Excellent video from MediaCultures about the internet. Data is being shared, mixed, remixed, to produce something amazing. I think this is what Tim Berners-Lee meant when he conceived of hypertext.
UPDATE: This script is down permanently, as I’m no longer at the University of Windsor.
CJAM is a local radio station broadcasting on 91.5FM run out of the University of Windsor. They provide Mp3 Archives of their shows split at 60 minute intervals, which usually coincides with a show-change. Unfortunately, though this list of mp3s updates hourly, [...]
I’ve been working on an OpenID plugin for Wordpress.
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. The wpopenid plugin lets visitors to a Wordpress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID. It streamlines the wordpress user registration loop, and aims to do it seamlessly in the context of the [...]
Indolence is the mother of all invention. I couldn’t be bothered to actually check the threadlist for the forum I frequent, I wanted the list of new threads delivered to me as an RSS feed. Instead of a forum plugin or hack, which Cortana in general doesn’t like, I was left with two options. The [...]
In a moment of weakness today, I considered creating a client for the ebay api which would poll for updated bidding history on a handful of auctions, and store that information in a simple database. It would make for suitable content to syndicate into the mt forum thread tracking the financial victory of Ping. Sadly, [...]
Update (2006-10-09): This has been supplanted by the WPOpenID plugin.
Threw together a quick’n’dirty plugin for Wordpress this afternoon, now accepting arbitrary local account creation for OpenID identities. Anyone with an LJ or other OpenID server should be able to login and comment on this post.
Update: As requested, you can download the wordpress openid plugin source. [...]
I had a working ajax implemention of OpenID, but it’s broken now. I’ve poked and prodded it, and quite frankly I have no idea what happened. I suspect it might be a schroedinbug, which is why I havn’t asked the list about it, for fear of infecting their mindpsace. Two seperate implementations of mine, on [...]
Ben Hyde has put together an excellent illustation of the various calls and processes involved in OpenID validation. It would great if this diagram were augmented with one describing the equivalent process for an ajax-style solution.