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Simon Michael

feeling planet squeak's gravity

With my blog added to http://planet.squeak.org , the idea of not
straying off-topic has become an inhibition, despite what I wrote about
this before. I need to write a lot about Zwiki at times. When I once
counted the squeak vs. non-squeak posts, the ratio was low and I'm a
little concerned that there be enough of a squeak focus to fulfil planet
squeak's purpose.

Should something be done ? Should I just blog on merrily ? I like
blogger.com and it doesn't support topics. I could keep separate blogs.
I could hack the planet software to filter posts by keyword, for my
blog, or all. I could just make sure to write more about squeak, to
balance the scales... I wonder how other planet squeak bloggers &
readers think on this issue. I wonder how many squeakers read it. Cc'ing
the squeak list, comments welcome..

Bob Courchaine

Re: feeling planet squeak's gravity

I check Squeak Planet almost daily, Simon.

And I appreciate the inclusion of non-squeak posts. It represents
another side of folks that I think is important to see.

I say "Keep it up"! 8^)

Bob

Simon Michael wrote:

> With my blog added to http://planet.squeak.org , the idea of not
> straying off-topic has become an inhibition, despite what I wrote about
> this before. I need to write a lot about Zwiki at times. When I once
> counted the squeak vs. non-squeak posts, the ratio was low and I'm a
> little concerned that there be enough of a squeak focus to fulfil planet
> squeak's purpose.
>
> Should something be done ? Should I just blog on merrily ? I like
> blogger.com and it doesn't support topics. I could keep separate blogs.
> I could hack the planet software to filter posts by keyword, for my
> blog, or all. I could just make sure to write more about squeak, to
> balance the scales... I wonder how other planet squeak bloggers &
> readers think on this issue. I wonder how many squeakers read it. Cc'ing
> the squeak list, comments welcome..
>
>

Simon Michael

Re: feeling planet squeak's gravity

Bob Courchaine wrote:
> I say "Keep it up"! 8^)

Thanks Bob! I will carry on blogging, trying hard not to think about
planets, maybe I'll try to imagine one reader and write only for them, as
Steve Yegge advises.. I expect that the tide of squeak and croquet traffic
will continue to rise..

Brad Fuller

Re: feeling planet squeak's gravity

In reply to this post by Simon Michael

Simon Michael wrote:

> With my blog added to http://planet.squeak.org , the idea of not
> straying off-topic has become an inhibition, despite what I wrote
> about this before. I need to write a lot about Zwiki at times. When I
> once counted the squeak vs. non-squeak posts, the ratio was low and
> I'm a little concerned that there be enough of a squeak focus to
> fulfil planet squeak's purpose.
>
> Should something be done ? Should I just blog on merrily ? I like
> blogger.com and it doesn't support topics. I could keep separate
> blogs. I could hack the planet software to filter posts by keyword,
> for my blog, or all. I could just make sure to write more about
> squeak, to balance the scales... I wonder how other planet squeak
> bloggers & readers think on this issue. I wonder how many squeakers
> read it. Cc'ing the squeak list, comments welcome..

Simon,

the RSS feed locations on planet squeak don't seem to work in gmail web
clips. But, they do work in KDE's Kontact. Do you know how to get them
to work in gmail? (I took the "validate" links and they don't seem to
validate)

brad

Simon Michael

Re: feeling planet squeak's gravity

Brad Fuller wrote:
> the RSS feed locations on planet squeak don't seem to work in gmail web
> clips. But, they do work in KDE's Kontact. Do you know how to get them
> to work in gmail? (I took the "validate" links and they don't seem to
> validate)

Brad - thanks for the report. I'm afraid I don't (advice welcome). As I
understand it the current Planet software generates a valid feed only if
all the aggregated feeds are valid (which seems rarely or never true for
planet squeak). I'm hoping to find a helpful update of Planet soon.. I
believe that project's pace is picking up.