Russell Beattie’s Weblog...because I can't shut up.Grokking FriendFeed- July 6, 2008 Even though I signed up for it months ago, it took me until just last night and today to figure out WTF was going on at FriendFeed. I'd see raves about it pop up on TechMeme, I'd go try it, not have any clue what the use of it was, and then forget about it again. It seemed like chaos and noise to me and no better than my current news reader. So last night I went through and started cleaning everything up - I got rid of all my feeds first, and just added in my blog, Twitter and Disqus. Then I...http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/grokking-friendfeed My fascination with web forums- July 6, 2008 Think about the last time you were trying to find an answer for something online - where did you eventually find the solution It may depend on what you were looking for, but for me the answer is invariably contained in a web forum somewhere online. Blogs will many times have information about what I'm looking for, but almost always there's a forum thread or two out there that has as much or more info about whatever it is I'm looking for. Forums are as old as the Internet itself (newsnet,...http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/my-fascination-with-web-forums Let the microblogs bloom- July 3, 2008 I was just about to embark on a post yesterday about my latest obsession which is web-based forums (actually, it's a return of an old obsession) when identi.ca launched with their open source PHP-based Twitter clone, so I just had to try it out. I threw it up on foozik.com if you want to see. It took me a while to get the dependencies working, but it seems pretty cool. It's a great effort, looks good, and promoted in all the right ways. Evan (the guy behind identi.ca and the laconi.ca code...http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/let-the-microblogs-bloom |