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daily link  Tuesday, January 15, 2002


Hey, hey, hey! tav linked to me in his Blog. We're like two littles mirrors pointing at each other, bouncing some light back and forth. Now if only there were other readers to get caught in the loop. :)  9:11:39 PM  permalink   Add a comment   

Anthrax Mail Cleaning Zaps flash cards. CES 2002: An interesting article out of CES today from the Compact Flash Assocation has confirmed that the irradiation process the U.S. Postal Service is using to sanitize mail against anthrax can not only... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]  8:57:02 PM  permalink   Add a comment   

Apple iPhoto Album Contest. Apple has opened a contest for iPhoto generated iTools HomePages. The competition has three categories: People, Creative and Nature. The competition is open until the 27th January and is available only to US... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]  8:56:57 PM  permalink   Add a comment   

Steven Wright. "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" [Quotes of the Day]  6:39:53 PM  permalink   Add a comment   

Idiot cuts hand off, gets new one, cuts that one off, wants another one. (Charlotte.com) [FARK]  6:32:55 PM  permalink   Add a comment   

American Taliban to be charged as terrorist. [FARK]  6:32:02 PM  permalink   Add a comment   




Dave, I've got another idea for you (and if Tav's ideas below were implemented, you might actually read them!). Can we get Radio to scan on wake from sleep if its been more than one hour since the previous scan? I leave my PowerBook on all the time since I run OS X... If I'm not using it, it's sleeping. Sometimes, however, I have to wait up to an hour for a new scan after I begin work again beause radio missed the top of the hour scan while It was asleep, and is waiting to be triggered again at the top of the next hour.  5:48:31 PM  permalink   Add a comment   

It's official. Tav is a genius! Read this, and tell me if this guy shouldn't be part of the Radio team? Dave, are you listening? Hire this guy. He knows how to make your products even greater than they are.

"ok, so that now i made a few small suggestions regarding radio, how do i alert dave and the userland team about them?

i guess they could look at their referer logs... but, i only started this site 9 hours ago, and doubt anyone besides espians even know about it. also, the handful of hits they would be getting from here, would be meaningless in comparison to what they'd be getting from elsewhere...

i could of course send off an email to the radio-userland mailing list with the same suggestions. but that breaks the whole model. or at least it does so from my point of view.

ideally of course, the data would all be sent into the plex and i could just setup queries that would notify me when someone wants to alert me to something. (the built in trust-metrics system would of course protect me from any malicious attacks).

but, we haven't developed that yet. so, in the meantime, maybe we can try a much simpler idea?

as radio is effectively centralised, we could parse out the urls in news items every time someone publishes to their account. we could then store those references somewhere...

and then, either query it or have it notify us through various means such as email, jabber, irc, etc when it finds references that match preset uri patterns.

e.g. i could have it preset to notify irc://irc.espnow.com/tav everytime that someone links to http://tav.espians.com/*

we could extend the idea to cover phrases, but that might get heavy on the centralised servers ;p" [tav explores radio]  5:38:20 PM  permalink   Add a comment   


 
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