I have made a couple of updates to my site this last week. I added a couple of feeds from some sites I have accounts with to utilize the sharing that these services have to offer. A snippet of javascript makes integrating these things a snap.
First of all, I decided to sign up for one of these micro-blogging services. Since pownce doesn’t want to let me in yet, I decided to go with jaiku. Its kind of cool, yet I don’t have any friends on the site, so I guess its a bit point less. Its seems these means of communication are getting just down right out of control. I get really turned off by facebook when I log on and my landing page its chucked full of a bunch shit I don’t really care about. I really don’t care if so and so when shopping at the mall, or such and such just got done taking a shit. And no, I don’t want a gift from you and certainly don’t want to join your beer pong players anonymous group. I guess thats the direction the social networking world is heading, so I might as well embrace it, or get the fuck out. So I’ll start with jaiku.
So back to my point. Last week I was looking at my news feeds on my site and saw it hadn’t been updated in a while. My original plan was to enter these news links manually, only putting the ones I choose from digg on there. Well, its a bit cumbersome to do that, so I thought about incorporating my digg feed into joef.org. I did this a long time ago with a little PHP parsing magic, but removed it for whatever reason. Then I thought about seeing what the digg api had to offer. It turned out to be more complicated that I thought it would be, so I reverted back to the PHP parsing I originally created. then with a little searching around the digg site, I saw you can add custom feeds to your site with a little javascript snippet created right these as you set the filters. Then I saw yesterday mourning that they added a widget to the plethora of integration tools. Its very similar to the jaiku one I set up on my site as well. Custom colors and even size.
So I guess I’ll rock these integration tools for a while. But remember, as George Keith Funston would say – Automation does not make optimism obsolete.
Oh yeah, and this just in…it appears fat wreck chords is releasing some of its back catalog on vinyl, beginning with Lagwagon’s DUH. I don’t really buy any vinyl, but this would be sweet ass to own.
joe