Zaradi praznikov bomo decembra imeli samo tri spletne urice in razmišljal sem, da bi na zadnjem sre??anju, 21. decembra, poskusili nekaj novega.

Cilj uric ni nuditi le zanimiva predavanja, ampak ustvariti prostor, kjer se spletni ustvarjalci lahko sre??amo in družimo. Zato bi leto lahko zaklju??ili s serijo kratkih predavanj pod naslovom “Kje pa tebe ??evelj žuli?” (KPT?Ž).

Potrebni in zadostni pogoji za vklju??itev predavanja:

• tema ima vsaj opazno povezavo s spletom
• ne traja dlje kot 10 minut

Vse ostalo je prepuš??eno vam.

Vsa mnenja so dobrodošla, še posebej pa predlogi predavanj (prosim navedite pri??akovano dolžino predstavitve). ?e vam ni vše?? naslov, predlagajte novega. Nove predloge za naslov sre??anja zbiram v komentarjih, predloge za predavanja pa lahko pošljete TUDI na moj elektronski naslov .

Rok za oddajo idej je 1. november. KPT?Ž bo, ??e bom takrat imel vsaj za 45 minut predstavitev in ne bo o??itnega upora sami ideji. V nasprotnem primeru bomo leto zaklju??ili kot ponavadi; z odli??nim predavateljem in debato, ki ponavadi sledi predavanjem.

Another Wednesday, another talk. I was sorry not to see more visitors, but I guess we have ourselves to blame. Talk would certainly benefit from a better description, but it is a topic that I find interesting, yet hard to describe. The running joke of evening was that we should prefix all talk titles with PHP to lure all those developers who seem to respond mainly to known keywords. It’s a shame that curiosity is such a rare trait after a certain age.

By the way, the guy who invented OPML is Dave Winer . As fate would have it, he’s also father of RSS.

And it’s RSS that I was thinking about later on, when I was contemplating the role of microformats on web. First version of RSS came out some 8 years ago and it wasn’t until last year or two that feeds gained enough traction to actually become relevant. Still, most web users have no idea what they are and I believe really interesting uses of feeds are still to be seen.

I also believe the same is true for microformats. We are at the start of the road and we are yet to see really interesting stuff. I think there’s a definite need and opportunity to describe information on web in ways more suitable for further use.

Rip, mix and burn. Or something like that.

But I still don’t care about XFN .

It turns out Apple introduced new iPod , iMac and iTunes too. Video watching is in. Now you can watch video on your iPod and you can buy (if you have access to iTunes USA store) episodes of ABC’s popular shows, but in ridiculously small format (320×240).

Personally, I doubt I’ll be buying anything made by Apple anytime soon. My iMac still hasn’t been repaired and I have no idea when it will be. I wouldn’t have spare macs lying around even if I could afford it and this makes them more or less unusable to me for professional work.