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Re: Sunflower News

brianjesse — Thu, 25 May 2023 14:44:33 -0000

testing a comment!!

Re: Alexandria, Virgina Tops Amazon’s ‘Most Well-Read Cities in America’ List - GalleyCat

brianjesse — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:22:02 -0000

this list would be good if it was adjusted for population. I was misled to think that the list was a ranking of cities with a high "proportion" of readers but it's just absolute sales numbers. yay.

Re: Magmatron Alpha

brianjesse — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:49:19 -0000

testing disqus on my tumblr - swizzt

Re: Threads: New EC2 for Poets

brianjesse — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:32:38 -0000

This is good timing, because I broke my old server and need to re-build it! I'll run through the updated install process this weekend.

Re: Let's combine forces and build a credibility API

brianjesse — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:26:01 -0000

In 2010 I was working on publishing "likes" in RSS feeds. I found that you could represent a "like" using ActivityStrea.ms - so if I want to like something or someone, I can just publish that like on my blog in a standards-compliant fashion. My credibility could be established by Google or DuckDuckGo or anyone by aggregating all of the likes that others had published about me.

Re: Scripting News: I got Spotify

brianjesse — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:14:08 -0000

The second time I launched Spotify it said "Guess what!? We already imported all of your MP3s!" as if i'd be happy that it'd scanned my hard drive without asking. I expected a Pandora-like app not an iTunes-a-like, so this was a surprise. Was it already uploading these files to others a la Napster?

Re: Scripting News: Where we're at on the World Outline

brianjesse — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:44:08 -0000

I think Ted Nelson would like where this is going.

Re: Scripting News: Hyperlinked writing (not just reading)

brianjesse — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:12:55 -0000

@danielbachhuber created a paragraph-level permalink plug-in for WordPress http://wordpress.org/extend...

Re: Congrats William and Kate! Here's My Wedding Gift! - Stu Green

brianjesse — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:20:20 -0000

This is cool, we do something similar at Nozzl News, here's our British Royal Wedding page http://nozzl.com/british-ro...

Re: Scripting News: The beautification of wikiriver.org

brianjesse — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:24:37 -0000

If you have an iPad you might enjoy the view I created of the river at http://dejafeed.com :-)

Re: Heroku For... - Morethanseven

brianjesse — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:06:04 -0000

How about Heroku for CouchDB,MongoDB,MySQL? http://couchio.com http://mongohq.com My own PostgreSQL/JSON service is beta testing https://datamullet.com

Re: Scripting News: Yes, Virginia, there are two ways to read RSS

brianjesse — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:33:20 -0000

I think this thread is totally fascinating, thanks for working on it.

Re: Scripting News: A note about Diaspora

brianjesse — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:09:04 -0000

I've been working with StatusNet and my own app to send Activity Streams objects back-and-forth (I have a working solution to federatedsocialweb.net/wiki.... StatusNet has excellent support for RSS which has been carried through even to the Activity Streams plumbing.

Re: Another Take on the Web is Dead: Limits to Decentralization

brianjesse — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:46:54 -0000

programmers from Facebook, StatusNet, Google and others are working on interoperability. they recently created an "acid test" use-case and a Sept. 30 deadline for working code http://federatedsocialweb.n...

Re: Scripting News: Sunday lite bike cruise

brianjesse — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:34:31 -0000

I've tried many indoor sports and the most fun and best workout for me is: tennis. I know it's popular in NYC -- what I enjoy here in the Pacific Northwest is the USTA League tennis, i've played on 26 league teams since I took it up, captained league teams, and coached high school tennis too. It's great fun, and you learn and grow as you grapple with tough opponents, learn strategy and face tennis reality: losing matches. The way I got started was by signing up for weekly group lessons for beginners (often you don't need an expensive club membership to participate), just a lot of running around and fun and games.

Re: Scripting News: People hosting their own servers

brianjesse — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:37:56 -0000

an ec2 instance is a complete server with hard disk, cpu, everything you need to run Windows or Linux. s3 and ebs can be incorporated but are not required to host a virtual server on ec2.

Re: Scripting News: RSS to the left of me, OPML to the right

brianjesse — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:41:30 -0000

looking at it again, the < /outline tag is paired with the first < outline so I guess there's not a syntax problem here, the style is just different from what i'm familiar with (html)

Re: Scripting News: RSS to the left of me, OPML to the right

brianjesse — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:32:11 -0000

I noticed something weird about the OPML of the "fish-head guy" Scripting2 post:

Maybe i'm misinterpreting but it seems like the first outline tag should end with a /> and the second outline tag shouldn't

-- Brian

Re: http://alexhwilliams.com/post/512367797

brianjesse — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:17:49 -0000

I think these are awesome, but the "pacific wonderland" text is pretty tiny #whatswiththat

Re: Futuristic reading interface for the lazy and productive

brianjesse — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:45:12 -0000

it's really neat! but I'd like it to be even lazier when i'm searching for new topics for my treadmill

Re: How Google got left behind (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:41:47 -0000

Twitter search spoiled me with it's recency. For months i've performed several extra steps on almost every Google search:

a) submit the search term via my browser toolbar
b) click "Advanced Search"
c) click "Date, usage rights, numeric search and more"
d) choose "past 24 hours" from the date popup
e) click "Advanced Search" submit button.

It was getting tiresome but recently a new 3-step option appeared and I can

a) submit the search term via my browser toolbar
b) click "Show options"
c) click "past 24 hours"

I'm ready for the 1-step version, I will Like it.

Re: Cli.gs URL Shortener To Shut Down

brianjesse — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:43:00 -0000

Sean O said "it's easy to setup a URL shortener" but setting up a self-hosted Web app and SQL database is too difficult for most.

There is an alternative: http://rp.ly lets you easily make short URLs on your own domain name: s.yourdomain.com or you.ly -- that way you're not advertising someone else's service, and your shortening-data is exportable as an RSS feed, so you're never again dependent on some service with a shaky business model.

brian@rp.ly

Re: HowTo: Sharing links in the River2 community

brianjesse — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:00:15 -0000

this is really neat and everything worked smoothly when I tried it out. now pondering how a long-poll and rssCloud callback could update my River2.

Re: Sharing links in the River2 community (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:40:46 -0000

that's what you get for telling everyone our secret! :-)

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:23:01 -0000

that's how I designed my rssCloud Rest/DNS server.. when you make a new zone like supercloud.org, it puts an A record there at the top level and then starts pumping out new TXT records for the subdomains