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Weaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds

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New Freebase blog

I decided to set up a separate blog for my Freebase blitherings. You can find it at freebasing.org. Points of interest so far:

Thoughts on the cultural associations of location data New tool: RSS feed of new types

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There’s a new Perl blog in town

One of the things I’ve been doing, in my current state of unemployment, is pondering the world of Perl blogs.

A month or so back, I happened to google for perl blogs and found almost nothing of use on the front page. Then I googled ruby blogs and found that most of the first [...]

Technorati and Perl

Over at use.perl, Schwern’s been talking about Perl blogs and their visibility.

There are hundreds(?) of journals over on use.perl, but if you google for Perl blogs you won’t find any of them easily. In fact, you won’t find much of anything at all. Meanwhile, googling for Ruby blogs will give you an [...]

Anatomy of a Digg

Yesterday morning I woke up to find that one of the posts on my Geek Etiquette blog had been Dugg.

Within half an hour, my site was offline.

I spent a good chunk of the day dealing with my first “digg effect”, and thought it might be interesting to write up.

Timeline

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Why are the intertubes like a catflap?

A couple of weeks ago my Dad and I were on our way to visit my Grandma, who’s moved into a retirement village down at Torquay. As we were driving through Geelong, I thought I’d see whether Dad had caught any of the buzz about this web2.0 thing all the kids seem to [...]

Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and video

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds So far we’ve been talking about [...]

Weaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!

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Weaning yourself off LJ: More customisations

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds I have to admit, I meant [...]

Weaning yourself off LJ: Customisation

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds In the previous article I showed [...]