the construct :: weblog

While checking my gmail today, I noticed the little “RSS” button pictured here. I thought “What is that for in my email?” So I clicked it, and you know what it did? Opened up a feed for my unread emails! I was like “WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” The other cool thing is that if you try to load the atom feed, you must login which is much needed just for security purposes.

I don’t remember any talk of this pretty neat feature, so I thought I would post it just because I thought it was cool, and somebody might have a use for it. Technically many things can be done to use this feature, I just don’t have the time right now to do anything about it.

If you don’t this jabbering I am talking about “feeds” and such, read about news aggregators. That article also links to information about feeds.

If you want a gmail.com email account (which is now up to 2gb’s free storage) let me know by commenting or sending me an email to danisblan@gmail.com

*Update*Over at evhead there is talk of other RSS features within gmail. All the comments here and on evhead add more to the discussion.

This week has been a whole lot of talk about the good ol Google Maps Satellite Photos. For very good reason… it’s awesome, yet also a little bit erie. You can put in your address and see a statellite photo of your house. Just seems a little wierd to me. On the other hand, really cool.

Here is some more talk on the web about the new Google Maps feature:”
Memory Maps, on the Flickr Blog and Memory Maps Photo Pool
Matt Haughey: Explaining colored pools
Google Sightseeing weblog, why really go places?

Interesting read from CNET.com titled The future of bloggin I thought this little bit was quite interesting.

The growth rate of blogs is impressive. Technorati, a search engine that monitors blogs, tracked more than 8 million online diaries as of March 21, up from 100,000 just two years ago. A new blog is created every 7.4 seconds. That adds up to 12,000 new blogs a day, 275,000 posts a day and 10,800 updates an hour.

That’s alot of weblogs. This here blog has been around for almost a year, not counting my first couple months over at my old weblog and also not to mention my couple months that I lost when I screwed up my system. So I would say I’ve been “blogging” for way over a year now.

I would for sure say there is a future to weblogs. Celebrities have weblogs, political figures have weblogs, weblogs or rather blogs are everywhere now. Last year and 2003 was an explosion of weblogs. Do you have one? Link it in the comments…

Speaking of comments, today this weblog reached the 100th comment which I am very happy to reach. Make some more comments of your own!

Threadless.com one of the most awesome shirt companies online… is having a sale until Monday. Every shirt only $10.00! This is pretty sweet considering that the shirts are usually $15.00. So if you are low on cash, and like their awesome designs then make it over there by monday!

I myself have purchased through them and it is an awesome online store. They have a realtime stock tracker and it’s just a wonderful online experience the way shirt buying goes. Now go get one!

I’m certain this has been said somewhere on the web before, but all well. I noticed today while I was checking my gmail account and downloading some attachments for school, there was a cool “Download All Attachments.” I thought hey why not! So I click it, gmail zipped up all the files into one .zip with all of the files in it. Pretty awesome.

By they way, I have like a bunch of invitations if you want a super cool and trendy gmail account.

Netscape 8 BETA has shown up today on the web. I found out will looking through waxy.org links as I usually do throughout the day, and found out that Netscape’s new browser is out.

So I just had to download and try it out. I am very impressed. It’s really a cool looking browser with tons of features packed into it. It’s nice and fast, and imported everything from my Mozilla Firefox 1.0 preferences. In fact, I am writing this entry in Netscape 8 Beta, and I am really enjoying messing around with it.

If you use Internet Explorer, please go to browsehappy.com and learn why I encourage you to check out another browser.

Well pretty much my Ghosty is the coolest thing ever… at least to me. It came in the coolest box, and he’s just unique and awesome altogether.

Check out my photo gallery

Also, I havn’t decided on a name yet, leave a comment with your ideas!

Related posts:
My Ghosty is finished!
StuffedRobots.com

“PodCasting” as it has been named is basically just an evolved version of the basic idea of radio, yet it mixes the internet, audio, and any form of portable audio player into one.

It’s pretty much a new up and coming and current trend for anybody and everybody who wants it. From what I know, here is how it works, I think in this order:
1)Someone creates a podcast, in essence it is a mini personal radio show. A person records themself, and then makes it availble for download.
2)The creator can make the podcast available on sites like podcast.net and ipodder.org where people can subscribe or “tune in” and download the podcast to their portable audio player, which is done automatically with software like iPodder which downloads the latest podcasts you have subscribed to.
3)Enjoy the podcast wherever they want to listen!

Yes, this is a really simplified version of the list. It’s not super easy to get into it, yet will be in the near future. Especially with companies like Odeo starting up.

There are so many websites that already have info on the topic that a simple google search will give you a bunch of results. Look out for it.

I just found out today via email that my Ghosty is finished! (click here if you need to know what I’m talking about)

I thought, Wow! This is a really awesome feature. It just gave a really cool personalized feature to the service and site. Basically here is the email.

subject: Daniel Scally’s Ghosty is finished!
Daniel Scally!
Enjoy!

I thought that was super awesome. When I get it I’ll take photos and it will be a little show and tell.

*** UPDATE *** My Ghosty has shipped! WOO HOO!!

Daniel Scally!
We just wanted to let you know that your Ghosty has been shipped!

Thanks for the support!
-MasterBot

I just found out about this today. (more info) I think it’s a pretty swell idea. CopyLeft instead of CopyRight.

Support open source.
There is also a cheap pretty cool t-shirt for $5 + shipping