- ljdump – livejournal archive
Quick and dirty tool to grab an LJ archive on any system that has python available, which includes OS X.
- LiveJournal: The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
SUP have knocked the american tech staff on the head. I don't believe they're going to fuck off tomorrow, or anything, but any way you slice it, this is bad news, and I'm going to have to find a good LJ archiving tool for OS X just so I do have a decent archive somewhere that isn't on LJ, but I should have done that anyway. Still, most of the public content over the least few years is already in databases on my own servers, anyway, but I'd like to get the private/friends locked stuff saved, too. I may also flip back to blogging on my own domain, and just mirroring the content into LJ, just in case.
- Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists – Joe Lazarus
I may want to take this apart and rebuild it for other services since my tumblr account is used for my not-a-photoblog-honest. Or since the blog is called Dead Air, I might just pipe it in regardless, as it does kind of fit with the theme.
- Baby twitters via kicks – Hack a Day
I blog this mostly because I want to use the phrase "spime child", which is agreeably SF sounding. And because, well, it's an interesting application of the technology.
Tag: socialnetworking
Bookmarks for August 31, 2008
- Nikon D90 Hands-on Preview.
Dammit. Must not buy… Must…not…buy…
Well, maybe after christmas. Maybe. - Full text of Barack Obama's acceptance speech
Nothing exactly shocking, but y'know, it is what it is. Be interesting to see how closely the next couple of months campaigning hews to the line he lays out here.
- Lawrence Lessig on McCain on Technology
In summary: The Bush administration has done things that may fuck the US intertubes. The McCain administration will also fuck those tubes. Not exactly revalatory or unexpected stuff, but if you're curious about the major political issues affecting the (US) internet, and have 15 minutes to spare, then this is a good primer on them anyway.
- Shifting Mind » Postalicious
del.icio.us's blog auto-poster seems to be having problems, so I'm trying this plugin as a possible fix for this. Link crossposting may be a bit wonky for a few days as I get the new system bedded in.
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity
This looks like it could be seriously fascinating, in 18 months or so. The principles, certainly, represent a massive shift in the way we might use the web, and while Ubiquity is a little clunky, I'm sure better interfaces for doing exactly this sort of thing will get developed over the next few years.
- Fake following
Via Matt Jones, Jason Kottke on Fake Following, a brilliant new idea at FriendFeed that I fully expect every social network site to implement by the end of next year.
- dConstruct 2008
I would give my eyeteeth to make this conference. Sadly, there's no way work will pay for it, and even if they would, I am going to be buried in work at the point it's on. Dammit.
- 101 Atheist Quotes – The Atheist Blogger
Don't agree with them all, but I'd have to admit, it's only a minority I really have to take issue with, and most of those are by people who have been dead a long time. My really big problem is that it's a bit anti-Christianity-centric, and while I know it's kind of implicit that atheism defines itself in response to theism, I think you can make a stronger argument for it without resorting to just swiping at the alternatives.
Bookmarks for May 19, 2008
- Worldwide Social Network Market Share
Interesting map showing the most popular social networks around the world. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of some of them.
Bookmarks for April 10, 2008
- apophenia: musing about social networks and g/local cultures
I feel like I know almost no-one round where I live, but still: I shop regularly at my local butcher. A couple of my local cafe’s recognise me when I come in. I like that, and I’d hate to live in the world described here.
- 960 Grid System
Handy set of tools for producing grad based designs. I particularly like the fact that there’s both an OmniGraffle template and an HTML demo. This is going to make going from wireframe to mockup about 70 times faster.
- khîm photo » monolit
Nice, minimalist photoblog theme. Might use it as a start point for sprucing up my portfolio site, to bring it more into line with the design of my other sites.
Bookmarks for February 29, 2008
- A Guide to Web Typography | i love typography, the typography blog
Out to be require reading for anyone who is designing a website, be they professional or amateur. The same rules apply to corporate sites as they do to your custom blog layout, you know…
- Danah Boyd (and Lawrence Lessig and Esther Dyson) join Livejournal Advisory Board
Well, this is sounds like it can only be a good thing. LJ’s new owners will be getting input from some very very smart people to help them balance the needs of the business and the needs of users.
- Preorder Tree Traversal
A technique for structuring parent-child data in a database that I hadn’t run across before and is much more elegant that the methods I’ve used in the past. This will change my approach to certain kinds of data. (The rest of you can wake up now.)
- MySQL :: Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL
More stuff about managing hierachical data as infinitely nestable sets. Look, I make an effort to keep too much of this stuff out of this linkblog, but you’re going to have to live with it once in a while, ok?