07/29/2004 Meeting Notes
2004/07/29 Meeting notes
These notes are a best effort.
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Attendees:
- WK: Wendy Koslow
- j: j Baumgart
- VD: Vernica Downey
- Sun
- SR: Shimon Rura
- JA: Josh Ain
- RF: Randy Fenstermacher
- LW: Lisa Williams
- JD: Jared Dunn
SP: Steve Pomeroy
There will be no Webcast.
Notes:
- Still working on getting stuff for the Webcast
- JA: What’s our goal for the group?
- j, always the cynical realist: Do we need one?
- LW: I’m here for the schwag
- WK: I have Chilling Effects keychains. Would anyone like one?
- ::WK hands out keychains::
- LW: If we invite software developers and Webmasters, maybe we can get some logo mugs. Let’s invite some.
- LW: I want to use this group to learn things I don’t know.
- LW: let’s invite some people to come talk to us.
- Frassle is free, please try it. You’ll like it.
- Frassle It: a nifty link for starting a blog post in Frassle based on what Web page someone’s looking at.
- Categories
- JA: each category has its own RSS feed
- RF, a library staff member, is drooling: can I put things in multiple categories?
- SR: Yes!
- relates other notes on the same subject
- SR is demoing how Frassle makes these connections
- Related Items view shows other feeds with similar categories, subjects
- Frassle looks at the categories and the URLs linked in those categories and compares them across blog posts
- it looks at the link under the title of the blog post, not links in the body of the post
- LW: One problem is that Frassle doesn’t have many users, so the universe of posts it’s pulling from to decide what’s related
- SR: Frassle also sucks in all the feeds that people subscribe to, so the universe is larger than just the people writing on Frassle
- LW: What about having a link log as part of a blog? I’d like to have one, but I don’t want to move my blog. Is it possible to encapsulate something like that on my blog?
- SR: Why, yes! Yes, there is: the Frassle Publisher. If you paste certain code into your blog, you can get what you want. That’s how the Publisher works.
- SR showed some of the programming for the Publisher people can use to set up what displays
- LW: How do you spend time doing this stuff? Binges? Set blocks of time? What?
- SR: Well, we had a bootcamp a few weeks ago. He’s so familiar with this stuff, he needs to find a way to get some distance, so he invited some friends over and they spent the weekend playing with Frassle. He spends time in very little chunks.
- JD: wants to play with it, but wants it on his own terms
- SR: We’re thinking of going open source
- LW: What about the ability to publish Frassle content to another server?
- JD: syndication on there might work for me
- JD: server/server admininstrator problems put things in jeopardy
- SR guards against some of that, but recognizes at some point, he might vanish into the night
- WK: backup your blog
- RF: with regards to finding blogs to read, is Frassle part of the problem or part of the solution?
- SR: hopes it’s part of the solution. It’s ability to relate posts and stuff should help someone find things worth reading
- WK: Frassle seems to have a learning curve
- j finds Frassle easy to use. Bug her for assistance.
- LW: I don’t think it’s too bad.
- RF: what’s an aggregator and what’s a feed?
- LW: You use an aggregator to receive feeds; it’s easy