Wednesday, June 13, 2007

assessment2

after a few hours of hard work i have finished my assessment.
i have a tick in every box and have filled my flickr with stupid pictures, filled my del.icio.us with links and made my blog asthetically pleasing (to me). With my blogger i have tryed to make it as readable and asthetically pleasing.

my sites are:
Flickr
Del.icio.us

Visitors to my blog.. (lack of)

So i have like 37..ish visitors to my site... haha i think ive been on here about 37 times.. so thats fine... even i hate me.. i havnt quite got used to using this blog yet.. im more used to msn blogs and myspace.. but i am starting to learn how to use it.
Maybe if i pay some people they will visit my site.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

RSS and XML

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it was checked, and, if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:
-Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
-Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
-RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed," "webfeed," "RSS stream," or "RSS channel"

XML
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language.[1] Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet.[2]
It is a simplified subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and is designed to be relatively human-legible. By adding semantic constraints, application languages can be implemented in XML. These include XHTML,[3] RSS, MathML, GraphML, Scalable Vector Graphics, MusicXML, and thousands of others. Moreover, XML is sometimes used as the specification language for such application languages.
XML is recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is a fee-free open standard. The W3C recommendation specifies both the lexical grammar, and the requirements for parsing.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

assessment1

in mpi 104 i have made several accounts, including blogger, gmail, flickr and del.icio.us.
for flickr i have uploaded several photos and given them titles and descriptions. i have also joined flickr groups and pushed my pictures to MPI104-2007 group. I added contacts and made a user profile.
for blogger i have updated new blogs, created blogs with links to my other sites and added a counter, links in the sidebar on my site, experimented with templates, fonts and colours. I have titled all my blogs and given them descriptions.
and for delicious i have saved several bookmarks, both for class and for sites which i enjoy visiting. i have bundled tags,subcribed tags and tagged the appropriate bookmarks with the MPI104-2007 tags.
I have learnt how to use the following sites
http://www.dougly-blog.blogspot.com/
http://del.icio.us/dougly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8087354@N07/

blog

blogging is fun.... hoorah...
check out "Fear and loathing in las vegas","300","fight club" and "grandma's boy" Awesome movies

Flickr

this is a link to my flickr