Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Zen Image of The Day
As promised on Saturday there is a new interactive feature for BNL (see top of page). What makes this slightly different than a normal Photo Blog is that the image will change daily automatically whether I post or not. The comments should also appear immediately alongside the picture and not require clicking away from the page to see them as is the normal way comments work with Blogger.com.For those of you that use Zen Image of The Day you may notice it remembers the nickname you choose. I don’t intend to get too fancy with this or require passwords, but I will be adding my own new-visitors, returning-visitors, vistors-for-today counters soon related to this. In the near future I will probably add features that allow you to set defaults for how you use and view BNL. My friend A.C. has suggested adding a sort of weak A.I. that scans a new posts and then links to Google webpages and images related to the post. This will take quite a bit of research to pull off, but is an example of the kind of added fun and features I am going to be trying to bring to BNL.
Another project near and dear to my heart is Meme-Watch. I can’t give a timetable on when Meme-Watch will premier, but I expect it will be of great interest to those of you that consider yourselves trendsetters. Meme-Watch will allow you to submit short phrases or mems and then track how frequent and popular they become in time over the web.
ADDENDUM
My apologies to any who tried to use "Zen Image of The Day" earlier, it was not working. It had worked on my server at work and I just blindly assumed it would work when I ported it to jaytv.com. I won't bore with the exact details. The ability to remember nicknames also may not be currently working, though I will debug that more thoroughly when I get home. Please have patience. This stuff isn't professional software, just some Perl scripts I whipped up with out a lot of beating on.
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1 Comments:
Meme-Watch souunds interesting.
http://www.memestreams.net/topics/ is a sort of collaborative news aggregate you may not be aware of. I go there to find all sorts of debauchery ;)
By Daniel, at April 22, 2005
