by David Burn | Sep 30, 2003 | Art, Digital culture, Music
eBay didn’t work for me. I posted my Garcia print, “Poet Reflects The War” in two consecutive 7-day auctions and received no offers, just a note from a nice lady who remarked that my print was probably worth quite a bit more than I was selling it for.
What did work was reaching out to my own network of networked individuals. Thankfully, my network is filled with Deadheads so it turned out exceptionally well for all parties. My buddy Jeffrey Smith, a photographer and designer in Colorado, put my sell notice on a local email list. So the buyer was not a friend of Jeff’s per se, just an online associate in a group list, who trusted Jeff, then me to deliver on said intent to sell said goods in said condition. And with a little help from FedEx it all worked perfectly. I love it.
by David Burn | Jul 23, 2003 | Digital culture
I just spent the past two days fully engaged on the task of importing RSS feeds into this site. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, depending on where one looks or whom one consults. This site has an RSS feed auto-generated by the pMachine blogware. See the sidebar, then click on XML to view Burnin’s rich site summary.
Fundamentally, RSS is a two way street. Other sites can absorb my content, and I can absorb theirs. See the left sidebar once more, then click on “Boing Boing” or “The Daily Report” under RSS Feeds. The resulting outputs are the result of much learning on the subject, at least for me, a non-geek fast on the way to geekdom.
The breakthrough came when I found Magpie RSS, a free RSS parser that works like a charm. Even then, I still spent several hours configuring the setup. The one thing missing from Magpie’s otherwise flawless manual is the step where one must create a new php file and place it in the Magpie directory for it all to work. They do provide the code, but it took some doing to know where and how to successfully place it.
Bottom line, I’m extremely pleased to clear this high hurdle and excited by what it means. Importing RSS adds more than headlines to a site, it adds value.
by David Burn | Jul 18, 2003 | Digital culture
db.vg is a literary Web works, so it’s fitting that I finally managed to locate some blogging software that I could understand, load to my server, and use. Thanks Rick Ellis, lead developer at pMachine–u rock.
