April 2008
8 posts
The @oo5 black hole
At the moment @oo5 is a black hole. You review stuff, it gets sucked into oo5.whatiminto.com and then… nothing. I’ve been pondering this problem since I started the project.
For me, reviews are more permanent snippets of communication than standard tweets. They’re also more structured. I wanted to be able to store them somewhere - and in a way - that would make them easy to...
Support for those new conventions went live over the weekend. Everything’s been correctly identified so far… Excellent!
Proposing a set of conventions to help identify all the new categories: http://blog.whatiminto.com/post/31774399.
Just added Plays as an oo5 category.
Conventions
A couple of the more cultured @oo5ers have started adding theatre play reviews over the last week so I’ve added Play as a new top level category.
That’s all well and good but all these new categories have started to put a strain on my poor pidgeon-holing algorithm. It was only intended to distinguish gigs from movies and it needs a fair bit more work to deal with the more subtle...
Added albums and exhibitions to the official set of categories over the weekend.
Albums and exhibitions added
I added albums and exhibitions as categories over the weekend. The automatic categorisation will need a bit of tweaking but it seems to be working okay at the moment. Review away!
BackgroundRB FAIL
I love BackgroundRB for how easy it made getting started with oo5 but she’s a cruel mistress. I’m using version 0.2.0 because I couldn’t get 0.2.1 to run at all and the docs didn’t match the code so I decided it wasn’t ready enough for me yet. But. 0.2.0 has a few problems, particularly when using it as a daemon controller. I just noticed that it stopped grabbing...