links for 2008-11-17

Aggregation of your online activities into your own CMS is a good idea (for backup purposes at least), but nobody wants to read a constant stream of your twitters and Flickr photos with equal weighting. "There must be better ways of showing such “here’s what I’m up to” information. My home page isn’t the answer; the bulk of it uses an overgrown weblog format and suffers from using identical treatments for different kinds of content. But I have started to make it more human friendly. For example, if I post dozens of photos to Flickr in a day only a few appear on the site, with a link to see the rest, rather than swamp the page. And Twitters, whose value decreases rapidly with time (unlike longer essays), aren’t part of this chronological stream. But it needs, and will get, bigger changes."

A Ruby-Arduino graphical interactive shell. Worked out of the box on my 10.5 MacBook.