Sat 16 Jul 2005
I got back from AAAI, the annual AI conference, very late on July 13. It was a lot of fun — good talks, cool robots, and getting to see a bunch of friends. (Trey was there, too!)
Visiting this site reminded me of AAAI, because this is the first time I’ve ever participated in a group blog, and this year AAAI is for the first time having a collection of students contribute to a student blog, which is neat in that as you scroll through it, you get a sense of the very different experiences the students are having, as they pursue their individual interests in different talks, demos, tutorials, and workshops. Several of them took pictures, too, including some of the Doctoral Consortium I organized:
me and two other DC attendees,
dinner at The Sonoma Grille
and here is a picture of me and my co-author, Marie, at our poster. Note my adroit use of the fork.
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July 16th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
The standard method for doing this seems to be to cache the information about what you’ve read on the client side rather than the server side.
If the server has an RSS feed (salondesgeeks does because it is based on WordPress), you can determine when there are new posts using an RSS reader.
I just started investigating RSS for myself. Some conclusions:
* It’s only really useful when there are multiple feeds you’re interested in and they don’t change daily. Then you can check the overall list of feeds daily and only visit the sites with changes.
* Two readers were recommended to me: a Firefox extension called SAGE and a web ‘RSS aggregator’
at bloglines.com. Both of them seem usable so far.
The technology hasn’t blown me away yet, but I think it gets more useful as the number of feeds you subscribe to scales up.
July 16th, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Note the reply above actually relates to Kiri’s preceding post about notifications. I blame login confusion.