Comments on: A demonstration calendar for Ann Arbor, Michigan http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Searching for calendar information « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126967 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:11:25 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126967 [...] got a running start when I bootstrapped the Ann Arbor instance, thanks to Google Calendar. I searched for Ann Arbor there and found a nice list of [...]

]]> By: Searching for calender information « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126963 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:04:31 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126963 [...] got a running start when I bootstrapped the Ann Arbor instance, thanks to Google Calendar. I searched for Ann Arbor there and found a nice list of [...]

]]> By: Rob Halligan http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126873 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:14:24 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126873 My only relation I had to her was that she occasionally posted on a listserv I moderate. I sent her a link to your work and she immediately phoned me. But she had her own ideas about how to scale nationwide and to monetize that did not and still do not include feeds. Such as it is…

BTW – I started using del.icio.us tags to find related content on your site.

]]> By: Mykel http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126872 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:38:53 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126872 Jon,

If you’d like to grab ours, you’re more than welcome to. Check http://localist.com/dc/calendar. The ICS is available in a link at the top.

]]> By: Rob Halligan http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126871 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:32:56 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126871 Jon – At TCamp, I told you I’d talk to a DC calendar publisher (http://whatsoncity.net) about using your method. I talked the woman and she wasn’t inclined to adopt it. Thanks for offering to help.

]]> By: Mykel http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126862 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:26:53 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126862 Definitely some exciting developments here. We’re pursuing a more standardized data interchange format for events on the back end, but increasing the “scrapability” and consistency of events on the front end is certainly the first step.

Here’s a brief intro to the ELF format: http://blog.localist.com/post/81167133/the-case-for-an-event-listing-format-elf

Additionally, serving the events in a decentralized manor is something we’re actively looking into. Good to see we’re not the only ones!

This is exciting!

Mykel

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126845 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:19:50 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126845 > Why not to add microformats for the
> events?

Obviously can, and will. But the first-order problem to solve is getting people to publish events a) at all, and b) in machine-processable form. Most people do not distinguish between publishing a PDF, a spreadsheet, a Web page, or an iCalendar feed. You and I know that only the iCalendar feed is structured in a way that supports syndication, and that also makes it possible to publish microformats in web pages.

So that’s the first-order problem: Get people to push iCalendar feeds and curate registries of them.

]]> By: fernand0 http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126844 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:49:30 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126844 It is very interesting but… Why not to add microformats for the events?

]]> By: amateurandroid http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126842 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:41:11 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126842 Great idea.

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/27/a-demonstration-calendar-for-ann-arbor-michigan/#comment-126840 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:15:10 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1183#comment-126840 Very nice, Jon, very nice – this is already making the rounds on Twitter.

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