blog tech - linking life
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- xrusos
I’ve been intrigued by blog-related technology lately. No, I’m not interested in publishing mindless chatter about my daily life for the masses to read. But I am drawn to the technology that automates linking life to the web.
I already can auto publish my photos from Apple's iPhoto to a site. (even made a simple php directory script to display the various albums)
And auto ftp my iCal (calendar app) once an hour.
I've even linked my iTunes to auto ftp my currently playing and recently played songs (at every song change).
so what else can i do that is automatic?
again, I'm not interested in entertaining the masses, but rather exploring the potential of linking one's life to the Web.
anyone have their bookmarks/favorites auto published online? That would certainly be a neat feature.
Any other ideas? What have you seen? Only requirement: very very little maintenance.
- Peter0
Any other ideas? What have you seen?
"Ghost in The Shell" touched that subject
- xrusos0
also, post links of examples you have seen.
- xrusos0
well i'm not encouraging a robot war, but more relating one's life to the web, and perhaps even linking lives using some sort of relational logic.
but more realistically, and more practically, i'm looking for ways to dynamically integrate applications we already use with a web site.
Another idea, auto (read: scheduled) publish Address Book via ftp. Perhaps make it password accessed to protect the innocent. On the other hand, have all names listed with links to their web sites that are in the Address Book already. (further information still hidden)
- Peter0
robot? war? that movie isn't about either as far as I know. It's more about what makes up a human being. At least to my knowledge. That movie also, slightly, rants about some of the problems we'd face if we'd start storing our lifes in a digital form. Which is why I posted it to this thread.
Anyways, forget about that. Getting back to the post -
on the top of my head: I'd like it if we started to store our physcial data, blood even dna out there. For two purposes:
1) if we're in an accident. The doctor would have all our data ready before we reach the hospital
2) let your grand-grand-grand kids track their heritage. it'll be fun
- xrusos0
thanks chris, interesting.
- toastie0
the internet is shit, haven't you heard?
- raydawg880
yo...how did you set up iphoto to let you ftp to something other than a .mac site???
- xrusos0
betterHTML export: http://www.droolingcat.com/softw…
i bought it, but ended up seriously editing one of the templates to more fully automate the process... it's $20usd, but well worth it.
- toastie0
Ok, i'll stop making useless comments, but you gotta dig up my thread on pixel font copyrighting and think that through, smartass ;)
the reason I quoted the afore mentioned site (internetisshit.org :)
is because the idea of linking your life to the internet kinda scares me.
Eventhough I kind of specialize in linking stuff around, and there's nothing sexier to me than accessing external XML feeds, making parsers and digging through raw packet data, the thought of people's lives being linked to statistical sheets is a bit scary. Plus (and I know you said you werent a blogger, but I just gotta say it), people need to stop that blogging shit :)
There's plenty of other stuff to link around. I wrote a program that emails slashdot headlines to my cellphone, for example. THat's more fun than letting people know how many times I wiped my ass today.
- xrusos0
that's what i'm talking about toastie... linking useful things in your life to your life, via the web. sending slashdot to your phone totally qualifies. i could have posted my test link to show the world what i've done, but it's more for me than for contributing to the community of bloggers linking to other bloggers.
linking life to the web makes the web useful more than just when you are surfing.
thanks for your input.
- toastie0
np :)
I wish Newstoday had an XML feed. I wrote a generic parser awhile ago and my hands have been itching to make a little systemtray icon with Newstoday threads, but there has been all this talk about possible NT redesign, so maybe I'll wait till the new version comes out.
- takashi0
what about autouploading the history of your browser daily?
then you could check the location of the sites on earth, and draw a path of your virtual journey.
you can get some inspiration / tools on that subject here online:
- xrusos0
i heard of that a while back.
what about recent chat partners? or top 5 chat partners?
- xrusos0
what about a gps device on your pda that would auto ftp your location to a server?
i suppose that would only work with cell enabled pda's - since it's pretty rare to be in wireless areas.
- sauceruney0
I almost forgot to suggest spending some time on Abe's site
- xrusos0
he's got a pretty cool integrated wish list from amazon. i'll have to look at how he did that later.
- xrusos0
Abe from the last link posted had this to say about his amazon wish list parser:
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Its all easy if you use Movable Type, just install the MT-Amazon plug-in [
http://mt-plugins.org/archives/e… ] and you are close to
done. No idea how to do it otherwise...
-----so there you have it. perhaps i'll look into other MT plugins to see what other technologies people have thought up.
Any others from the NT crowd?
- xrusos0
the mother load:
http://mt-plugins.org/popular.ph…looks like i'll have to get movabletype rolling in order to take advantage of this stuff though (http://www.movabletype.org)
- ********0
"I wish Newstoday had an XML feed."
- |toastie|
As you wish sir, for NTB: