I have to admit, I really like my new setup. tail -f carlo.log for the “real” blog posts and tail -f carlo.tumblr for the random sillyness and interesting bits and pieces I come across. It works out well and has some advantages over writing a Post-It post every now and then.
It’s more …direct.
So I think I’ll keep using/maintaining it. Remember, it has a separate RSS feed.
I’ve started a tumble log the other day. I consider it an experiment; first of all, Tumblr is an exquisite service with a whole lot of potential. It serves as an extremely easy and comfortable tool to link all the new doodads, gimmicks, funny pictures and clever quotes I find on the Intertron.
And secondly, all the cool cats are doing it already, so there.
Thus, for the time being, I will do what Hendrik did and deactivate the daily automated splicing of my new del.icio.us links and blog-worthy Flickr pictures into my tail -f carlo.log RSS feed, and opt for Tumblr raking them in automatically. In addition I’ll throw in the gems I found while reading feeds in Google Reader! What a deal!
That means if you want to keep track of the little things I see and find, those which do not warrant a blog post on their own here, take a look tail -f carlo.tumblr. Yes, I know the name is lame, screw you! :p There is an RSS feed, too.
So, yeah.
Description vs. person. defective yeti on match.com discrepancies. Well summed up.
Tables suck. Depending on the context, of course. The topic came up on one of our internal mailing lists, and Chris answered with a link to Why tables for layout is stupid, which is a really nice URL to hand out the next time the issue is raised. Great artwork, too! Go luck.
Blog nirvana. Valleywag came up with an interesting heatmap. Reminds me of Lem’s ‘Rough guide to the state of the Internet, circa 2006’.
The good fight against blog comment spam continues — I’ve added HashCash to the mix after noticing the Akismet plugin catching up to 250 spam comments per night. Let’s see whether with HashCash this number goes down; after all it is supposed to stop bots, so the comments shouldn’t end up in Akismets queue in the first place.
If you have problems posting comments (if you want to comment here for whatever reason… can’t think of anything at the moment), drop me a line. My mail address can be found around here, you know where to look.
Update: I deactivated HashCash again. After Akismet had to filter out ~50 spam comments in the last two hours, it became clear to me that HashCash doesn’t help at all. Awesome! :P
Update #2: It dawned me that pretty much all of my incoming spam is trackbacks, and HashCash doesn’t process those for apparent reasons. Huh.
I am thinking about my linkblog for a few days now, and whether to continue it or not.
On one hand, it is kind of comfortable to just share items in Google Reader or to just store another bookmark using Yahoo! MyWeb. (An hourly cronjob is parsing both RSS feeds and feeding it to my site.)
On the other hand, I think the Post Its are the better format. It takes more time (and more work, even) to compile them over the course of a day, but I am more flexible in how to present them. Plus they are part of my main syndication feed.
Hmm.
Bye, linkblog. It’s been a nice experiment.
PS: That also means the related syndication feed will be deleted as well, of course.
