A detailed discussion of the Creative Commons is beyond the scope of this book.
To learn more, consult the following:
http://creativecommons.org
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Tagging, Feeds, and Weblogging
Here I present a series of questions that will be explored at length in the chapters that immediately
follow.
Does the web site use tagging? That is, can users tag items and search for items by tags in
the web site? Chapter 3 covers tagging and folksonomy in detail and shows how tags provide
mashups with hooks within a web site and among web sites.
Are there RSS and Atom feeds available from the site? Do they give you fine-grained access
to the web site? (That is, can you get feeds for a specific search term or for a specific part of
a web site?) In the absence of a formal API, syndication feeds become a source of structured,
easy-to-parse data. See Chapter 4 for detailed coverage of RSS and Atom feeds.
Does the web site allow you to send content to a weblog or wiki? Studying how the web site
is connected to a weblog in this manner is an excellent way to get some practice with configuring
APIs without programming. See Chapter 5 for more on blogging and wiki APIs.
URL Languages of Web Sites
I will spend most of this chapter analyzing a web site??™s functionality by explaining the way its
URLs relate to its various entities and resources.
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