their possessions online.
Scheme extended
Pc Tom Willis, project officer, said: "Everyone who has internet access can view stolen, recovered and seized items as well as found property.
"More and more items of property are being added to the site daily and in the last six months we have seen a number of people reunited with property from thefts several years earlier."
Detective Sergeant Stuart Hale said: "Some criminals travel to commit crime so victims may also come from all over Sussex, as well as neighbouring Hampshire, Surrey and Kent.
"We even traced one owner to the United States."
Virtual Bumblebee was piloted in Bognor but has now been extended to the whole of West Sussex.
Victims can type in a description of the item they are looking for and then see if any of the seized goods match.
Already nearly 30 people have come forward to claim their property but about half of the hoard has still not been identified.
In July there were 275 items on Virtual Bumblebee waiting to be claimed, all of which have photographs the BBC reports.
If more people were to use a security tagging system, like the one offered by securi-TAG-it, then there would be less of a need for the police to set up websites and schemes in order to return stolen goods.
This BBC link is about Northgate. The company that grew out of SA’s involvement in Angola I believe.
A UK company offers to seize indicted ex-Liberian leader Charles Taylor and split a $2m bounty with any sponsor of the swoop.
[BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
The BBC's support for RSS isn't new, but it is newly explained on their site. For example, if you scroll to the bottom of the index page for UK news, in the lower right corner you'll see a menu item called "RSS version." Click to visit a page that explains what RSS is all about, and links to the feed for the page you came from. It requires a little digging to find all the goodies, but the payoff is huge because the BBC has so much you can subscribe to. Now there's a way to find it from the BBC site.
[Scripting News]
I am bound to need this at some stage.
Excel spreadsheet illustrating network ports used by Microsoft products
[Microsoft Download Center]
Now, in Britain's prisons, making an insulting remark about terrorists is grounds for dismissal. While it's perfectly fine to carp about George W Bush and Margaret Thatcher, Osama bin Laden must deserve respect....
[The Edge of England's Sword]
I am not really interested in this. I just wondered how the Newsgator add in would handle categories.
Pirated versions of Microsoft's next operating system are on sale in Malaysia well before the official release date.
[BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
A Los Angeles county official has asked computer and video equipment vendors to consider eliminating the terms "master" and "slave" from equipment because they may be considered offensive.
[eWEEK Technology News]
David Buchan describes how he uses NewsGator and PersonalBrain (a knowledge mapping tool) together, and drags messages from NewsGator/Outlook to PersonalBrain for visualization. Pretty cool!
I need to look at this re PSP etc.
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Dear K-Loggers,
Here is an interesting tool that can potentially RSS-enable your organization (RSS is really simple syndication). It's called k-collector:
http://www.evectors.com/itkcollector/
Itis an enterprise RSS aggregator that gathers information from multiple systems from e-mail to sales systems (see overview: http://www.evectors.com/itkcollector/). It also uses an innovative method called Enterprise News Topics (ENT) to add metacontent to the news items (either automatically or by hand). The end result is an easy to read and modify news dashboard.
Worth getting a demo.
Sincerely,
John Robb
Just testing the newsgator/blogger integration with a bargain from our auction website.
Blue Palomar GT mountain bike
[Bumblebee Auctions]
