Hot Dorkage

I use bloglines to monitor blogs. I like a lot of blogs and even just browsing my subscriptions I can’t keep up with all of ‘em.  Enter AideRSS. It makes some decisions for you about how “good” the blog posts are and filters out the ones that it doesn’t think ard up to snuff.

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I have been struggling to get started with Dojo and Ning lately. Both these technologies are fairly new and the number of books about on Dojo is severely limited, and as far as I know there are no books on Ning. So I would like to hook up with some other developers who are knowledgeable about these technologies, because I learn best from humans. I’m in several social networks, but they are general, and I haven’t had much luck finding anyone with these narrowly defined brands of geekery. I have been hearing about Scoutle. Supposedly it scurries around the web and locates people for you. That did it for me. I’m kind of a tryer of new things, and anything with the word “automation” in it gets my attention. Apparently, once you’ve installed Scoutle, every time someone visits your site, your Scoutle agent takes two steps toward finding your online soulmates.
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For today’s hack let me say for the record that I am into automation.  I hate doing boring things over and over.  Once I’ve done something once, it should be a macro and I should just be able to invoke the macro.  Like brushing my teeth….. um…. never mind, let’s not go there.    With all the Twitter clients out there someone should have written one to inform Twitter whenever you update a blog post.  Why should I have to manually tweet whenever I update my blog? In an earlier post I stated why I’m not that big a fan of Twitter as a social medium to begin with.

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