d2r: multiblogging

multiblogging

Over the past few days I've been noticing that there is no rhyme or reason to what I blog about. ARF is a mess. Even if it's technology in general and what directly concerns me of it in particular, the topics still jump all over the place. I can as easily post personal comments, ideas, news on spaces, or link to other news or blogs, with or without comments. I tried to separate a bit by blogging about non-tech stuff on my other weblog but that hasn't really done the trick, since there are just too many different tech-things that I find interesting.

I've been thinking of introducing categories, but wondering if they'd do the job. But just now I got an email from Greg asking whether there is a blog in particular were I talk about spaces only. There isn't, but there should be.

I guess I'll start with categories, merge all my blogs, and see how it goes. I have to do a redesign, too. This one is about to go from the "tired" into the "expired' column.

Categories: technology
Posted by diego on February 25 2003 at 6:03 PM

Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).

I had the same dilemma when I redesigned my blog, I typically travel a lot (although since the launch I haven't so it doesn't show as much) and I found myself posting a lot on my location, so instead I made the thing in the top right where I update on my status through out the day, that way my users feel my "presence" but I don't take away from the value my standard posts may (or may not) have. I also wanted to somewhat spare some of the aggregators that picked me up from any pointless posting. With that said I still need to introduce standard categories myself.

Spaces:
I have been using it for 2 days and it introduces the exact metaphor I have applied to projects in the past, data is data, its in one place but has the ability to show up in many places. These places are views of the data and can have complex or simple rules. I think the Newton Soup was the first thing to move in this direction.

I was wondering about a centralized blog, information store, change-log, release notes, etc... because the software is alpha which means a lot of potential bugs, so I will want to upgrade ASAP at each release as well as keep up with what is in development, because I am a geek and stuff like this excites me :).

Great work so far, for alpha software I have hit only one potentially serious bug, but I resolved it which was good. At one point I changed the Database location and all my changes (even after a restart of the app) still went to the old location, so I got worried that I lost all my data. I fixed it by copying the files and reseting the database location though so it worked out ok.

If you open up a public forum, bug base whatever for suggestions, requests, and bugs let me know.

Posted by: Greg Burch at February 25, 2003 6:27 PM