Hmmm... by this do you mean Nokia-filtered-through-the-community announcements, announcements about advents originated by the community, or what? I ask because up to now community "announcements" have been reiterations of press releases or rumors followed by wild speculation.
By announcements I mean announcements. Soumya, Jarmo and myself have been using those to publish information about Maemo releases. Now we have maemo.nokia.com, Forum Nokia and our own blogs for that.
KI6AMD = ham radio call sign. I'm fairly certain I know a thing or two about radios, including SDRs (Software Defined Radios). ZeroJay is absolutely right, I know. We all saw Peter's comment on the subject.
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Reggie, please aggregate Maemo Talk. Same for everybody sweating to have a good Maemo related blog in place that goes beyond replicating what others already published in an already aggregated source.
Request sent. The planet text btw still say "Writers specializing on end user topics are only accepted exceptionally: maemo.org is for developers and power users."
Ok, I didn't know that this has been changed for a year now, I apologize.
I was looking at Dan (Thoughtfix)'s post here (might change as more news come in) entitled "Nokia N900 - Behind the Specs". It's not a long post but it's a good one and yet he gets 4 thumbs down.
Intro: my proposal will more about removing duplicate information available in the original sources (maemo.nokia.com and Forum Nokia) than about discussing what to put there.
Hello reggie is it possible to include the #n900 tag tweets on to talk.maemo.org just like you did it on maemotalk.com?
I could and it'll be easy but I'm still testing it out. I find the feed for Twitter searches are not that reliable. It's up one second, and down the next.
I actually would like to add a news and brainstorm feed too.
http://maemo.org/news is a place useful for users nowadays. Well done! Let's see how things evolve but I would expect user focused news only to grow as soon as N900 sales start and interesting apps pop up.
talk.maemo.org posts still not visible in the home but since it has an item in the top navigation and lots of Google juice it seems that people are finding it without trouble.
Good question. I'd like us to explore the possibility of Planet filter/sorting/etc by additional maemo-specific tags for blogs. We could agree collectively upon a set of topic and other tags that could create true organized aggregation-- assuming Planet would support such a thing?
Features can be added
Originally we aggregated some tag-based information like Flickr pictures and Youtube videos tagged "maemo" to the Social News system, but this was then removed. Similarly we could aggregate "maemo"-tagged blog posts to Planet if we want to, but supporting unfiltered sources raises some potential spam issues.
I could and it'll be easy but I'm still testing it out. I find the feed for Twitter searches are not that reliable. It's up one second, and down the next.
As for reliability, the way we're avoiding that issue with Midgard-powered feed aggregators is that we store all items locally. So feed updates happen in a scheduled fashion on the background, and displayed items come from the local content repository. That way, if a feed source goes down we only skip refreshing it.
Similarly we could aggregate "maemo"-tagged blog posts to Planet if we want to, but supporting unfiltered sources raises some potential spam issues.
Thanks. I agree 100%. In fact that's why I suggested what I did. As the "noise" level increases (new user-targeted blogs) then IMO the need for formal structure becomes paramount. I propose establishing a standard set of tags that automatically direct blogs toward specific (future) structures, and let anything not incorporating any of those tags fall through to a general (ie, "spam") location. Those could then be examined to see if tags need to be increased and/or changed.
As for reliability, the way we're avoiding that issue with Midgard-powered feed aggregators is that we store all items locally. So feed updates happen in a scheduled fashion on the background, and displayed items come from the local content repository. That way, if a feed source goes down we only skip refreshing it.
Yes, I do that. I actually use lastRSS to do the caching. It runs similar to Magpie RSS, or SimplePie RSS. It gets refreshed every 10 minutes. I also use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the RSS data from different feeds. It works well so far and it does the job, skipping problematic feeds. If it gives me a problem, I'll host the aggregated feeds locally, maybe via SweetCron.
