Cleaning out my old web pages, here are some links to friends, et al.
It looks like my list of PDA optimized (or PDA friendly) web sites is becoming quite popular and is now the most-requested page from this site. Thanks to some mentions on Palm, Treo, and Sony discussion groups, a lot of people seem to have found it. I’m also the number one hit for “PDA Optimized” on Google which is kind of cool. For some unknown reason Google is also showing some of my pages with my IP address rather than domain name. I’ll need to figure out where that’s coming from. Original article about PDA friendly web sites: http://www.cantoni.org/2002/04/11/pda_optimized_web_sites PDA…
The GeoURL project is building a database of websites and their geographical coordinates. There is an interactive map and a “neighbors” feature that will show you web sites close (physically) to you. GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. What the heck, it’s worth experimenting with. I looked up my latitude and longitude and added the appropriate tags to my primary web page. Now I’m in the database: Cantoni.org on GeoURL. To add…
Last week I added a green “sub” icon in addition to the usual orange “xml” representation for this site’s RSS feed. The green sub links to the Syndication Subscription Service which reads the RSS file and displays a set of links to add this channel to various news aggregators. Try it now with this site’s RSS feed: Cantoni.org RSS feed The service can also expand a list of subscribed channels from OPML or OCS format. It wasn’t quite working for my AmphetaDesk subscriptions, but Morten Frederiksen was nice enough to add the support. (AmphetaDesk uses a slight variant of OPML,…
Phil Gyford wrote a great summary of weblog terms that many weblog authors probably take for granted but may be confusing for new readers.