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Twitter release per-tweet geotagging API

Bruce — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:19:52 +0000

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Twitter's geotagging API is official. There is now a checkbox to enable geotagging in your Twitter account settings; enabling this option allows third party applications to annotate individual tweets with location data. Developers could previously integrate only profile location with the Google Maps API as here.

Share Twitter locations using Google Maps

Bruce — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:44:25 +0000

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Geo Mashup implementation guide

Bruce — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:06:46 +0000

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Gearing up for SSL to WordPress with Safari

Bruce — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:19:01 +0000

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Fire Eagle from Yahoo! aids location sharing

Bruce — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:32:51 +0000

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Fire Eagle is a free service from Yahoo! that provides a conduit for updating a centrally-stored current location, permitting delivery of location-aware services by means of an API allowing developers to resolve and share user location across various applications. Care has been taken to address privacy concerns by keeping choice in the hands of users, who can update their location manually or automatically from "anywhere". For example, Fire Updater on your MacBook might put you in a London hotel, while subsequent telemetry from SearchQuest GPS on iPhone tells your mates which pub to find you at; at least one WordPress plug-in is in development.

Publicizing WordPress post revisions

Bruce — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:26:22 +0000

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WordPress 2.6 introduced post revisions, a form of version control that allows you to review or revert to previous editions of a post or page on your WordPress blog. The value of this feature has generated some debate, largely because it's "on by default" with no easy toggle to disable it. The thing is notification of post revisions is private, within the admin interface. So how do you make the date of last editing public? One of my pet hates is undated web content; if there's no date I'll often move on without reading the page content. Sometimes you can glean the date of first publication from a post permalink, as in this example (day and name, in Settings > Permalinks): http://www.bioneural.net/2008/08/02/first-track-logger-for-iphone-released/ There are two problems with relying on this method alone: Did you first publish on August 2 or February 8? There are different ways of interpreting dates; It's only the date of first publication, not the date the post was last revised. Clarifying the date of publication One option is to time stamp the publication date in your theme (as many WordPress themes do), which introduces a little more flexibility to deal with the first issue by specifying the name of the month to combat ambiguity: A simple code snippet for this would be: Published by Bruce on August 4, 2008 Consult the Codex for options that allow you to customize the display of date and time formats in your theme. Showing "last modified" dates I've searched the Codex and the Forums for a means of getting the date of ...

Customizing WordPress feed content

Bruce — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:38:12 +0000

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Web developer widgets

Bruce — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:42:29 +0000

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Mac-based web developers may yet find a use for Dashboard. SeeSS is a CSS property reference detailing inheritance, CSS compliance, Safari support, possible and default values, examples, plus an informative description [screenshot]. PHP Function Reference provides offline access to the PHP manual, a cheat sheet, and an interactive date formatter [screenshot].

RDF v microformats v meta headers

Bruce — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:24:49 +0000

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I've had a hard time "getting" RDF (e.g. how it differs from XML), but this article helps give it context. The semantic web is being built simultaneously from the bottom up and top down. Typifying the bottom-up approach, RDF content is machine-readable at the outset; powerful but complex (with several advantages over microformats), RDF is all about inter-operability. Top-down approaches introduce "metadata sprinkling" to existing content, simple but limiting by comparison e.g. microformats (using CSS class attributes as in hCard), or meta elements (meta tags such as those for geo-discovery). Both approaches are valid, but RDF is hard whereas microformats help "the rest of us" contribute to the semantic web. There may be a collision ahead, however, between microformats and RDFa (sprinklings of RDF embedded in existing XHTML).

Clinical knowledge architect for hire

Bruce — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:34:04 +0000

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Dr Bruce McKenzie is now available for freelance consultancy as a clinical knowledge architect, addressing the unmet need for usable knowledge resources at the point-of-care in UK general practice. General practitioners (GPs) make more decisions in a day than a typical business executive, and these decisions cost not just money but potentially lives. It's challenging work, and you can but hope your decisions are based on good information. The problem is information overload and access to what you need when you need it: there's just too much and it's too hard to find in the context of a 10 minute consultation. As a GP for 10 years I can relate to this. I also have informatics knowledge and experience, and this puts me in a position to offer you solutions that are built the way a doctor would design them. The fact is information doesn't become knowledge by itself. After careful needs assessment raw information must be broken down and reconstructed into a usable form as part of a design process that draws upon both the art and science of information architecture. In other words it's a creative process, but it also necessitates solid technical insight into the context in which a knowledge resource will be used. With my primary care background, grasp of medical informatics, passion for writing, and practical experience in delivering concise clinical guidance for use at the point-of-care, I am now available for freelance consultancy as a clinical knowledge architect. Experience in primary care Ten years experience in several general ...