Tag Archives: Weblogs
Weblogs.com stops hosting blogs
Posted on 16. Jun, 2004
Isn't it funny, I kept seeing people mentioning how upset they were about losing their weblogs.com sites thinking I was unaffected, and then I realised for years I've been using a redirect from australian.weblogs.com as one of the entry points for Aussie Blogs. Ah well. As with any free service, expect it to be pulled without notice, that's why I pay for almost everything net related that matters to me (email, spam blocking, dns hosting, applications, subscriptions etc), not to mention automated quadriple backups of everything important both online and offline. I can understand why Winer is doing this, and people have little grounds to complain. The amount of stress keeping stuff like this going, especially when it comes to cutting code turns from a labour of love to a pain in the ass as the years pass. Aussie Blogs stresses me out enough and that's tiny in comparison (NOTE: Aussie Blogs is still accessible through several other URLs).
http://australian.weblogs.com/...
New kids on the blog
Posted on 08. Apr, 2004
Hah, yep and yep, so true:
[via LinkMachineGo]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Clickstream
Posted on 13. Mar, 2004
I really like Angus' personal clickstream monitor. I wonder how automated this is?
http://angusf.com/...
Updated GeoURL
Posted on 29. Sep, 2003
I finally got around to updating my GeoURL co-ordinates, I see another long-time blogger Tom Coates is quite close by. I'm also on London Bloggers.
http://geourl.org/...
Cheap aussie voicemail service suitable for audio blogging
Posted on 24. Aug, 2003
Unifer2 looks like it could have potential, they offer a voicemail service with access numbers all over Australia. They have the option to forward the recorded message to email. If you could then program your own process to pickup the WAV convert it and send it your weblog as a post/attachment you'd be set. The sign-up on Unifer2 does seem broken though, I've emailed them to see what's wrong. Unifer2 look cheap and nasty, but that's all you need. The alternative is to use mbox, however they don't forward the WAV, so you'd have to POP the WAV out off their server before processing it. mbox only have 30 second voicemails on their cheap plan which is terrible.
Callagenix in the UK is awesome. Fully web browser configurable voice applications at very reasonable prices. I've setup my blog to accept voicemail from their system. And no message length limitations! We need something like this in Australia. I'd consider partnering with a company like this and offering audio blogging to aussie bloggers.
http://www.unifier2.com.au/...
TypePad changes.xml
Posted on 21. Aug, 2003
This post is blatant Google bait to see how many people out there are looking for a TypePad changes.xml file. I'm hanging to add it the Aussie Blogs tracker if and when they actually start generating one over a TypePad. I guess they may just opt for pinging weblogs.com which is fine as well I guess.
thisiskylie.com
Posted on 08. Aug, 2003
Kylie has some great London pics.
http://www.thisiskylie.com/...
Technorati Keyword Search
Posted on 09. Jun, 2003
Wow, the Technorati keyword search is impressive. It searches an index of over 360,000 blogs. A post I made only around 30 mins ago was already in the Technorati index. Impressive indeed!
http://www.technorati.com/...
Audioblogging server on Linux
Posted on 23. May, 2003
COOL! I just figured out how to setup my Linux server as a voicemail server using a voice capable modem. The voicemail server software answers the phone, plays a greeting and then records the message in WAV which can then be forwarded to my blog as an audio post. There's a few handy event handlers where I could convert the WAV to MP3 before posting it to the blog. The problem with the voicemail server software I'm using though is that it's not interactive, so anyone can ring up and leave a blogpost without authenticating. I'd need to hack it a bit or find another package to make it viable.
BlogShares.. yawn.
Posted on 07. May, 2003
I am rapidly losing interest in BlogShares, despite having some 300+ confirmed incoming links to the Aussie Blogs homepage from members of the Web Ring, the BlogShares profile shows only five. Now I know it only spiders sites that are listed in the changes.xml, but still, only five incoming links is grossly inaccurate! I'll give it another week, and then the logos are coming off the site. Nice idea, but significantly flawed it would seem by relying on their own spider to find associations.
http://www.blogshares.com/...
The world as a blog
Posted on 26. Apr, 2003
GeoBlog is a real-time Flash applet that reads the weblog.com changes.xml file and places a dot on a worldmap to where the post was made if the weblog is appropriately geocoded.
http://www.brainoff.com/...
Interesting Weblogs?
Posted on 11. Apr, 2003
I'm pretty much only visiting the blogs on my right sidebar, anyone got any suggestions? Leave links in Comments. I need some fresh sites.
Audioblogging revisited
Posted on 15. Mar, 2003
I was really keen on the whole audioblogging concept a few months back, but after listening to a few posts by others, I think I find the concept a little too confronting to hear posts read aloud. It also feels a little out of context as the conversational post just starts with little background to where or why the post is being made. It's sort of like tuning into really bad late night talkback radio. Anyway, content aside the audblog implementation looks interesting, but has a US access number only. Add this to list of potential projects for Australian Weblogs that I might do. I have all the equipment to do it actually, except for a phone line I guess and a small amount of coding required to paste it altogether, oh and adequate motivation.. hmm.. comments from anyone who might be interested in paying a very small fee (eg. 50c per post) to use a Sydney based phone number to audioblog? If I put a few days into setting this up, would people use it?
http://anthonyjhicks.com/...
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality - The Weblog A-List
Posted on 11. Feb, 2003
Clay Shirky has a piece on the Weblogging A-List: "A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. This complaint follows a common pattern we've seen with MUDs, BBSes, and online communities like Echo and the WELL. A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of us, and so on." [via Boing Boing]
http://www.shirky.com/...
Sites near anthonyjhicks.com within 804.67 kilometers
Posted on 29. Jan, 2003
GeoURL is a neat idea, add a metatag with your latitude and longitude and you'll get added to the ICBM server, you can then query sites near you. Obviously this is not the location of the physical web server, but rather the location of the web sites purpose, for example where a weblogger lives, or the location of a restaurant.
http://geourl.org/...
2006th weblog post
Posted on 16. Jan, 2003
I just realised Tuesday's post about my new WLAN antenna was my 2000th weblog post! Wow, but who gives a crap right? You know a weblogger is clutching for content when all he/she can comment on is how many posts they've made or new features they've added to their blog cms.. ahh.. blogging on blogging. I'll give it a rest for a while.
Audioblogging
Posted on 15. Jan, 2003
I've been pondering setting up audio blogging on my site for the past few months, and only just discovered the interesting sub-community of audiobloggers emerging. There's even someone in Australia linking mbox to their blog, something that crossed my mind a little while back. The approach I prefer is setting up a dedicated phone line with a voice capable modem answering, punch in a pin, record the message, once it's confirmed hit a key to post it online as an MP3. There's one product that has potential for relatively easy integration. It's something I might setup for the next time I go overseas, but when hanging around Sydney, it's not really necessary as I've got nothing of critical interest to audioblog.
http://radio.weblogs.com/...
Episode 11: Gardening (3Mb)
Posted on 18. Dec, 2002
Heh, Cade TV cracks me up.
http://www.cadewhitbourn.com/...
WHEDONesque
Posted on 12. Dec, 2002
Woo! Cool, a Joss Whedon weblog. Not by him of course, more of a fan blog. But cool none-the-less. Joss is a god.
http://whedonesque.com/...
