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I take it back…

9/9/2005 – 10:28 am

…updates from blo.gs are still hosed.

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services, Tech | Also tagged RSS, Web | Comments (1)

I noticed earlier this morning that the blo.gs updates appear to be functioning (more or less) normally again. I haven’t heard anything from my contact at Yahoo!, so I don’t know if they found a better way to filter the information from feed updates, or if they simply dropped feed updates from their ping sources. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services, Tech | Also tagged RSS, Web | Comments (4)

blo.gs update

8/11/2005 – 12:55 pm

An update on the ongoing problem with blo.gs updates…

Blo.gs is still reporting erroneous updates. Not as many as before, but still enough to be a problem. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services, Tech | Also tagged Atom, Feeds, RSS, Web | Comments (4)

Map Service APIs

7/1/2005 – 9:08 am

Both Google and Yahoo! have announced APIs for their mapping services. I’ve already gotten a developer key for the Google service. But it doesn’t support address searches, only lat/lon coordinates. So I’m thinking about applying for a Yahoo! key, using their service for geocoding (translating from street addresses to coordinates), then using Google’s mapping interface with all of its Ajaxy goodness.

I don’t know what I plan to actually do with this stuff, or when I’d find time to do it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Tech | Also tagged Ajax, API, Geocoding, Geography, Google, Programming | Comments (11)

Yahoo! My Web 2.0

6/29/2005 – 9:19 am

Somehow, I must find time to play with Yahoo! My Web 2.0… I don’t have time to read up on it and comment intelligently right now. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Search | Also tagged API, Folksonomies, PHP, Service, Social, Tags | Comments (3)

More on microformats

6/21/2005 – 2:43 pm

There is now a dedicated site for information about microformats: microformats.org

I’m working on a movie review using the hReview format. I’m hoping that we’ll see one of the big search engines start correlating microformat data soon. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Microformats, Search, Semantics, Tech | Also tagged Google, Technorati, Web | Comments (4)

Yahoo! acquires blo.gs

6/15/2005 – 9:23 am

A while back, I noted that blo.gs was up for sale. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services | Also tagged PHP, Web | Comments (6)

URL ABCs

4/29/2005 – 5:11 pm

Feeding the meme…

These are my URL ABCs:

A is for airbagindustries.com
B is for blo.gs - and Bookmarks
C is for cameronmoll.com
D is for dougal.gunters.org - me me me me me!
E is for easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect
F is for feedmarker.com - like del.icio.us + feeds
G is for google.com - Duh.
H is for halr9000.com
I is for intertwingly.net/blog - what a great word.
J is for jeremy.zawodny.com/blog - just some Yahoo! out west
K is for kottke.org
L is for liferea.sourceforge.net - some random site I visited because the user agent showed up in my logs.
M is for molly.com - Molly of the hard-to-spell last name
N is for newsaskew.com/blog
O is for onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/06/10/milters.html - O is for Obliterating spam
P is for photomatt.net - The #1 Matt
No Q? WTF?
R is for resource.reh3.com
S is for spam.gunters.org - S is for Spam. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Fun | Also tagged dom, Feeds, Google, Memes, PHP, Spam, Syndication, Web | Comments (10)

WordPress and Jabber, sitting in a tree…

12/20/2004 – 9:11 am

It seems that Matt Mullenweg and Peter Saint-AndrÃ© have been kicking around some ideas about how WordPress and Jabber could work together. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Firefox, plugin, Web, WordPress | Comments (3)

Civic Duty

11/3/2004 – 9:32 am

Susan and I did our civic duty yesterday and voted. We had heard of long lines in many areas, with waits up to six hours. But at our polling location, we didn’t have any wait at all. We arrived around 4:00 p.m., parked in one of the handful of empty spaces, filled out our paperwork, showed our identification, and voted using the newfangled electronic voting machines (yes the controversial Diebold machines). [...]