Some of you may know that I recently became the co-chair of the W3C SVG Interest Group. Or as I like to call it, The SVG Fan Club. Being the President of a Fan Club is kind of pathetic, but I guess Doug figured I might be able to better channel any excess energy into doing something that can affect more than my personal web traffic numbers. Read the rest of this entry ...

§470 · July 7, 2008 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on The SVG Push · Tags: ,


I've made enough updates over the past week or so on my SVG Web Stats thing to call it 2.0. Here are a list of changes: Read the rest of this entry ...

§469 · July 2, 2008 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG Web Stats 2.0 · Tags: , , , ,


Via Dion's twitter, this article about a Universal Edit Button (UEB), the discussion has started to make the rounds. The idea is to make editability as discoverable as syndicatability. Whoof, those are some mouthfuls. Ok, you know that orange feed button you see when a page has a feed? Well this will maybe add a green button for those pages that can be edited, like wikis. Read the rest of this entry ...

§468 · June 20, 2008 · Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on UEB: Putting The U In Web · Tags: ,


Via Charles Arthur, some ex-Apple employees have released a Beta version of 280slides. Presentation editor (and presumably viewer) that works in modern browsers. Powered underneath by "Objective-J" which apparently translates down into JavaScript and uses Canvas, SVG or Flash as needed.

Since I've never used the KeyNote app in MacOS, or even Google Presentations, someone will have to give me the skinny on how this stacks up. But it looks nice! Even in Firefox 2 on my 8-year-old Ubuntu machine, the performance is acceptable. I should try it on my Macbook Pro. Check it out.

§467 · June 5, 2008 · QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on 280Slides – Presentation Software in a Browser · Tags: , ,


I was stuck for two hours on an unmoving train last night due to this unfortunate incident. So I started writing and doodling: Read the rest of this entry ...

§466 · June 4, 2008 · Entertainment, SVG, Technology · 4 comments · Tags: , , ,