So I love Iron Man and people who blog perl. But I've got some complaints.
1.) No Language Specific Feeds. I'm not discriminating against people of foreign languages I want a Russian only feed as much as an English only. I just can't read it, and I'd rather not have it in my feed. So I'm using Dagolden's English only Feed. This feed doesn't work 100% right however, see next
2.) Dagolden's feed apparently hate's blogger. I always see posts that come from blogger's atom feed full of html tags instead of formatting so I have to view the original source instead of just reading in my feed reader. This doesn't happen with my refeeded feedburner source that I've given to ironman.
3.) I can't always Comment on good Blogger's stuff. I'm gonna pic on 2 that I like: Modern Perl by chromatic, and Matt S Trout's Blog. The former is run on Movable Type and I can't comment because it's OpenID implementation won't accept google or blogger's OpenID, it causes an error for both (yes I can auth with blogger and google in other places such as StackOverflow), it also doesn't accept anonymous comments. In MST's case, he's just never gotten around to implementing comments.
4.) Spam, about 1 in every 20 posts (numbers pooma) is nothing but spam. It contains nothing but a list of ... tags or something... Clearly contains no actual content.
This is just a rant... feel free to ignore. But maybe someone will look at it and say... oh I didn't know that was happening... I can fix that.
I don't get the gripe people have with Planet Iron Man being multilingual... to me that's the whole point of it; more english-centric feeds exist at Planet Perl and Perlsphere.
ReplyDeleteNot understanding the language doesn't prevent skimming. Hiding it would mask people I otherwise would never have heard of.
Don't dilute the buzz!
It takes noting to use Google translate and get an idea of what is being communicated. By deciding to limit yourself to English alone you limit the new ideas you can explore.
ReplyDeleteI'd use google translate if worked automagically in my feed reader (google's ;) ) and I didn't have to think about it, but it doesn't and I don't care to take the kind of time.
ReplyDeleteI specifically have never implemented comments for my blog either. I feel that if you want to make a comment about something I wrote, you should extend the conversation onto your own blog as well!
ReplyDelete@perigrin then why are you commenting on my blog? instead of doing a post on your blog ;)
ReplyDelete@perigrin not that I don't like your comments or anyone elses... but it seems odd that you would say 'extend conversation onto your own blog' instead of 'commenting' in a comment.
ReplyDeleteI'm the second anonymous poster again, I don't write a blog and I never post comments but I have seen more than a few blog entries advocating an English only feed. I thought I would just take the time this once and say what crossed my mind. If it makes you feel any better I have been trying to think of a way to accomplish the conversion automatically myself, wondered about a GreaseMonkey script. I've had minor successes with GM so far for other things.
ReplyDeleteTake it easy, put some perl glue between:
ReplyDeletehttp://search.cpan.org/~kawasaki/XML-FeedPP-0.41/lib/XML/FeedPP.pm#SYNOPSIS
and
http://search.cpan.org/~hma/WebService-Google-Language-0.10/lib/WebService/Google/Language.pm
and let the planet be a planet :)
There is more than one way to say() it.
I've discovered very interesting things in non ascii posts... using a 0.5 seconds mouse movement (translation).
Other way could be to talk to authors [0] and send a patch [1].
[0] http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/signup/new_feed
[1] http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/ironman/
Good nights.
For what it's worth, I've put my feedfilter code up on Github. ironman-feedfilter. Contributions welcome!
ReplyDeleteFrom what I recall, some feed entries were putting encoded HTML in the body but regular HTML in the "summary" field. I never got around to adding heuristics to detect that and do the right thing.
-- dagolden