James Tauber's Blog 2005/01/07
Leonardo 0.4.1 Released
Leonardo is the Python software that runs this site, providing a blog and wiki-like content management system for personal websites. Leonardo requires Python 2.3 but no additional software as it uses the filesystem directly for storage.
0.4.1 fixes a bug that prevented editing of the css stylesheet.
Leonardo 0.4.1 is available at: http://jtauber.com/2005/leonardo/leonardo-0.4.1.tgz
by James Tauber : Created on Jan. 7, 2005 : Last modified Feb. 8, 2005 : Categories python announcements leonardo : (permalink)
Feedster Interesting Feeds of the Day
I just discovered Feedster's Interesting Feeds of the Day and, to my shock, discovered I was chosen as the Interesting Feed of the Day back on 14th November.
Given some of the other blogs linked to, I can't help but feel (like I did when I was put alongside people like Eric Schmidt and Ray Ozzie by Network World magazine in 2000) that it's just a mistake that will soon be corrected.
Then again, they didn't say, "good", or "enjoyable" or "informative". Just "interesting".
by James Tauber : Created on Jan. 7, 2005 : Last modified Feb. 8, 2005 : (permalink)
Delicious Trackbacks and Leonardo
Peter Sefton has another great post about his team's intended use of del.icio.us to share bookmarks within the group.
The downsides Peter points out got me thinking about Leonardo acting as a delicious server.
The advantage of del.icio.us (the actual site, not the software or idea) is that it aggregates a lot in one place. But for more specialised categories, running a delicious-like service for your domain of interest isn't a bad idea and that's where Leonardo could come in.
I've previously suggested that trackbacks could be used for annotating resources and that categories could be viewed as resources that entries in that category track back to. Pinging delicious is really just like a trackback but the actor isn't necessarily the source and the target is a category/tag rather than another entry.
So a team could set up a Leonardo server (once the functionality I'm talking about has been implemented) and set up categories for the team. When they come across a resource of interest they use a delicious/trackback-like API to tell that Leonardo server about the resource.
Of course, there's nothing specific to Leonardo there. See, for example, this delicious clone (via Steve Mallett).
Another interesting result is that you've essentially namespaced your tags. So "leonardo" on jtauber.com can mean the software without clashing with other senses the tag might be used for.
by James Tauber : Created on Jan. 7, 2005 : Last modified Feb. 8, 2005 : Categories leonardo : (permalink)