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Add to the RSS Wishlist

Add to the RSS Wishlist 06/29/2004 12:57 AM
Harold Check is doing a reality check of what's missing from the RSSphere and he's cataloging The RSS Wishlist. Some samples:

"It may seem obvious to readers of this particular blog that just about anything on the web that changes, whether frequently or infrequently, should have an associated feed. Readers all over rejoice when a major publication decides to hop onboard the syndication freight train. And beyond your typical publications, there are hundreds of innovative services that are just waiting to be remixed with some RSS flavor. 

At Supernova, Scott Rosenberg pointed out that privacy policies are a perfect candidate for RSS feeds. I second that. I also want KEXP playlists to be updated hourly. And I’d like car recall notices, too. And coupons for businesses in my ZIP code. And MetaCritic. And Aquarius Records new releases. And so on, and so on…

Nick Bradbury: CNN.com, The Onion, and PythOnline....

Michael Sippey: 'Until my entire family gets their act together and starts using Flickr for photo sharing, I want an RSS feed from Ofoto of new pics of my nieces, nephews and cousins.  That feed could be sucked up by a screen saver, or scripted to rotate as my desktop background, or have one every N photos auto-shipped to the photo printer.'

Jason Kottke: The New Yorker

So, what do you want to become available via RSS? Leave your requests in a comment. If you really wow me, you might just get a gmail invitation...." [The RSS Weblog]

My greatest wish - my local newspapers. Hopefully, the directory of my local library and I will be talking to them soon to turn on a few light bulbs. Then I want feeds for grant offerings of relevance to my job. Then, of course, I want feeds from my online catalog!!!!!

this goes on the wishlist

this goes on the wishlist 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

I hope this is the most clever of clever pranks . . . because it's much, much better that way.

"The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank.

[snip]

Standard drive is an air-cooled, 6hp Tecumseh gasoline (unleaded only) engine, with centrifugal clutch, giving the Donk a top speed of 40 mph. This vehicle is not licensed for use on public roads, and is intended as a recreational vehicle only.

1 person recommended Star Wars A New Hope 12" Figure: Obi-Wan Kenobi Tatooine Encounter instead of JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank"

Be sure to read the user reviews, for maximum enjoyment.

Wishlist Art

Wishlist Art 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Besides being super cool, the new TypePad wishlist feature generates these beautiful tiled thumbnail versions of your wishlist images that just seem like art to me. Greedy, consumerist art, but art nonetheless:...

Filelist and Wishlist

Filelist and Wishlist 05/09/2004 07:55 PM

My recent burst of interest in P2P networks stems from the idea of sharing wishlists which I mentioned in my comment about CleverCactus Share.  Diego expressed some enthusiasm about the idea so there is a good chance it will appear in ClearCactus Share.

But my mind is already leaping forward exploring generalizations and mutations of the basic idea of sharing and seemlessly integrating the capability into the operating system.  To power this exploration, I am asking questions like:

• What is a file?
• What does it mean to share?
• How can I share something without having it?
• How can I share nameless, locationless, temporary, and formless objects?
• What if everything is shared by default?
• What if bots are loosened into the shared space?

Many of the answers seem to point to a need to review some basic assumptions pounded into us by file systems and databases like names, locations, queries, etc.

If you drag a file from here to there, people expect the object to move from here to there and also expect the operation to take some time.

If the object is a wish, meaning it will arrive sometime in the future, dragging it from here to there could mean it should be moved there when it arrives.  That's like an instruction.  But people usually don't give instructions to empty air.  Is it better to introduce a bot-like objects or should future actions or 'promises' be turned into an object?

There is also the problem of having too many P2P networks.  They can be abstracted or hidden behind other shapes and forms.  At that point, even services like eBay and Amazon can be thrown into the mesh.  An auction involves someone wanting to sell something they either own or can provide.  Drag and drop this from here to there and eventually a real-world object is 'downloaded' to someone's doorstep.  All this is nice except abstraction and usuability don't often walk hand-in-hand.

I know that I am overstepping the bounds of practicality in many areas, but overreaching is often useful when searching through the solution space.  Anyway, these are kind of things I occupy weekends with these days.

iMovie 5 Wishlist

iMovie 5 Wishlist 08/03/2004 12:09 AM
"So, what would you do to make it better without turning it into Final Cut for Babies, smart guy?" By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

My PowerBook Wishlist

My PowerBook Wishlist 05/02/2004 12:09 AM
I could probably come up with more things, but I did not run that far. By Brian D Foy, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

My Linux Wishlist

My Linux Wishlist 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Googling for "Linux Wishlist" brings up a bunch of old mailing list posts where people wish their soundcards could be detected and various Microsoft Windows applications would be ported over. My list is, well, different. Read on, add your own..

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.2

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.2 09/08/2004 05:49 PM

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.0

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.0 12/16/2003 06:33 PM

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.1

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.1 06/02/2004 05:31 AM

New on my wishlist: Breakfast with
Hunter

New on my wishlist: Breakfast with
Hunter 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
While getting up to date on HST’s ESPN Column Archive , there it was, an advert… Breakfast With Hunter …...

