Minor Additions to beTech Site
The beTech sidebar has received a few small additions in the past week to add to your Web technology information glut—cuz we thought you’d enjoy that! Actually, it’s nothing too major… just a little side blog and a couple of experimental feeds. In the not-too-distant future we’d also like to add an improved events calendar and a del.icio.us feed from our readers. But for today, we’ll settle on the following:
Seen Elsewhere
Sometimes (okay, most times) other blogs just hit the nail on the head with new technology. Rather than write a full beTech post on a topic they’ve already covered so well, we’re setting up a little side blog action to let the other guys do the talking.
X Feeds
X (eXperimental) Feeds will feature whatever strangely useful RSS feeds seem appropriate at the moment. Of course, they’ll have something to do with Web technology and UVa.
C’ville Tech Blogs is a case in point. CTB is a Yahoo! Pipes aggregation of local technology feeds. The following list of aggregated feeds fit the requirement of serving the tech community without a lot of extraneous “my cat just walked across the keyboard” chatter:
Please comment here to let us know if you have or know of a UVa or local tech feed to add to the list.
The last X Feed—UVa Staff Jobs for Web—is a little scrape of the UVa HR site for staff jobs that have “web” in their description. It was a quick hack, so the results aren’t as pretty as they could be (not even sorted by date). When getting the okay from the HR Webmaster to scrape the site, he mentioned that the it was going to undergo a major revision in July so we decided to let the feed go as is until we find out what the new source looks like.
As with the tech feeds, if you have additional ideas for X Feeds, please let us know here. Furthermore, if you have ideas for other sidebar treats, we’re all ears (or would that be eyes?).
Oh, and I almost forgot: ReCAPTCHA was added to our comments area as a extra measure of protection against spam (and to help Carnegie Mellon read their books).