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Quite Clever: Is this the end of Gormagon? (spoiler)

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by megalar
Quite Clever: Is this the end of Gormagon? (spoiler)

At least Zach didn’t eat anyone.

hehe. Just read this and thought I’d share it

Trolling Around

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by megalar
Yesterday after this I decided to with . This being a relatively new site with very little exposure I figured it would be a good for what even the lamest scheme could do for a site.
I bookmarked it on my del.icio.us, and submitted it to digg. As a result I got 41 unique , so that’s pretty cool. Another thing that seems to have had an effect was that I had tweeted earlier about a site redesign. Looking at technorati and google I see no to here but that’s no surprise really given the lame i did.
My point is that for a new doing this lame can attract some readers. I’ll be doing other lame experiments in weeks to come hopefully (because that will mean I have alot of spare time :D ) For now I’m doing some following on places like . This kind of thing can be helpful because quite a few will just choose to follow you back. This can mean more exposure for me in general and since my is really nothing but a placeholder for me on the it might gain some small .
And no, I don’t consider this underhanded. When I had to move my to a new host I had time to do one small post about the move. I generally saw about 200 unique visitors every month so this is just a way to supplement the lack of about the move.
On an unrelated matter, this is my first post with scribefire and I’m loving it.
That’s all for now folks.
PEACE.

Burst Fiction

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by megalar

Wow.

I saw this in l.m.orchard’s del.icio.us links and it tickled in me so i decided to it here (and of from here to ).

Check out people, it .

burst

I fell for hours.

This is not . I was not in . Not technically.

Imagine a as thick as a surrounding a with a that puts its at a habitable . enough into it to give the a decent , and you have enough for the of a . This is a sphere.

Now imagine an of vehicles launched to build these in for from an overpopulated of spheres. Imagine these down and ripping them apart for .

Now imagine this gets out of . That ’t be a .

Eventually, the damn is covered in and . A contiguous, , most of it filled with and an variety of .

In such a , you’re bound to find doors without labels in your .

“, open !” would have been so nice.

by White Hat

links for 2008-05-05

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by megalar

Mapping the Blogosphere

Posted on April 21st, 2007 by News dugg by megalar

Discover Magazine has an interesting article on mapping the blogosphere, reporting on the work of Matthew Hurst. Hurst mapped the blogosphere according to . Bright spots represent sites with the highest number of , isolated islands represent closed communities and other special interest communities.

/trunk/hacking_rss_and_atom/ch15_popular_links.py - 0xDECAFBAD - Trac

Posted on April 16th, 2007 by alt3r3g0

"Build a feed summarizing link popularity found in a set of feeds." This is apparently one of the things included in l.m.’s book "Hacking RSS and Atom" that i just ordered from amazon.

My LifeStream

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by megalar

I’ve decided to jump on the lifestream bandwagon full force. Check it out at [XILED] . So far I have my del.icio.us, last.fm,
Digg, and CoComment feeds going there. You might ask why I would do this since all that info is available in my sidebar on this site. The answer to me at least is a simple one: I’m marking time.

I recently read quite an interesting post at http://adactio.com/journal/1202/ about the subject of lifestreams where the author makes that a bit more clear:

Every time I ping , the message is time stamped. Every time I post a link to , that’s time stamped. Every time I upload a picture to Flickr, a time stamp of when the picture was taken is also sent. Whenever I listen to a song on iTunes, the track information is sent to Last.fm with a time stamp. And of whenever I , be it here, at the DOM Scripting or Principia Gastronomica, each entry has a permalink and a time stamp.Just about every time somebody publishes on the Web, it gets time stamped. Wouldn’t it be nice to pull in all these disparate bits of time stamped information and build up a timeline of online activity?

The technology is already in . Most of the services I mention above have APIs. In this case, a fully-blown API isn’t even necessary. Each service already offers an easily parsable XML file of activity ordered by time: RSS.

Over the of any particular day, I could be updating five or six RSS feeds, depending on how much I’m blogging, how many I’m posting, or how much music I’m listening to. I’d like to take those individual feeds and mush ‘em all up together.

Using the feedwordpress plugin this is almost too easy. Things I’ll add to this: Flickr, , and other stuff…
This is where you (my imagined audience) come in. Give me some feedback about other services i can mash into this.
I know, you really don’t care about the inane things i do while at the pc, but me.

Add to any service

If I want your links, I’ll sub your links | One Big Library.

Posted on April 11th, 2007 by alt3r3g0

link blogs 4evarrrrr

Underrated Web 2.0 Search Engine

Posted on March 27th, 2007 by News dugg by megalar

This engine grabs results from , Yahoo, and MSN. It also allows you to develop your own widgets and algorithms based on your searches. You can put weight into domain age, Alexa rank, , and even whether or not it hit the front page.