Why does the News Suck?
Local San Francisco website, and one of my favourite reads, SFist, reports that the San Francisco Chronicle sourced the blog on a news story regarding Bay to Breakers. So the next time, people blame blogs for the death of newspapers, you can now point to a paper sourcing a blog! Congrads, SFist, and keep watching the 4th estate!
Who was Hacked?!?
Remember my fear that Google Reader had been hacked? It turns out Ms Trunk's blog had been hacked and she's blaming a guy. While that is a safe assumption, based on Internet demographics in the US, it is an invalid and irrelevant assumption. Does it really matter that the first computer virus was invented in Pakistan, given that it messed up your boot record? I don't give a rat's arse who's hacking a blog. Ok, we get the point, you're more powerful than we are. Now, may we please have our Internet back? It has been pluralised, after all, so would you hackers bugger off to your own Internet?
How to Post Comments to Blogs without a Web Browser
Oftentimes, I'll read a blog entry and want to make a comment on it. I'll open it in my web browser and the rest of the blog posts I don't share and then go back and comment, read, or trackback as I see fit. I do think it would be nice if I could post comments to the entries from within the reader. The solution to this lies in a 2003 post entitled the comment API, which wraps a comment around RSS 2.0.
Let me mull over this for a few hours and I'll post some code to accomplish this on the client-side.
