Sunday, November 21, 2004

> Don Park: Read Kevin Sites' open letter to the marine unit involved in the mosque shooting.  It's one of the best blog post I have ever read although I don't envy the responsibilities he was burdened with.  My best wishes to Kevin and the Devil Dogs.
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> Dave Winer: On November 8, as a service to people participating in BloggerCon, I asked vendors to post pointers to services that would be of interest to bloggers. 10 vendors have responded so far. It's still an open thread, so if you want to get your message in front of bloggers, post a comment there. We'll do this again at the next BC. There's no cost to participate.
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> Roland Tanglao: Amen Joe! Nothing is more irritating than people who don't keep up with the current state of the art in their profession whether it's web design or any other job. Unfortunately in Vancouver, with a few exceptions, most web designers still think it's 1999...
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> Glenn Fleishman: I've put into place a throttling mechanism for my RSS feed from Wi-Fi Networking News. I'll post the code soon. I use an Apache server and am essentially forcing through several RSS, RDF, and Atom feed files to be retrieved seamlessly through a script. The script uses a MySQL database to record the agent name and IP address of requests. If the RSS feed hasn't changed in the last hour or, if longer, since the last time the same IP and agent requested a feed, the RSS aggregator gets a 304 (not modified) instead of a full dump. I'm willing to take a small hit on testing this--losing some RSS aggregators that don't interpret this behavior correctly--in order to test whether I reduce my overall RSS feed suck. As I noted a few days ago, my RSS feed from Wi-Fi Networking News (vast majority) is nearly an average of 400 MB per day. But a substantial minority of that is from stupid aggregators that don't check for modifications, but always request the full feed. This is my way of fooling them. We'll see if it breaks anything, or just makes it more efficient....
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