perth blogs
Perth Blog Feed update
I’ve just gone through the list on the wiki and added a whole lot of new blogs to the Perth Blogs Feeds.
Welcome new blogs!
Meetup
And there went another Blogger Meetup, this time in a warm, humid Fremantle, just before the rain.
Our Perth Meetups have reached a gentle kind of maturity. There are familiar faces and friends, and a shared history of meetups now.
I’m not going to name and link to everybody — you know who you were, and for those that weren’t there, you are going to have to come along next time and find out.
There’s a bit of excitement in the air about the blognite next Wednesday. Come and see the local blogstars tell it like it is.
Eight speakers, 10 minutes each. Food. Questions. Register here. Be a part of Australia’s first blogging conference.
Gadget Lounge Opens
Perth blog maestro Richard Giles of has started a new gadget blog called Gadget Lounge. Amazingly, this is a gadget blog about gadgets available in Australia, with Australian prices and availability. Fantastic. I enjoy the global Gizmodo, but I get frustrated when all of the devices are available in the US or Japan, and never Australia.
So, well done Rich, and good luck with it.
From the home page:
Gadget Lounge is dedicated to bringing the latest news of gadgets available in Australia. If it’s available in Australia, draining the power grid, filling the wireless airwaves or maintaining the bit state, we’ll report it.
Perth Blog Feeds updated
I’ve just added another seven or so blogs into the Perth Blog Feeds. It is still a manual process, and I’m becoming really good at finding hidden Atom and RSS feeds for your blogs.
If your blog is listed on the wiki but your entries never show up in the Perth Blog Feeds, that is probably because I can’t find an RSS feed for your blog. If you think I’ve missed it, email me (gra at barkingowl dot com) and I’ll add it in.
And I hope to see a bunch of you at the meetup next Wednesday.
Local blogging goes Wild!
I just added the next set of blogs to Perth Blog Feeds. There are now 23 blogs being aggregated into the feed and I’m really starting to like the way it feels. There are a lot of us out there, writing from all sorts of different places and experience about all sorts of things. It brings the place alive.
Now I wish I’d made the Meetup this week. A nasty chest cold kept me away and the last thing I wanted to do was infect all of Perth bloggers with a few coughs. But I want to meet all you people. Next month for sure.
So, to the Perth Bloggers — keep those words flowing, and as Johnny Bannister would say:
Love your work. Don’t go changing.
Perth Blog Feeds update
As you all probably know, the aggregated Perth Blog Feeds were broken for a bit there. While the html version was working ok, the RSS 1 and RSS 2 feeds failed to validate and would break some news readers.
Well, I’ve made some progress with the planet aggregation code and now it works a lot better. Pardon me while I go into a bit of technical detail here. The dc:creator elements in the feeds were occasionally getting stray greater-than or less-than symbols in them, making validation break and busting news readers. I added HTML escaping into the template for the dc:creator elements, and now that problem has gone away.
The original source of the problem hasn’t gone, however. You’ll still see the occasional stray greater-than or less-than symbols showing up in some posts in the feed. There is some interaction between the source feeds and what comes out of the aggregator leading to stray stuff getting left in the feeds.
Strangely, it gets a lot worse if I include the feed from Robert Corr’s Kick & Scream. Why? Not sure. Nothing about his feed looks strange or broken. I’m not sure, will diagnose that one next.