Archive for June, 2005

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Published by dekay on June 15, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Text of Commencement address by Steve Jobs @ Stanford.

Latin HipHop - Radiostream

Published by dekay on June 15, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

A very excellent radiostream of Latin Hip-Hop music can be found at La Pegajosa Mix.com. Awesome music!

Trackbacking my own comments elsewehere?

Published by dekay on June 14, 2005 in ideas and lazyweb. 1 Comment

Is there any way I can collect trackbacks/pingbacks of comments I made on other blogs?

Or some kind of tool/bookmarklet where I can do the same thing by hand? e.g. I create a post on my blog where I collect all the comments I make - and then have a bookmarklet I open whenever I comment somewhere and send myself this trackback?!

(I guess this could be done with del.icio.us, but it rather feels clumsy - it feels like there should not need to be an intermediary between my comments elsewhere and my blog?!)

WordPress Plugin Request: referrer to trackback

Published by dekay on June 13, 2005 in ideas and lazyweb. 2 Comments

I am not sure if this is possible at all - but would it not be nice to have a (spam safe) way of converting incoming referrer-URLs to trackbacks/pingbacks? So you know when a blog post has been linked to on del.icio.us or so.

Make it talk to SpamKarma and ReferrerKarma, use whitelists for URLs that you would like to have added as linkbacks… something, anything?

Or maybe we can convince Joshua to have del.icio.us post a pingback including a back-link to a page that lists all users and tags the page has been filed under.

And while we are at it: is there such a thing as a trackback/pingback to just the blog and not an individual entry?

Mac Software Requests

Published by dekay on June 11, 2005 in ideas, lazyweb and technology. 1 Comment

I was just thinking about how cool it would be to have a lazyweb-like system to get software feature requests out to mac developers (shareware, freeware as well as the folks at infinity loop).

Maybe it would be useful to start like this? Just trackback to here (http://www.dekay.org/blog/archives/mac-software-requests/trackback) and we can collect stuff for anyone to see/use? If I find some time I may set up a copy of Ben’s Lazyweb for this purpoose, although I think there should be quite some other way to do this. Namely the features I am missing are:

  • Tagging. Let each poster include certain tags so the whole request site is easier to browse.
  • Back-Linking (Lazyweb does this)
  • Auto-Updating (when someone changes their original posts)
  • Comments and threaded discussions. Have multiple authors trackback/ping the original entry and then have a threaded view on the main site.