Using Tools for Collaboration / Updates on Infrastructure Changes
Recently, I noticed a new error in our log file. It turns out the folks at WAMU changed to using feedburner for the url we had used for our feed here:
http://kjzz.org/programs/dianerehm
This is great for them, however there was some change in the feed that
caused our listing to break (or perhaps it's a combination of a change in
their feed and some incompatibility with our feed parser).
As a result, I simply opted to pull in the feed for the Diane Rehm from NPR
instead. This works great... and it doesn't break.
However, this does bring up a question is, why isn't there an email list where changes like this could be announced (or maybe even some kind of blog which we all could post to and whose resulting rss feed we could use as a means of keeping track of these kinds of changes).
On a similar note. The other day, I needed to make some changes to the FPRAZ Store, the online store we have set up for our friends organization. This is based on open source software made by Alex Koval and his team at zwarehouse.org. These folks happen to live in Kazakhstan and so, rather than call or email, we opened a jabber session using meebo, a web based jabber/instant messaging client.
Were we to be collaborating more as a network, would it be possible to put together a "buddy list" of instant messaging addresses for web developers (and web designers and web strategists) within public broadcasting. I mean, I was able to get some great work done in one half hour session, and I see how our working together in this way would be beneficial to all.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts about this.
http://kjzz.org/programs/dianerehm
This is great for them, however there was some change in the feed that
caused our listing to break (or perhaps it's a combination of a change in
their feed and some incompatibility with our feed parser).
As a result, I simply opted to pull in the feed for the Diane Rehm from NPR
instead. This works great... and it doesn't break.
However, this does bring up a question is, why isn't there an email list where changes like this could be announced (or maybe even some kind of blog which we all could post to and whose resulting rss feed we could use as a means of keeping track of these kinds of changes).
On a similar note. The other day, I needed to make some changes to the FPRAZ Store, the online store we have set up for our friends organization. This is based on open source software made by Alex Koval and his team at zwarehouse.org. These folks happen to live in Kazakhstan and so, rather than call or email, we opened a jabber session using meebo, a web based jabber/instant messaging client.
Were we to be collaborating more as a network, would it be possible to put together a "buddy list" of instant messaging addresses for web developers (and web designers and web strategists) within public broadcasting. I mean, I was able to get some great work done in one half hour session, and I see how our working together in this way would be beneficial to all.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts about this.
