Bloglines Enclosure Download

I just published my “Bloglines enclosure downloader” script. This started as an experiment with the Bloglines service APIs. As other applications (in particular, Doppler) continued to advance, I put this on hold. Doppler had promised support for Bloglines support in version 1, so I waited. Once the final Doppler came out, I realized it wasn’t quite the way I wanted. So, I did some more hacking on my little Perl script to create a 340-liner that works for me and might work for others. This script has the key features I’m looking for, in particular the automatic association with a…

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Podcasts of Interest

I’ve been finding more and more podcasts out there and listening to as many as possible on my new Zen Touch. The problem — as others have pointed out — is not having enough hours in the day to listen to all of this. In Bloglines I subscribe to about 180 feeds, but I do a lot of skimming which lets me keep up. With audio, I’ve realized I need to be more selective on the feeds I follow. With that in mind, here are podcasts that I’ve found consistently interesting: Brainwagon is Mark VandeWettering talking about a variety of…

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CityDesk Slideshows

Having previously shown how the S5 slideshow system can be integrated with MovableType, I thought CityDesk might also be a nice integration point. CityDesk makes it easy to edit web pages and has a pretty powerful template system that would allow creation of S5-formatted output files. Result: after an hour or two of fiddling, I created a sample CityDesk project file that, when published, creates an S5 slideshow of the content inside. CityDesk S5 Slideshows Update: Now linked from CityDeskNews! If anyone reading this finds it useful or wants any help, just let me know. S5 is a new standards-based…

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S5 and MovableType

(Updated: Corrected link to the sample presentation.) Anil Dash from Six Apart posted instructions for implementing Eric Meyer’s S5 slideshow system with MovableType templates. This is a great example of both the simplicity of the S5 system and the power of a template-driven website. In a couple of minutes, I implemented the technique on Cantoni.org to see how well it works (see Cantoni.org Slideshow for the result). The longer posts and images overflow the page, but it’s a quick example that shows what is possible.

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Sports/Racing Blogs

There seems to be a scarcity of good quality weblogs about racing, but I just found Full Throttle which looks good. (Their RSS feed is not linked from the main page, but with a little digging I found it: Full Throttle RSS feed.) I also found Sports Blog which is kind of a meta-weblog, bringing in reports from a bunch of authors on different sports, including racing. I’ve made my own feed (scraped) for Jayski’s Silly Season which is a really good NASCAR source. I need to propose that they put out an RSS feed as well.

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