My Internet pal Seth Brown notified me that my atom feed was dead. Dead for a really long time. When I migrated to Pelican, I created a 301 redirect for all of my feeds. Or at least I thought I did. Here’s the lines from my .htaccess that I thought worked.
:::text Redirect 301 /feed/ /feeds/all.atom.xml Redirect 301 /feed/atom/ /feeds/all.atom.xml But that was not working for the atom feed. I’m not sure why I thought an explicit redirect was the right way to go.
It’s sad to see: Good writers doing bad work. What a waste. There are some talented people out there on the web pandering with posts that end in question marks or include the words “confirmed” and “exclusive”.
Now is the time when it is most evident. The end of summer means the beginning of the Apple release cycle and the disgorgement of rumor posts. A tick can only suck so much before it detaches, bloated and sated.
I guess I missed my blogging birthday: August 18th, 2006. It’s like a time capsule of crap. Sorry, Internet. I soiled you.
Right. So the problem was with the blogger that didn’t respect an embargo. The problem is definitely about respect but has nothing to do with embargoes.
So I was conflicted. I really wanted to support them and get the word out. Sometimes you’re ambivalent about a startup, and so it’s not a big deal to just let that one go. But this was a product and a team that I like.
Yes, I’m still talking about Glassboard. Would you rather I write about App.net?
I’m testing some of the Premium features and I like them a lot. The bookmarks are very convenient on an active board. The biggest advantage is the data export option.
Any board I own can be exported.1 The process takes two clicks. When the export is ready, I receive an email with a file attachment. The attachment is a web archive folder with everything nicely separated.
Collin Donnell has the right idea. Glassboard is just public enough to be inclusive but it’s not so public that it smells like a dung heap.
I was thinking it would be cool if there was a slightly less public way for all of the productivity nerds out there to share and discuss ideas than posting publicly on the Internet, so I’ve created a Glassboard for anyone who’s interested.
It appears I was one day premature with my Glassboard review and wish list. Today they announced a for-pay premium service that brings data export options as well as other new features. $50 per year is a good price. I guess that’s the new standard for a user owned social network.
Want to figure out how much it will cost to retrieve a backup from Amazon’s new Glacier service? So simple:
Next we subtract your free allowance from the peak hourly retrieval for the month. To determine the amount of data you get for free, we look at the amount of data retrieved during your peak day and calculate the percentage of data that was retrieved during your peak hour. We then multiply that percentage by your free daily allowance.
I don’t use Facebook. I’ve been the subject of ridicule and disappointment for several years because I don’t use Facebook. I’ve resisted the pleas of grandparents and friends because I don’t want to post private information about my family on a service I don’t think has earned my trust. Now I have a solution.
Glassboard is the social sharing site for people that hate Facebook. The primary goal of Glassboard is to keep information private unless explicitly shared with invited friends.
There are two different ways I maintain complete local backups of this site. One uses a web application integrated with Dropbox and SFTP and the other uses Transmit on my Mac. Being a static Pelican blog, a backup means that I just grab copies of the files, so it is fairly easy to automate and schedule.
Backup Box I’ve written about Backup Box before. It’s similar to IFTTT but is focused specifically on moving large numbers of files around the Internet.
