[OWW-Discuss] Fwd: [Oww-Feedback] Contact us. (from The Royal Society)

[Bill F]

Thanks, Jason. That's great to hear.

I like the feedburner approach. We already are exposing all of our existing
blogs to feedburner via a combination of the Wordpress RSS/feedburner
support and out having registered the appropriate openwetware.org DNS
support with Feedburner. Using a similar route, we can configure any RSS
feed as 'feedburner-aware'.

We can also publish the same (or pretty similar) information as either
hcalendar or ical calendar formats. This allows for publishing the
information to other calendar and scheduling tools.

This isn't an either-or choice. The support can be parameterized using a
parameter in the calendar tag. Since the calendar is dynamic (to some
degree), the specific options can change over time.

For something like the Event:... calendar, it makes a lot of sense to
publish wide, thus via Feedburner. But for other cases, such as a personal
notebook, making it a little less public may be desirable. I'm not sure if
this will always be the case. By making it easy to change and modify, it can
change over time.

Let me look into Feedburner to see how much we would need to do to publish
through them as an option.

I really appreciate your comments.

B.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jason Morrison <jason.p.morrison at gmail.com>
wrote:

> First off, great stuff on RSSing the calendars!
>
> > In the spirit of reciprocity, it might be useful to think about how a
> > person hosting such a list would know how much activity was present on their
> > RSS feed. This is clearly not an original idea: blogs have been doing it for
> > a long time. But it would be nice to think about how this could be tracked.
> > We could do it via Feedburner: publish all RSS feeds that way. The advantage
> > of this would be that the data would be disseminated via Google to a lot of
> > people.
>
>
> This would be great, too!  It'd be *really* great if this could be
> integrated (so a lab doesn't have to go sign up for FeedBurner themselves,
> etc.), and I notice that FeedBurner's "Total Stat PRO" service is now free (
> http://code.google.com/apis/feedburner/101_flares.html).
>
> Hmm.... looks like you can definitely get the statistics via their API...
> see idea #52 on http://code.google.com/apis/feedburner/101_flares.html.
>
> OK. Sorry to be so verbose today.
>
>
> Maybe I'm the only one... but I think it's great to hear about OWW
> development ideas! :)
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jason Morrison
> jason.p.morrison at gmail.com
> http://jayunit.net
> (585) 216-5657
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