RSS readers and the referer field
Jason asks:
Checking my logs more closely, it appears that each time an RSS file from my site is loaded by one of these applications, a referer is deposited in the log file. Each time I load a page in Internet Explorer, I don’t leave a referer for www.microsoft.com/ie in the log files of the site [...]
Website feeds back up.
For those of you using the website feeds that I produce, Im sorry they’ve been down. A bit of server reorganization. All is back and running, and the feeds should look even better.
FOAF Update
Jim informed me that the best way to make sure your FOAF gets updated, is to use his handy dandy FOAF Update web page. Self service is wonderful.
nearestAirport, and FOAF
In the search for more interesting uses of FOAF, sometime ago I came across someone’s FOAF that included some information about the airport that is nearest to them, using the nearestAirport nomenclature.
I was quite interested, as this was something I hadn’t seen before, and I like the idea of including all the information possible in [...]
Interesting Really Simple Discoverability
RSD seems like a very nice way to help user agents find the things that they need.
Add a bit of code:[link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD"
href="http://whereever the rsd.xml lives." /]and compatible user agents can parse the XML file that you’ve pointed to, to find services, APIs, and other settings. Very nice.