Seth Godin, the Internet's well known marketing guy has published his top blog posts, voted by readers. Interesting read, I recommend.
The thing is, you'll lose few hours reading and clicking on all related links (at least I did). But I take it as research, something I'll use in the future, so I think time investment was smart. Thanks Seth.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Local news following for web sawy
Few days ago my girlfriend has asked me how I track what's going on in our country. I had no answer. It's pre-election time and whole country is covered with posters of mostly bald headed political star wannabe's (I have nothing against bald headed people, just to be sure). How can I not know what's going on?
Well, I don't watch TV, don't read local newspapers or listen to local radio stations. All I see are these posters standing by the road while driving to work and back home. How can I know who's saying what and who did what to whom. Frankly, I don't even care too much. It's all just different tones of color yellow press for me.
When she mentioned, I should be more aware of situation around me, I instantly and maybe even subconsciously started thinking how I could get relevant info with minimal effort. Browsing all news related web sites was out of the question. While they deliver, it's still too much noise around and it's hard to separate good content from weed. What is kind of strange is that all major news web sites provides RSS feeds. Strange because they're relaying on page views and ads sold. So I figured, they want users clicking on the web site to generate page views, not getting news from RSS feeds and bypassing their money making machinery. Good for me.
So I've writen my own little digg/reddit/YCnews like news page. A barebone and minimalistic news site with relevant information about my country lined up in order of creation. No noise, just pure info, updated every 10 minutes. With only minimal CSS and html, it's perfect for mobile browsing. Just what I wanted.
I've been using this site for a few days now and result is obvious. Now I usualy know about things way before everyone else around me. What's confusing is that they know I didn't start reading local newspapers or watching news on TV, but I still know what's going on. How can that be? :-)
I just love web and it's usefullness.
Well, I don't watch TV, don't read local newspapers or listen to local radio stations. All I see are these posters standing by the road while driving to work and back home. How can I know who's saying what and who did what to whom. Frankly, I don't even care too much. It's all just different tones of color yellow press for me.
When she mentioned, I should be more aware of situation around me, I instantly and maybe even subconsciously started thinking how I could get relevant info with minimal effort. Browsing all news related web sites was out of the question. While they deliver, it's still too much noise around and it's hard to separate good content from weed. What is kind of strange is that all major news web sites provides RSS feeds. Strange because they're relaying on page views and ads sold. So I figured, they want users clicking on the web site to generate page views, not getting news from RSS feeds and bypassing their money making machinery. Good for me.
So I've writen my own little digg/reddit/YCnews like news page. A barebone and minimalistic news site with relevant information about my country lined up in order of creation. No noise, just pure info, updated every 10 minutes. With only minimal CSS and html, it's perfect for mobile browsing. Just what I wanted.
I've been using this site for a few days now and result is obvious. Now I usualy know about things way before everyone else around me. What's confusing is that they know I didn't start reading local newspapers or watching news on TV, but I still know what's going on. How can that be? :-)
I just love web and it's usefullness.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Rails 2.1, attachment_fu and MiniMagick
I've just spent 2 hours trying to get thumbnails to work with Rails 2.1 and attachment_fu using MiniMagic as image processor.
This is how the before_thumbnail_saved callback works now:
This is how the before_thumbnail_saved callback works now:
before_thumbnail_saved do |thumbnail|
record = thumbnail.parent
thumbnail.item_id = record.item_id
end
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