“Always always always give us a button to allow us to do the worst thing you can imagine. The alternative is that we’ll end the relationship and then blog our complaints about you out loud, no matter how petty it makes us look.” – David Weinberger
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Something’s Still Burning
The more work I do parsing and aggregating feeds, the more annoyed I am with Google’s Feedburner published feeds (part 1). As you know, I don’t see the need for Feedburner and believe their useful services (metrics, being smart about enclosures and tags, etc) is more effectively done within the weblog/publishing software1 for 99% of …
iPollution
As soon as I got my new phone, I turned the ringer off. I’m alerted of new messages and calls via BluePhoneElite – not disturbing anyone else in earshot. It’s quiet in the house during the day, no constant tv or radio. Interupptions of all kinds are reduced to a minimum. Elsewhere, TVs are blaring, …
First Invite Out, 20 To Go
Over lunch today, I sent out the first invitation to the FeedSeeder project. This is the first real test of the system and I’m anxious. Despite the edges being very rough, the functionality is in there. Finally. Enough to: 1) talk about 2) start polishing. Since I’ve been working on this project about 10 of …
What’s He Building in There?
Doing some testing today and I felt bad for not posting anything in nearly a week. I’ve been building. Steady. Til midnight or 2am for the past week. And it’s coming together real nicely, so I’m trying to keep up the momentum up through this coming week. Until I get back to a more frequent …
Zodiac: Long, Unsatisfying
Much like the story Zodiac was retelling, it was long, drawn-out, and came to a less than satisfying end. Though the 2 decade long serial killer story was condensed down to 157 minutes, much of it could have been cut (the pre-re-married Jake Gyllenhaal character with his son, all of the murder scenes, the scene …
Streamy.com: Kicking Off the Next Generation of Feed Aggregators
Looks like somebody else out there is building a next-gen feed aggregator: Streamy.com Beta. “Our goal is to bring you personally relevant news in an engaging, collaborative environment….we do intend to kill the dry, boring RSS reader. I’m talking about the inbox-style RSS reader that is not intriguing, not social, and makes little or no …
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Podcast Advertising Not Working for Me
1. The (second) battery in my 3G iPod is dying and I want to buy a replacement. A while back, an iPod battery replacement company was running ads at Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles. But that’s all I remember. At the time the ads were running, I didn’t need an iPod battery. Now I do …
Regrets: Not Getting a CS Degree
“My advice to young people is to get a computer science degree, if for no other reason than you can avoid those odd jobs and get right to the programming.” – Brent Simmons I’m continually bumping up against my ignorace of good programming practices that one would get in Comp. Sci. 101. Not that it …
Finding Yourself on Myspace
That’s right, somewhere, out in the vastness of the MySpace network, is someone exactly like me. I feel like I’ve lapped myself.