I’ll be sticking around Planet for a while still. I’m really happy about that because I do enjoy that community. It’s a surprisingly diverse set of blogs given the group we’re sourcing from. From Mike Smit’s political battles, Jon Pye’s landlord hassle, Mike Lawrence learning critical things about boating, and the Linux gang of Bowes and Campbell teaching us how to use stuff that we’ve never heard of. It makes for a very interesting read.
After some discussion between James and I, James suggested that a reasonable way to have my cake and eat it too would be for planet to filter out any sponsored posts. It was a great idea that I hadn’t thought of, assuming that just dropping out would be the easiest solution for all. Turns out filtering stuff using planet is actually really easy. It also has no impact on any of the advertising that I’m involved in since planet is just picking up my RSS feed and re-publishing. It therefore can re-publish to its discretion if it chooses to.
Why does all of this matter? Well recent events reminded me that although I wasn’t technically doing anything wrong, it certainly be perceived that way. Just consider the language we use when speaking about planet. It’s not uncommon to hear technically competent people who understand the system refer to “posting to planet”. If I actually was posting ads to planet, that would be against University regulations. Unfortunately the details of me posting it to my blog and then planet re-publishing it are difficult to get across at a glance. To avoid potential problems, I needed a solution.
All in all, I think what James has set up is a great solution and I owe a big thanks to James for the help.
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1 mike // Jan 24, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Glad to hear you’re sticking around the planet Marc. I also enjoy the diversity of topics on here, and in keeping in touch with the goings on of the Dalhousie CS gang/former Dalhousie CS gang.