Anders Pollas

Burn­ing­bird posts some really impor­tant thoughts on the use of Cre­ative Com­mons licenses. But while proper attri­bu­tion, ‘theft’ of com­plete web­sites etc. could become a prob­lem in some cases, the use of ‘gen­er­ous’ CC licenses shouldn’t stand out as being strange — maybe I do want peo­ple to be able to use design, code and ideas from my weblog with­out hav­ing to ask per­mis­sion, pay me money or what­ever. I post ideas and com­ments because I’d like peo­ple to respond to them, includ­ing the pos­si­bil­ity to develop them fur­ther. If one of them is good enough to start a busi­ness on, fine by me. If I didn’t want any­one to know about it, I wouldn’t have posted it on here in the first place. As what goes for design and code, I myself ben­e­fit from the nice peo­ple at Mov­able­Type pro­vid­ing a plat­form for my blog for free — if I develop any code use­ful for the blog­ging com­mu­nity, it’s only fair I give that free as well. That said, I can’t agree enough, that one should be very care­ful before ‘going with the flow’ and pos­si­bly choose to give it all away with­out real­iz­ing the consequenses.

In a pre­vi­ous post I men­tioned the need for feed read­ers like Syn­dirella to be able to save to and/or import from OPML files on the net. Syn­dirella just released a new build with the import option included (with a pre­view and ll) which defi­nately is a step on the way.

Ooh, looks like olekjeldhansen.com and many.dk don’t quite agree on the con­tent side of blog­ging (some funny points in there). A pretty clas­sic dis­cus­sion I have given some seri­ous thought myself too (every­one has, I guess). Can’t help to notice, though, that what­ever the con­tent, nobody will be able to find it in about a week’s time as none of them use any form of decent archiving/permalinks. And in my hum­ble opin­ion, the infor­ma­tion has to be proper laid out if any­one is sup­posed to ben­e­fit from it — which is the point I hope.
UPDATE: many points out to me in a com­ment, that many.dk has archives. Apologies.

Hav­ing to sign up with Yahoo to be able to use the Syn­dirella mail­inglist made me for­get about it. But Brad Choate saved me the trou­ble of mail­ing a wish list; very rel­e­vant wishes indeed…

I’ve been run­ning Syn­dirella for a cou­ple of days now, and to me it seems a great deal bet­ter than Fee­dreader. The dif­fer­ence in nav­i­gat­ing actu­ally comes out to Syndirella’s advan­tage, and the sup­port of the dif­fer­ent for­mats are bet­ter. So is the built-in browser. Unfor­tu­nately, some of the feeds I used to have in Fee­dreader won’t show up in Syn­dirella — on the other hand; these are prob­a­bly the exact ones caus­ing Fee­dreader to stall on updates and use up 250+ MBs of mem­ory… They are both open source and I’m look­ing for­ward to fol­low devel­op­ment. For the time being, I’ll prob­a­bly keep on run­ning them both side by side.

Oh, goodie — thought I had lost it com­pletely try­ing to get an overview of the dif­fer­ent pos­si­bil­i­ties regard­ing Track­back and vari­ants hereof. Luck­ily Ben Ham­mer­s­ley just made a com­mented list. Thanx — it’s a great help!