Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Twitter is removing support for RSS feeds in a few days. If you actually used the RSS feed feature of the original Twitter API this is disappointing. Twitter wants to know who is making every single request to their API whereas RSS is fairly anonymous. I was also using Topsy to search Twitter and then [...]

So I’ve been building something. And while doing so I discovered there are three different types of feeds on the Internet. Feeds that return useful information in chronological order that can be displayed and manipulated easily. Feeds that do not conform to an established standard or otherwise do not behave as expected and cause SimplePie [...]

Curation is the next big thing on the Internet with Pinterest being the media darling. Unfortunately for the talking heads in mainstream media, curation has been a feature of the world wide web since the beginning. A home page, something I’ve maintained online since 1995, is by very definition a curated collection of personal interests. [...]

I’ve been doing some Googling on various WordPress and other Internet trends. I really should have done more with my blog and website, but I had a lot of issues to deal with in the last few years. Now things are stable in some ways, but since I’m unemployed not stable enough. I’ve spent the [...]