And I’m not going to do it. But seeing the site fall in silence isn’t making me feel good. Aizen doesn’t watch any anime, and who knows when he’ll post something again, Ammy & Llora post very rarely, and I am, as expressed by many, ‘fading away’…
We need an additional author. Now. A constant one. You can do episodics if your understanding of an ‘episodic’ is not just a summary of an episode. You are free, and encouraged to, write editorials, rants, long posts… Important is that it stays interesting to read. The topics may be everything from the aniblogosphere and everything from the webdesign-o-sphere. In fact, in matters of topic choosing you can consider yourself having as much freedom in writing on this site as I do.
Of course you have to be able to get the images for your posts by yourself, and in good quality. But that ain’t difficult, really.
Come on, raise your hands. I know there are people with amazing writing skills lurking out there. Join in, conquer the interwebs with us!
Yup, let’s go. (Btw there’ll be a second season for K-ON!). Artwork author: see ‘Further reading’
Further reading
- Artwork used: “Let’s go” by Chobipero
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I’ll write for you.
just kidding!
I don’t await your first post by tomorrow.
Just kidding.
Hopefully he/she is Pedant-proof.
Hopefully.
Boooring. This might be tough… but good luck.
/slaps @lelangir
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Boring.. post? announcement? blog? me?
The announcement, not the blog or you
from my experiences, people are never boring, but sometimes what they do, is.
I’ll state my beef that there has been this trend for the 2008/9 crop of bloggers to post requesting other writers for some reason… I’m not exactly sure what that’s about; blog neglect. Your case isn’t the same since you just don’t want to generate content (here) but still would like to focus on design/maintenance. It’s just… (see OH! debacle)
Blogs are a valid social network (my primary social network), so to me this is the equivalent of permalogging off facebook or similar. The difference is that blogs don’t glue you to the network… open.
Oh btw, if you want to look into something interesting, check out rssCloud or realtime rss. Very cool.
Oh Ryan, while we’re talking about geeky stuff, have you had any experience with Pubhubsub. And any idea on how it compares to rssCloud or realtime rss?
I’ve read the documentation for pubsubhub, and glanced rssCloud. They are basically the same concept, although rssCloud was being designed in 2001 or so.
The main differences are the backers. Google is backing pubsubhub, while rssCloud has various adopters, including Wordpress.
Okay, that’s not the main difference, because pubsubhub naturally caters to a distributed model (the hub), while rssCloud seems to be more p2p without hubs.
Both are troublesome because they don’t enforce authorization in the specification (though it can be done), which means you might get spoofed data (spam) if your client/subscription service is accepting payloads rather than notifications.
The trouble with notifications is that when the publisher (blog) updates, it sends out the notification to subscribers. This notification just tells subscribers than there is an update on the given RSS feed, and then subscribers fetch the payload (instant DDOS).
Hubs act like a wall to keep highly popular sources from overloading, where rssCloud would need to use a feed proxy or something to not be hammer on every update with a large number of listeners.
Most cases rssCloud is going to be easier to implement because there is no hub. Although the feed and the hub can be on the same server, both need to be there for pubsubhub to work.
At least, that is what I’ve seen.
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So it sounds like both specs are dependent on whether or not the subscriber (or reader) supports it. If the subscriber doesn’t fetch the payload in real-time, then the benefits are lost. Is that correct?
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Yes, indeed. Although, most services can implement both without any prob.
I forgot to mention there is one large difference between the two and that is rssCloud requires “pings” to tell the publisher that someone is still subscribed, otherwise rssCloud subscriptions expire after 24 hrs.
Nuts. right.
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Rp, that’s the nature of a specification (standard)
Standards, and things proposed as standards, are not instances, but concepts/abstractions that are followed (this is my basis for argument that a given “service” can never be called a “standard”).
Anyhow, in concept it is very simple. RSS client (desktop/3pa) sits there and checks for notification updates from it’s service domain, which manages subscription to the rtRSS. When the service domain gives a heads up to the client, the client then checks the notification feed.
This is relatively safe because even if a notification is spoofed, the client is going back to the original source to check. Then again, if 1000s of subscribers are getting fake notifications, and checking the feed, that could be used against the feed publisher (ddos).
Some dangerous things to consider, but there are ways to fix that with “hubs” that verify the feed update before notifying subscribers.
Essentially things are happening in realtime, but with these technologies (TCP) it is properly called near-real-time.
Sounded tempting, untill I read the part where it had to stay interesting and the writer had to have actual skill.
That, and I have my own blog.
Don’t be shy.
I’d do it if I didn’t already have a blog.
I hope you find someone though. I was wondering how well this place was going to fare once you slow down, since it’s usually you updating at the moment as it is.
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“orz
But seriously if your blogging-strategy is starting to fail, innovate! What is “content?” Perhaps you need to rethink your fundamental concepts of blogging in order to keep up with evolution in the sphere.
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But seriously, it’s not my strategy starting to fail, it’s me starting to leave. learn2read
Ah, something that is within my resolution! Then again, I’m sorely lacked of ideas to write for other blogs, so if I find anything I’ll let ya know?
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Yeah. Though, I’d like to find a constant author this time, not a guest one.
>Btw there’ll be a second season for K-ON!
Did I miss something!?
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Did you really miss the news that K-ON! got greenlight for a second season?
Good luck, but it seems it’s the same old problem, if someone already writes, they have their own blog, if they don’t already have their own blog, it’s unlikely they’ll begin writing and could be expected to hold on to it…
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I’ve been curious about writing on another blog before… but my writing is nowhere near anything that’s enough to make do than what’s on the picture. So it stays within the confines of my blog for now ^^;
I’ll give you a hoot if I think I can do it one day.
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