I’ve just posted a script that will re-route the OSX Apple Remote event stream out across XMPP using the Switchboard Ruby library, streaming click-down and click-up events from the device out to any endpoint identified by a Jabber/XMPP JID (i.e. Jabber ID). In my case, I’m connecting to XMPP as the user xmpp:buttons@foaf.tv, who is [...]
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Apple Remote events – a quick howto
Anyone who has recently bought an Apple computer probably has one or more Apple Remotes.
I have been learning how to access them. Conclusion: iremoted does 95% of what you probably need, and the discussion over on cocoadev.com tells you more than you probably wanted to know. My experiments are written up in a corner of [...]
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Linked TV (part 1): Why APIs and identifiers matter
In the NoTube project, we are exploring the use of Semantic Web technology in Television and Web-TV scenarios. By making use of richer and linked descriptions of content and users, we hope to help users better find (and annotate, tag, cross-link etc.) content that is interesting to them. The growing amount of linked RDF data [...]
Also posted in Activism, Essays, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Project ideas, RSS/Atom, SocialWeb, Technology, Web Technology, coding, ggg 1 Comment
Restarter martyr: sounds of Firefox 3b5
I use Firefox with a lot of tabs. I guess I’m a multi-tasker. Or I have surplus attention. Or they fixed enough memory leaks in Firefox 3 so that opening a new tab is almost cost-free. Until you restart your browser (is there a bug open for this? I couldn’t find one).
I’ve just made a [...]
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EMR (Joost UK only)
OK, what happens if I put an URL in the Blog text: box?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398037/
And how can I tag this to be in my “conspiracy theory” category? http://danbri.org/words/category/world/conspiracy-theory
Do blog posting APIs support categories? I hope at least Atom’s does…
From Joost : EMR
Stuck in a dead-end job and living alone with his cat, Londoner Adam Jones [...]
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“Moon River” (for UK Joost viewers)
“There was once a very lovely, very frightened girl.
She lived alone except for a nameless cat.” (…)
From Joost : Breakfast at Tiffany’s
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.
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