By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. gRSShopper 0.3 Pre-Release Release
Stephen Downes, gRSShopper, August 1, 2011.
OK, just before I take off for a month's vacation, here's a brand-new release of gRSShopper code (I haven't even updated the site yet, and won't have a chance until I get back, so this is the only place to get it). It's the same basic gRSShopper, except the harvester is much better, picking up dozens of tags and modules not accessible by other aggregators. Also, I've written an installer. Yes, a freaking installer! Which works in testing!

So, if you want to try gRSShopper, do the following:
- get a website, note the domain, and get a MySQL database, note the database name, user and password.
- get the gRSShopper code grsshopper3.tar.gz and place it in your CGI directory on your website (the .tar file will expand into a bunch of files - put the files in your CGI directory, don't create a separate grsshopper3 subdirectory)
- edit the top section of grsshopper.cgi and enter the site URL and database information (also edit data/default.site with the same information if you want; the site will be microseconds faster)
- run cgi/admin.cgi -- the site will auto-install. Scroll to the borrom of the page, click on the link, which will take you to an 'Error - Login' screen. Login with userID Admin password Admin
- customize to taste. Actual help information when I get back. :)

p.s. the [Login] [Register] Javascript links on the admin pages are broken, ignore them or fix to taste.

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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge"
Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb, August 1, 2011.
This would be very nice if it signals a change of direction from Adobe - and is wide, because it allows them to preserve most of their market share while becoming web-compatible. Because the money Adobe makes isn't from its plug-ins -- these are given out free and actually a distraction. It's from their authoring tools. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Privacy Icons Legal Hackathon
Unattributed, Center for Internet and Society, November 2, 2012.
Related to the link below, we are slowly moving from a world in which information is mostly communicated by text to a world in which we use a much richer set of audio and visual cues. As mentioned in the article below, controls for different appliances are represented visually. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. BYOD – the first steps
Alice Leung, July 31, 2013
Alice Leung points to a literature review into BYOD and links to Mal Lee take. as she and her school prepares to embark down the BYOD road. BYOD stands for 'Bring Your Own Device' and refers to the idea that the school will support whatever access device - iPad, Android, whatever - a student brings, rather than issuing centrally managed computers or tablets from a cart. Why go down this path. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rage at the Dying of the Light! Restore RSS for .@Evernote Notebooks
Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org, April 29, 2013
People ask me sometimes what the difference is between the sort of system I advocate and cloud-based note-taking services such as Evernote. Here it is, in a nutshell: I advocate that people own their own software, so features they rely on don't disappear because the service provider decides they're too much trouble. More...