Thursday February 10, 2005

Late to the party again

Russell Beattie posted last night about a collaboration with Anthony Eden, which resulted in TagSurf. This is very much like something I've been thinking about adding to Roller, if only inertia hadn't gotten to me. Anyway, it looks good, with cool auto-completion (yes, I had that idea too). The tagging phenomenon hasn't quite swept me away yet, but I've been following it, seeing where it develops. P@ makes the connection to Annotea, another technology that I've been thinking about.

I do a lot of thinking, if only I'd get off my lazy ass and do something.
( Feb 10 2005, 10:57:15 AM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday February 03, 2005

Wikipedia is Evil Rogers Cadenhead discusses the ramifications of nofollow.
( Feb 03 2005, 12:41:22 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday January 27, 2005

Embedding .Mac looks pretty cool. Mike Clark notes that you can use the DotMac Kit to enjoy all the benefits of the .Mac services, and get a referral bonus to boot.

Are there any analogies in the Java space, a "kit" that connects an application with an existing set of networked services?
( Jan 27 2005, 01:14:52 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Wednesday January 26, 2005

Yet Another WYSIWYG Editor

widgEditor generates standards-compliant HTML, a big step up from the other HTML WYSIWYG editors out there. Don't get me wrong, the others are cool, and leaps and bounds beyond my capabilities. Yet it has always annoyed me that they don't generate proper HTML. widgEditor also appears to be quite lightweight and focussed on the basics (bold, italics, list, links). Some day soon I'll have to do a review of the editors Roller users and see if its worth the bother to add Yet Another. At the least it would make a good editor for Comments.
( Jan 26 2005, 01:45:26 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday January 20, 2005

Holy Macros RollerMan!

JunkFood has two excellent posts on hacking Roller. The second one (the most recent) in particular levels valid criticism of Roller's documentation. At one point is was better documented, what variables were available, which macros, the interesting values and methods of the data classes. But that has all fallen woefully out of date.
( Jan 20 2005, 05:06:09 PM ) Roller Permalink
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The GMail Virus

I'm doing my part to not spread the gmail virus. I've got six invites, I've had them a long time, and you can't have them! And neither can you, so don't ask.
( Jan 20 2005, 03:33:48 PM ) Humor? Permalink
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no-follow refinements

I'm conflicted on rel="nofollow?; that is, I doubt it'll do any real good, but I also doubt it'll do any real harm. However, I find the potential for harm to be the greater of the two. I like that people are already inventing refinements to nofollow. Based on that idea I'd like to add vetting to Roller's Comments.

I don't get many comments, so it'd be easy enough for me to go in and mark each one "good", and then display good comments sans nofollow. While I'm at it, I can delete Spam; but until then Spam gets the nofollow treatment. Huh, Lou had the same idea.

I wonder when I'll get around to doing this. Not soon, more than likely.
( Jan 20 2005, 10:29:50 AM ) Technology Permalink
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I'd just like to say that...

...I hate mobile phones. Hate them hate them hate them. I hate the telephone generally...[freeform goodness]

That's what I've been trying to say for quite some time.
( Jan 20 2005, 10:23:12 AM ) Personal Permalink
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