Alleen de advertenties van Google

Je kunt bij Google zoeken naar de gesponsorde links voor de woorden die je ingetikt hebt.

The World as a Blog

It’s addictive to watch The World as a Blog, where you can see new posts on weblogs pop up all over the world, almost in realtime.

The software behind the site, called worldKit is based on Flash and freely available for personal or non-commercial use. Might be fun to play with.

My linklog now comes from del.icio.us

I switched over from Bloglines to del.icio.us to store the links that appear on the linklog. The linklog only contains links to existing pages, so there’s no necessity to maintain a complete weblog with articles as I did on Bloglines.

The purpose of the linklog is to make a list of links, and using del.icio.us is ideal for this. With it I also get the benefit of the tagging system, and my links and tags become part of the whole del.icio.us community. You can find me on del.icio.us at http://del.icio.us/kwebble.

The changes to the script to show the links from del.icio.us are small:

require_once('rss_fetch.inc');
$rss = fetch_rss('http://del.icio.us/rss/kwebble');
echo "<ul>n";
foreach ($rss->items as $item){
	echo '<li><a href="' . $item[link] . '">' . $item[title] . "</a></li>n";
}
echo "</ul>n";

A dutch part of Kwebble

The site has been extended with a dutch section, called Ontwikkelingen (Developments). It’s not a translated version of these articles, but a place to put articles specific to Holland.

Ontwikkelingen 2.0

Welkom bij de nieuwe versie van Ontwikkelingen. Na een periode van stilte heb ik de site verplaatst en pak ik de draad weer op.

My first comment

A new milestone for this site. Yesterday I got my first real comment, not counting family.

Building a linklog with Bloglines

There’s a new part on the site, a list of links or linklog that contains links to interesting items from the webfeeds I read. The list is not maintained on this site, but comes from Bloglines, which I use as my reader for webfeeds. Here’s how I did that:

The links are stored using the blog on Bloglines that comes with an account. I activated my blog and created Kwebble’s linklog. On Bloglines you can post to the blog direct from the reading page by using the Clip/Blog This link. This makes collecting items from several webfeeds very easy.

The next step is to get the data here on Kwebble.com. The input from Bloglines that can be used for this is the webfeed for the blog. With the freely available MagpieRSS using this webfeed is easy. MagpieRSS can retrieve the webfeed, cache it and parse it’s contents. These few lines of PHP add the items to this page:

require_once('rss_fetch.inc');
$rss = fetch_rss('http://www.bloglines.com/blog/kwebble/rss');
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($rss->items as $item) {
    preg_match('/.*?><a href="(.*?)".*?>(.*?)<.*?/', $item[description], $matches);
    echo '<li><a href="' . $matches[1] . '">' . $matches[2] . '</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';

The regular expression gets the first link from each message. I could have used $item[description] directly but Bloglines adds some attributes to the link I don’t want.

Google Suggest

A great new feature on Google called Google Suggest. The text field is enhanced with an auto-complete function which searches while you type your query! And it does it amazingly fast too. (Found on Kottke.org)

Flickr photos on the site

I’ve added a column of photos to the site. They come from Flickr, where you can store, organize and share your photos online.

I created an account, called kwebble to put my photos. Then I let the site generate a JavaScript to add to my site. This script puts the photos I’ve recently uploaded to Flickr on my own site. So now when I add a photo to Flickr it automatically shows up here.

The only thing I miss is an alternative text for each image. Perhaps they could use the tags added to the image for that?

Kwebble is here!

Finally I have my own place on the web, available at kwebble.com.

At this time a search with Google, Yahoo and MSN all give only 1 result for ‘kwebble’, spread over two different pages. Two pages I have nothing to do with, by the way.
Let’s see if I can increase that number.

Rob Schlüter