This morning I remembered that I used to read a feed of photos from Flickr for a river of news site I created. I found that feed and added it to my River5 install, generated a river file, and created a photocasting site with the flow of photos from Flickr, using the same code from my artcasting site – excellent!
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While I was looking at the page for the FeedLand WordPress plugin, noticed this list of feed OPML files…interesting….
WordPress plugin to get content from FeedLand – I should try this out sometime…
Did some more work on my artcasting site today, figured out how the riverBrowser package renders each item from a River5 river file, added a new utility function to riverbrowser.js to get the enclosure URL and create HTML to display the picture – looks good!
Decided to shift my artcasting focus to creating a river of art (think River of News or the current “news product” feature in FeedLand). I created a new River5 river file and have the first cut displaying at artcasting.andysylvester.com – still need to modify the riverBrowser toolkit to display the images.
Followup on artcasting test – I did not see anything appear on the admin page of my MyStatusTool install. Checked to see that I could read one of the BlueSky art feeds using reallySimple, that worked. Looked at the myItems.json file from my server, did not see any items there, so I am wondering if the rssCloud part of the BlueSky art feeds is working. Will continue to investigate…
Decided to try reading artcasting feeds in MyStatusTool (following Colin Walker and Dave Winer’s lead). I noticed, however, in the artcasting test feed that there is no cloud element, which MyStatusTool relies on for updates. Looked at Dave Winer’s river of art feeds, saw they had the cloud element, and added them into my feed list. Will check periodically to see if I see anything…
Who is using JSON-LD? CNN…
During the recent high news flow events for the US House speaker, CNN’s live-blog posts for a single day were a great capturing of the events as the happened. One thing that I noticed was that there did not seem to be a way to link to individual items in the blog. After doing a “view-source”, I saw this text:
What I saw appeared to be JSON-LD. I saw that there was a url item for each post. Here is a link to an item on Nancy Mace – the page comes up with that item at the top, and older items being displayed after it. Interesting…wonder who else is using technology.
Dave Winer mentioned on Sunday that he is “feeling an itch” to create a chat program that produces a RSS feed as the result. Colin Walker mentioned that MyStatusTool seemed to fit the bill, and I agree! I wrote a post back in June 2023 on the topic of MyStatusTool for groups. Can someone let Dave Winer know about it? Thanks!