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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Del.icio.us OPML

    Wouldn’t it be cool if you could access an OPML of your del.icio.us tags? This would let you navigate del.icio.us feeds not as lists of links, but as tag defined outlines. Danny Ayers has already created a neat mashup, using a del.icio.us to OPML xsl, and the W3C XSLT parser to create del.icio.us reading lists.… Read more

  • Technolotics #30 – The Trip to Tipp

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/30_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 30 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes   Robocode competition Interviewees: Imelda Morton (former competitor and student) Peter Benilov (creator of one of the pitbots) Louise Crowe and Aoife Clohessy, (2nd level students) Niall Donnelly (member of the WIT team which made it to the semi-finals) John Barrett (member of the DIT team which came second… Read more

  • A Novel Paradigm for the Web

    I think I just got it. For the past few weeks I’ve been puzzling over what the OPML, RSS, AJAX alphabet soup will ultimately end up tasting like. I’ve intuited for a long time that the whole gestalt is far more significant than most programmers or technology commentators realise; and of far more ultimate utility… Read more

  • RSS, OPML and Feed Grazing

    RSS, OPML and Feed Grazing

    Inspired by Tom Raferty’s recent interview with EirePreneur’s James Corbett at the Irish Blog Awards, I’ve been messing around with OPML this evening. OPML is an ‘xml format for outlines‘, in laymans terms a sort of meta-feed, allowing the consolidation of URI’s and RSS Feeds. As we all gradually transition from getting our news and… Read more

  • Technolotics #29 – ZZ Fops

    Technolotics #29 – ZZ Fops

    Listen: Episode 29 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Matrixstream IPTV Movies / Television channels streamining instantly through any broadband connection up to 1080P resolution over the H.264 codec through best effort network – public internet [1] The claim is HD can be distributed in real time on a 6 meg connection! Works with existing broadband networks with no… Read more

  • Digicast Society

    I’ve been thinking a lot recently about setting up a Trinity Digicast Society. This society would have a three pronged focus. One, facilitating the student production of blogs, podcasts and vidcasts. Two, providing learning opportunities for students interests in media production, citizen media, and digicasting in general. Three, Digial Rights Advocacy. Society application documents. <h1>Notes</h1>… Read more