Wishlist: Google Newsreader

Wishlist: Google Newsreader 06/19/2002 01:10 PM
David Cancel writes in to say that he'd be willing to pay a monthly/yearly fee to be able to read the Google newsgroups with a regular newsreader. Unfortunately, as stated in the FAQ, this is not currently possible. I agree, there are many nice newsreaders which are more convenient for comprehensive newsgroup reading (as opposed to simply searching, which Google Groups is great at) which I would like to use to read these groups. As it stands, I can't remember to go back to the websites and check them each day.

raging cow's wishlist

raging cow's wishlist 08/11/2004 12:11 PM
the blog stopped updating just under a year ago

Realtor destroying wishlist.

Realtor destroying wishlist. 12/30/2004 11:12 AM
My recent experiences with realtors show me that: most of them don't know very much about buildings; waste your time...

david's Tivo wishlist

david's Tivo wishlist 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
he's got so many good ideas he's basically a product manager-at-large

iPod Shuffle: More Thoughts, Wishlist

iPod Shuffle: More Thoughts, Wishlist 02/05/2005 09:39 PM

By Barb Dybwad, Unofficial Apple Weblog

Wishlist: Finer Sound Control

Wishlist: Finer Sound Control 08/05/2004 08:41 AM
Sometimes, I simply wish to be able to mute just a particular application on my Mac -- say, Safari, for example, when it is playing some Flash movies -- while continuing to play sounds from other applications such as iTunes and such.

Ask MacSlash: iTunes Features Wishlist

Ask MacSlash: iTunes Features Wishlist 04/28/2004 02:24 PM

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator 09/20/2004 12:47 AM

Watchcow.net

"You want to keep an eye on your Amazon.com wishlist or a particular Amazon.com/de/co.uk item, want to be informed whether and how much the price has been changed, but don't have the time?

Watchcow.net to the rescue! This simple and handy service allows you to passively watch single Amazon products and entire wishlists in your newsreader, such as Bloglines (web), NetNewsWire (Mac), NewsFire (Mac) or FeedDaemon (Windows), just to name a few. It works with every newsreader/-aggregator that supports ATOM feeds. Which, incidently, means pretty much all of them."

Another great service from Carlo Zottmann!

iTunes Music Store wishlist

iTunes Music Store wishlist 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
iTunes wishlist: 1. Ability to create a list of personal favorite songs as playlists/wishlists and publish on a weblog with...

Amazon went and broke their wishlist
links

Amazon went and broke their wishlist
links 12/04/2003 04:59 AM
Change your wishlist link .. the solution .. Paul Bausch

onfocus.com/index.asp?xml=2003_12_01_past.xml#3376
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Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist

Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
I've seen several comments lately about the trend away from the browser and how RSS may contribute to this, it...

Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS
feed

Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS
feed 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I've created a Perl script that generates an RSS feed from your Amazon wishlist contents, including prices and Amazon book links. Fixed the ISBN/ASIN bug, now defaults book links to ISBN.nu instead of Amazon (for cheaper purchasing).

Dear Santa, An SEOs wishlist for Google

Dear Santa, An SEOs wishlist for Google 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Dec 30 2004 10:20PM GMT

Most shoplifted items

Most shoplifted items 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
David Pescovitz: The Food Marketing Institute has ranked the fifty most frequently shoplifted products snatched by organized retail thieves. Organized retail theft (ORT) is "separate and distinct from petty shoplifting in that it involves professional theft rings that move quickly from community to community and across state lines to steal large amounts of merchandise that is then repackaged and sold back into the marketplace." The Top 10 shoplifted items:

#1 Advil tablet 50 ct
#2 Advil tablet 100 ct
#3 Aleve caplet 100 ct
#4 EPT Pregnancy Test single
#5 Gillette Sensor 10 ct
#6 Kodak 200 24 exp
#7 Similac w/iron powder - case
#8 Similac w/iron powder - single can
#9 Preparation H 12 ct
#10 Primatene tablet 24 ct

Link (via Fark and Mahalanobis)

6 Billion Items

6 Billion Items 02/17/2004 11:50 AM
Press Release: Google Achieves Search Milestone With Immediate Access To More Than 6 Billion Items 6B items = 4.28B web pages + 680M images + 845M Usenet messages + a bunch (200M?) of book pages...

Move Items X 1.2.9

Move Items X 1.2.9 11/11/2003 09:11 PM
Move files & folders using hierarchical CM.

Launch Items X 1.7

Launch Items X 1.7 07/02/2004 09:39 PM
Open files with customized applications from contextual menus.

Multiple-enclosures on RSS items?

Multiple-enclosures on RSS items? 12/22/2004 01:10 AM

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, not spec text.

This question comes up from time to time, and I've resisted answering it directly, thinking that anyone who really read the spec would come to the conclusion that RSS allows zero or one enclosures per item, and no more. The same is true for all other sub- elements of item, except category, where multiple elements are explicitly allowed. The spec refers to "the enclosure" in the singular. Regardless, some people persist in thinking that you may have more than one enclosure per item.

