RasterWeb!Sure, I finally get invited to join the Orkut (aren’t those the weird creatures from LOTR?) and it’s by some deviant lunatic bent on destroying the system… In other words, everything is working as planned… Mwuhahaha!
I think someone needs to build a site for all of the social network type sites, so they can become friends. Shouldn’t Orkut, be friends with LinkedIn and Friendster?
We’ve kept RasterWeb! ad-free for quite some time. Sure, other jumped on the ad bandwagon, but we tried to stay of of the ad game… Well, no more! We will begin running ads soon. We do promise this though, they will be unobtrusive, and they will not be for anything we consider completely icky. We came to this conclusion after being approached for ad placement. Honestly it’s not a ton of money each month, but it’s worth thinking about. Now, to deal with the whole money thing, we came up with this. Each month part of the money will be put aside to support authors we like, people like Zeldman, for instance… and part of it will be donated to an open-source project. This allows us to continue learning, and support things we believe in. If neccessary in the future, any advertising revenue will be put towards hosting costs as well.
I value you feedback on this issue, and if you are interested in advertising, please contact me.
From Apple’s Download section comes the HumaneText.service, which claims to:
Convert text in the textile markup to HTML in-place. It becomes easy and intuitive to write full standards-compliant HTML.
Which means it’s a Mac OS X service for using Textile. Interesting…
Long ago I took a closer look at a hotList that UserLand provided, and the results can be found at hotList HEADs.
Well, times have changed, and now since we all share OPML, there’s a new list on the Share Your OPML! site showing the Top 100 Feeds. I thought it would be interesting to see what web servers the feeds were coming from and what mime-type the feeds were using.
The results can be found at Feed HEADs.
Since we’re on a roll with the whole "checking for errors" thing, we finally completed the official addition of Tidy to our home-grown CMS.
So now when we create an entry not only will it check the feeds for validity, but we also run a check on the well-formedness of the HTML that is created as well. You know, for those people that read this in a browser rather than an aggregator.
The big picture of all of this is that these additions are fairly easy, and I’m just some Random J. Hacker, not a developer and vendor of CMS-type software. Beyond that, we can see the value in open-source, and standards, but we’ll expand on that more in the future…