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Events in Keene, NH: Spring 2005

Events in Keene, NH: Spring 2005. Events in Keene, NH: Summer 2009. Built on Microsoft Azure Data flows in from: Eventful.com Upcoming.org A curated list of iCalendar “feeds” Data flows out to: HTML, XML, JSON, iCalendar Not a database Not a destination site

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Events in Keene, NH: Spring 2005

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  1. Events in Keene, NH: Spring 2005

  2. Events in Keene, NH: Summer 2009 Built on Microsoft Azure Data flows in from: Eventful.com Upcoming.org A curated list of iCalendar “feeds” Data flows out to: HTML, XML, JSON, iCalendar Not a database Not a destination site A syndication hub

  3. Actually, a growing collection of hubs

  4. RSS feeds, iCalendar feeds publish subscribe aggregate Radio UserLand TypePad WordPress Many others Radio UserLand NetNewsWire Bloglines Google Reader Many others Netscape Radio UserLand Meerkat Bloglines Technorati Planet Many others RSS Google Calendar Outlook Apple iCal Live Calendar Drupal Others Google Calendar Outlook Apple iCal Live Calendar Others Calagator elmcity Others? ICS

  5. Why iCalendar? Why now? The standard is 10 years old! But it was late to the personal publishing party. • It only recently become possible to publish • an iCalendar “feed” using: • Google Calendar • Outlook • Apple iCal • Drupal And hardly anybody knows this.

  6. Bookmarking metadata in Delicious Step 1: Designate a Delicious account e.g.: prescottaz, for Prescott, Arizona Step 2: Bookmark a metadata URL e.g.: http://delicious.com/prescottaz/metadata Step 3: Tag it with location, timezone

  7. Bookmarking feeds in Delicious

  8. Open infrastructure

  9. Downstream syndication to the web

  10. Syndication to community cable TV

  11. True stories Chess club High school principal Traveling minstrel Square dancers

  12. Chess club: Right time, wrong place Keene Sentinel: Monday night chess club, 6:30 PM, Best Western Hotel Eventful.com: Monday night chess club, 6:30 PM, E.F. Lane Hotel Nope. It moved. The chess club does not expect to be the authoritative producer of a feed about itself. The newspaper does not expect to consume such a feed. Both expectations need to change.

  13. High school: “We posted weekly.pdf to the website. Isn’t that good enough?”

  14. Computational thinking Communications Committee, Tuesday at 5:30, Cheshire Career Center Conference Room, KHS PDF DTSTART:20080617T173000 SUMMARY:Communications Committee LOCATION:KHS , Cheshire Career Center Conference Room ICS The difference matters. Our educators need to understand it. And then teach it.

  15. Computational thinking in the mainstream Lindsay Lohan posts topless picture on Twitter “Lohan may have been bored, but she wasn’t dumb. She tagged E! correspondent Ben Lyons and gossip blogger Perez Hiltonin the photo’s caption.” http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/17/2009-06-7_lindsay_lohan_posts_topless picture_on_twitter.html

  16. Minstrel: Beau Bristow in Keene Because Keene’s aggregator subscribes to Eventful events in Keene, Beau appeared on the calendar – without effort, without even realizing it. What if the other 20 cities on his tour were listening to their channels?

  17. Square dancers

  18. I’m looking to partner with: • Newspapers • Libraries • Schools • More info: • http://elmcity.cloudapp.net • http://delicious.com/judell/elmcity+azure • jonu@microsoft.com

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