Seems like the perthblogs.org domain didn’t get renewed and somebody has squatted on the URL so the perth blogs feeds hosted there are moribund. I’ll remort here when we make another plan.
Was anybody still reading the feed anyway?
Meetup sez:
Just a quick automated reminder that The Perth Weblogger Meetup
Group has an event tomorrow and you said you’d be there! Here
are the details:What: The Perth Weblogger March Meetup
When: Wednesday, March 15 at 7:00PM
Where: Little Creatures
40 Mews Road Fremantle
Perth WA 6160
61-8-9430-5555
See who’s coming or update your RSVP:
http://blog.meetup.com/14/events/4854976/t/rem_c
Come on down. In this weather Little Creatures is the place to be, and on Wednesday nights it isn’t too busy.
Oh, something to think about — maybe we ought to move meetups to upcoming.org because it is free. I’ve been funding the meetups for a while, and starting to think we need another funding mechanism.
The Perth Weblogger Meetup is coming up again on next Wednesday – Jan 18th at 7pm – Little Creatures, in Mews Road, Fremantle.
We’ve shifted to Little Creatures to get a bit of Fremantle summer love after wintering on the balcony at the Brass Monkey. And we are heading for record attendance by the looks, with 10 people so far saying Yes and 5 Maybe.
People keep asking me where at Little Creatures. Out the front, probably at one of the tables on the left hand side as you had for the door.
See you there, maybe. Go on.
With a bit of fiddling the perth blog feeds seems to have come back to life. And if you’ve ever been annoyed by all the extra right angle brackets that were seeping into the aggregated feed, you’ll be pleased to know that I’ve finally found out a fix for that.
Does anybody still read the feeds anyway?
The Perth blog feed is behaving a bit strangely. I’m trying to work out why. New posts aren’t appearing as they should. I’ll post more when I’ve found out why.
We did some server upgrades last week and in the process I broke the
Also, the wiki has fully gone to the place that old web pages go to die.
Hey, next Wednesday, the 21st, is blogger meetup day for us here in Perth. It is definitely not too late for more christmas drinks. We are meeting up at the Brass Monkey at 7pm, on the balcony upstairs in the corner, if that makes any sense.
And it looks like we might even have a special guest. See if you can work out who I mean on the meetup site.
See you there. Oh go on, come along you bloggers :-)
Lots of good new blogging going on. A couple of my friends have started new blogs..
Ashleigh has started up Ashleigh’s Dump which is looking like a good blend of food, thought and the occasional rant :-)
And Indulis has started up his 21c House blog. And here’s the tagline for it:
Weblog about stuff. All sorts of stuff. More like an offboard memory for my brain. Talk to my brain now and avoid the Xmas rush.
Both well worth a read.
My great mate Kim Murray, owner of Margaret River Online and the Margaret River Online News service, has just stated a new blog called from the bunker where he’s going to chronicle the life and times of Margaret River.
In his opening post, he reflects on the new shire council after the elections and ponders openness in council planning and budgeting.
Welcome to the blog world, Kim. I get the feeling that I’m going to enjoy your words a lot.
The introduction of meetup fees was a bit of a shock, eh?
Well, rather than change to something new, us Barking Owls have stepped up to pay the Perth Weblogger Meetup fees for a bit. We’ll pay up until at least the end of the year, so we can get on with the meetings and not worry about the organising systems.
But I’m going to need some help. I’m going to be away from Perth for three months Jun-Aug, so we need to get one or more assistant organisers who are here to keep the meetings happening. Is anybody keen? If you are interested, leave a comment here. You don’t need to do much — the meetup engine does all the work inviting people and that. You only need to do something if the venue or date needs to be changed.
Anybody keen? Comment or email me… You’ll find my email address on my Links page.
Our monthly meetup is happening this coming Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 7:00 PM at the Brass Monkey in Northbridge. Please RSVP at the meetup site if you can.
This is one week earlier than normal.
Hopefully, upstairs at the Brass Monkey will be open after renovations are complete. If not, we will meet downstairs again, like last time.
This will be my last chance to get to a meetup in Perth for a bit. We are travelling for a few months around Europe. I’ll check up on the weblogger meetup scene there are report back here.
Oh, and I’ll be in Adelaide next week. I will see if there is an active weblogger meetup group there and work permitting I’ll drop in on their meetup.
If you access the Perth Blog Feeds from http://barkingowl.com/perthblogfeeds/ please note that I’ve moved the feeds to their new proper home at http://perthblogs.org/feeds.
There’s a redirect on the old ones, so you probably won’t even notice.
