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Sorry, Planet Python folks

July 17th, 2008

I tend to watch the Unofficial Planet Python rather than Planet Python. The Unofficial Planet Python was only getting my Python feed, which is good. The official one, however, is getting everything. I’ve asked for this to be changed, so hopefully soon the official Planet Python will only be listing my posts that are actually related to Python.

To make matters worse, WordPress seems to have decided that it doesn’t want to email me the comments that were showing up on my del.icio.us and Twitter posts. Ugh. Thanks to Virgil Dupras who contacted me via other means to let me know about the quite reasonable backlash.

Sorry for reducing the signal to noise ratio on Planet Python! This will be fixed soon.

Finally, a note about cross-posting Twitter to Blue Sky On Mars. My initial rationale for doing so is that I’d like to have all of my presence on the web routed to this site so that my data is ultimately in my control in some fashion. After having used Twitter a bit, and certainly seeing the “half a conversation” aspect of many of the posts, I don’t actually want my tweets posted here. So, I’ve turned that off.

Posting my del.icio.us links here has value, and I’ll keep doing that. They just won’t show up on Planet Python once my feed URL is changed there.

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  1. July 17th, 2008 at 11:02 | #1

    The half-a-conversation thing can probably be avoided by omitting tweets that begin with “@someuser”. LoudTwitter makes this available IIRC; can’t imagine that TwitterTools doesn’t have this capability.

  2. July 17th, 2008 at 11:03 | #2

    I’ve also heard rumor that the official and unofficial planets would be merged at some point in the not too distant future. This’ll make me happy since I follow both, and the overlap is starting to get really annoying.

  3. Tim
    July 17th, 2008 at 12:11 | #3

    Thanks! I really enjoy your python posts.

  4. Eric
    July 18th, 2008 at 14:59 | #4

    I may be an oddity, but I enjoy the occasional non-Python post, even if it is coming through the Planet.

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