Call Me Steven Choy http://sochoy.wordpress.com Online Presence of Steven Choy Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:08:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/e1a4bbc43dda916afa196dd54d6c84e2?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Call Me Steven Choy http://sochoy.wordpress.com I don’t use this platform for a very lo… http://sochoy.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/i-dont-use-this-platform-for-a-very-lo/ http://sochoy.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/i-dont-use-this-platform-for-a-very-lo/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:08:34 +0000 sochoy http://sochoy.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/i-dont-use-this-platform-for-a-very-lo/ ]]>

I don’t use this platform for a very long time. Times past very quickly.

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Recently, I spent around 20 hours in my spare time and sleep time to build a new website titled “Mentions of Hong Kong Universities“. I built it to demonstrate the usefulness of some public Web services, and to test the power of individual in the big wave of Web publishing.

The Idea

The website Mentions of Hong Kong Universities (MHKU) has a simple and clear theme: what the rest of the world is saying about Hong Kong universities and their people.

Hong Kong has eight universities. It is quite frequently that local media and newspapers report on what is happening in these universities. While local media mentions of them are frequent and abundant, how about a worldwide mentions? Are there any people in the rest of the world mentioning about Hong Kong universities? What are they saying, why do they interest, and what are their viewpoints and opinions?

The Technologies and Services

The website is built with the uses of the following technologies and public Web services: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) as the software infrastructure, WordPress as the web publishing platform, Google News and Yahoo News as the news sources services, RSS as the interface, del.icio.us, Technorati, FeedBurner, and Flickr as the helper services and enrichment of the website.

What’s Next?

Thereafter, I will spare around 2 hours per week to maintain the content and usefulness of this website. I will also use it as a playground to experiment with some other useful public Web services and APIs (application programming interfaces) around the website’s main theme.

Comments are welcomed and appreciated.

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This place is the beginning of my fourth weblog. All by WordPress. I just love WordPress so much. Thanks for those who contribute to the creation and evolution of this great personal publishing platform.

1st Blog: Build Up To Something (Personal Use)

2nd Blog: Recent Steven in Computing Education (Professional Use)

3rd Blog: Bring Up Two Sons (Family & Friend Use)

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