Dan Brickley

Testing blog-this from Joost

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:35:01 GMT

Would be nice if this worked :)

More Information about the program.

Title : The Killers (Naked) Bones - Making Of

Description : A look behind the scenes on the set of The Killers' 'Bones' video.\n\n\n\nPresented by Bugeye Music as part of the Bugeye Naked series. Use the keyword search feature on Joost to f...

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:22 GMT

I just got my old Java code for SPARQL query over Jabber working :)

Finding a community maintainer ID without html scraping?

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:04:37 GMT

Hi folks

Recently I've had a number of conversations with various parties about use of FOAF with OpenID for communities (eg. in context of apps such as http://jyte.com/profile/danbri.org or http://doxory.com/ or combining MediaWiki's OpenID support with WikiTravel's FOAF support), or the various efforts around the SIOC format.

I see that LJ now has FOAF descriptions of groups, alongside OpenID support, and wonder whether it might be possible to tweak the output to indicate which of the group members are admins, for each group. This would allow external sites to offer extra features for the group by authenticating over OpenID and taking LJ's FOAF feed as an indicator for who amongst the group members to offer admin-related functionality to.

For example, http://community.livejournal.com/ljfoaf/profile in HTML tells me that Chris is a maintainer of this group.

I have an experimental MediaWiki + OpenID installation for the FOAF project (an external site on the same topic as this group) at http://wiki.foaf-project.org/Special:OpenIDLogin

Currently, this allows folk here to login via their OpenID-hosted LJ IDs. And we could figure out from LJ Community FOAF descriptions who was in which group. But we don't know who is a maintainer.

Example use case: 3rd party sites might want to add a "create a page for your group" function, but only open this up for the group maintainers, rather to any random group member.

So

http://community.livejournal.com/ljfoaf/data/foaf currently lists the maintainer amongst the members, eg. as

(angle brackets removed for postability, writted as "{" and "}" here instead)...

{foaf:member}
{foaf:Person}
{foaf:nick}crschmidt{/foaf:nick}
{rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.livejournal.com/data/foaf" /}
{foaf:weblog rdf:resource="http://crschmidt.livejournal.com/"/}
{/foaf:Person}
{/foaf:member}

There are various ways the Maintainer role could be represented. Simplest for now might be to add
<ya:adminuser>crschmidt</ya:adminuser> to the foaf:Group element in the FOAF feed. This might be suboptimal (eg. there are various roles one might have in a group, and various ways that the userid could be indicated). But it would be progress enough to open up some new kinds of app without resorting to HTML parsing.

Thanks for any thoughts!

Dan

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Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:08:08 GMT

does LiveJournal Jabber do multi-user chat for communities/groups?

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Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:16:29 GMT

testing Psi, ignore me :)

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Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:17:41 GMT

Even Bagpuss himself once he was asleep was just an old, saggy cloth cat. Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams. But Emily loved him...

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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:16:04 GMT

Interesting LJTalk detail: "Also, we'll let you post to your LiveJournal from a non-LJ JID in the future. That means you can post from GMail/GTalk, once you prove your gmail address (or any other Jabber address) is yours."

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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:13:22 GMT

Today in slacker school - learning Spanish the youtube way...

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Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:12:54 GMT

Hamed Saber has posted a picture on Flickr of Natanz Nuclear Facility in Iran.

LJ Jabber support is great

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:44:35 GMT

I've only just read about LJ's support for Jabber, announced back in July. This is fantastic, and the most under-reported bit of tech news of the summer.

Random Sentence.

Sat, 01 May 2004 03:59:59 GMT

1. Grab the nearest book.
[Conceptual Physics, 3rd Edition, by Paul Hewitt]
2. Open the book to page 23.
[Chapter 2, Linear Motion]
3. Find the fifth sentence.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5.. ah there it is!]
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions

(via mags)

Memorizing pairs of nonsense syllables is easy for a computer.
(Artificial Intelligence 2nd Ed., Rich Knight et al.)

XHTML happy

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:36:23 GMT

Thanks to the folks in #lj_dev, this journal is now wrapped in proper XHTML boilerplate. So assuming I don't type any silly markup in my articles, the whole thing should be in XHTML format. To do this, I got myself a paid account (well, the US dollar is cheap!) and learnt a bit about configuring LJ. This is done with a minor tweak to the 'Magazine' layout. Briefly, under advanced customisation, create a new child "layout-specific layer" for Magazine.
Choose "Theme" and "Magazine". Then edit and paste in a bunch of content, tweak to emit XHTML, save and then switch my theme to the new one. Details on request.

Chris: S2 is an object oriented language, so the main code that your style uses is layersource.bml?id=15.
What we did is replace the Page::print() function with one of our own. Any functions that aren't there come from the parent layer (which in the case of magazine is the core) available at layersource.bml?id=1.

Page::print() is the main function for a page.

getting to know LiveJournal

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:33:40 GMT

OK so I have an account, haven't really got to grips with what I can do yet.