Blogging As Therapy
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005“50 percent of bloggers blog as a form of self-therapy.”
Archive for September, 2005
iCal, iCalendar, and PDI’s
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Calendaring, online. An overview.
I think you’re looking for something like the iCalendar (not to be mistaken for Apple’s iCal) standard. Currently, not a lot of people are using iCalendar, thus diminishing the use of it as, well, a standard. But it’s a part of a larger issue of personal data interchange. There is an open source project called PHP-iCalendar, written in PHP, which may not be what you’re looking for, but there it is anyway.
I think what you want is a way to syndicate a calendar of events, which can be done through simple RSS feeds instead. For that, check out Upcoming.org, which does a phenomenal job at that. Here’s a link to see upcoming San Diego events and the XML feeds from it. I also noticed they use a webcal protocol for their iCal feed. I suspect that works on macs, and will synch your mac’s calendar (in iCal) with those upcoming.org events. However on a PC, it’s not a standard protocol, so it’s probably less useful than the straight XML/RSS feed they offer instead.
