Mapped visualisation of potentialy any feed of data is made easy combining the www.geonames.com RSS to geoRSS webservice and the Yahoo!Maps API . No programming is actually needed. Just basic HTML with Javascript integration. Check out how this can be done. (more…)
While playing with Yahoo!Pipes, I spent some time today setting up this World visualisation of Reuters Headlines News using Pipes , Geonames RSS to geoRSS feature and the Yahoo!Maps API . It turned in the end that I did not need Pipes at all
When I first heard of Yahoo!Pipes (I was almost writing Yahoo!Tubes , lol), I was secretly hoping to be able to integrate data from Ebay into some geolocalization stuff, as a pure fun project.
For instance, visualize on a map all the dildos that are sold in the world at this very moment. And release this as a Valentine Day Protest campaign website… Just Kidding.
Sadly enough it was not possible for several reasons :
In the purpose of discovering how the Adsense program can be used, I decided to integrate it to this weblog.
Installing WordPress (the blogging app) on DreamHost was a breeze. So I won’t delve into sysadmin stuff but concentrate into post installation tasks that you need to perform to get your blog in a decent shape.
First, the RSS feed of your blog shows the full posts by default. Probably not what you’ll want, unless you specialize in 2 lines posts.
When I came up with the idea of making a website where technology and art would collide into several projects, I knew from first second that it would be great to have a weblog following the creation of this thing on a technical point of view as well as a wiki which would serve as a global repository of knowledge, and which would provide some more in-depth information on technical matters.
So I was already picturing me writing a blog post about how I fought to get WordPress installed properly on a linux hosted environment, and a wiki page with the detailed technical process of transfering the files to the account over ssh, setting the permissions, editing some configuration files, etc.
Well. not this time. DreamHost has that excellent feature already pre-built in. And a wiki too. And a lot more.
It was actually a breeze to set up a DreamHost account.
But first, why DreamHost ?? Well, check this out :
It’s been a long time since I wanted to create a website that would explore the common grounds shared by (information) Technology, the Media and Arts. Well. Yesterday I set up my DreamHost account, so, now, I’ve no choice anymore!
IT, the Media and Arts.. this sounds pretty basic and pretentious at the moment, but hopefully, things will develop alongside with the website contents. Talking about that, in the original idea I have of it, the website (I’ll keep refering it as the website for now since I do not have any name for it yet) will feature several projects involving some ground breaking technology and the (re)use of external sources.
This weblog is here to detail as much as possible the process of setting those projects up.
It shall be mainly technical (and probably DreamHost oriented) but not only.
Let’s get started !