Unfortunately, the website is not working correctly. When we add new websites to the directory and feed aggregator, the site adds them incorrectly -- the links that should point to the originating site point instead back to www.pghbloggers.org. In thinking about how to fix this, we come up against a second problem, which is that the feed aggregator is choking on the 900+ feeds it's trying to read and combine. It's actually aggregating fewer than the sites it wants to, at irregular intervals, and generally it's not doing what it's intended to do.
A few weeks back we tried adding new sites anyway, just to see whether it was a human error rather than code error that led to the incorrect listings. While it looks like they’re added, they aren’t added correctly. So the site is still stuck.
What I’ve decided to do is to drop the part of the site that’s broken (the feed aggregator) and have the site be a directory only. This was the initial vision for Pittsburgh Bloggers -- to be a directory of blogs in the Pittsburgh region -- and I hope that it will have value.
We’re in the process of setting the new site up. I expect it will be live in mid August.
In the meantime, if you have already submitted a form for a blog you want to add, we probably still have the form you sent and will be adding it to the new site. But if you want to resubmit it to be sure, go ahead.
Thanks for wanting to be in Pgh Bloggers! I’m glad to see it’s still seen as useful despite being broken. I hope the new site will be useful as well (and much less broken).
Have comments on this plan, or on Pittsburgh Bloggers? Let us know what you think.
]]>Unfortunately, the website is not working correctly. When we add new websites to the directory and feed aggregator, the site adds them incorrectly -- the links that should point to the originating site point instead back to www.pghbloggers.org. In thinking about how to fix this, we come up against a second problem, which is that the feed aggregator is choking on the 900+ feeds it's trying to read and combine. It's actually aggregating fewer than the sites it wants to, at irregular intervals, and generally it's not doing what it's intended to do.
A few weeks back we tried adding new sites anyway, just to see whether it was a human error rather than code error that led to the incorrect listings. While it looks like they’re added, they aren’t added correctly. So the site is still stuck.
What I’ve decided to do is to drop the part of the site that’s broken (the feed aggregator) and have the site be a directory only. This was the initial vision for Pittsburgh Bloggers -- to be a directory of blogs in the Pittsburgh region -- and I hope that it will have value.
We’re in the process of setting the new site up. I expect it will be live in mid August.
In the meantime, if you have already submitted a form for a blog you want to add, we probably still have the form you sent and will be adding it to the new site. But if you want to resubmit it to be sure, go ahead.
Thanks for wanting to be in Pgh Bloggers! I’m glad to see it’s still seen as useful despite being broken. I hope the new site will be useful as well (and much less broken).
Have comments on this plan, or on Pittsburgh Bloggers? Let us know what you think.
]]>"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs
least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I
believe, — 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it...But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." - Henery David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
"Every generation needs a new revolution." - Thomas Jefferson
]]>"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs
least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I
believe, — 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it...But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." - Henery David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
"Every generation needs a new revolution." - Thomas Jefferson
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