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Yes, it's that time again: the quasi-annual kenspeckle redesign. This time featuring fabulous dropdown menus that do not work in IE 5 (because if you use IE 5, it's really time to upgrade), famfamfam's awesome silk icons, and squeaky-clean xhtml strict code that I hopefully will not ruin with future experimental blog posts.
I've also turned off automated del.icio.us posting. "But now how will I find out what you've been clicking on?" you may wonder. Fear not, dear reader. For those who actually visit my newly beautified site in their browsers, I've returned my del.icio.us linkroll to the sidebar. For the many subscribers, daily del.icio.us summaries are now spliced in with feedburner's link splicer.
Automated del.icio.us posting has really deteriorated the quality of posting by sating my freshness fetish without actually providing any even remotely interesting content. Plus it totally detracted from the joy I get from del.icio.us to have the following internal monologue before bookmarking anything: "Is this really worthy of a post? Will I find enough other del.icio.us links to make a reasonable link post? Will I get home in time to delete the post if not? Have I made an actual post anytime in the past month? Why me?"
Clearly not a good situation.
Anyway, as with kenspeckle 2.0, the launch of kenspeckle 2.5 will be celebrated with the release of even more fascinating kenspeckle search data. Enjoy.
Oh, and PS: The rss-fearing among you can now subscribe by email.
Questions Well-Answered
› why hire a proofreader: If the hair-raising images of that un-proofread Wheat Thins box don't answer that question, I'm not sure what does.
› coolness+market: I consider kenspeckle, like, my own coolness market.
› origin of the name sperber: This person certainly came to the right place.
› sparsile word origin: I got that one covered.
› "literary theory" infp: I can't even comment on this one. It's way too perfect.
› "jury duty" manhattan lunch break: Yes. It's long. You can eat in Chinatown. I envy you, lucky jurors.
Unanswerable Questions
› yips and ocd: Not sure exactly where this searcher is going with that theory, but I think I can appreciate the connection.
› outdoor skating rinks in ajax: I'm not sure what this means, but I would certainly love to see an outdoor skating rink in ajax.
› semiotics wheat thins: Gives you something to think about over that snack, at any rate.
› white chocolate flow chart: Sounds tasty.
› getting rid of strawberry blonde: A better question might be, "Um, why would you even want to get rid of strawberry blonde"? It's a great hair color—I wish I had it naturally.
› sealand antisemitism: I think Sealand's population is a little too small to have an anti-Semitism problem, don't you? Are there even Jewish folks there?
Anne Helmond said,
I like the fact that you have switched to a del.icio.us sidebar. On the one hand I love the feature to blog your delicious links but on the other hand it makes a blog a linkdump. Of course early blogs used to be linkdumps with a short description but it is a different matter if you write essayistic/dairy posts.
I prefer to add people to my delicious network and wander through my network now and then :)
comment posted on July 24, 2007 at 15:30
lauren said,
Oh yeah, kenspeckle was turning into a big-time link dump. I think turning off the automated posting is already a huge improvement!
comment posted on July 24, 2007 at 20:31
Anne Helmond said,
I'm still receiving deli.cio.us links in my RSS feeder though :)
Someone wrote a nice little script that gives you more control over your delicious postings to your blog: http://notes.torrez.org/2007/07/the-return-of-l.html
comment posted on July 26, 2007 at 13:41
lauren said,
Interesting, thanks for the link.
Anyway, yes, I'm splicing the delicious links into the RSS feed via feedburner's "link splicer" feature, but they don't get posted to the "real" site.
It's sort of an experiment, but I'm wondering if even those posts are too frequent.
What do you think? Interesting or obnoxious? Maybe I should poll my *many* subscribers about whether or not I should take them out. Wish me luck in getting a response!
comment posted on July 26, 2007 at 21:59
Anne Helmond said,
I'm changing my mind :) I like it this way, I have found some interesting links in your del.icio.us feed. When it is spliced readers can choose whether or not to read your del.icio.us feed.
Now I'm going to check out your NYC food links because I need some food next week in NY :)
comment posted on July 28, 2007 at 3:10
kenspeckle » I'm a chocolate-chip cookie said,
[...] slowly weaning myself off that ol' quixotic dream of being a real, bad-ass link blogger. First, I turned off automated del.icio.us posting, now, I've finally removed that link splicing from my feed as [...]
comment posted on October 26, 2007 at 20:05