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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WordPress plugin to get content from FeedLand – I should try this out sometime…
Staying away from the shopping crowds, listening to the iHeart Christmas Jazz channel to get in the spirit!
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…
Tracy Durnell: Recursive human thought – “How much will replacing the thinking work of writing with generating content dull and slow progression of ideas?“
Patrick Newman: Engineering management checklist – looks like a good list..
Chuck Grimmett has written about digital gardens, and also recently wrote about the desire to have feeds for such sites. Andrew Shell has done some work in this area, creating tools for generating feeds for Federated Wiki sites. Any other garden/wiki tools out there for this use case?