I try to visit sites without RSS but most of the time I don't even remember them.
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I do have other ideas to fix that issue but the ink is still wet on those.
There is the <category> element!
I aggregate many many thousands of feeds, I've never seen anyone use the category properly. I actually cant find any attempt at a specification that clearly describes it. (I might be confused by the versions and feeds using a mix of elements from different versions)
You know things are bad when w3schools[1] is the only one providing a full description of the difference between non hierarchic and hierarchic. On the domain attribute they are as stupid as everyone else. I'm not even sure how the domain attribute should be used. I do instinctively know that putting domain="syndic8" is wrong as it is not a domain. That however isn't stopping everyone from using it as an example in their version of the spec.
Anyway:
The <category> element specifies one or more categories the channel or item belongs to separated by commas. The element can ALSO specify the hierarchic location in a category. The value of the <category> element is then a forward-slash separated string.
So you could entirely have something totally like:
<category>local/traffic acidents,injury,children</category>
Where "local > traffic" is the hierarchy while "injury" and "children" are more like tags.
On the rare occasion I see a <category> element in an RSS feed they 99% of the time use "General". Using separate feeds to accomplish the same(?) is not great but it works.
Here is an OPML I bake myself for the guardian.[2] Their feeds do actually use categories complete with domains. Lots of them![3] Don't ask me how to consume this feedstock.
To me the weirdness of the lack of category is primarily in every properly structured site having them. If you are pulling the title, pubdate and content from your database it shouldn't take much effort to also pull the category and have a <category>pokemon</category> element in the news item.
Fun fact:
While it is missing from the w3 validator spec[4] the harvard.edu version of the spec[5] does mention the historic awesome "ratings" element. A thing from back in the days when non-corporate technology was still a thing. Namely The PICS rating system[6].
This hidden treasure was pretty much hated to death by loud mouth corporate propagandists. (I'm putting it mildly) The public rating your article is the worse kind of scrutiny when working for a mainstream propaganda outlet portraying it self as if news. The status quo eventually nailed the coffin shut by promoting it as a parental-oversight adult content filter which became the only surviving implementation.
Sadly the RSS spec only allows rating the channel rather than its items which spoils most of the theoretical awesome. :(
Thus therefore as the implication thereof, at least in theory, RSS has the most awesome tagging, categorization, rating and review system ever envisioned (not-seen) on the internet.
People just don't know how to technology.
[1] - https://www.w3schools.com/XML/rss_tag_category_channel.asp
[2] - http://opml.go-here.nl/theguardian.opml
[3] - view-source:https://www.theguardian.com/business/vodafonegroup/rss
[4] - https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html#hrelementsOfLti...
[5] - https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#optionalChannelElemen...
[6] - https://www.w3.org/PICS/
What is Barter? Why is it not described on the site?
It would be useful to list the number of users each project has.
It would be useful if you (eventually) split the list by price.
I don't have any money but I'd be interested to look at the new offers up to 1000 usd others might limit their interest to things over 100 k.
I will probably forget to visit your site. You should have a box where one can get an email with new projects from X to Y usd.
And an rss feed or json api that can be configured similarly.
http://borderline.biz/rss/0-1000
http://borderline.biz/json/10000-100000 etc
Have endless auctions, take 1% deposits for bids, let the thing run until the developer accepts a bid.
Have a widget with the highest bid for the project for the developer to embed in his project, linked to bl.
Give each project its own page/permalink on the website.
Good luck
also:
Without organic traffic the right to be seen shifts to an increasingly small number of judges/players.
It use to be that if you knew your topic and put a lot of effort into writing an article you could post it any place, even on your own website. Its audience would take notice of it then at the very least tell you they didn't like it.
I'm not trying to complaint or express a desire to get back to the good old times. You could argue there was no money in freedom. Digital slavery was just more profitable and those who could/should have defended the freedom sold us out in stead. (made a handsome profit at that) It is a kind of "you don't know what you have until it is gone" type of situation.
While I don't want to promote the 99% meme either, the thing is, if you exclude 99% from "collective" opinion making you will have the 1% doing it. Thats just how basic logic works.
What kind of shape or form this takes is not very interesting imho.
What is interesting is the growing opportunity it represents.
You could say the proverbial Google has a million points of trustworthiness left. At some point they will find ways to sell it for a price that is right to them. When enough of these entities sell enough of their trust there will be room for new innovations.
It reminds me of many release notes describing a ton of work without any woah.
Ill give you one clue or more like a hunch...
If you have a tool that is trying to do everything it isn't going to be equally great at all those things and it will likely be confusing/hard to use.
The generic programming languages tend to be more popular but they do so in the same way TV programs or video games are trying to appeal to an audience as large as possible. (This is how we got all these absurd hacker movies for example)
In the future (lol) we will discover that single purpose languages are just better at the limited scope of things they do.
PHP is perhaps a bad example that I shouldn't even have mentioned here but such a language knows exactly what its goal is in life like PHP knows it is suppose to bake websites.
Maybe you've touched the awesome with your fun. Someone should try build a language entirely around the core mechanics of fun.
