Phillip Pearson - web + electronics notes

tech notes and web hackery from a new zealander who was vaguely useful on the web back in 2002 (see: python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review, the internet topic exchange).

2002-8-5

More on blogroll-webring converter

It looks like people are interested in the blogroll 'next link' thing, so I'll extend it a bit tonight if I have time.

To answer xian's question, currently the blogroll is just a PHP array:

$blogs = array(
        'http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/',
        'http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/',
        'http://www.rolandtanglao.com/',
        'http://jrobb.userland.com/',
        'http://www.zopenx.net/',
        'http://www.pycs.net/workbench/',
        'http://www.pycs.net/archetypes/',
        'http://www.scripting.com/',
);


If I make this into a Radio tool, I'll get it to pull the URLs out of one (or all) of the following:

- blogroll.opml (if you're using Jake's blogroll tool)
- mySubscriptions.opml
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Quick hack for John Robb

John Robb wants something that will let you cycle through your blogroll (or channelroll or something) from a browser bookmark.

Here's a proof-of-concept (a quick hack to prove to myself that it won't be too hard to do). Drag this link to your favorites toolbar and try clicking it a few times. You should see a few sites on my blogroll.

Anyone interested in using this? Drop me a line or leave a comment here. If I get a few requests, I'll put an interface on it so you can use it to browse your own blogroll. Either that or make a Radio tool. More later.
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Ecosystem data now available

For those of you who are interested in messing around with the ecosystem dataset, now it's online. It's in Python 'pickle' format, just because that's the most convenient thing for me, but I can dump it out as XML or something if people prefer.

Here is the data and a quick tutorial on how to read it and do stuff with it. Enjoy!
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