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An experiment, brought to you by the need to restart my browser to get an extension installed, and the realization that once I clicked a couple of times to “bookmark all tabs in a folder” I would have a definition list with links and page titles in <dt> tags, already created for me, in bookmarks.html. Open up the Bookmark Manager, and Properties let me add a description that winds up in <dd> elements. Run it through (X)HTML Tidy to get rid of the upper-case tags (how did we live with HTML SHOUTING AT US all those years?), and then… ish. All I had to do was manually take out all the attributes on every link for add_date, last_modified, last_charset, id, and icon. That part’s ripe for a little scripting to automate it. Might make a nice excuse to learn how to use Python’s SGML parser.

Bloglines

Just the new stuff, whenever from wherever.

SitePoint Blogs : Dynamically Typed

This is an interesting post on Harry Fuecks’ SitePoint Blog. Because the page title and URL both suck, I don’t know which one right now.

Blogrolling.com’s OPML Import/Export

“the OPML format is pretty simple. Writing a script or application to extract the information from such a file is so easy that you don’t really need to import an XML parser; ordinary string parsing should be sufficient.” … “Please note that as of this writing, OPML importing is in beta and has one notable bug: it fails to import the blog represented by the first <outline> element.”

Dr Feed Good – Online Feed Valiations for RSS and Atom

New validator in town. Typoing “validation” in your validator’s page title seems a bit like correcting someone’s grammar by saying “that ain’t right,” though.

http://feedvalidator.org/testcases/rss/must/foaf_person.xml

Note to self: ask if this is really supposed to be double-testing by being not-well-formed.

As I May Think…: Making Categorization work: (PSI) Published Subject Indicators

Feels oh-so-close to being a topic/subject/category breakthrough.

apophenia: what i want in an RSS tool

RSS of anything you want, entry, category, author, whatever. Isn’t that a WordPress feature?

MarketingWonk: Lots of Bloggers, But Too Few for Pew

Only two to eight times as many bloggers as Larry King watchers.

Creating Internet Content – LibraryPlanet.com

Hardly anyone blogs, but then, how many publish books or have television shows?

[Altered from a Xenu broken link report]

Broken links make the Baby Jesus cry. Xenu makes Him happy.

Gnutella.com

Bears a passing resemblance to the former “What is Gnutella?” page at gnutellanews.com

What is Gnutella?

The page itself, thanks to the fine folks at archive.org

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS

I know a seeeecret! But I’m not telling, I’m afraid. Sorry.

Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious

If you’re not a researcher who wants to look over bloggers’ shoulders, do you really need “via” links on everything? I do them when it’s an odd source for me, or when the person had something good to say about the link, but I’m not obsessive about giving or getting them. Should I be? How about if my “via” is a links-blog, with a “via” another one, with a “via” another… how much of the chain do I have to reproduce? (via Wired’s RSS feed, and a dozen others)

Slashdot | Bloggers’ Plagiarism Scientifically Proven

Slashdot on the shocking news that bloggers steal links from each other. Surprisingly enough, the comments aren’t all the same old drivel. Is our little /. growing up?

Pudding Time!: Show Us Your Fishing Hole

Might have persuaded me that always “via”ing was a good thing, if it weren’t for the title. My unshakeable policy for fishing is “how, always; where, never.” (stolen via The River Why)

BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs

(via Wired)

http://www-idl.hpl.hp.com/cgi-bin…evhead.com…

(via BlogPulse) I hate Java applets.

Scott Young’s Radio Weblog

UserLand’s future plans.

Syndication Studio 2004 – howdev.com

A desktop app for creating RSS, OPML, and Atom feeds. Funny thing, I was just thinking about doing a crappy, online thing like this in PHP the other day. I’m betting theirs works better.

How To Speed-Read the Net – Ditch your browser

Paul Boutin on RSS. One thing I never really noticed before: one of the main purposes of Syndic8 is to let you search for feeds, but the search box is seriously hidden away in the depths of the home page.

SourceForge.net: Modify:910408 – Dates not correctly handled as per RFC822

Note to self: look at test cases and obscure forms of RFC (2)822 dates, and don’t forget the “obsolete but still required” forms hidden away in the appendix. Also: are military time zones really backward in 822?

Syndic8.com – Feed List

Note to self: remember Syndic8 login, set that rss092main.php feed to “replaced by the one true feed”.

redemption in a blog: Link Toolbar for Firefox

I’m with Cheah Chu Yeow: I don’t know why I’ve been skipping over the Link Toolbar for Firefox. Well, partly it’s because of the “Toolbar” in the title, but it’s actually a status bar panel, down in the bottom of the screen where it’s out of the way, just waiting to tell you whether or not RSS autodiscovery is likely to work on that page.

anil dash’s daily links: February 29, 2004 – March 06, 2004 Archives

Anil gets more IM spam in a day than he’s gotten comment spam in his life? I’ve got four different scripts that could change that in a few minutes (or tens of minutes, depending on the latency of my proxies).

Burningbird: How are you tonight?

Better, after a fix of Shell’s writing, that’s how. Thanks.

Blogzilla – a blog about Mozilla: Download Manager is Giving You the Finger

I did notice that the Firefox Download Manager seemed to be trying to tell me something, but the doctors tell me not to tell people about thoughts like that. I think I’ll reinstall the Download Statusbar extension. It’s way nicer, anyway, and it’s never made a rude gesture at me.