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a little news

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Oh dear, poor old Sputnik. How you are neglected. Only some links this time around – I’m doing more literary stuff over at reeling and writhing these days, and the tech reading has fallen off quite a lot: most of my news comes from ReadWriteWeb, which means most of you have already read it.
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it’s probably been there 4evah

Thursday, July 27, 2006

I don’t know how long this has been happening for, but over at the Guardian’s mega-blog, Comment Is Free, posts are digg-able, del.icio.us taggable and Technorati-searchable. Roll on Australian broadsheets, with your online community….It looks as though the user-moderated comment function on the Guardian blog site is still in place, so that must be proving [...]

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technorati search: a bit of a fizzer

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Here’s something I heard, and can bear out from an annoying experience over at my other blog.
Link via Trevor Cook.
I’m just about to trial a Blogbar search box over at You Cried for Night as a result of this.
I’ve been tidying up the site and decided to try looking for some stuff I’ve [...]

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news of web building blocks

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Tantek Çelik has posted to the Technorati weblog on the introduction of Microformats Search and a microformats – compatible ping-back service felicitously named, “Pingerati”.
Çelik has proclaimed Microformats to be ‘the key building block, the lingua franca, that make (sic) structured information open and sharable on the Web.’ He’s forgetting about a few others (and here’s [...]

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smashed post

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

It’s a while ago now, but there was an interesting report in the Nation about US phone and cable companies’ interest in privatising the Internet.
On other jaunts, I found a new bookmarker/browser/blog editor all in one, probably in beta by now, called Flock. It has been compared favourably to a similar product, Qumana, by Michael [...]

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