Archive for the 'blogging tech' Category

My next favorite new toy?

Sunday, January 20th, 2002

By far the best thing about Radio is the integrated RSS feed reader. So in my innovative-once-somebody-else-does-it way, I thought “somebody should build me a free RSS reader with a builtin Blogger API client.” Thanks to a link from Rogi, I see that someone did (well, is working on would be more accurate): Newz Crawler […]

Your thirty seconds of fame

Sunday, January 20th, 2002

Oh, this is bad. Really shameful. Want your thirty seconds of fame, being linked to by someone who wouldn’t think of linking to you otherwise? Just find someone who is experimenting with the “Link Feedback” script from yaywastaken (you can find people using it by looking at who links to it on Daypop or Blogdex) […]

Doin’ a Dave

Sunday, January 20th, 2002

Did a Dave on this post once it served its purpose.

Alas, poor Blogger

Saturday, January 19th, 2002

I wanted to link to Ben Sullivan’s “RIP Blogger” piece (never mind the #comments in the url, that’s just how he refers to his permalinks), but sadly neither it nor his blog are available at the moment (RIP techblog? Guess not: it’s back the next day.). Really nothing very exciting, just another person who fails […]

weblog API

Monday, January 14th, 2002

Radio Aaronland : “And as far as the Blogger API goes, with any luck the community as a whole will develop something that *Blogger* writes to. The API, as it currently is written, fills a vacuum but I’d like to see something a little more comprehensive.” Maybe I just travel in the wrong circles, but […]

Evhead RSS: not likely to wake up

Monday, January 14th, 2002

Do you ever wonder what people are thinking? There are more Radio users subscribed to the dead Evhead RSS feed than are subscribed to, say BBC world news or diveintomark. Maybe I’m wrong, but I figured that the content of Ev.’s feed (“wake up”) was directed to its readers, rather than to the feed itself.

BlogSnob

Monday, January 14th, 2002

BlogSnob, the free, cooperative textad service, has 1119 users (as of me) out of a planned 1500, so if you have been thinking about joining, don’t put it off too long. I have to admit that when Arnab first announced it I was skeptical, but it has turned into a great promotion and site discovery […]

Bad Blogger tech

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

My favorite Discuss post of 2002 (thus far): an astute reader of status.blogger was shocked to see that the tech who posted after Blogger had been handing out Error 210 for four and a half hours “wrote SH*T”.

Bloggar

Thursday, January 3rd, 2002

Now that the Blogger API is back up, Bloggar, the API client I was trying out before, is back as well, with version 1.10 (upgrade or new install) available in English, Português Brasil, or Español (and it’s now safe to edit your template with html character entities in it, and for the slow-witted like me, […]

RSS for uncorrected errors

Monday, December 31st, 2001

Interesting meta-blogging tool: the weblogs category from NewsIsFree not only aggregates blog posts for you, it also lets you see people’s quickly corrected typos and deleted posts. For instance, at the moment I see where Cam took almost half an hour to correct (or NewsIsFree took half an hour to notice the correction to) “Do […]