This column was both painful and exhilarating to write. Painful because it forced me to reconsider long-standing assumptions. And exhilarating for the same reason!
#events #community #calendar #icalendar
https://thenewstack.io/how-llms-can-unite-analog-event-promotion-and-digital-calendars/
@judell This is very interesting. I wish AI would help on the other end, too - helping people who do publish calendar information on the web to actually make it available in iCalendar format. To use many of the poster examples, so many bands' tour schedules are just HTML with links to ticket sales, rather than actual machine-consumable calendar files
@judell @simon I figured that something like _that_ existed, what I'm really thinking about is event publishing software that not only creates an agenda- or calendar-like web page but also creates a link to an .ics file for each event, plus maybe a subscribable .ics file for all the events - for example a band's tour or a bar's list of upcoming performers. People publishing events just don't seem to care about making it possible for others' computers to read them!
@TimHare @judell I have a Datasette plugin that can help there - once the data is in a SQLite table it makes it easy to output that as a .ics feed https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-ics
