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Reclaiming my river

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:37:05 +0000

I want to own my data. All of it. Period.

Rather than relying on external sites, services and aggregators, I'm going to try and use my blog as the dumping ground for the meta I speweth into the river. I realize that there is no silver bullet or perfect solution for this, but I'm hoping that with a few new tools, APIs, services, and techniques, I can piece together a reasonably complete archive. Once I have the archive, I can continue work on the LifeSplicing Engine I conceived a few years back.

Just an early sketch from a couple years ago.

To start, I'm looking at the Lifestream WP plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/) to see how many services I can pipe in for free. For services, sites, and data sources that don't readily make themselves available, I've got a few ideas I want to try using some RSS/ATOM/OPML trickery to normalize the floe.

This is likely going to be a very messy, noisy, and disruptive exercise. Please forgive any unwanted noise I spill into the river and remember that you can always block/delete me from your social graph if I become too much of an annoyance.

Blog upgrade: Pardon the cruft.

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:30:30 +0000

It took me a while, but thanks to @kibmcz, my blog is now running on the latest WordPress release - v2.7.1. We have OpenID enabled and will be working on tweaking the WicketPixie Theme I was using before the upgrade. Please pardon the cruft as I get things back into shape.

Major props to KtecK Labs for the WordPress hackery.

PS - I'm going to start using my IRC channel more, so be sure to come stop by:

Server: irc.wyldryde.org

Channel: #infinitelymeta

A time for exploration

Brian Daniel Eisenberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:18:37 +0000

Welcome to the next phase in the exploration of some ideas that I and several others had just over a year ago. This is one of many new sites we will be bringing online in the coming weeks, and hopefully months. Hold on tight, things could get a little crazy again. We're going to try and build a couple of the engines I've so desperately wanted to code up and deploy to the cloud.

Please do keep in mind that I am only able to devote a very limited amount of my precious time to exploring these ideas for now, as I have a full time job in the enterprise software industry where I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Software AG Inc., and also own/manage Eastlake Associates LLC, a commercial property management business in Seattle, WA.

Major props to @kibmcz, my stealth coding ninja from parts way up north for helping pull this stuff all together so quickly. Be sure to check out KComputer Zone for all the meta. Special thanks to Chris Pirillo for a truly stellar WordPress theme. Well done! Bravo.

Now that I've got this nifty new WordPress blog, I will be retiring (not deleting) my old blog which I recently changed from http://bdeseattle.blogspot.com to infinitelymeta.blogspot.com. Please also be sure to follow me on Friendfeed and Twitter, as they are where you can figure out all the other socnets I frequent.

And now the fun continues.

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