Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2009

What if OpenURL resolvers could blog?

I thought about this when I was thinking about having support for unAPI, etc. I found Mike Giarlo's plugin for WordPress, which added this, and I could make it work for txtckr, but why should I?

I may have overlooked something, (since I don't use WordPress), but:
  • what if WordPress was the OpenURL resolver, (well, actually it wasn't but just looked like it)?
  • what if txtckr could redirect to the WordPress post which had the request response once it had made a post which contained all of that info?
The advantage of automatic posting the details and output of an OpenURL resolver, (and subsequent redirection), to a blog post is that it increases the discoverability of the item being requested.

There's also the tools available through something like the WordPress platform, which further promotes the re-distribution of information about articles, books, etc., including COinS, RSS feeds, OAI-PMH, unAPI, etc.

Of course there's also the ability for others to comment and refer, (trackback), on the item being represented in the blog post.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

twitter

Hi, I'm Tom, and I'm not on twitter.. yet.

Twitter might be a great medium, but I find delicious is good enough for my purposes at the moment for my form of microblogging...

I suppose I'm still in 'broadcast mode', though I'll probably get there originally.

As John C. Dvorak points out, there are a number of applications for twitter, and look how he turned 360!