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Politickr.net Yahoo Pipes campaign sites mashup

Posted on Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:30 PM by Andrew Chadwick

This is in the same vein as David Silver's and David de Ugarte's wannabepresidents aggregator, only more so, with flickr photos, youtube videos and blog posts from all the current US presidential candidates. Built with Yahoo Pipes, so you'll be able to customise it if you have the time and the patience.

Wikipedia edit wars

Posted on Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 4:48 PM by Andrew Chadwick

There's been some discussion on the AOIR list lately of Wikipedia "edit wars" - conflicts that break out over the precise content of entries. This page illustrates some of these. The academic in me makes me think that some of these are actually pretty serious and not at all lame, but maybe that's my problem.

Zotero

Posted on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 7:22 PM by Andrew Chadwick

Looks very promising.

Web services

Posted on Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 4:53 PM by Andrew Chadwick

Some small, but extremely interesting new things over the last few months in the field of genuinely useful web services:

Writely - a web-based web processor.

Foldershare - free file storage and synchronization. Recently bought by Microsoft to fit with their new Windows Live service, so I wonder how long it will stay free.

Yousendit - not that new, but brilliant.

Wordpress.com - hosted version of the free and open source Wordpress blogging platform

Foxmarks - Free bookmarks synch that actually works.

Roll your own search

Posted on Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:46 AM by Andrew Chadwick

Rollyo personalised search is an idea whose time has certainly come. If only I could create something similar that would crawl the major e-journal databases (Ingenta etc) to save me having to log in to each one...

Blog software

Posted on Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:59 PM by Andrew Chadwick

Today, after a lengthy discussion with Martin and Owen, two of the e-learning staff at my college, I came to the conclusion that there's a real gap in the market for a proper server based blogging platform that also has a simple way of creating posts offline, and of backing up an entire blog to a directory system on a hard drive - for peace of mind. I use the excellent free and open source Thingamablog for this very blog, which comes close to these requirements, but it doesn't offer all of the functionality of other true server based platforms like Moveable Type or Wordpress, such as the ability to post from anywhere, and from multiple devices. Thingamablog relies on a locally created database that can be duplicated on multiple machines but obviously this isn't as useful as having the ability to post from an Internet cafe or your mobile phone. I know it's possible to export an entire blog from many platforms, but then you'd have to import the whole thing again to be able to read it. Maybe there are other solutions out there. I'll have to look into it.

Comments and trackbacks added

Posted on Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:26 PM by Andrew Chadwick

After much highly unsuccessful messing around with php and perl I opted for Haloscan to add comments and trackback functionality to the blog templates. All appears to be going well so far, though I'm bracing myself for 'comments spam' right now.

Comments

Posted on Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 7:58 PM by Andrew Chadwick

Over the next few weeks I'll be attempting to add features to the blog itself. Top of the list is some sort of add-on that will allow people to post comments.

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