June 22, 2005
Government of Canada RSS Feeds
The Canada.gc.ca site has organized its RSS feeds by department, audience and province/territory. This is great news showing me that someone at the Canada site cares about making up to date information available in an easy to find and use format.
Of course the offering would be much stronger if more than 25% of the departmental feeds had any content.
Take a look, just don't expect actual news releases or anything.
Choose Your News
Posted by Tim Wayne at
11:08 AM
June 21, 2005
Ontario Web metadata standards
Here in Ottawa we don't always pay attention to non federal government information management practices. Here is some documentation from the Ontario provincial government.
Government of Ontario Information & Technology Standards are the official publications on the standards, guidelines, technical reports and preferred practices adopted by the Information Technology Standards Council under delegated authority of the Management Board of Cabinet.
This document defines a set of metadata practices aimed at promoting the uniformity of metadata, providing a consistent approach to accessing resources, and improving access to (and search and retrieval of) government web information.
http://www.gov.on.ca/mbs/techstan/pdf/GO-ITS_43_Web_Metadata_v1.0.pdf
Posted by Tim Wayne at
04:54 PM
June 09, 2005
The McGurk effect
This isn't so much about information management but really processing audible information. There is a compelling video on a web site that demonstrates the "McGurk Effect". Harry McGurk and John MacDonald first described this phenomenon in 1976 in which our visial response to a person's mouth movement has an impact on what we hear.
Play the clip several times, alternating between looking at the talking head while listening, and listening with your eyes shut. Very weird.
Posted by David Jakob at
11:00 AM
June 01, 2005
Happy Birthday! XIST is Ten
Yesterday XIST celebrated its tenth anniversary.
Thank you to all of our employees and contractors past and present for your hard work and contributions over the years. And a special thank you to all of our clients, past, present and future that truly made this possible.
XIST is in good company, sharing our birthday with such notables as Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman, Clint Eastwood, Corey Hart and yesterday was of course the anniversary of the 1884 patenting of corn flakes by John Harvey Kellogg.
Take a look at XIST's web presence from around that time.
Posted by Tim Wayne at
09:50 AM