In games there is fun in the form of rewards for stuff that just takes a fucking long time to do, there is fun from rewards for stuff that requires skill, there is fun from rewards obtained though luck, there is fun from a storyline progressing, there is fun from unexpected things, fun from buying ingame shit, fun from selling ingame shit, fun from cooperation as well as growing to be able to do those things on your own.
But the real list is probably much longer.
The language should probably have a basic fun object that looks something like: { temporal: 0. skilz: 0, luck: 0, story: 0, randomEv: 0, pay2win: 0, progaming:0. coop: 0, solo: 0, [...etc...] }
Then you have to benchmark the fun people are taking out of a bit of code or graphics using real world data.
And then....
Then you would be able to focus your attention where your effort produces the largest amount of fun as well as see the areas where your game is teh suck. Answer the big questions like what parts are people playing and why? Where do they rage quit?
If they didn't give up on creating content for Diablo 2 I would probably still be playing it.
If they had a language where fun was the central mechanic they would have known that changing all the items and ruining all the heroes had a negative dev time to fun conversion ratio.
It wouldn't have to be limited to games at all. One could quantify the fun on HN using the same language. It would all of a sudden be obvious that the karma system and submission ranking lacks random rewards and events. A thing no one considered up to now but if we know it is fun and the system is lacking it it becomes worth considering it.
</fun>
That said, please don't steal my logo (lol)
The single char variables would look like: €A €B €C €D €E €F €G €H €I €J €K €L €M €N €O €P €Q €R €S €T €U €V €W €X €Y €Z of which €U is totally the coolest.
Keep up the good work!
If that would be possible there would be clear signs of it all over the world. It would require great effort not to notice it.
We need some approach like Not Sure talking with plants.
Today I have a blog with thousands of postings that enjoys 1 to 10 visitors every day. 5000 views is a good year. I post videos, gather links and make citations, write my thoughts along with them [at times] and put some effort into organizing a large number of tags into sub tags and sub sub tags (at least that is how the menu unfolds them)
The entire philosophy is to make a blog for the audience that is me. It is wonderful to structure my thoughts like this. I'm tempted to call it a journal but really it isn't. If I did a journal I would feel obligated to post on it.
The blog is really nothing more than an advanced version of your bookmarks menu but in a highly biased way I'm highly amused by the level of technical sophistication. The entire thing is made of static html. The software parts only know how to create static html and a static backup is made of pages before they are replaced with a new version. Non of the upgrades or security hazards ever had any influence on its existence. Its so rigid there is no technology to write about on the blog.
Or a long story short:
I think you have exactly the right idea. If you write it just for yourself you will enjoy every moment of it.
Depending on who you are and what interests you some of your articles might become popular. Completely ignore it when it happens. Just keep it real. The only things of value coming from the outside world should be 1) a sense of responsibility not to post complete trash (for example a chunk of code without explaining why or what) and 2) interesting comments people leave on your stuff.
Just focus on the area where no one can match your expertise.
I suppose a link is required. Ill add what I jokingly refer to as my greatest work: http://blog.go-here.nl/8616
It's such a dumb idea it <s>might</s> will actually work.
To think at one time we had telegraph data lines that were little more than a mud battery and a pole. The wire would run up the pole, go though a relay switched by the previous pole and continue to the next pole where it would switch its own relay. The mud battery provided very little power, just enough to switch a relay but the technology was good enough to bridge almost unlimited distance.
Without comparison with other services I would be tempted to argue my ISP provides really great services. Its 75 Euro for 300 Mbit and the package comes with a phone line and hundreds of channels of something called television.
However, when compared honestly with similar services their service is terrible. People working there told me the entire network is ready to provide 1 Gbit to everyone and the employees don't know why they didn't make the switch. I can easily guess why, I'm not willing to pay much more than 75 Euro, 3 times the speed wont bring in 3 times the money. What it will do is reveal glitches in the network that would require fixing. If I remember correctly the people who created the ISP were very passionate about the technology but ended up selling the business. Not sure if that was related but if I was passionate about my business but couldn't upgrade because of a hunger for money I would get bored fast.
Using more of this rather ignorant guess work I started to ponder how an ideal ISP should be implemented. What would it really cost? Which type of contract is best for the network rather than the user or the provider?
Surprisingly, in some areas where big money hungry ISPs refused to deliver services people had to rethink and do it themselves.
Like this one here!
http://www.buergerbreitbandnetz.de/fernsehen-ueber-glasfaser...
The "Glasfaser – für nur 9,95 € im Monat" translates to fiber optic for 10 Euro (?!?)
My German almost isn't but from reading around I gathered they needed 65% adoption but got 94%, each end user had to pay 1000 Euro in advance. 900 in the form of a lone and 100 worth of shares.
To guess some numbers with that... 7 and a half years worth of 10 Euro/month does seem to add up to 900 Euro while profit made after that should increase the value of the investment. IOW, if it takes 20 years to repay the debt it would work out just fine for the investor/customer.
