Posted on 16 Jun 2004 in Internet
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
Posted on 08 Apr 2004 in Internet
Hah, yep and yep, so true:
“Those already bored with the phenomenon – particularly the techies who started blogging years ago as a way of sharing boring stuff about computer code – claim that the golden days of blogging are over, that what passes for blogging nowadays is the most banal wash-up of aimless lives, millions of pages slowing the internet and clogging Google. What they really don’t like is that publishing on the internet is not just for geeks any more.” The Observer
[via LinkMachineGo]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1185116,00.html
Posted on 24 Aug 2003 in Internet
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/
Posted on 21 Aug 2003 in Internet
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.
Posted on 09 Jun 2003 in Internet
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/cosmos/search.html
Posted on 23 May 2003 in Internet
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.
Posted on 07 May 2003 in Internet
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/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fanthonyjhicks.com%2Faussieblogs%2F&user=1846
Posted on 26 Apr 2003 in Internet
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/geoblog/
Posted on 11 Apr 2003 in Internet
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.
Posted on 15 Mar 2003 in Internet
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/ajh/weblog.nsf/l/010DD003CB444FC1CA256CAF00412603
Posted on 11 Feb 2003 in Internet
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/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Posted on 29 Jan 2003 in Internet
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/near/?p=http://anthonyjhicks.com/weblog/
Posted on 16 Jan 2003 in Internet
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.
Posted on 15 Jan 2003 in Internet
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/0100368/
Posted on 12 Dec 2002 in Internet
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/
Posted on 03 Dec 2002 in Internet
Love it: “FuturePundit: future technological trends and their likely effects on human society, politics and evolution.”
Political blogs absolutely bore me to tears, but I love future tech blogs with a bit of a political twist. Each to their own I guess.
http://www.futurepundit.com/
Posted on 28 Nov 2002 in Internet
Mike has launched the java.blogs site, it’s pretty damn impressive and does a very nice job of aggregating and indexing posts from Java blogs. Braggingly developed in only 2 days as well 
I’m not clear as to whether he is doing analysis of the page to determine new posts or only accepting blogs with an XML feed. The XML approach is certainly nicer, but relies on the high use of XML, which is not really a problem in the Java community, but is a nightmare for most of the Aussie Bloggers who can barely code a
tag.</p>
<p>I say again, this is something I’d like to do with Aussie Blogs. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.javablogs.com/Welcome.jspa">http://www.javablogs.com/Welcome.jspa</a></p>
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<p>Idea: How about someone writes a submission engine for all the bloody blog crawlers out there. Submit your weblog URL and description in a single place and have it sent to all the blog crawlers, rankers and directories in one hit.</p>
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<p>I hadn’t seen Phil’s blogging ecosystem before, it looks quite neat. Link analysis and collection (like Blogdex) was something I started tinkering with in the Aussie Blogs crawler, but got bored/distracted, might have to check out Phil’s code, if he’ll send it to me, maybe I’ll get inspired to finish mine off. I also quite like the <a href="http://blogrolling.com">BlogRolling</a> concept, which is a great idea (not something worth replicating in Aussie Blogs though). Phil also has a list of a few other blog <a href="http://www.myelin.co.nz/ecosystem/links.php">crawlers</a> out there at the moment. He’s right, there is a huge number of blog crawlers out there now analysing pages, collecting links and ranking sites. All them have slightly different approaches, but most of them still result in interesting and somewhat useful results. I particularly like the idea of <a href="http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/commoner.pl?url=http://radio.weblogs.com/0107789/">Neighbourhood Analysis</a> in BlogStreet, where it will point out blogs that may be of interest to you. I don’t understand why my blog justs sits in the database unprocessed. Wow, I’ve been really into blog analysis and tools lately, for such a small community in comparison to other online diary and journal communities, blogs really do have a lot of tools and crawlers specifically targetted at them.</p>
<p>With seeing the incredible number of blogs, journals, online diaries lately, I’m really a bit overwhelmed by the whole community now. There’s just so many blogs out there that a lone webloggers voice is getting smaller and smaller.</p>
<p>Sure, the old community threads still tie you to the people you know, and slowly get you introduced to others who share similar thoughts and interests. But on the whole the there’s just so many others out there now that sometimes I wonder why I bother blogging at all. I think it comes down to a bit of ego thing (surely not!) where you see so many bloody people blogging now and it’s just not as special anymore, I guess you’ve got to remind yourself the real reason you’re doing it is so you can get stuff off your chest, keep your less regularly spoken to friends up to date with your doing, and meet new interesting people. </p>
<p><a href="http://dev.myelin.co.nz/">http://dev.myelin.co.nz/</a></p>
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<p>Okay, I had high hopes for the radio piece, but combined with a slight tinge of nervousness for being on national radio for the first time, I was certainly not as outspoken as I normally am on topics that interest me. I also let the comment by Kingston that Tim Blair kicked off blogging in Australia slide, although blogging can be traced back in Australia to 1998, and the diary/journal form has been tinkered with on the web in Australia since probably 1994. I felt a bit silly passing my question off to Rebecca about how to start a blog, but being a technical person, I quickly thought that Rebecca could put it in a much better way for the bulk of the listeners. Bit of shame the panel was so big, if Neale and I had had the chance to say a bit more, I’m sure we would have been far more comfortable, and would have actually got into quite an interesting discussion, ever mindful of the fact that most of the listeners didn’t know what the hell a weblog was in the first place. Still it was a interesting experience to be on national radio. Kind of daunting, but fine once you’re actually sitting in the studio behind the microphone. Ah, if only there was a TV camera in there though, all manner of face pulling and hand signals going on, that didn’t necessarily match the nice words being said on the radio. Great experience, I’ve lost my radio virginity, I’m ready to do it again, this time properly!</p>
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