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Hot Topic: RSS

Hot Topic: RSS 11/18/2002 12:58 PM
The topic of RSS has been hot lately. I began to develop this current web page with all of the RSS features about a month ago, and I was really motivated by how the RSS-reading/developing community embraces the standard. I offer a web-based solution to reading RSS feeds. AmphetaDesk is a multi-platform application to do a similar task. Released today is new version 0.93.1. I've made a new purchase. For those of you who do not want to click the link, I bought a Toshiba e740 Pocket PC 2002 device. It is my first PDA. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the platform, especially on the availability of free software. Also, I have downloaded the SDK and eMbedded Visual C++/VB for the platform, so I would appreciate some help on that too. I have found scarce resources so far on developing for the platform, but I will continue my search tomorrow, with the help of my good friend Google.

Hot Topic: ID Cards

Hot Topic: ID Cards 04/27/2004 08:08 PM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 28 2004 0:22AM GMT

What are topic maps? (XML.com)

What are topic maps? (XML.com) 09/12/2002 12:08 PM

What Are Topic Maps?

What Are Topic Maps? 09/12/2002 07:48 AM
An introduction to XML Topic Maps, an XML standard that can be used to index and capture relationships between concepts, improving the findability of information.

Roaming is Hot Topic of the Day

Roaming is Hot Topic of the Day 12/05/2003 01:54 PM
">Roaming is a key requirement for Wi-Fi to take off but this writer is clueless: She seems to think that Intel's Centrino marketing program has something to do with roaming when really it's just an advertising push. The focus of this story is on technical challenges to roaming but she's missing the main issue. The technical challenges are small compared to the need for service providers to make agreements with each other so that a subscription to one service lets users access virtually any available hot spot. With those deals in place, more customers are likely to sign up for susbscriptions. She also includes some shameless promotion of a company that does business with her publisher. She cites Zinio as a "chief" player in marketing value-added Wi-Fi services. It looks to me like Zinio reformats magazines so that they look nice on handheld devices. What on earth does that have to do with roaming?? What a poor example of journalism....

CRM Hot Topic: Get the CRM Toolkit

CRM Hot Topic: Get the CRM Toolkit 02/12/2004 04:08 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 12 2004 8:06AM GMT

MicroRNA Is a Big Topic in Bio

MicroRNA Is a Big Topic in Bio 03/30/2005 06:48 AM
Researchers are devoting considerable resources of late to microRNA, a tiny component of the human genome that can stifle the production of proteins. Scientists say the gene regulator could play a role in treating a range of diseases. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Staying On Topic

Staying On Topic 05/22/2004 12:31 PM
A deceptively simple little one-pager by Geoff Arnold; if you’re not spending part of your time thinking in the way that Geoff suggests, you’re probably part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Viruses a hot topic at AUGD

Viruses a hot topic at AUGD 05/10/2004 10:18 AM
An inquiry about educating MUG (Mac User Group) members on the high-profile issue of computer viruses is currently a hot topic on the Apple User Group Discussion List (AUGD)...

Topic Auto-Discovery

Topic Auto-Discovery 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
The introduction of topic servers like the Internet Topic Exchange and Reversible started me thinking about TrackBack, and how to...

Perl Certifications are a hot topic
(again)

Perl Certifications are a hot topic
(again) 01/10/2004 08:59 PM
Open source programmers are more likely to be judged by their reputation, their profile in Google, and their available source, unlike something like a ...

Security Is Topic A for U.S. Basketball

Security Is Topic A for U.S. Basketball 04/29/2004 12:07 PM
The overarching international concern as the Athens Games approach is security. For U.S. basketball officials, the more ambiguity, the better.

The Internet Topic Exchange

The Internet Topic Exchange 01/20/2003 01:18 AM
The Internet Topic Exchange. Here's another incredible example of the kind of rich interaction that people are now doing on the Internet. Uses trackback as the mechanism to link blogs together into categories and groups.

Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT)

Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) 04/09/2005 07:19 AM
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT)
http://www.itl.n ist.gov/iaui/894.01/tests/tdt/

Topic Detection and Tracking research was pursued under the DARPA Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES) program. Since the TIDES program ends in 2005, the timing and scope of the next TDT evaluation is contigent on resolving funding issues. More will be known early in 2005. Stay tuned to the TDT mailing list and this site for details. TDT research develops algorithms for discovering and threading together topically related material in streams of data such as newswire and broadcast news in both English and Mandarin Chinese. The overview paper "Multilingual Topic Detection and Tracking: Successful Research Enabled by Corpora and Evaluation," (Wayne LREC2000) describes in more detail the TDT program, the TDT corpora (collections of broadcast news recordings and transcripts), and the TDT technology evaluation paradigm. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Guestbooks - An Optimization Topic That
Just Won't Die

Guestbooks - An Optimization Topic That
Just Won't Die 11/17/2002 09:46 PM
If there is a by-line to Optimization 2002, one of the candidates would have to be, The Year of The Guestbook.

