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Monthly Archives: March 2009
DDAM: Don’t discriminate against machines
I’d like to emphasise a point that Emma Mulqueeny has alluded to in her seven principles for digital engagement and which I also made in passing in my previous article on building local news mashups. The web is rife with … Continue reading
Adding Twitter autodiscovery to your website
There are various lists of UK councils which use Twitter floating around. I assume that some are compiled manually and others by screen scrapers. Given that the rel=”alternate” attribute of (X)HTML’s <link> element is already semantically broken by the widely-adopted … Continue reading
Francis Maude is wrong about Twitter and Flickr
Photo from Francis Maude, Creative Commons by-nc-nd UK licence. As news reaches us that Gordon Brown has shut down his public email address, Conservative chairman Francis Maude goes on the offensive: Gordon Brown is spending taxpayers’ money on the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Conservatives, Flickr, Francis Maude, social networking, Twitter
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Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS
(Click on the image to download the PDF, 19KB, opens in new window/tab.) Like this? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adrianshort I’m a self-confessed and unashamed news junkie and this is how I’m starting to mash up news in my local … Continue reading
Posted in Software design, Sutton
Tagged apis, atom, Delicious, Hpricot, mashups, mysql, news, Paul Burstow, rss, Ruby, Stonecot Hill News, Sutton Council, Sutton Guardian, Twitter, TwitterFeed, Yahoo! Pipes
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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 3: Starting a chess club
Brian loves chess but finds it hard to get a decent match with an opponent at his level. He’d love to start a local chess club but doesn’t want to take the risk of setting something up and having too … Continue reading
Posted in Sutton, Web design
Tagged iCalendar, PledgeBank, rss, Sutton Guardian, Upcoming
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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 2: Street faults
Early one Sunday morning, Mark walks to the newsagent for his paper. He almost literally trips over a metal street bollard that has been uprooted from somewhere and dumped a couple of doors down from his house. He scans the … Continue reading
Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 1: The library
Susan is a bookworm and regular library user. She filters the RSS feed of new acquisitions at her local library for the names of authors which she likes and reads it on her phone. One morning a new book by one of her … Continue reading
My thermometer has got an API
Meet my thermometer. It’s an old-school analogue device, probably at least 50 years old. I don’t expect it’s very accurate, certainly not by scientific standards. It hangs outside my door and every now and then I take a look at … Continue reading
Posted in Software design
Tagged apis, everyware, Internet of Things, sensors, thermometers, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing
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