Enriching Blog Calendar.

Most blogs have a calendar for navigation but not for much else.  I was thinking how nice it would be to enrich it automatically with other information like birthdays of people on blogroll, anniversaries, schedule of conferences I am planning to attend, etc.

Size of the calendar will have to get a little bigger, but mouse-over sensitive date specific details can be displayed in an area immediately below the calendar.  FOAF and iCal/vCal formats can be useful here.  Calendars are also amazing yet under-utilized advertising medium IMHO.

[Don Park's Daily Habit]

Don writes about something I hadn't even thought about:  my calendar.  I don't use it and don't see why others would.  I read weblogs for two reasons:  topical content and continuing stories.  I'd be more interested in a good category list rather than a calendar.  I'm considering removing mine.  Can anyone out there educate me about the calendar's benefits?

Chuq on RSS and mailing lists. Here[base ']s a great post by Chuq Von Rospach on RSS and mailing lists. If I had to name the world[base ']s expert on mailing lists, it would be Chuq.

(One of these days I[base ']m going to implement Trackback… but until then, it[base ']s the old-fashioned method.) [inessential.com]

My post will echo Brent's.  I met Chuq via email back in 1997 when he was running the Evangelist for Guy Kawasaki.  Chuq is the first person I think of when I think mailing lists.  I had subscribed to his feed before (months ago) and lost it during multiple computer moves.  Chuq, consider this an apology and I'm resubscribing.

Brent:  get your Trackback working.  Don't you use Radio?  [wink]

Dave's piece on weblogging and the Presidential candidates.  Read it, then read it without a political context.  It's a good outline for how to build a consensus in the modern world–within your workgroup, office, peer group or professional group.

How to Organize Feeds. Via Paolo Valdemarin: “When publishing on a weblog or any other kind of site, authors could define their posts as part of a “channel”, such as technology, politics, etc. Newsreaders able to parse this kind of information could provide users with additional tools to organize what they read. A shared taxonomy to define categories would make this process much more useful to the user.”… [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]

Chris' post doesn't show the parent link from Paolo's site:  http://paolo.evectors.it/2003/08/28.html

Not much to comment on here, just catching up on past posts…

I'm selling my Powerbook, a faithful compainion for the last year.  An award winning teacher and founder of HTV Magazine, Dave Davis will be it's new owner.  Dave travels more now that he's evangelizing broadcast journalism in schools.  In addition to being a full-time teacher, he does a summer camp in conjunction with the Student Television Network and attends conferences across the United States.

The replacement laptop?  A Powerbook, of course.  No, I'm not an Apple snob, but I want the best of both worlds:  Unix and Mac.  When I want to be a geek, Unix (via fink, open source) software is just a terminal app away.  I'll install X11, too.  Remote windowing for server-based apps beats the Microsoft/Citrix solution any day.  When I just want to relax, there's the easy, breezy Mac side.  Simple.  Calming.  Ahh.  Besides, my needs are basic:  web, email, NNW, Frontier, RealBASIC.