Caveat Lector

I am trapped between writing an article and a work report on the one hand and wanting to do right by Repository Fringe on the other, so blogging is liable to be light for the next few weeks. (Though the Repo Fringe talk is coming together nicely, I will say. All I can say about the article is argh, I hate and loathe and abominate writing.)

However, I did want to point out to CavLec partisans that there is now a commenting venue of sorts: my FriendFeed page, which imports CavLec’s RSS feed.

I’m okay with this, just as I’ve been okay with the LiveJournal feed as a solution to the oft-expressed desire of various CavLec readers to have a public place to shake me until my teeth rattle. Anonymous cowards need not apply; only FriendFeed subscribers can add comments. The comments don’t live in my living room, which I appreciate. Trolls can apparently be banned from further commenting, though I’m not quite sure of the mechanism there, not having had to employ it.

I hopped onto FriendFeed as part of an exodus from Twitter’s FailWhale. It turns out to be rather clever, especially in the design department. If you see something on your FriendFeed friends page that you don’t care to look at, you “hide” it. If you then ask to hide more things like that, AJAX dialog figures out intelligently what classes of things the thing you hid belong to, and offers you the chance to hide all of them. I don’t personally care about people’s Flickr feeds (yeah, sorry, not a visual person by nature), so I told FriendFeed not to show me them, and by gum it doesn’t. Clever and helpful. I like that in an app.

But anyway. You can now indulge your commenting urge. Go to it.