The July issue of First Monday has appeared with a couple of interesting articles: The grey digital divide — Perception, exclusion and barriers of access to the Internet for older people (by Peter Millward) The impact of digital games in education (by Begoña Gros)
Feedster (a search engine for RSS feeds) recently added the ability to index your entire site. Normally, it will read your RSS feed to add entries to its index. But, if you've set up your RSS feed to only provide a recent number of entires (like 10), you might want to ask Feedster to get caught up with all of your posts. Here are the steps I followed to do this from MovableType: Log in to MT, navigate to Edit Templates page Edit your RSS template and copy the Template Body Create a new RSS template (with suitable name and…
Morbus Iff comments on the Subscriptions Harmonizer and brings up good points about using OPML as the transfer formats. This just focuses on the aggregator possibilities, and doesn’t consider OPML sniffers that could create blog “six-degree” communities (based on XML, as opposed to scraping blogroll HTML). Is there a standard convention for linking to your site’s blogroll and/or subscriptions list? I’ve seen some discussion about this but need to dig a little further. In my case my blogroll and subscriptions list are the same, but I can see where they might be different.
Dave Winer is sketching out a concept for a Subscriptions Harmonizer web service. The idea is to keep your aggregators in sync with each other when run from multiple locations (home, office, laptop, etc.). I commented that my old FTPStore hack for AmphetaDesk is quite similar. Cool, Dave linked to my comment. If anyone arriving here from Dave's site wants to give FTPStore a try, go for it.
Getting caught up on things… Home broadband usage survey shows that 31% of home Internet users have a broadband connection at home, up from 21% a year ago. That's not too bad. In my neighborhood, our only choice is still DSL because the cable system is antiquated. [Via Phil Windley] Firebird Extras — bookmarking this list of cool Firebird addons for when I finally get around to trying it out URL run-down — great list of articles related to best practices for URL design; I've ready most of the articles he points to, but there are some new ones worth…