Mikes Wordpress blog

a new Blog (post) is born

mseyfang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:07:42 +0000

Congratulations to Christine on the birth of her first blog post for Wine2030.

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Fang – Mike seyfang

ScribeFire 3.4.5 – is it still broken for me and all my blogs?

mseyfang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:29:11 +0000

Just updated (yet) again.

My RSS feed now realtime tks to wordpress.com for implementing rsscloud

mseyfang — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:20:20 +0000

Another good reason to use hosted wordpress.com – the good folks have already implemented realtime RSS extensions for me using Dave Winer’s rsscloud method.

Having just clued-in to the latest on realtime RSS reading about TypePad implementing the alternative pubsubhububb I set out to find out what is required to get this happening on my wordpress blog. If you host your own you need to install the plug-in. On wordpress.com tis already implemented – take a look at the source of my RSS feed and search for ‘cloud’.

What’s the big deal. Well to paraphrase TechCrunch – it is now possible to de-centralise realtime, which means we might finally get some of the cool stuff back from centralised services like twitter.

This could also mean the beginning of a new format war for the real-time web, reminiscent of the old RSS vs Atom battles. Another groups of developers, lead by Brad Fitzpatrick, published a format and cloud hub known as pubsubhubbub, which is now being supported by Google Reader. There is sure to be much discussion of WordPress.com falling into the RSSCloud camp, and which protocol/format/method etc. is better than the other (a debate we will engage in on this blog, no doubt).

Services such as Twitter and Friendfeed centralize real-time data and updates. RSSCloud and broader support of such a protocol is a step in the direction of decentralizing such services.

Fang – Mike Seyfang

testing scribefire

mseyfang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:57:47 +0000

thats all.
Nothing to see here.
Move along now.

Hey Baden… [Mandy's flickr photo feed]

mseyfang — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:42:25 +0000

Dude,

Add this feed to yer phone:

http://tr.im/mandyflickr

[copy n paste]

I P A S

mseyfang — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:51:21 +0000

First draft silent stop-motion made with ‘frickin LASERs’ and a Nikon D80.

a morning in the life of my LetterBox

mseyfang — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:31:09 +0000

DSLR time-lapse of my letterbox and friends on a winters morning.

mix1 – a Rotifer’s Luncheon

mseyfang — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:19:46 +0000

Very rough mashup of each of the digital artifacts (pictures, video and audio) from a work shadow day at the Environment Institute.

RotiferHeliconFocus – animation

mseyfang — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:59 +0000

Short movie made up of the individudal images of a Rotifer combined by Helicon Focus software to produce the final sharp composite image.

Rotifer Luncheon – slideshow

mseyfang — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:06:05 +0000

A rough and ready slide-show made from a handful of photographs taken during Nicole's Work Shadow day at the University of Adelaide. Created using iPhoto 09 – Export to iPod.

The photos are on flickr at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/tags/uofaremix/

Feel free to use them or this video in your own ReMix.