Month: January 2009

Cullect Got 3rdPartyFeedback.com-ed

Ed Kohler1 has a new mechanical turk project – 3rdPartyFeedback.com. For $25, Ed will ask 10 people 3 standard questions about your website and send over their responses.

Obviously, I ran Cullect.com through Ed’s gauntlet.

Here are some of my favorites:

“I like the fact that the website design is spare and not flash heavy.”

“I don’t consider anything best current feature for this website.”

“Add some design…”

The full response is over at the Cullect blog.

I think Ed’s onto something with this service – especially at $0.83 / answer.

1. Ed’s the only man I know with a longer project list than my own.

Collapsing Space

“But I can’t imagine that blogging and Twitter won’t fully merge, and I expect that to happen soon.” – Dave Winer

I’ve been posted to Twitter from Cullect since Cullect launched. Cullect.com/Garricks-Friends probably has as many blog feeds as Twitter feeds (yes its more about the people than their choice of publication).

This is a long way of saying I don’t see a difference between these two printing presses (I’ve said this before).

One of the projects on my Not Until 2009 List is to eliminate the space between things like Twitter and a weblog. Agnostic indeed. Feels like some things in WordPress 2.7 will make this even easier.

Hmmmmmmm.

iPhoto to WordPress Ruby Script

I maintain a WordPress blog that’s primarily an extension of iPhoto, and the various iPhoto plugins (Photon by Daikini, Photon by Orby, WordPress Export) I’ve tried over the years seem to have stopped being maintained, stopped working, or both.

Which is fine, they never worked exactly the way I wanted them too anyway.

So, I wrote one.

In Ruby, with some help from rb-appscript

Unlike like the other iPhoto export options, this one lives in your Scripts menu and automatically creates (and opens!) a draft post containing all the selected images.

Download send_selected_photos_to_wordpress.rb

“It’s surprisingly short and effective.” – Peter Cooper