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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • The Need For Feed

    Techcrunch has an article up on the state of online feed readers, which I think are as interesting for what they lacks as what they include. None of the feed readers reviewed seem to have feed grazer functionality. That is to say, while most will import and export OPML, none allow the direct surfing of… Read more

  • Bebo

    Simon McGarr of Digital Right Ireland fame, asked me to write a piece explaining the hideously compelling phenomena that is Bebo, for his webzine ‘Tuppenceworth.ie. You can find the article here. Also DRI have finally gotten around to sticking up a video of the talk that Suw Charman of the UK ‘Open Rights Group‘ gave… Read more

  • CoComment

    CoComment, the new service which provides a unified place to collect a feed of your blog comments through a bookmarklet which ‘co-comments’ your conversations, have finally added retrospective commenting. This is perfect for users like me who don’t have a home terminal, and frequently can’t install bookmarklets. The feature allows users to go back and… Read more

  • 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