Category Archives: Communications, Connection, Internet, Web, Media

Around the Web About The Web

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Yahoo! had dropped Google for it’s search provider (Times) and has implemented it’s own engine. I actually like it. Good to see some real competition in the space for the first time in ages.

I do think it’s a little scary that personalization will eventually have an effect on search (NYTimes), but it does make sense doesn’t it?

Writing is good for you (The Age)! So webloggers – maybe this is for your health!

Nonprofits are doing well on the web (Wired News). Old news but good news.

Shelley’s Stepping Stones to a Safer Blog is a must read if you have been hit by comment spam.

Philly Future Updates

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I’ve selected a new set of featured sites for the following week. I’m planning on having Philly Future use my paradox1x Philly category as it’s own RSS feed with a little MovableType trickery. After all, it should have it’s own feed right?

A feel bad for blogspot hosted weblogs. I know of no way for them to publish RSS. Does anyone know of a RSS solution for them?

I still havn’t gotten around to making the MovableType plugin Atom compatible – but I promise I will. Can’t be too difficult.

Philly Future: It’s Alive!

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I have the domain back. Now, thru RSS, Philly Future can fulfill it’s original purpose and much more.

It’s been a long journey, one that started back in December 1999, thanks to EditThisPage, the great Manila hosting service provided by Userland.

Philly Future migrated from EditThisPage because of the duel purposes it served for me; to experiment with weblogging technology and to provide a weblog clearinghouse covering Philly. I still experiment with new weblogging tools and paradox1x.org is liable to migrate, at anytime, to something new.

I was hoping to attact a team of webloggers to post regular updates at Philly Future. It never happened. The best want a place to express their own unfettered view. And with events occurring in my life and in the world, I let the domain expire. A porn redirector took the domain name surprisingly.

I have the domain back. Now, thru RSS, Philly Future can fulfill it’s original purpose and much more.

If you have links pointing to the old page, please change them. Also note the new icon for Philly Future.

It’s a new beginning.

Note to some Philly Webloggers: The plugin I am using for RSS feeds seems to be incompatible with Atom. If you are only providing an Atom feed, Philly Future will list you, but can’t display your headlines. I will attempt to modify it’s code to make it do so in short order.

No one tells me who I can link to

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Weblog A disses Weblog B. Weblog C says if you don’t stop pointing to Weblog A it will de-list you.

Internet lesson for Weblog C: Linking is an expression of free speech. By linking to both sides of a debate I expand the conversation. I will not be told who I can link to or who I cannot. You bite off your nose to spite your face pulling stunts like this.

Oh yeah Weblog C – get a RSS feed will ya? It will get you more traffic.

Philly Blogs Now Shows Headlines

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The Philly Blogs list is now alive with headlines from my favorite Phildelphia related webloggers, updated every half hour 🙂

Thanks to Dave Winer, who pointed to Blogger Storm, who kept their link credit to mt-rssfeed.

For my purposes, I had to implement something that had a few more features then the BloggerStorm folks. It’s worthy of a longer post, maybe even a how-to piece.

Note to Philly webloggers not publishing RSS: Start doing so and start getting more readers.

Oh – you do recognize the shade of green donchya? Just showing my colors for tomorrow.