Tom Morris: 2006-07-09

2006.07.09

Not quite working. When it does, you guys are gonna freak. This is going to be so cool! I've got the guts of the client side working, now I just need to work out how it works on the server. I've managed to get XML-RPC pings to flow from the Editor and to my script. I just need to iron out the bugs and then write up some front end. 2006-07-09T20:37:40Z

Testing my new client. Smile and a wink Unless you're a tech voyeur, you can safely ignore this. 2006-07-09T20:26:25Z

Hawk Wings has a post all about interesting email client designs that break from the Outlook style. 2006-07-09T17:18:45Z

Colin McGinn is bang on. 2006-07-09T17:17:27Z

LiveJournal are adding Jabber support. This is great news. 2006-07-09T17:10:59Z

Just in case any of you were in any doubt at all, DaveScot really is a moron. 2006-07-09T17:09:07Z

As well as my work for Grazr, I've come up with a very neat idea about how we can route around the downtime problem with the OPML Community Server. Believe me when I say: this is going to be cool. It uses FTP, curl, PHP, Perl, XML-RPC, two servers and a client talking to each other and a heady dose of inspiration from Radio UserLand and much more. There are little bugs with it - or perhaps features - that means it may take a bit of time to become perfect. I'm trying to make it as non-obtrusive a process as possible, 2006-07-09T15:01:30Z

Podshow 2006-07-08T15:44:08Z

There's been a lot of discussion about the RSS stuff with Podshow Plus. Yes, it's mildly interesting, and it's now fixed (apparently).

I don't quite understand what Podshow Plus actually does. It seems to be a very confused Digg meets MySpace meets Podcast Alley. What does it actually do other than show me a podcast feed liberally covered in horrible banner ads.

If I'm looking for a podcast, the key bit is the RSS feed. I need to know the RSS feed. That way I can tell my aggregators (plural, since I currently have many). If I want to see what my friends are looking at, I'll email them or find their listening list (in OPML). Each show has about four different pages, and only one of these has the link to the XML feed.

I'm going to blow my (company's) trumpet here, but Podshow needs an about page. It's looks to me like the podcasting version of Homer Simpson's ill-fated Internet startup - "CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet". Marge asked Homer: "What exactly is it your company does again?" and Homer responds: "The industry moves so fast it's really hard to tell." Smile and a wink

This is crazy, you know. I've been listening to Adam for long enough, but I still don't know what Podshow+ does. This shoudln't be the case.

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom

AIM: tommorris
YIM: tom.morris

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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