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Jose Sierra


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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 34
Sign: Gemini

City: FORT LAUDERDALE
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 6/1/2005

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Monday, October 10, 2005 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
So I decided to stop using this blog engine. I was looking around to compare sites, and Friendster has this unbelievably convenient thing where instead of using their blog engine, you can just attach an RSS feed to your profile. This lets you atttach your own personal blog (which has been running for about a year now) to the profile without having to rewrite the whole freakin' thing or trying to maintain more than one blog (or in my case, several blogs.) Especially personal blogs. That's just not feasible. So yeah, a feed like that is just awesome. Someone should tell Tom, or whoever that guy is. I'm just not gonna use the MySpace blog. It's ridiculous to do that. Instead, I'm going to aim people at my blog. They can subscribe to it just like any other blog (if they're actually interested in what I have to say.) http://www.josesierra.com There's even a photo gallery for those that care. Don't get me wrong, the MySpace blog works (I guess) for people without blogs, but it doesn't do the rest of us much good. Oh well! It's all about the right tool for the right job, yo.
Currently listening:
Things You Should Leave Alone
By Puracane
Release date: 21 March, 2000
Jolenny

 
You rock, period! ;)
 
Posted by Jolenny on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 8:02 PM
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Ryan

 
The value in the MySpace blog system is in the social context that it provides. With a plain old Internet blog you can read a random stranger's blog or you can read a friend's blog. With MySpace you can read a friend-of-a-friend's blog so that you can figure out which people 'near' you are cool so that you can meet them.

There are ways to add social context to a non-MySpace blog, such as the Friend-Of-A-Friend markup language. FOAF is meta-data that you can add to your normal blog that says all of the things that MySpace says about who you're friends with. That way you could build your own personal ultimate social web profile page, complete with RSS feeds and trackback and whatever else you want.
 
Posted by Ryan on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 3:44 PM
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Hozay
Jose Sierra

 
Didn't know about FOAF... but it doesn't really solve the issue - it just adds a social interface to the blog, which is actually pretty cool. Very cool, in fact. Way I see it, it turns the internet into MySpace. Ahh, Ryan, always thinking out of the box, hooking me up with The Big Picture.

You're right about the social context of the MySpace blog, and how it works, but the Friendster system just seems like a far more elegant solution. Offer a feed to those that have blogs, offer blogs to those that don't. That just seems like a better idea to me than forcing me to try and update a thousand farkin' blogs, yo!

Yup. I wonder what's for lunch. Today ends in a "y", so it must be tuna-melt day!
 
Posted by Hozay on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 6:01 PM
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