Brad Enslen

Aug 2018

Like: Maersk Supply Service AHTS Selected to Deploy World's First Large-Scale Ocean Plastic Cleanup System – gCaptain

Maersk Supply Service has signed on to support The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit that is developing technology to ...
Aug 2018

Like: New WordPress policy allows it to shut down blogs of Sandy Hook deniers | TechCrunch

WordPress has taken down a handful alt-right blogs, according to several complaints from affected blog owners and reader...
Aug 2018

In reply to: Blogs in the Wild

  In reply to: Blogs in the Wild I think the Indieweb is aware of the search problem but they have been focused on ...
Aug 2018

In Reply to: Indieweb.xyz: Difficult or Silo?

LEECHING AND LINKING IN THE HYPERTEXT KINGDOMi Replying to: Indieweb.xyz: Difficult or Silo? Heh, well everything not on...
Aug 2018

I wish I Could Code a Parallel Search Form

Once upon a time, when there were actually a bunch of search engines to compare results from, we had Parallel Search For...
Aug 2018

Like: Indieweb.xyz: Difficult or Silo?

  Like: Indieweb.xyz: Difficult or Silo? I want to respond to this but I’ll wait for morning. There is a lot here to think about.
Aug 2018

New Aperture Wordpress Plugin for Indieweb

I just installed the new Aperture Wordpress plugin. I’m not real clear on what it does but it gives me access to A...
Aug 2018

Vacuum Cleaner Buying Guide

This is the infamous vacuum cleaner post I have been promising to write. I just bought a refurbished vacuum cleaner. A T...
Aug 2018

Every time you publish a new blog post, the world is never quite the same afterward. It’s like the butterfly effect. Only with nouns and verbs. :-)

Aug 2018

Bookmark: Ringlink download | SourceForge.net

Download Ringlink for free. Ringlink is a CGI Perl program that provides the tools necessary to build and run rings of w...
Aug 2018

Bookmark: The Orca Ringmaker - PHP Web Ring Creation and Management

A self-contained PHP/MySQL script for creating and managing a full-featured webring Bookmark: The Orca Ringmaker - PHP W...
Aug 2018

Coroner's Report: Webrings are Dead, Part II

This is Part II of my series on the Death of Webrings. Part I is here. For this article I am going to use two examples. ...
Aug 2018

My approach to long form blogging: 1. try not to sound like a moron, 2. quit trying to write like a journalist, 3. write like I would in a forum post, 4. try not to sound like a moron, 5. I am letting people in on my current thinking on a topic which may not be consistant with my past thinking or future thinking on the same topic, 6. occasionally use commas, 7. try not to sound like a moron. I don’t always succeed.

Aug 2018

Sunday morning and Micro.blog is hoping. Some facinating discussions going on. It is exciting to see some of the longest threads of conversation I have ever encountered on MB. However I’m finding some hard to follow but this is most likely me skipping around between timeline, mentions, conversations and then getting sidetracked on a link that looks shiney.

But the cool thing is there are actual, in depth conversations going on!

Another thought, I have followed more people and the timeline is moving quicker. I need to promote some MB folk that I follow to my RSS reader. I think a MB folder in needed. I’m not sure how that will work out if I find a post on the reader that I would like to comment on, but I can experiment with one or two first. Some, like manton and macgenie should probably remain both on the timeline but also on the RSS reader so I don’t miss important announcements and stuff.

Anyone doing the RSS reader thing with MB? How is that working out for you?

Aug 2018

Bookmark: Lucky Tackle Box | Monthly Fishing Bait & Tackle Subscriptions Boxes – LUCKY TACKLE BOX

Lucky Tackle Box is the most popular monthly fishing subscription box that introduces fisherman to new baits and fishing...
Aug 2018

My blog has a bot infestation.

Aug 2018

Like: How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity - The Washington Post

Economists find a striking correlation between the density of ancient Roman roads and levels of modern economic activity...
Aug 2018

Like: Best Free RSS Reader-Aggregator | Gizmo's Freeware

Introduction The “best” feed reader is largely a matter of individual preference. There are many good ones. ...
Aug 2018

Trimming my Twitter Feed

I purged about 40 people or blogs I was following on Twitter. I want to reduce the echo effect and I don’t need to...
Aug 2018

Like: Scripting News: Smarter search for the open web

Google started out ridiculously smart, but it’s been stagnant for too long. They clearly need competition. Like: S...
Aug 2018

Oh fudge! No sooner than I shoot off my mouth about the death of webrings than I think of another use for them. Or maybe how to improve them? Drat! Well that’s another long post I have to write.

Aug 2018

Musings on Building a Search Engine

If I were building a search engine… You need to start building your own index of the web. That means you need a ...
Aug 2018

Like: Shakespeare Insult Kit

Just follow these simple instructions to create the perfect shakespearean insult: [Via] Like: Shakespeare Insult Kit
Aug 2018

Coroner's Report: Webrings are Dead, Part I

The finding of the Coroner’s Court is that 1990’s style webrings are officially dead. Evidence of Demise Tw...
Aug 2018

To do list: Internal Ads, More Directory Listings, Housekeeping

To Do’s Internal ads: I need to look into ad or banner system plugins for Wordpress. I don’t need it right n...