Archive for June, 2006Favorite PostsFriday, June 30th, 2006I’ve added a Favorite Posts link over on the right so you can find the posts that I consider some of my better writing from the archives. [Listening to: Night in Shanghai - Jean Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China (7:01)]
The Emotion of Blogging - Required ListeningFriday, June 30th, 2006I want to ask you a favor. If you have any time I would like you to go and listen to an MP3 recording made at BloggerCon IV about the Emotional Life of Blogging (that was the link to the MP3 in case you were wondering. Warning: Language) because I think it covers a whole lot of really interesting issues about the culture that this website is a part of and also about our society in general. If you want to see the brief notes of the session they are here. [Listening to: Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House - Woodface (3:18)]
Review: Why do People Love Bloglines?Thursday, June 29th, 2006Bloglines
 Category: Tool / service Topic: Feed Aggregator Year created: 2006 Overall rating: out of 5
Content rating: out of 5
Design rating: out of 5
Navigation rating: out of 5
Bloglines is an RSS aggregator (for a discussion on what RSS is see my previous post) that collects information from RSS and atom feeds and displays them to you in one easy to use interface. On the left is a list of feeds with the number of items you haven’t read in each feed displayed and the rest of the screen is made up of the items in the feed you have selected. The site is AJAX enabled so that when you select an item or perform an action it doesn’t do a time wasting page refresh but rather shows you the information right there and then like a desktop application. It has facilities to import your OPML file (a common XML format used by feed aggregators to store your list of feeds) so getting all of your feeds set up is quick and easy. This is all fine but after using Bloglines for a while I began to realise that it was losing feed items, feed items that I might have wanted to read . I even saw an instance where I did something to try and see the feed items in one feed and it marked all the items in my other feeds read without asking me. When I e-mailed their tech support about this I got the following response:
Note that I already had all my feeds set to ‘Display As New’ as they had suggested and that the response bore no relation to my original problem. After this I had no confidence that I was actually being notified of new items in my feeds and no confidence in the responsiveness of tech support to fix the problem. I took my OPML file and switched readers to Newsgator (which I’ll cover in another review). I know that everyone raves about Bloglines but I can’t in all conscience reccommend it due to these fundamental flaws. At the recent BloggerCon conference and in a recent Bloglines news post users were asked to tag posts about services with the tags Bloglines and Freedbacking so I’m doing that for this post. In case anyone from Bloglines is reading this the support case number I refer to is 060522-004580. Tags: Bloglines freedbacking A simple World Cup fact: Diving is cheating and diminishes sportThursday, June 29th, 2006I couldn’t have said it any better than this: KRT Wire | 06/27/2006 | A simple World Cup fact: Diving is cheating and diminishes sport Another Round of Street Corner MeetingsMonday, June 26th, 2006Our state and federal local members, Jane Lomax-Smith and Kate Ellis respectively, held one in their series of street corner meetings on the weekend at Memorial Gardens near where I live. As usual I wandered over as I like to engage with our politicians and raise any issues that are on my mind at the time. (more…) The top 10 mistakes managers of geeks makeFriday, June 23rd, 2006A list of the top 10 mistakes managers make when leading geeks. Doctor Fun 1993-2006Friday, June 23rd, 2006Doctor Fun is no more. I have been following this web comic since the early days of the web and for all that time it has made me laugh. I didn’t always get it and it wasn’t always G rated but every now and then David Farley would come up with something that was of “cubicle wall quality”. I remember the enduring themes: Star Wars, the Peeps, the Heads in Jars and many others. It is no more. Fortunately the archives are still online. Here now is a list of just some of the Dr Fun cartoons that are highlights for me in an illustrious run on the web over so many years: A Guide to the Del.icio.us for: tagFriday, June 23rd, 2006Cote from Redmonk has a really good guide over at People Over Process on using the for: tag in Del.icio.us. I use Del.icio.us a lot so if you want to send me links feel free to start adding for:yellek tags to any links that you think I should be aware of. If you’d like me to start sending you links, just send me your del.icio.us ID, either by bookmarking this or your del.icio.us page and AJUG Presentation 19/06/2006 - GrailsSaturday, June 17th, 2006I will be presenting at the Adelaide Australian Java User Group meeting next Monday (the 19th of June) on “Grails: Rapid Web Application Development Made Easy”. Event details can be found on Eventful. For those interested my presentation can be found here: Grails AJUG Presentation New Browser Review: FlockFriday, June 16th, 2006Paul Stamatiou reviews the latest beta from Flock and even shows a few screencasts of nifty features. It’s definitely something worth checking out. |
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