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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on May 02, 2004, 06:07:46 pm
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...and started a blog (http://www.brainzipper.com/brain/).
Play nice.
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This might be a good time to ask exactly what the hell is so special about blogs that everyone is talking about them all of a sudden. They're becoming a cultural phenomenon.
As far as I can figure, its just a way for any asshole who wants to, to have a way to post his rants online, in a semi-organized fashion. Thats the basic jist of it, right? People have had that capability since like, forever, via our friends the < p > tags.
also, linky no worky.
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The whole site is down.
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Originally posted by Mr. Vega
The whole site is down.
Ahh crapola. It was working a few minutes before I posted.
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I was gonna do a blog, but then my life lost all meaning and purpose and I doubt many people would want to read day after day of my getting drunk, watching TV, plotting the demise of mankind and ordering Indian Takeaways.
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Would it be unimaginative if I were to say "ditto"?
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Actually, the latter sounds like it'd be amusing, an0n.
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Yeah, that's what they said on IRC.
I just assumed they were being sarcastic and I was too drunk to see it.
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Ok, the server's back up. Davka yesterday the hosting company physically relocated the server. :p
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Geez, this looks like one of those online journals that my sister was obsessed with a year ago.
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"Dear Diary-- Today I started a blog!"
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i'm not witty enough to really start a blog, altho i do have an livejournal account for foxfire, that's just to make announcements and the like.
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I've been thinking about it, but then I remembered how little I like reading other peoples blogs and how I don't ever have anything to say.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
"Dear Diary-- Today I started a blog!"
:lol: Someone should make a comic (*looks at Turnsky*) where the Diary and the Blog get jealous of each other and have at it. :p
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so whats the difference?
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My understanding was that diaries were usually much more personal and/or intimate, whereas blogs are simply soapboxes for the masses.
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but an online diary is also viewable to everyone, so wouldn't that also be a soapbox for the masses? Seems they're pointless, but that's just my opinion and I respect you wasting time with it :p
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A blog is the buzzmeme-enabled version of an online diary.
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I thought it was the opposite of a diary.
A diary being your innermost truths, with a blog being all the bravado and 'Look how cool I am' bull****.
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Blogs are an ingenious device that allow you to tell people about your day without having to type it all multiple times.
But that's about it.
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So it's the guy's version of the diary... blah.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
:lol: Someone should make a comic (*looks at Turnsky*) where the Diary and the Blog get jealous of each other and have at it. :p
i would, but i'm somewhat busy..:p
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Sandwich, I'd consider reading your blog if you RSSed, so I could pluck it to my PDA in a reasonable fashion. ;)
Some hints, though: when you link an article (like the Political Correctness one), you should quote a short segment of it, and make a short narrative comment. Not only does it let the usual readers know what you're thinking, but it also lets PDA readers know if its a link they should mark for laying snagging.
:D
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Originally posted by mikhael
Sandwich, I'd consider reading your blog if you RSSed, so I could pluck it to my PDA in a reasonable fashion. ;)
Some hints, though: when you link an article (like the Political Correctness one), you should quote a short segment of it, and make a short narrative comment. Not only does it let the usual readers know what you're thinking, but it also lets PDA readers know if its a link they should mark for laying snagging.
:D
The link's right there on the left, Mik. RDF = RSS for such intents and purposes. :)
And good point about the article linkage - taken to heart, and about to be fixored fixed. ;)
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Coolness, Mike. I ain't got time to write a blog, but I've got time to read one. :)
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No,, Sandwich, its not the same thing. Sure, I can grab that RDF as a stream and get the highlights, but that's not terribly useful on a mobile device.
Some blogs syndicate the entire blog content for X number of days via the RSS. THAT is what I'm after. Looking at the RDF you have linked up, it does not appear to include entry bodies.
After I get back from this job interview, I'll check it and let you know what I find out.
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Ahh, gotcha. I still have to try and understand the way MovableType works and all, but for now, I've set up the RSS 2.0 (http://www.brainzipper.com/brain/index.xml) feed to have full descriptions, not just excerpts.
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Cool Blog ;)
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Okay, Sandwich, it seems to Pluck well. There's some issues with linked articles, but those are on the plucking end, not your end. I may need to dedicate one of my large SD cards to plucked blogs if I'm going to do this with more than one or two blogs AND want to get the articles they reference as well as the blogs themselves.
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"Pluck"? I assume that's the newsreader your handheld has. ;)
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No, Plucker is a sort of spider/file-converter for creating a uniform formatted-document format for handheld devices. Its also the name of the client that will do the plucking. One of the nice things about plucker is that the results of plucking a channel, blog, or website is a single fairly compact file. You can specify whether it grabs image content, and if it will convert/downsample/resize the images, and what the various results of those conversions will be.
I use OPIE-Reader on my PDA (a Sharp Zaurus), which will read Plucker format files.
One of my SD cards has plucked versions of six ORA Perl references (from the PERL CD BOOKSHELF), four or five ORA systems administration references (from the NETWORKING CD BOOKSHELF), and most of the Baen Free Library (the frameless versions of the books). Its pretty tight. I'm NEVER bored as long as I've got my PDA. ;)
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I was going to do a blog a while ago, but realised I wasn't particularly popular or had many friends, so I decided a journal was in order. Then, I decided the whole idea was queer in itself.