We had a great meetup last night with the Channel 31 crew asking us questions for their new show Byte Me which will be showing on Wednesday nights. More on that when we have real dates.
And after the meetup at Ginos a couple of us walked over to the Mint Leaf restaurant where we had a couple of glasses of Cognac and inked a rather exciting deal with the Seven Network. We’ve now committed to take part in a new reality show to be called “My Blog Rules” where bloggers from all over Perth will compete for readers and comments in a new crossover Web/TV show. And best of all there are prizes, with $1M for the best and greatest blog and endless promotional opportunities to follow. Barking Owl is going to be producing the web content part of the show with Richard Giles and The Podcast Network managing video and audio podcasts.
Exciting stuff, eh? If you want to take part, leave a comment here. Entries close at noon on April 1st. See you ON TV!
Here are couple of suggested agenda items or discussion ideas for tonight’s meetup:
Hope to see you there tonight!
We’ve got a special meetup this week. I’ve got a Channel 31 producer of a new computer show that is keen to talk to local webloggers and ask us a few questions like…
– Why write a blog?
– Why do we meet up?
etc.
Should be interesting and different. Please come along if you can. Ginos, 7pm, Thursday 31st March.
Well, we tried to move the meetup back to Perth for this month to make it a bit more fair for those not in Fremantle and south, but we’ve not found a good location yet. So, Wednesday night’s blogger meetup is going to be back at Gino’s in Fremantle.
I hope that doesn’t inconvenience folk too much.
Details from the meetup site.
If you’ve got location ideas, send me an email or comment on meetup.
The wiki spam has been accumulating on the Perth Blogs wiki for ages. Every couple of weeks I’d spend an idle half and hour reverting pages back to what they were before getting filled with poxy spammer links. And thanks to all of you out there that have also been deleting the spam and reverting pages as well.
Well, enough. I’ve knocked off all the spam and made the wiki read-only as the first step on the way to a brave perthblogs future where we have something database-driven in place of the wiki so you can add new feeds youself (like we discussed in this post).
So, until then, if you need to change or update a blog or feed address, email me at gra [at] barkingowl [dot] com. Ok?
And thanks to Shu for emailing me and stirring me into action on this. I’d just been moaning about the spam and putting up with it.
It has happened — as Mark pointed out:
Perthblogs has turned from a peaceful little community page into a freaking torrent of text that I can no longer read in its entirety.
I’m feeling the same way. Just too much material in the perth blog feed now. So, the community that we are aggregating has gone beyond some point where there is just too much stuff to read, too many lives to keep up with. And for me, that feels like a really scratchy radio signal. Can’t find the signal above the noise.
So.. what are we going to do about it? I’ve suggested I’ll automate the subscription process, but that will just add more blogs more often, which means the feed will get even less readable.
I’m looking for ideas: given we are going to automate something, shall we have multiple feeds, with different focusses? Or allow people to make their own custom feeds and share them with others? Or what? I need your thoughts on what we are going to do. Comments would be welcome here – then I’ll summarise the ideas into the wiki and we can work on the design of this thing togther. Start with comments here, though, or blog about it with trackbacks.
Looking forward to your ideas… What do we want the perth blogs feeds to be? How do they currently work for you? What could make it better?
Another burst of comment spam came in over night, but this time the wp-blacklist caught and deleted it all, thankfully. I highly recommend wp-blacklist if you are using wordpress for your blog.
And that’s not all the spam. Apart from the ongoing email spam, we now get regular spam attacks in the perth blogs wiki. There are another twenty or so modified pages this morning, and that requires manual intervention to remove the spam :-( This is going to make me automate things in the wiki and aggregated feed fairly soon, but more on that later.
For now, I’m off to delete the wiki spam and then take my daughter Bea to the Scitech Discovery Centre for some science fun. Ciao.
blognite was excellent. It was a full night of presentations, questions, discussions and laughs. I had a great time MCing the whole show, though it was pretty hard to keep presenters to time when there was a lot of interesting content and questions. But we had to start with something, and the one night format meant it was easy for people to come along.
A couple of thoughts for the next one:
* We really needed to have a proper intermission where people got up and moved around, with nothing scheduled, so the presenters get heard, and we all have a chance to have a chat with each other.
* We needed more time for the presenters. Ten minutes plus ten minutes of questions is a very hard thing to prepare for and present. I think the presenters did so well with the time they had.
I guess I can imagine the next one being a full-day conference. Might be harder to get people to come, but there would be some space and time for presentations, tutorial how-to sessions, and informal gatherings.
What a great local blogging community we have. Congrats to the organisers for making it happen, and the presenters for standing up and doing their thing.