Month: February 2006

de.icio.us daily post

I have been playing with the daily post setting on del.icio.us and tonight I’ll find out if it is going to work…

Basically, the daily post spits out a post to your blog containing all the sites I linked to on del.icio.us that day, at a set time. You can read up on how to configure it to work with WordPress on the support forum. The url to visit to create this for your own blog is http://del.icio.us/settings/yourdel.icio.ususername/daily.

So, check here after 22:00 GMT to see if mine has worked – it will save me a job creating link blog posts, anyway…

Links 13/2/06

  • Listable is a Web 2.0 thing for making tagged community lists. Hmm. They do have a rather nice list of Web 2.0 sites though.
  • Dave Winer notices how slowly Gmail is recently. It’s a nightmare – think the Google Talk integration must be clogging things up. Strangely (or, actually, not) things are much quicker in FireFox.

That’s it for today. Pathetic! Must try harder.

Wikis

I have needed a simple wiki solution for a little problem of mine, and I have found just what I was after.

I just needed a page or two that could be easily edited for the handful of people who are attending the Palimpsest Big Day Out in May – usually this stuff is handled on the forums, but this can be a nightmare when you are hunting through pages of messages. Installing a whole wiki on my webspace would be overkill, so I needed a hosted solution.

Steve Rubel yesterday pointed to StikiPad which I have a go, and it was ok, but the free version only allows for 5 revisions! Rubbish.

In the end I found PBwiki through Google. And it is perfect. Simple to set up, a simple method of user authentication, revision histories and everything else you might need. OK, so the free version has adverts and certain limitations about the number of pages you can have, but it is perfect for almost any simple wiki needs.

Weird Spam

This is the strangest bit of comment spam I think I have ever got:

You are no way on the 300th page of Google – in fact, your on the first and number 2 for my search “successful blogging” – your last one made me laugh because I just started this whole blogging thing and I keep trying to convince myself that I don’t care if no one reads it – but sadly, I do care – thank you for your post 🙂

It linked back to a site with ‘blog’ in the URL but I didn’t fancy clicking it…

Recovered

after a particularly nasty bout of the winter vomit flu, which has obviously spread from the West Midlands to the Welsh borders.

The few things I have read on the web recently have been posted to del.icio.us. I’ll try and carry on as normal from today.

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