Thai thinks blogs don’t beget audiences?
More on this topic later, but some quick examples of spontaneous audiences created by blogs: TechCrunch, hackfurby.homestead.com. The rest of Thai’s post is pretty insightful, though….
Full Auto
It’s getting terrible review scores, but Full Auto is a ton of fun. It’s exactly what I expected after reading the previews and playing the demo over and over again. I think Jonny Ram says it best: “It’s a bit like a modern day Roadblasters – lots of wanton destruction while trying to maintain a good racing line.” I never made the connection until reading that sentence. RoadBlasters is a GREAT game – one of my favorites.
Marble Blast Ultra (XBox Live Arcade) is also a lot of fun.
TailRank Filter
[Update: Danny Ayers has some thoughts. ]
- Upload an OPML file (your blogroll, for instance)
- Now, when you choose the filtered view on TailRank, you’ll only see TailRanked items that have X number (you pick the number) of links from feeds in your OPML file.
- TailRank also gives you an RSS feed for this data.
I used to think that was exactly what I wanted for the ‘flood’ portion of my blogroll – 150 feeds that I rarely read, but respect. It turns out that what I really want is an OPML reading list of TailRank Filtered feeds. 1 feed per folder in the OPML file I originally submitted. And that original OPML file? TailRank should keep an eye on it and compensate whenever I add, delete or rearrange feeds.
Basically, I want one filtered feed per category of blogs that I don’t read often. I want those filtered feeds to contain only relatively popular items from those blogs.
Incidentally, TailRank knows one kind of popularity and memeorandum has it’s own ideas. Me? Since I already trust all of these blogs that I want filtered, I’d like another kind of popularity to be considered – # of comments.
Anyway, I’m really glad someone (Kevin) is building a personal memetracker solution.
Meanwhile, Anne 2.0 wants an open source platform for this stuff.
SF Tech Sessions – Tomorrow Night in SF
I met Niall at TechCrunch 5 on Friday night. That man has a lot of great ideas.
1 of those ideas is SF Tech Sessions – a FREE mini-conference where 3 related businesses are highlighted and given an opportunity to speak to a crowd of 100 guests. Looks like there still may be room for people to RSVP for tomorrow’s event! Tomorrow is all about groupware (Joyent/blog, Zimbra/blog, Kerio/news), and future sessions will feature their own themes.
Gregarius Frames Theme Update
I updated the Gregarius Frames theme to work with the new theme model that kdz checked in. I left the old version of the files in the zip, so the theme will still work with older versions of Gregarius. Let me know if you encounter any problems.
The new model makes it possible to use the mobile theme alongside another theme in the same installation. I’ve had that working for a while now by using a 2 directory gregarius install, sharing the same database except for the prefs table. kdz’s approach is cleaner and easier to maintain – SWEET!
John Tokash 