Duncan.co

Day: March 1, 2005

  • What is the Delicious Bookmarks Inbox?

    For the longest time I couldn’t figure out what the Delicious Bookmarks Inbox was.  Essentially the inbox allows you to subscribe to other people’s Delicious feeds from within Delicious.  You can also subscribe to certain tags.  For example if you wanted to keep up to date on all the bookmarks that are tagged with the words "cool" and "design" you could go here: http://del.icio.us/tag/cool+design and hit subscribe (top left).  Then go to your inbox click on /cool+design and all the most recent bookmarks tagged with those words appear.  You can put any tags together this way…

    http://del.icio.us/tag/funny+blog
    http://del.icio.us/tag/videoblog

    On another note:  Whose it gonna be Flickr?  Are you going to sell or what?

    Gossipgossipgossip

  • Having A Voice

    I just realized I wanted to post something and I thought about all the people it could offend. I have all these people that I worry about now when I blog. Are they my editors? In the past I would post no matter how offensive or politically charged. Does this make the site boring or mature? Is it better to be puppy dogs and ice cream or rated R?

    Is it a good thing that I keep things to myself now that I would have posted in the past? Sometimes I think about the fact that what I write here that could be brought up in the most embarrassing possible situations in like 2028.

    It’s also interesting to think about people I haven’t spoken to in ages who might be reading. Any old friends out there? How many closet readers are out there? (check out the style of that post)

    Lots of questions about the implications of blogging in my sinus clogged noggin this morning.

  • Content from outside sources

    I find it to be VERY annoying is when you put content on a site that comes from outside sources and those sources start to slow your site down.  I put that LinkLog up on the side of my site and its chugging now.  The problem is that the feed is coming from Feedroll and Feedroll is getting its feed from Del.icio.us.  So if delicious or feedroll are overwhelmed my blog loads slowly.

    There is a lesson to be learned for people doing the webservice thing.  If you are going to have bloggers hawkin your services by using them on their own blogs you’d better make sure they run quickly and reliably.  Otherwise the bloggers will drop them really quickly.  Mental note: dont make stuff that runs slow, especially when it can slow other stuff down…