Measurement Device & Measurements News From Industry & Science
Nov 2, 2006 — We are joining Technorati by claiming our blog. This is something new to us, but evidently a great way to increase knowledge about a blog. Let’s see!
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Oct 22, 2006 — We’ve had a few comments posted. It’s a mixed message, though. Most are spam writers trying to fill the web with their junk. So goes the vagaries of the Web-some good, some not so good. Thank goodness for spam filters!
Meanwhile a serious set of conferences have been announced. One, Tempmeko 2007, The biennial International conference, held last in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2005, has been announced for next May at Chateau Lake Louise in Banff, Alberta, CANADA. It is still accepting abstracts on various topics in temperature measurement. That ends at the end of October and then the program will be organized from various submissions and announced soon thereafter. Check the weblinks at MeasurementMedia.com.
Also a huge set of databases involving several areas of physics research have been discovered, or at least a source with lots of links to such resources. Look for an article an links on MeasurementDB.com during the coming week. Not this coming Monday, though, October 23rd.
It turns out that the Geological Society of America-GSA is having their 2006 annual meeting in Philly this week, right over the Market Street East subway station. That’s nearly in our backyard and we always look for good excuses to visit the Philadelphia Convention Center
We expect to at least visit the Exhibition for part of a day or two and learn what’s news from the 20 or more instrumentation companies showing their latest goodies.
Later….
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Oct 7, 2006 — It’s been about one month since we kicked off the new sites. MeasureNEWS.com is not quite ready yet, but test files are there for our guys to use as programming samples. All in all, things are running pretty smoothly except for some strange hits that get reported as “Hacker Attempts’.
There appears to be some sort of interaction between the scripts on several of the sites and some repetitive programs (up to a few thousand attempts in less than an hour). We think there may be spiders attempting to download pages with Urchin JS code on them. We are investigating several different solutions at once; a surprise advantage to having multiple sites.
If your spider is getting hung up on one or more of our sites, or you find that your spider can no longer access our sites, send an email or post a note here. All posts are now allowed to submit, except for obnious content, and all are reviewed for appropriateness (like all our sites) prior to publishing.
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Jan 3, 2007 — It has been our experience from putting lots of RSS newsfeeds on our websites, that many of them do not appear to function well on a website. That seems strange, but then again, this is the Web, and there are many variations on a theme.
There’s a website, xml.com that takes the time to describe the seven different types of newsfeeds and gives examples of each. It also refers to an O’Reilly book, “What Are Syndication Feeds” by Shelly Powers. Now, it goes into the depths, but also provides some of the answers to troubling questions that arise.
This site, for example, is powered by a software package call WordPress. It supports the three most popular RSS formats, but as a default, it offers RSS 2.0, the latest format. We are going to change that to RSS 1.0, for good reasons.
Blogger at Google.com, a free, software-less blogging outfit, by default only provides feeds in ATOM and RSS 1.0 formats, according to the book, with no other options.
Most RSS readers wil accomodate most of the feed formats, but not all.
So, if you are looking for one of your news feeds on one of our websites, you must realize that the basic software on our content sites evidently does not support RSS 2.0, either. As far as we are aware it only supports RSS 0.91 and possibly RSS 1.0. We are working on ways to make that more capable.
In fact, our original website is still basically an html site and has no intrinsic RSS capability. We are able to show the TempSensor.net news feed through the help of a third party website that converted the RSS 0.91 feed into Javascript.
Seems there’s never a day that we don’t learn something new!
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Sept 13, 2006 — A group of news RSS news feeds have joined the original two published by Temperatures.com, Inc., MeasurementDevices.com and TempSensor.net and the total measurement news site, MeasureNEWS.com, introduced in April 2006.
The new feeds are:
MeasurementMedia.com,with focus on Meetings, Standards, Publications, Education and Training.
MeasurementDB.com provides growing databases of both measurement device technology information available on the Web, and also Technology-related links and News of Research & Development in the many measurements fields.
The basic rationale for so many sites is that there is a different focus for each and the topics are spread around among these sites and newsfeeds to better serve the wide range of interests of our visitors.
MeasureNEWS.com, TempSensor.net and MeasurementDevices.com, are mainly focused on just the commercial and news aspects of measurement. The latter two sites are the locus for news of new products, exhibitions, trade associations and vendors of various measurement devices and related subjects.
We hope you find these feeds useful and we welcome your feedback through this blog.
NOTE: These newsfeed links are in process of being added to our permanent blogroll.
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