Coming from California, I am one of those traveling the farthest for this event. Almost halfway around the earth, of course. In the past I’ve done the trip in two 8-to-10-hour jumps. This time, like the previous, I did it in a short jump to Chicago followed by a 15-hour flight to Delhi.
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Runway 28L
Three groups of students are focused this week on one destination. The US students took off four days ago from San Francisco International Airport, and have already experienced their introduction to New Delhi. A world apart for them! Our video crew and a photographer are accompanying them. We’ll catch up with them again on Sunday. In San Francisco, it was a rainy morning, and the photo here is of runway 28L as seen thru my window.
Their motivation is named Project Happiness. And they are going to India to meet The Dalai Lama, the author of their textbook.
Two students, and their teacher, from Nigeria will begin their journey tomorrow, and will join the US students in New Delhi on Saturday. We’ll capture their impressions later on.
At the destination itself, in India, students at the Tibetan Children’s Village are preparing to meet and host the visitors.
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Google’s “Sitesearch” grows up
Until recently, Google provided a pretty straightforward “Sitesearch” service that any webmaster could use as a “local site search engine.” Pretty simple to configure and use – I did one for a private client of mine a month ago, and it took about half an hour to configure and then install on their web site. And SiteSearch provided a Search box that permitted your site visitors to search just your site or to search the entire web – their choice.
But it’s now gotten more complex. And it’s gotten much better.
Yahoo “Pipes” – a service that mashes RSS feeds
I’ve been looking for this like the holy grail for 
about a year now, and it’s not really in production yet, but I can see that it will rapidly become very popular. Yahoo has introduced a new service, Yahoo Pipes, that allows us to visually select and combine any number of blog RSS feeds, filter their contents, sort them, and then output those combined feeds as a single feed. This combined feed can then be used by anybody for any purpose. (Well, the terms of service may restrict it to non-commercial, so read them carefully.)
I’ve already been doing much of my real-time feed-reading and mashing using some Gecko Tribe products by Antone Roundy. CaRP and Grouper are the products I’ve been using. And Feedburner also does some of what Pipes does. But these tools don’t really allow me to intermix the feeds in chronological order. So that’s where, in my opinion, Pipes will really excel.
Yahoo Pipes provides an easy-to-use on-screen visual interface that can be used to easily combine feed sources and juggle them to product a nicely-mashed output feed. [read on…]
When is FREE “Stable enough?”
Following up on my post about the decision whether to use free software or not, this MacWorld article Blogger bugs bug bloggers- Bloggers frustrated by Blogger bugs, Google says it will get better describes the woes of those using Blogger’s free online hosting following a recent upgrade of the software. It’s upsetting to base any portion of your business on a service and have it come crashing down, but probably even more upsetting if you base it on a free service like Blogger and then have it come crashing down.
Google/Blogger says the problem affect relatively few people, but there are obviously many people who use the service as part of their commercial activities, and these people are in real deep trouble.
I avoid this by hosting my blogs on servers that I own, and I only upgrade software after making a trial installation or two and I test it at least a few days if not a week before I deploy it to other sites. (I maintain 15 WordPress sites at the moment and have two servers in operation, so this isn’t the solution for everybody.)
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