May 2005 Archives

In the same line as '10x10' and 'Newsmap', buzztracker is a great example of how aggregation of news from all over the world can change the way we look at news.

In this case, Google news feeds are grouped by geographic location and interconnected according to frequencies and relationships between these feeds. The result  is a striking map of the world highlighted with hot spots according to the current news. A great tool for those who are not satisfied by newsbites from a single source.

Since I took on the role of Moderator of the Vue Forum at Renderosity about a year ago, I have come to accumulate a small collection of tips, resources and tutorials either as answers to questions on the forum, requests for articles or just personal discoveries.

Since I am in the middle of adding more flexibility to Linfa.net, this is a good occasion to organize these notes into something more coherent.

I hope you will find it eventually helpful...

 The amount of spam left in the logs of this site is reaching unmanageable levels. I already had to shut down comments in both galleries and blogs, now I find that several bandwith leeches simply link from my graphics out of sheer laziness and that I registered 5000 spam related pings in my Trackbacks for the past 2 weeks only.

Time to do some cleaning.

I upgraded Movable Type to version 3.16 and will spend  the next few days looking into strategies to claim back both my site and my bandwith from that plague.

While I am in the middle of changes, I started moving most of my pages from Template based Static Dreamweaver pages to dynamic pages using Moveable Type as a base and PHP/Coldfusion for automation.

First round of updates was a redesign of the Gallery section.