Category Archives: Web

New Addition to the No Paper Network

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: March 3, 2007

Sean’s new domain, gorblatt.com, is the latest addition to our humble server; a site I hope to see updated often now that Sean has a lower barrier to adding content and many new options for designing a tweaking a site (one he first thought he didn’t need). I don’t think I’ve ever considered a No [...]

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Blogging and RSS

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: October 11, 2006

A discussion across blogs with more authority than mine addresses continued interest in blogging. Jeffery Zeldman questioned his “blahg” and his audience’s interest in their own blogs, which resulted in a flurry of responses ranging between passionate and disenchanted. Greg Storey’s suggestion of the loss of craft was highlighted by Matt Linderman’s Signal vs. Noise [...]

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Microformats Search and Ping Services

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: June 1, 2006

Technorati’s Microformats Search and Pingerati push the microformats goals further into view of the blogosphere; expect buzz to snowball and spread to the rest of the web. Yay Technorati! The Microformats Search publicly supports hCard, hCalendar, and hReview. Pingerati has specific ping locations that specialize in those and adds specifics for hlisting and xfolk formats [...]

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New Web Identity with PersonCode?

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 26, 2006

Hans shares some details of his PersonCode idea, along with a scenario tying profile details between sites for mashup potential. Issues I have with the landscape right now: A consistent and private identifier has still not been adopted. Hans calls out MicroID as the closest conceptually, though it doesn’t appear to extend much past validating [...]

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Google for my domain

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 22, 2006

I switched my DNS records tonight to allow Google for domains to take over email for nopaper.net. We’ll see if the propagation completes in time for the morning spam (tastes better than coffee). If I’m lucky, I’ll have Google snooping managing my email when I wake up, and the data lost to the void between [...]

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Bike Ride Finder

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: November 7, 2005

sharetheride.net is a bike ride finder tool for locating and sharing group cycling events. It came about largely as an excuse to play with the Google Maps API and some custom code, and I’m mostly pleased with the plan, though the execution still needs some work. Features and design are still lacking, but the groundwork [...]

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Imagery Feeds

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: March 23, 2005

Today I came across the photobloggies site where they host an annual awards ceremony for photoblogging. I’ve done some photography, but don’t have near enough skill to regularly show off any work, and I don’t take enough pictures to get better. Someday if I obtain a more portable digital I may take photos more regularly, [...]

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2005 SXSW Festival Music

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: March 9, 2005

The 2005 South By Southwest site offers a SXSW Festival Music Preview containing 2 GB of full length, free (legal) music from the participating artists. My download completed this morning, but like a good p2p netizen I’ll let the torrent run for a while to keep the Internet gods happy.

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