I was just listening to Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation #97 (I’m catching up, what can I say… at least it’s quick) when a few thoughts collided which I’ll hereby attempt to reconstitute.
Mitch was saying how podcasting is different from radio. Earlier, he was saying how we’re differienting less and less between a blog and a website. Personnally, I have a hard time appreciating these differences. I see communication, with humans at each end (preferably), be it through a blog, rss, twitter, cellphone, radio or sandwich suit.
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As a developer, I’ve always been a little shy of depending on 3rd party services other then for a few experiments but on the other hand, I truly believe (or at the very least, I really want to believe) in the small bits loosely joined, semantic web, microformats and all that jazz. For me, they’re a natural expansion of the free software I’ve been working with and developping for the last 15 year or so. Yet running software you don’t control, well… that’s a departure from free software but it obviously has its merits.
So the paradox, or dilemna, if you prefer, is should I find a service that does what I want or should I code it myself, releasing it as free software for others to deploy as well? And what of the data? There’s this little thing called traceability which is an important factor in trust…
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A long long time ago I wrote a utility for del.icio.us to get the history of posts in RSS, provide a little trend graphic and link to a bunch of other utilities for URLs. Durl was born, it even got slashdotted (I might even add, when slashdot jumped the shark) but a few months later del.icio.us itself was providing an RDF feed of the posts history. Then sometime last year my tools server went down, taking with it the wall of music, sparktags, hot off the wiki and a bunch more stuff.
Honestly, I don’t have real plans to resuscitate that box and last week, I got a request for Durl. Turns out, people missed my del.icio.us graphics. While I didn’t want to rewrite Durl, I thought a little bit of code that could turn the del.icio.us RDF feed into a sparkline would be all I needed. But I didn’t want to worry about hosting…
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Certains l’auront deviné, le dernier billet, c’était un poisson d’avril, complètement imprévu il faut avouer.
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Ça devait arriver un jour… Après le forum de Rawdon fermé pour diffamation, la police qui débarque ici, etc. je ne veux plus m’exposer aux dangers de l’hébergement. J’en ai parlé à Michelle Blanc et j’ai décidé de passer chez MySpace. À+
The Universal Redirector Revealer is up, albeit humble. It’s a simple tool to find out what a short URL leads to without visiting the site. Tinyurl, snurl, ln-s, petiturl, decenturl are all supported, as well as many more similar services.
It’s using a bit of Ajax to show the destination URL and its title, storing the results in a database for instant results on the second and later requests.
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Not feeling a lot like posting these days. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse on millette @ twitter but it probably won’t make much sense. I’m hoping to clear up a few recents comments I made and what’s going on in my life in general. Yeah, snore :P
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I just dumped a few links about Rawdon in case you’re interested in knowing what else is out there about my town :)
Je viens d’effectuer un p’tit dump de liens à propos de Rawdon, si ça vous intéresse d’en connaitre d’avantage sur ma petite ville ;)
John Czetwertynski, résident de Rawdon, nous invite à signer et envoyer cette lettre qui demande à l’administration de la municipalité de Rawdon de reconsidérer sa poursuite contre ses citoyens et je suis entièrement d’accord avec lui.
La lettre est aussi disponible en format PDF et en anglais.
Merci à Djiem pour le dessin. N’oubliez pas le Forum de Rawdon !
