[Geowanking] article about us in Silicon Valley Metro

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Thu Oct 12 03:21:11 PDT 2006


joshua schachter writes:
> > I'm not really a gw-er, but I love http://www.planetplanet.org/ .  I
> > think it could be a good, lightweight  and fun tool for this gang.
> >
> > There's reblog and a couple others, but it's get messy fast in terms
> > of use-cases.   a simple planet aggregator might be perfect.
> >
> > example:
> > http://planet.seattlewireless.net
> 
> This is not a bad idea, but I hate how non-relevant content ends up  
> in these things. Perhaps hack it up to do keyword search or something?

Actually, the "non-relevant content" is what builds community, which is a
big part of why planets are useful, in my opinion.

> You'd think I'd have had enough of social software by now, huh?

It's going to be hard to evade social software in web coding for a while,
I think ;)

--j.



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