Light cone
Light cone: "From the moment of my birth, light [that I could have influenced] has been expanding around the Earth and light [which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin] reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone." [via Lance]

Ain't this cool. It would be cooler to have a graphic of a mini-universe with the glow of my ever-changing, RSS broadcasted, light cone superimposed over it somehow. Oh to be able to render what crazy things my mind sees...
- posted by Vincent @ 12/15/2003 01:41:09 PM

 
Dreams Of A Rarebit Fiend
John Munch's HotSheet: "HotSheet is a program that retrieves news headlines from multiple websites, displays them, and allows you to interact with them (e.g. to get the story that goes with a particular headline).
HotSheet works by pulling files from websites that have their news headlines stored in a XML format known as RSS. "

This looks interesting. I don't have time now, but I've been looking for cross-platform RSS reader that functions as a desktop ticker for readers / listeners of my website. In particular, listeners of The New Jazz Thing Live Tunes who want to 'see' what tunes I'm playing, as I do, and give them easy access to comment on those tunes.

Points to ponder and pursue...

Will it pick up my new posts (tunes) immediately (or close) as I post (play) them. Publish/Subscribe for RSS is possible or do it use some sort of polling mechanism (timed pull of RSS file).

How does it support / integrate with the Comment feature I have on each post? I want folks to easily post a comment on the tune. I want folks to easily click the Google It link to search for more about the tune. I want folks to easily click the soon-to-be-reimplemented iTunes Music Store (and others) link to buy the tune.

Any contemplation of RSS Enclosure support? Would be totally cool the listener-reader could autoplay the enclosures in the RSS list. I could off-mic comment on a tune, post it with the post, and the listener-reader could hear my comment...as the tune is playing. (That is a lot to ask of the DJ, though!).



- posted by Vincent @ 12/15/2003 10:34:32 AM