RasterWeb!

That’s right folks, I’m headed on a road trip. I’ll attempt to drive from somewhere between Milwaukee and Madison all the way to Bloomington, Minnesota. (As I mentioned, I’ll be attending the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium.)

So where do you come in? Well, if you’re near Bloomington or going to the No Fluff Just Stuff thing, let me know… And, if you are looking for a ride from the Milwaukee/Madison area to the Minneapolis area the last weekend of April, I might be able to provide transport for you.

Keep in mind that I cannot guarantee my vehicle will actually make it all the way there, but hey, that’s part of the adventure! The journey is the reward, right? I mean, you’re never really guaranteed to make it to your destination anyway, so if the RasterMobile dies on the way, we’ll just go with the flow and play it by ear. (Or something like that…)

Any takers for a road trip?

I’ve given Yahoo! 360° a bit of a spin (damn, am I witty or what?) and so far it looks interesting. To fill in my lists of stuff (movies, books, music, etc.) I just copied and pasted my stuff from Friendster, and that worked pretty well. (Insert rant here about some open data format like FOAF so I could just point these things at a URL to fill in my data…)

My guess (I know, I’m so full of “insider info”) is that things are only gonna get better. I’m basing this off of seeing “Coming soon! Share your blog, photos and other RSS-enabled content on your Yahoo! 360° page.” which I’m hoping can make Yahoo! 360° into an uber-aggregator of sorts, but can they pull it off? Who knows?

Anyway, I’ve so far not had any problems, and so far can’t really rave about it. I’m going to reserve judgement until I get to kick the tires a bit more.

(Oh, if you happen to know me, and want an invite, let me know.)

Web site reporting… What to do?

Let’s see, I used to deal with WebTrends, though not by my choice – I hated it.
(Francisco Partners to Acquire WebTrends.) I know folks who looked at and tested using Urchin as well. (Google Agrees To Acquire Urchin.) Ah, there’s AWStats, as long as you don’t fall victim to any security issues…

Personally, I’m still an old school guy, and do just fine with Analog. Are there other good options out there I don’t know about?

web geek sez:

“if it ain’t got a url, it don’t exist”

That’s my quote of the day, because when anyone sends me an email or IM that asks some question about some site (of which there are many) my first question always seems to be “What’s the url?” Because really, if it’s a question about something that should happen, or not happen, or display, or not display, and it’s in relation to a web site, there must be a url involved, right?

Wow, last week on Upcoming.org:

Within the next seven days, I’m committing myself to finishing some long-requested features on the site…

Now, this week on Upcoming.org:

As promised, some huge changes to Upcoming.org! The short list: support for personal and self-promotional events, tagging of events, a complete API, improved visual design, and e-mail/SMS reminders…

That’s right, new stuff, including (everybody loves) tags and most importantly, a RESTful API!

I started dropping some events into Upcoming.org last week, so now I’ve got some data to play with. If I get a few free minutes each week (is that likely?) I will try to add more. Heck, if anything I’ll at least add the events that I plan to attend. Maybe you should do the same?