Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb… These quotations were spread over journals, webpages, .sig files, and blog postings. As I had a lot of time on my [...]

Although I perhaps should have been using the time in other ways, I’ve spent considerable time and effort building a custom news aggregator.  I was able to leverage SimplePie and PHP to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I also wanted to scour the Internet, social media, and all the trendy Web 2.0 [...]

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 [...]

First it goes without saying, I’m not a lawyer. I’m not anything right now as I’m unemployed. I did study copyright law as part of my MBA, I even studied copyright law in China. Generally when people talk copyright laws online they want to talk American copyright laws. There are some intellectual property law treaties. [...]

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. [...]