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A delicious bug!
Hey del.icio.us what’s wrong? :)
Who else wants a Jaiku invite?
Hi folks! That’s been a while! Sorry, I’ve been very busy lately and I promise to come back with some interesting stuff very very soon!
Well… I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of jaiku the social networking site à la twitter that was aquired by google and that offers all what twitter offers plus some nice features like comments on posts… … Read More »
7 more tips to be a happier coder and a challenge
Whether you’re self-employed or working for the stingy nasty boss, you probably feel sometimes bored and, well… useless. You are a coder, you feel the real power we all share and are proud of, that ability to create things starting from a dream, but man! How vain you feel sometimes!
Let me share with you my humble conclusions on how to be a happy coder and challenge you on something. Just read on :)… Read More »
443 Amazing Wordpress themes and stop polluting the Internet.
If you’re looking for these 443 themes go to the end of this article, but I’d really appreciate it if you read this message.
Okay, Let’s clear this once for all. This site is not powered by Wordpress, I made the bivalidator in python , using some very nice xml/xslt and other magic stuff. The CMS part in the other hand is powered by TextPattern which I find, for the this website, far way better than Wordpress. Anyway, that’s not the subject of this post actually. … Read More »
The wise Digg revolt
So, you guessed it. I loosed my first round with digg. But, actually, I won in a certain point of view. I asked my friends to not digg but share the story. Most of them dug it without even reading my shout which was saying clearly: “DO NOT Digg! You’ll help me by not digging it!”. Some of them understood my query, but the most part didn’t.
The story was in the hotlist, everything was fine and in a matter of seconds, it disappeared! It wasn’t a question of the number of diggs, because the story got more diggs than the others in the hotlist. Not a timeout either, because it disappeared within some minutes. That’s why I thought that digg doesn’t know what’s fair play.… Read More »
Me vs. Digg (Round 1)
Ok, I’m trying to understand that voodoo of the digg algorithm. I still don’t know how it works, but I’m sure he it is a snob. Stories are promoted by how popular is the submitter, not by how useful is the information. I dare anyone to tell me that I’m wrong.
If you’re a digg user, you’ve certainly received some shouts from friends to “promote” a super-user’s story. You know what? I bet these supa-diggaz have dozens of “slaves” (sorry for the word, but in computer-science jargon, we say a “master-slave relation”) that spread their submissions. And you know —or at least suspect— that a digg by a stranger is always better than a digg by your friend. This is the first rule of value.… Read More »
THE 5 simple tips to be a happier Digger
I’m a digg user since January 2006, but wasn’t very active until about a week or two and I start to get overwhelmed by this big power of crowds, so I told to myself that —just like I do in programming, I have to “design” a way of using digg in a healthy and reasonable way. After some hours, here are some of the obvious thing one should keep in mind and practice to be a happier digger.
1# Establish a list of things you don’t want to digg
That’s true, sometimes we just don’t want to share our opinions on some subjects that simply don’t interest us, annoy us or that we consider worthless. Never be hypocrite with yourself, that’s depressing. Set a page in your site and tell people that you’re not interested in politics, adult stuff, or whatever. If you don’t have a website, simply say this in your profile.
(Me, cafefort , don’t have any interest in anything that is not either: computer related, funny, life-style things, tech or science)… Read More »
3 reasons why del.icio.us is truly better than digg
This is not a troll. I swear I’ll try to be abjective.
Here’s a little story to start with. You all know 24 ways sure you do. You’ll agree too that at least, at the very least, 60% of the articles they deliver every year are really worth reading and sharing.… Read More »
New year, new resolutions!
Happy new year to you! May this year be full of peace, Joyce and success for you and your families and friends!
The counter is again reset to 1, we can all make good things. We do believe in human will.… Read More »
w00t ! del.icio.us told me: take dat in ya face!
Yesterday I told you how I was wondering about people bookmarking del.icio.us website in del.icio.us itself and some people gave us some meaningful explanations for this, such the case where people export their browsers’ bookmarks to their del.icio.us accounts. Logic, and I was stupid.
Now, ironically today, a Japanese website wrote an article about the bivalidator and it seems that it was the origin of today’s fame on del.icio.us. In fact, xhtml-css.com was on the home page of del.icio.us for hours and, at the moment I’m writing this, it’s still there. It’s also in the first positions on del.icio.us/popular , del.icio.us/popular/xhtml , del.icio.us/popular/css and so on…… Read More »
