Archive 25. July 2011

Meedia: Meck-Pomms CDU wirbt mit “C wie Zukunft”. Dumb, dumber, CDU. Or "C as in Can't Spell". Or maybe "C as in Quite Stupid"? And this is in government ...

Trunk Notes | Apps On The Move. I've had this on my computer for a while, but only now have I taken a closer look at how to integrate it with other tools. And it's actually quite simple: Use VimWiki. I already use VimWiki for my desktop wiki, so it makes sense to integrate everything so that I can also use it with the TrunkNotes wiki. Of course, this means that various advanced features of TrunkNotes are not supported, but that's not primarily important to me; what's more important is being able to edit the normal content directly. And for that, this little hack is sufficient. At some point, I'll create a special TrunkNotes mode that also supports metadata. Just found: a clone of VimWiki that works with Markdown (which TrunkNotes uses internally) (the corresponding code is already in the developer version of VimWiki).

The strange facts of Mr. Uhl « mrtopf.de. I'll just say: read. Because why should I repeat everything that someone has already written elsewhere. And since it also concerns data protection with the VDS, also categorized for the Metaeule.

XMPPFLASK — XmppFlask v0.1 documentation. Definitely an interesting project - an XMPP bot in Python that has a similar structure to Flask, so simple definition for XMPP handlers with routing of events. Since I always wanted to take a look at XMPP as a backbone for distributed (so widely distributed) applications with online/offline capability, I've blogged about it.

Social Networks and my use of them

At some point, you realize that you simply have too many places on the web where things happen and where you are somehow represented. For this reason, here is a list of the current networks in which I appear and how I actually use them (or plan to use them - not everything I want to do always works out).

  • my digital home is here in the Blog. Everything possible lands here, links, images, articles, etc. If something is important enough for me to want to say something about it, I put it here - because only here do I actually have full control over my content. Some of my content is also posted to Metaowl - our small privacy aggregator.
  • I also have a small Tumblelog on Tumblr. I actually only use this to post photos or occasionally comments, etc., when I'm on the go. So it is primarily fed by my iPhone.
  • On Twitter is what Dave Winer calls the "Firehose". So if you want to know what I'm doing in general, wherever, you can follow my stream there. Be careful, it's really a lot - because every new service that gives me access to my activities there in any way is hooked up.
  • On Flickr I have a number of photos, and I will certainly also post pictures there from time to time. Simply because sometimes I also want networking for the pictures - usually the same pictures then also end up here in the blog.
  • As a social network, I primarily use Google+ at the moment. Of course, it still has some problems, but the architecture appeals to me much better than in the other networks. And the integration with Picasa of course also leads to the fact that I post pictures there.
  • As social code networks, I currently use Bitbucket and Github. My open source projects land there (although I of course also have copies locally in case these hosts disappear one day). However, I currently mainly use Github to follow projects there, my own projects use Mercurial and therefore end up at Bitbucket.
  • Facebook I actually don't use at all. I send some content (blog posts and, for example, Google+ updates) there, but otherwise I'm just there as a hook and for people who don't want to use my RSS feed but want to follow my content there because they are already there.

So, everyone should know where I hang out and where I appear. And now please no complaining "your Twitter stream is too full" - that's intentional. And also no "check your Facebook" - that only happens sporadically.

flot - Attractive Javascript plotting for jQuery. Again something for the number crunchers, or rather their visualizing colleagues - presenting number deserts in attractive graphs, and all as a jQuery plugin. I definitely need to take a closer look at this, could be interesting for a specific project.