Some quote from speedtest: "With an average Q2-Q3 2016 download speed comparable to that in Bulgaria and Moldova, Germany’s fixed broadband is slower than you might expect from Europe’s largest economy. At 40.38 Mbps, Germany ranks 29th in the world for average fixed broadband download speed and 72nd for average upload."
A different page mentions: "Expect a 35€ bill on average for a broad-brand connection"
Most important to keep in mind, the big ISPs refused to service the area. It makes a great proof of concept. (Assuming buergerbreitbandnetz delivers 1 Gbps) in this worse case scenario 10/35 buys 1000/40.38 times the bandwidth. Or 29% of the cost for 2476% of the service. Or the 2 figured combined their service is 8438% better than the conventional urban offering.
Rural UK ISP https://b4rn.org.uk happened when big business "could" only provide crappy services at crazy rates. B4RN charges 30 pounds for 1 Gbps.
speedtest writes: "according to the Connected Nations 2015 report from the UK’s communications regulator, Office of Communications (Ofcom), 48% of rural areas don’t have access to broadband speeds of 10Mbps or higher."
Of course our germans and these brits had money to make their own ISP happen.
My Spanish and my Greek are even worse than my German but from reading around, apparently Guifi is the worlds largest Mesh network in Greece that originally started in Spain.
http://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet
Trying to make sense of this document...
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
...it seems they are actively fighting a tax per meter that guberment is trying to inflict on their fiber optic cables. If I understood correctly they are mainly offended by established businesses putting their cable in before the tax was invented. It seems big business did more than seal the ground after digging in their cables.
How different this is from the mundane consumer perspective where we all pay some corp as much as we can for as little as we would accept. We live in a world that is a bit like: when one asks why a carton of milk costs 200 Dollars the answer would be that if they charge 300 USD for it they wouldn't sell enough milk to justify the higher price.
Our entire western society works like this (I almost called it a civilization) one delivers 12 Dollars worth of labor that is sold for 40 Dollars, etc, and eventually it becomes 1000 dollars as part of a mortgage or infinite dollars as part of someones rent.
If that is the mentality or indoctrination that comes over these roads, in these letters and though this internet tube it might just be not worth having any of it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/4/42/20150...
A calendar with a tag cloud that can be toggled.
A world map with the same tag cloud.
Work backwards and make it into an archive of-
a conference about conferences.
Engineers should just engineer.
Germany will simply have towing cables in the road and make all cars self-driving, electric, 300 km/h etc
By 2022 non of them will have engines.
I one time, long long ago, put a many page html website in a torrent (I'm guessing 2007)
site name
-index.html
-other-files
--c.css
--j.js
--banana.html
--kiwi.html
Then I publish a new posting by making a new torrent.
site name
-index.html
-other-files
--c.css
--j.js
--banana.html
--kiwi.html
--pear.html
The fun hax of it was in that the new torrent has mostly the same files and mostly the same directory structure with the same name top folder. All torrent clients I tested wont complaint until you try overwrite something with something else. Javascript populated the index. The hypothetical user would simply add an rss feed to their client for site updates.
Some technically unsophisticated thought it was weird to browse html from their disk. A maybe-solution (that I've never implemented) was to have a domain redirect to the file path. I can think of a bunch of ways to do that.
Anyway, the point I wanted to make: It involved insufficient work to brag about and those who knew were not impressed by the obvious. I suppose any torrent client could implement it very easily but with lack of bragging and lack of awe it didn't amount to anything.
The only fun thing accomplished in the project was to de-paginate torrent websites so that they have a few thousand entries per page. (Replace the link to the torrent page with a magnet uri.) Then I made a search feature that would xhr load each page looking for the keywords. Like the dumbest search engine possible. It did work surprisingly well. The local file system is not impressed by multiple multi mb file requests. Javascript indexOf worked fine with very large strings at time time. I just chop out a sub string large enough to include the result and split that into an array on the "<tr>"
I would change the game like this:
1) Remove interest from mortgage (with a maximum of 1 house per family)
2) Remove the obligation to pay that part of the debt backed by the house and make insurance mandatory.
3) Turn rent contracts into lease buy contracts retroactively.
4) Cut salaries by 70%.
For the US this would mean:
The minimum wage drops from 7.25 to 2.175 per hour.
Benefits drop from 1300 to 390.
Pensions drop from 2600 to 780.
And in stead of droves of people endlessly searching for a job that doesn't exist there would be countless jobs to chose from.
Personally I don't mind doing the same repetitive factory work for 3 months. If I can go do something else at any time it wouldn't bother me at all. Hell, flipping burgers for a few months might even be considered fun.
If you have people put a widget in a box for 50 years you shouldn't be surprised their mind draws a blank. Their entire education would amount to nothing more than a lack of boxed widgets. Years of missed widget boxing potential.
In stead of starting at 6:00 one could start between 5:00 and 7:00. Then have a break between 11:00 and 13:00 for 30 min or 3 hours, whatever the fuck you want.
This is of course assuming we would allow people to enjoy life (An Utopian idea most people would fight against)