Boys Vs. Girls at Hot Topic

Boys Vs. Girls at Hot Topic 05/20/2004 12:56 PM
Hot Topic needs to get punk rock girls back on board.

Off Topic: and you thought SUVs were
bad?

Off Topic: and you thought SUVs were
bad? 09/14/2004 12:12 AM
I just had to share this, because it blew my mind. Browsing the Lounge today, I met America's newest forthcoming monster-sized vehicle, and I'm not joking about monster. If cars bore you, just ignore this.

CRM Hot Topic: How to get help from the
national CRM programme

CRM Hot Topic: How to get help from the
national CRM programme 02/12/2004 04:08 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 12 2004 8:06AM GMT

Hot Topic: Should the BCS ditch its
computers?

Hot Topic: Should the BCS ditch its
computers? 01/26/2004 06:58 AM
CNET Jan 26 2004 11:23AM GMT

Open Topic Mapping

Open Topic Mapping 04/24/2004 11:42 AM

Some of my favorite people are getting pinged!

I couldn't agree more!

Combined project for topic mapping in blogging?.

I mentioned in my last post that one of my ongoing interests is topic mapping in weblogs. Topic Exchange and K-Collector are two initiatives that I've hyped a lot over the last year. However the blogosphere still doesn't have a mainstream topic-mapping application - and I mean mainstream as in Technorati or Bloglines, apps that are used by a large percentage of bloggers.

Seb Paquet recently re-opened the conversation on topic-mapping in blogs, and Rogers Cadenhead and Dave Winer have been talking about it, so it's on peoples minds. I'd like to suggest the following...

We need to meld the best features of Topic Exchange and K-Collector.

Topic Exchange and K-Collector each has its strengths. K-Collector has a great add-on for Radio Userland, which allows you to easily select relevant topics and add them to the community server. Topic Exchange requires you to send a trackback ping to its server for each topic, which makes it more open and extensible but also more effort for the blogger. Topic Exchange has a strong user community - it's like an open source project. K-Collector seems to be aiming at a corporate market and so that's where their development focus is I think. Nothing wrong with that per se, but it does mean I'm more emotionally attached to Topic Exchange these days.

So the two development efforts can learn from each other. For example, it'd be great if Topic Exchange can automate its ping process a bit more (I'll try and think more about this, so I can offer some potential solutions), and K-Collector can keep the blogosphere in the loop regarding its continued development (e.g. more updates, especially to the mailing list).

I wonder if it's worthwhile merging Topic Exchange and K-Collector? There is so much talent in each project, but perhaps topic mapping has its best chance of gaining mainstream acceptance if we work under one umbrella "project". What do you reckon, am I getting all hippie about this or is a combined project a viable solution?

Cross-posted to Topic Exchange and K-Collector

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End of discussion

End of discussion 05/17/2004 10:22 AM
USA Today May 17 2004 2:07PM GMT

Torrid: Hot Topic for heavy girls

Torrid: Hot Topic for heavy girls 04/06/2005 02:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Salon has a fascinating piece on Torrid, a growing chain of alterna-clothing stores for "XL-teens" (overweight kids, apparently mostly or all girls). This is the sister-store to Hot Topic, a wildly successful chain of mall-goth stores that aggregates head-shop wares, hipster tees, Nightmare Before Christmas tchotchkes, etc, and brings them from the Haight to the mall.

The social factors inherent in selling large-sized clothes to teens are really complicated (when a group of girls goes shopping together, do the skinny girls join their heavier friends at the Torrid?) and the article does a good job of turning them up, including a coda about whether a plus-size fashion botique encourages obesity ("You don't lose weight by tough love, whether from your mother or your local clothing store. It's a personal choice, and a difficult choice -- and if I can't do it for myself, I'm not going to do it for the Gap.")

For some girls, even one piece of clothing can mean the difference between enjoying a party and hiding in a corner, or not going at all. Erica Santiago, a 17-year-old with orange-streaked hair, giant rave pants, and zipper-pull earrings, was shopping recently in Torrid's Staten Island store. While fielding calls on her pink cellphone, Erica, who says she feels "really comfortable" with herself at about 185 pounds, described the thrill of finding a trendy bathing suit that fit. "Before, I wouldn't even dare try them on. I would just guess, get home, have them not fit, and then return them," she says, noting that those that did fit were hideous. If forced to go near the water, she'd wear a T-shirt over whatever abomination she'd settled for. At Torrid, however, she found a suit she loves, black with star-shaped studs near the neck. She's now done away with the coverups, she says. "I feel more confident -- really good. It feels great to be able to go to a pool party and actually wear a bathing suit." (Torrid also does big business at prom time and Halloween.)...

