Comments on: Attn lazyweb:

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:28:18 +0000

http://www.advogato.org/ and especially the ‘recentlog’ at
http://www.advogato.org/recentlog.html

Focus is generally on open source software, but postings cover all sorts of different things.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:48:23 +0000

Yeah, that’s basically what I’m figuring for articles/posts.

The more I think about it the more I think I want sweetcode but successful, and I think sweetcode failed in a few ways:

only one person posting
the “interesting” bar set too high
no place for users to talk about the software

Strongly considering doing it now.

By: brianenigma

brianenigma — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:12:49 +0000

I would certainly read it and contribute with comments. I am not sure I would contribute with articles our source posts unless “articles” consisted of not much more than “Hey, you all should check out the latest Freevo. It lets you play MAME ROMs now.”

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:12:16 +0000

No, onna web!

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:10:53 +0000

No, it needs to be bloglike. Something you can go and look at every day to see what new software someone’s written about today.

By: flipzagging

flipzagging — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:41:39 +0000

Aren’t you describing a LUG mailing list? Or what they used to be, before there was Google or Slashdot or Freshmeat or other sources of robo-news?

I miss those sorts of groups — there was a sense of a shared project.

I think it could be great as long as you somehow ensure everyone on the list has a similar enough world-view and definition of ‘interesting’. Invitation-only?

By: frobisher

frobisher — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:06:34 +0000

How about a wiki seeded with data from those sites?

By: peculiah

peculiah — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:12:15 +0000

New Belle and Sebastian = tops