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Managing Feeds Using Feeds

the atom landscape is moving again: draft-divilly-atompub-hierarchy has just been published as a first draft spelling out how to use feeds for managing feeds. the model is based on the idea that posting an entry to a master collection implicitly... Read more →

MIME Matters

when i recently tried to download the schedule for our local swimming pools with my iPhone, i was disappointed when safari said it could not display this document. the document is a pretty simple PDF and displays without problems on... Read more →

LocWeb 2009 Deadline Extension

The deadline for the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009) originally was yesterday (10/23). We have extended this deadline until Sunday (10/26), because we received some requests for an extended deadline. We are under a tight... Read more →

XML 1.0.5

XML 1.0 (Fifth Edition) has been a W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation for a long time now (since February 2008), and recently some pretty popular voices raised new concerns (most notably, James Clark and Tim Bray said this would be a... Read more →

LocWeb 2009 Second Call for Participation

Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009) April 4, 2009 In conjunction with CHI 2009, Boston, USA (April 4-9, 2009) Second Call for Participation Position Paper Submission Deadline: October 23, 2008 Workshop Website: http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/locweb2009/ Submission System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=locweb2009... Read more →

Off xml.com

when i recently wrote something on xml.com and mostly complained about the fact how the transition from xml.com to the general o'reilly blogging infrastructure had been handled, the post did appear in the general o'reilly post stream, but was not... Read more →

Accessing Sitemaps

when i recently started crawling for sitemaps, i somehow assumed that they would be publicly available. after all, they should be available for directing search engines how to better crawl a site. some of them are not even available, returning... Read more →

Blogging Burnout

over the past month (and thanks, TypePad, for producing that useless paged stuff instead of just listing the titles as an overview, which would be far too useful...), i have written one blog post per day. i mostly did it... Read more →

Document Design Matters

XML Fever was our article in July's Communication of the ACM (CACM) on how people attribute almost magical powers to XML. We focused on XML technologies, how people use them, how people get attached to them, and how this utilization... Read more →

Equality, Identity, and URI Canonicalization

equality and identity are not identical, but they may be equal under certain circumstances. let me explain. identity claims that you are talking about the same thing (let's not delve into philosophical ontology here). equality claims that for given circumstances... Read more →