RasterWeb!

Ok, it may not be the end of funky, but I’m one of those people who consider the W3C as sort of the stewards of the web and the standards used upon it, so it’s nice to see they’re getting involved with the Feed Validator:

W3C is pleased to launch the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on ‘feedvalidator’, and adding a SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is useful for automatic or batch syntax checking. This service joins the existing pool of free, open source tools offered by W3C to the Web development community to help build a better World Wide Web. Learn more in the announcement.

Who knows? Maybe someday that RSS thing will even be a standard?

Many videoblogs use visuals with a musical soundtrack, and while there are already a few known Free Music Sources for Soundtracks, there’s now one more, Magnatune.

See their Podcasts and Video Blogs page, which outlines how you can use their music in your creation. they use the Creative Commons by-nc-sa license but they ask for attribution in a specific way that works for podcasts, but might not for some videoblogs, so I asked for a slight change, and got it. It now says the following under Attribution:

Video blogs can put a credit at the end of their video of the form “The song ‘song name’ by ‘artist name’ used by permission from www.magnatune.com”

Awesome! Thanks to John at Magnatune… I’ll be digging through the catalog to see what might fit with some of my videos…

You can get your Flickr photos printed through QOOP, and one of the options is for a poster with all your photos, which is cool. Now, if you test out QOOP, and choose the poster option, you can choose to have them generate a thumbnail of what the poster will look like and email you when it’s ready. So I did…

Neat! Of course you’ll then want to upload the results to Flickr…

Apple cracked the whip and those iPodder Lemon guys changed the name to Juice. (Perhaps they should do a tie-in with those Mattel Juiceboxes.)

Of course I was smart enough to avoid name problems with renko, but if I were the iPodder Lemon, er, I mean Juice guys, I would have changed the name to ipLemon, which works on two levels…

But that’s just me…

Mozilla Sunbird is still pretty alpha, but 0.2a has been solid for me for a really long time. I did manage to break WebDAV on my server for a week and kept wondering what went wrong with Sunbird, but in the end I figured it out, fixed it, and made a note not to break my WebDAV server again…)

Anyway, the Sunbird 0.3 alpha1 Release Notes tell all about the latest version, which I’ll be installing shortly…