Blogged this piece of Iain’s out of Writely - could not resist - which he has been trying out. Really interesting. Could we blog directly to “Extended” pages which might be more appropriate for the longer texts we write as collaborations?

Grateful to Iain for bringing this to our attention. does it move us towards our objective of “writing on and for the internet”? How do we identify authors? I wrote the para. which starts “That was one of the issues…” - but how would we know that?

Hi guys,
I’m very taken with Writely - upload of a variety of file types is easy, including HTML, Word and Open Office docs. Documents can also be saved in many different formats including XML and PDF. The autosave and revision comparison featues are good. Style and formatting features seem just as good as Word. You can organise your documents using tags. RSS feeds are available for documents, tags and users.

Is this something you think you would use? It’ll be interesting to see how Google incorporate Writely within their existing services.

That was one of the issues I raised with Iain this morning - how will they integrate this? Can anyone add to the list of collaboraters - I have just tried adding my Gmail identity… How do we see edits like this

I’ve created this document to test out the collaboration features - I’m not sure how this will work? Will I be able to edit/delete your comments? How are certain document areas protected?

Graeme I’d like to try posting directly to the new blog using Writely - could you run over the settings with me when you have a minute.

Thanks,
Iain

Is this of interest to us? do we know about it?

Black Hat USA 2006 Topics and Speakers: “Zero Day Subscriptions: Using RSS and Atom feeds As Attack Delivery Systems
Robert Auger, Security Engineer, SPI Dynamics Inc., Co-Founder, Web Application Security Consortium
Caleb Sima, CTO and Co-Founder, SPI Dynamics

This presentation will discuss the use of RSS and Atom feeds as method of delivering exploits to client systems. In our research we have found a number of RSS clients, both local and web-based, that are far too trusting of the content that is delivered via feeds. Although this content arrives as well-formed XML, fundamentally it originated as user input elsewhere. Like any such data, it can contain malicious and mal-formed content, yet many clients fail to guard against this. And though such content by definition originates remotely, many clients use methods of display that cause it to be trusted as if it were locally originated.

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I’ve posted before about PodZinger, BBN Technologies‘ podcast search engine incorporating advanced speech recognition technologies. Think of it as Padova on steroids.

Well, here’s a interview from Amber MacArthur’s Inside the Net (iTunes subscribe link) with Alex Laats, President of BBN’s black-ops sounding ‘BBN Delta’ division. It’s somewhat out of date (published on 29th March 2006), but it’s filled with interesting questions.

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Hi all. OPML continues to be of interest? Did anyone see this on scobleizer What’s it all about?

May 7, 2006
I‚ve shared my OPML, will you?

I’ve already shared my OPML with Dave Winer’s new service. Opens tomorrow. TechCrunch has the details. If you can’t wait, my current feed list is on NewsGator (it’s a Web service so you’ll always see the latest list here). Two weeks ago I deleted all my feeds. I’m already back up to 99 feeds. Will be adding more over the next week. I’ve raised the bar to get added to my list, though. I want to increase the geekiness factor of what I’m reading and get away from the more marketing and business oriented blogs. Why? Cause I want to focus on people building software, since that’s what I’m interested in most.

How do you pick feeds to subscribe to? How do you clean them out?

Update: Dave Winer says “it’s an instant hit” and gives more details.
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John Tropea has a interesting page view of his feeds at Share Your OPML - A commons for sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy.…

From  Ben Metcalfe’s Blog ……….

Over the past weeks we≠ve slowly been launching blogs across bbc.co.uk≠s various ≥properties≠ (we
call them ≥divisions≈, which is as ironic as much as it is accurate it
it≠s literal sense. Hey don≠t even get me started √ we had to create a
≥blog steering group≈ to unite the divisionsΣ)

I≠ve been involved with the project from it≠s beginning √ the ‘blog
summit≠ last year, no less √ as the unofficial blogosphere and
technical platform advisor.

The blogs themselves are great - but rather than a round of
momentous back-slapping, the initial launch was commemorated more with
a sigh of relief that we can finally be seen to be ‘getting it≠. I
think it was worth the wait, just.

So now you know that we have blogs √ seeing as you probably didn≠t know we did until now √ I can now announce the fabo-tastic BBC Blog Network Portal which aggregates all of them together.

If I≠ve had any involvement in this project, it≠s to ensure that the
blogs became a cohesive ‘Network≠. I like to describe it as:

≥a structured content horizontal that spans our diverse content verticals≈
(see, I can speak executive too!).

The ‘glue≠ that creates this cohesion is the Blog Portal itself √ an
immediate + up-to-date snapshot of the conversations happening within
the fabric of our divisions verticals.

Ok, if you consume blogs strictly by RSS then yes, this approach is
not going to be for you. But don≠t forget this is a mainstream content
offering as much as it is a niche blogosphere offering and we need to
keep the licence fee payers as happy as we aim to keep the bloggers
happy too.

So please check out the BBC Blog Network, which so far consists of:

• Paul Mason, Newsnight
• Nick Robinson, Political Editor
• World Have Your Say
• World Update with Dan Damon
• North East Wales Blog
• + Many more to comeΣ

Σ and please check out the BBC Blog Network Portal at http://blogs.bbc.co.uk.

Do let me know what you think √ either by commenting on this post or by sending your feedback to the BBC directly.

ZDNet has published an article looking at the BBC’s recent IT/Web 2.0 developments, in particular, BBC Backstage:

“The ZDNet bloggers are doing a series of IT commandments, so I
thought I’d join in the fun. I racked my brain trying to think of a
‘commandment’ that suited my blog’s theme of Web 2.0. What I came up
with is essentially one of the building blocks of the social Web,
Creative Commons. Rather than ‘free your content’, a more practical way
to put it is: use licenses with as few restrictions as possible. But that doesn’t sound as catchy as ‘Thou shalt free thy content’

To illustrate the point I will use backstage.bbc.co.uk,
which is the BBC’s developer network. On Backstage the BBC makes
content feeds available for people to build services with, on a
non-commercial basis. While the BBC puts restrictions on the feeds, at
least they are opening up their huge content platform for developers to
build on. We’ll see a lot more of this from media companies in the near
future.”

MacNewsWorld has published an article looking at how Universities, in particular, teaching staff have benefited from recording their lectures and then making them available as podcasts to their students.

The article also looks at the problems teaching staff have encountered in creating podcasts and how this has changed their methods of teaching in the classroom.

Read the full article here.

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