Okay, let's play it out. So if I have more than one enclosure per item, how do I specify the publication date for each enclosure? How do I specify the title, author, a link to comments, a description perhaps, or a guid? The people who want multiple enclosures suggest schemes that are so complicated that they're reduced to hand-waving before they get to the spec, which I would love to read, if it could be written. Some times some things are just too hard to do. This is one of them.

And there's a reason why it's too hard. Because you're throwing out the value of RSS and then trying to figure out how to bring it back. There's no need for items any more, so you might as well get rid of them. At the top level of channel would be a series of enclosures, and then underneath each enclosure, all the meta-data. Voila, problem solved. Only what have you actually solved? You've just re-created RSS, but instead of calling the main elements "item" we now call them "enclosure".

Sometimes linear thinking leads you to a dead-end, and this is one of those times, imho. You end up in a torus, there's no wall that says "you may go no further" but somehow you keep going in circles, chasing your tail, re-inventing RSS, when there's absolutely no need to.

So people ask how will we fit show notes into RSS? Maybe we won't. When you get into show notes, think outlines, and think about linking MP3s into outline structures. I think this has more potential. I could be wrong of course (not joking).

Comment here .

School items online

School items online 04/06/2005 09:22 AM
Kansascity.com - Wed Apr 6, 10:18 am GMT

RSS, updated items, and links

RSS, updated items, and links 12/29/2004 08:29 PM
One of the big differences between RSS and email is that RSS items can change.

So the question for any newsreader developer is this: what changes should trigger an item being marked as unread?

Specifically, today I’m thinking about a subset of that question: changes to <link> elements.

Take this hypothetical case:

1. An item looks like this:

<title>A title</title>
<description>A description</description>
<link>http://example.org/1</link>
<guid>123</guid>

2. Then the feed updates, and the <link> element changes:

<title>A title</title>
<description>A description</description>
<link>http://example.org/2</link>
<guid>123</guid>

The question: should it be marked as unread or not?

Right now, NetNewsWire marks it as unread. My policy has always been to err on the side of marking things unread—on the assumption that, otherwise, you might miss something important.

(Actually, NetNewsWire marks it as updated, and you have a pref that says whether or not to mark updated items as unread. Which most people leave turned on.)

The RSS 2.0 spec doesn’t address the issue of when to consider an item significantly changed—and I’m not sure the spec should say anything about that.

Of course, I don’t want new prefs or special cases, I want the best policy.

Perhaps changes to <link>s should not cause an item to be marked unread. What do you think?



On a related topic...

People have often asked me why we can’t use the <link> element as a unique identifier and permalink for news items.

It can’t be a unique identifier because it may change. The New York Times feeds, for instance, change their <link>s frequently: they include a query string that allows you to get past the registration system, and that query string changes. (It’s the New York Times feeds that prompted the discussion above about ignoring <link> changes.)

<link>s can’t be permalinks because there is nothing that says that a <link> has to be a permalink—it could point to another site entirely.

Which is why I always ask people to use <guid>s in their feeds, so we can identify items, so we can know when an item is an updated version of a previous item.

(About Atom there is one thing I adore: that guids—called <id>s there—are mandatory. I wish they could be mandatory in RSS too.)

Old Pay Phones Become Novelty Items (AP)

Old Pay Phones Become Novelty Items (AP) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
AP - Old pay phones are selling like they're going out of style.

Jackson Items Given to Investigators
(AP)

Jackson Items Given to Investigators
(AP) 05/03/2004 01:38 PM
AP - Underwear worn by Michael Jackson and handwritten notes were among Jackson items belonging to a businessman that were turned over to prosecutors in his child-sex case.

Japanese Sith Items

Japanese Sith Items 04/01/2005 02:08 AM
Magnets, Towels, Keychains, Mugs, Fans, Clocks, and more are coming exclusively to Japan. Here's a mini-gallery to peruse.

Items matching ( gmail )

Items matching ( gmail ) 04/30/2004 11:29 PM
selling their invitations to the Gmail beta on Ebay .. Look at 'em all! .. on

search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co m%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=Me taEndSort&query=gmail
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Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing 07/16/2004 11:53 AM
Wishlist: the million monkeys at a million typewriters plugin A Whole Lotta Nothing .. matt wants a public editing of blog posts .. a.wholelottanothing.org

a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007942
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"Debugger Window Menu Items: Where
should they be?"

"Debugger Window Menu Items: Where
should they be?" 06/18/2004 08:48 PM

Add login items via the command line

Add login items via the command line 03/22/2005 03:39 PM
This is simple but handy command to add LoginItems (items that are executed after the user logs in) via the command line using the default tool. To add a normal startup item, use this syntax: defaults write loginwindow AutoL...

Collector's Gallery Adds More Items

Collector's Gallery Adds More Items 06/03/2004 08:42 AM
From Collector's Gallery: Star Wars unleashed figures wave 7 IN STOCK. Star Wars trilogy DVD set preorder. 50 Vintage & Classic items added including loose Imperial shuttle, boxed Tie Interceptor, Imperial attack base MIB, POTF Tatooine Skiff MIB, vintage buttons, plush ewoks, school supplies, household items & more. See the list here...
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