First link round-up for 17th Apirl 2008
April 17, 2008
In an effort to keep this site fresh and updated I added my diggs to the RSS feed via FeedBurner. What I was able to do in FeedBurner was set-up my diggs to be automatically posted as a daily digest in the feed only. This was great and I loved the way the digest was laid out. But there were 2 problems:
1. The daily digest of my diggs appeared only on my feed. So if you were reading my web site you wouldn’t even know about the digg digest.
2. I digg about all sorts of things and not just photography. So having it automated was not the best option for a photography site.
I wanted a very easy process that allowed me to post my relevant diggs as a daily digest to my blog. So this is what I’m trying:
Thanks mainly goes to Liam DelaHunty for this. Liam set up a Yahoo Pipes ‘pipe’ that creates a feed of your diggs with URLs linking directly to the web page you’re digging about (instead of the actual digg page). I’ve cloned Liam’s pipe feed here and now subscribe to them via RSSFWD as a daily digest. What RSSFWD allows you to do is receive any RSS feed you like as an e-mail, ie. directly into your inbox instead of your RSS reader. So what I’ve done is subscribe to my 2 pipe feeds and set them up to be sent to me each day as a daily digest.
I can now copy the contents of these e-mails into a blog entry, easily remove my irrelevant diggs and post them here each day. If this works well I can remove the automated diggs feeds from FeedBurner and continue to post the relevant feeds in the fashion below. My next task is to do the same but not just for digg, ie. find a easy way to produce a link round-up of anything I find.
Salt and Pepper [close-up photo]
Image of a peppercorn and a grain of salt!
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:04:25 PDT
Snowflakes In The Universal Sky
Like cascading snowflakes in the interstellar night, the strange shapes and textures of the stars in the Snowflake Cluster abound in the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies the formation of the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2264.
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:04:03 PDT
16 awesome image editing tutorials
More than a dozen fantastic tutorials showing how to do image editing in Aviary’s online image editor. Concepts are reusable in Photoshop too.
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:42:05 PDT
Visions of Sun’s great ‘belches’
Nasa’s Stereo orbiters have captured stunning new images of spaceborne debris thrown out from the Sun.
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:06:22 PDT
.photography site: squashyfrog.com
.photography blog: blog.squashyfrog.com
.flickr photostream: flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes
.deviantart gallery: koltregaskes.deviantart.com
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