But here's the problem with shopping online -- and off -- for teens, though: For many of them, shopping is inherently, or at least ideally, a group event. "Girls especially are incredibly social about shopping," says Callender of Teenage Research. When they shop online, they miss potential hangout time with their friends. But when they shop in an actual store, one that's not wall-to-wall plus sizes, it sucks. "I typically avoid certain stores because the people that work or shop there make me feel uncomfortable, says Savannah Rios, 16, of Las Vegas (who wears size 14 to 16). "There have been a few times where I'll be at a store and I'll ask for my size and they give me a weird look and tell me they don't have it. It's frustrating." But at Torrid, she says, "You feel comfortable when you're in there because you don't have girls looking at you weird because you're not a size zero."

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Topic and Site Monitor From Google

Topic and Site Monitor From Google 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Monitors a mix of web pages related to topics and emails an update when new topics are available.

Topic of Terror Overshadowing All Others
(washingtonpost.com)

Topic of Terror Overshadowing All Others
(washingtonpost.com) 09/03/2004 04:41 AM
and lives to see himself fact-checked .. endless stream of lies

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54597-2004Sep1.html
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Local Search - Red Hot Topic - Everyone
Passes

Local Search - Red Hot Topic - Everyone
Passes 11/10/2003 11:11 PM
"At AdTech this week, local search came up in every se related panel I sat in on. The strange back draft from every vendor is the universal belief that Local Search is nothing and will remain nothing for many years to come."

Topic: identity. Author: anonymous.

Topic: identity. Author: anonymous. 07/08/2004 02:22 PM
The current issue of Digital ID World just arrived. While reading an article about CoreStreet, a company whose identity technologies have intrigued ¹ me< /a> for a while, I noticed something strangely missing from the article: a byline. ...

CRM Hot Topic: Case study - Newham

CRM Hot Topic: Case study - Newham 02/12/2004 04:08 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 12 2004 8:06AM GMT

Featured Topic: Battling spyware

Featured Topic: Battling spyware 08/04/2004 02:35 AM

Direct and Related Links for 'Featured Topic: Battling spyware'

“You’ve probably seen the buzz in both the trade and consumer press about the threat spyware applications pose to user privacy. Have you considered how these threats might impact your enterprise and what you’re going to do about it?”…

Waypath Topic Streams - Search

Waypath Topic Streams - Search 07/31/2004 05:11 AM
Waypath Topic Streams - Search
http://www.waypath.com /topic/search.html

Waypath Topic Streams mine millions of weblogs for new posts on specific topics. This topic stream covers search engines, technologies and user experiences. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation white paper.

Warning: Out-Of-Topic Geek Stuff

Warning: Out-Of-Topic Geek Stuff 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Hey! I didn't even know that there is even an HTML dialog feature in Frontier. :-)

"Topic Exchange: Channel
'bl0gtalk_conf.."

"Topic Exchange: Channel
'bl0gtalk_conf.." 07/05/2004 02:40 PM

Discussion 33250

Discussion 33250 05/22/2004 12:51 PM
Box of Snakes 'Linked to Death' Little Rock, Ark. Police are investigating a link between a mysterious box of venomous snakes and the death of a business traveler whose body was found in a rental car last week.

PHP Platform Discussion

PHP Platform Discussion 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
An interesting discussion has recently started on the PHP Developers' mailing list. Ken Eqervari has posted a serious post questioning the future of PHP, and asking the vital question: Who is leading PHP into the future.

lengthy discussion

lengthy discussion 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
Eugene Volokh

volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_02_00.shtml#1107524536
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Spammer discussion

Spammer discussion 01/12/2004 01:53 AM

Blog and guestbook spammers are discussing spam techniques in this Usenet thread found by Andy Baio.

It’s an interesting read. One of the main characters is a moron who shows his ignorance at every turn. There are many claims that what they are doing is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There are legitimate SEO companies, and there are guys like these. If you are hiring a SEO company, make sure you know what techniques they are using or you might end up with a site marketed in the same manner as the porn and prescription drug schemes they are discussing.

They also linked to my AP News article on spam. So they know we’re watching.

Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion

Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion 06/27/2004 09:37 AM

"the discussion about FeedBurner"

"the discussion about FeedBurner" 03/28/2005 11:58 PM

Weekend Off-topic: Vin Diesel, D&D, and
Hannibal: The Movie

Weekend Off-topic: Vin Diesel, D&D, and
Hannibal: The Movie 06/12/2004 10:10 PM
Weekend Off-topic: Vin Diesel, D&D, and Hannibal: The Movie

Using Topic Maps to Extend Relational
Databases

Using Topic Maps to Extend Relational
Databases 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Relational databases are fast and efficient ways to store data, but they can often be inflexible when application requirements change. Augmenting them with the capabilities of Topic Maps can solve this problem, and enhance interoperability between databases.
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