http://www.educer.org cooler than educr Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:50:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Really, I want to do more writing. It seems though that every time I bring up a post window in Educer to start pounding away at the keyboard, I justify myself away from the post because it's (a) not long enough, (b) doesn't fit the normal subject matter, or (c) ... http://www.educer.org/2010/01/03/i-want-to-publish-more-stuff/ $new_standard = strtolower("Twitter"); In the last couple of weeks, both Wordpress and Tumblr have announced support for the Twitter API. The immediate benefits are that any forward thinking Twitter client can now also be a Wordpress or Tumblr client as well. Tweetie, one of the most popular iPhone clients, has had support ... http://www.educer.org/2009/12/22/the-de-construction-of-twitter/ Google launched a public DNS option today as part of their "effort to make the web faster". It comes complete with a concise write up and extremely easy to remember IPs (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4).I've switched my connection from OpenDNS to Google for now. While all of the benchmarks that I've ... http://www.educer.org/2009/12/03/googles-dns/ The other night I pushed out Toppics, my first little app that plays with Twitter's Trending Topics.At the moment it grabs the current trending topics from Twitter every several minutes while searching every few minutes for new tweets that mention twitpic.com as well as the topic. Toppics, get it. :)Version ... http://www.educer.org/2009/11/30/my-first-stab-at-a-trending-topics-app-toppics/ A lot of work is still involved with using Twitter.Example.I was just reading a story on the Ft. Hood shootings in the CNN application on my iPod and saw a line in the middle of the story that said "Twitter list: Keep up with who we're following". Now, this is ... http://www.educer.org/2009/11/06/twitter-is-still-hard-thoughts-on-cross-application-usability/ A quick thought that's slightly longer than 140 characters and refuses to be tweeted.It used to be that I would often purchase empty journals, mostly Moleskine, to record different moments in time. Now I'm realizing that my brain has started defaulting to "ooh, I should register a domain and setup ... http://www.educer.org/2009/10/10/journaling-and-such/ Or at least that's what I thought you were supposed to be. But that's not what I'm seeing. What I am seeing is the groundwork for a real time network-- link rel="hub" has been added to every Blogger feed and every FeedBurner feed, no? What I am not seeing are ... http://www.educer.org/2009/09/29/on-pubsubhubbub-part-2-get-with-it-push-youre-supposed-to-be-realtime/ The web is live.Yes, seriously, it is there there already.I built a public aggregator that supports RSS Cloud and PubSubHubbub. Dave Winer has a public aggregator that supports RSS Cloud. Lazyfeed has an aggregator that supports RSS Cloud and PubSubHubbub. Google Reader has started to adopt PubSubHubbub. Many more are ... http://www.educer.org/2009/09/29/on-rss-cloud-and-pubsubhubbub-part-1-publishers-have-some-work-to-do/ The third post written is the first post published. How does that work?Anyhow.Number One.As of last night, My Status Cloud has support for both RSS Cloud and pubsubhubbub.Now, while everyone decides which protocol to use, we can just use them. Ship both first, then decide. I like that answer the ... http://www.educer.org/2009/09/29/my-status-cloud-now-supporting-rss-cloud-and-pubsubhubbub/ Don't worry, if Chicago isn't already in your head, then the title won't make sense. Just smile and nod. But. Also. If you thought we were good looking before, check us out now. :)I've been meaning to do some layout work on My Status Cloud, and finally sat down to ... http://www.educer.org/2009/09/22/my-status-cloud-feelin-prettyer-every-day/