Steve Mallett's oreillynet.com announcement of de.lirio.us

Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata "The problem ontology solves is not how to organize ideas but how to organize things -- the Library of Congress's classification scheme exists not because concepts require consistent hierarchical placement, but because books do."

delirioussitedump back up again (for the time being) The delirioussitedump is back! The dump was performed on Sunday, up through entry #49242. I'll probably start running a daily update next time I have a few minutes to work on this, but for now, that's what's there, hand updated only. Yes, it's officially in YAML now, and it's bz2 compressed. The compressed version is some 2 and a half megs, whereas the uncompressed file is 13 megs (!). Substitute .xml for .yml if you want my ad-hoc XML instead of my ad-hoc YAML version. The uncompressed files are also available, at least for now, although I would vastly prefer that you download the compressed version. See also One of these years I'll also publish some statistics, most popular URLs, etc. (I actually already have this information extracted, just not in a convenient format.)

The software which de.lirio.us runs on

Public bug database for Rubric.pm Rubric is the software which de.lirio.us runs on.

Created a bug report in rt.cpan.org for Ricardo pointing back here ... where "here" is obviously the link in the title field. Update: The bug is closed now but Ricardo assures us he is keeping an eye on de.lirio.us.

The Rubric installation of its author, Ricardo Signes (rjbs)

While steve@de.lirio.us is broken ... Steve Mallett's "about" page at fooworks.com includes contact information, in case you need to get a hold of him urgently regarding something at de.lirio.us. I exchanged email with him last week about the problems we are currently seeing ("internal server error" whenever you try to do anything even remotely heavy, such as, oh, say, view your own entries ... duh!) and apparently he is working on solving them. While we are holding our breaths, I have found that the RSS feeds seem to work even when you otherwise can't seem to get anything to work, although of course, they are only updated with some delay, and there's no way to get to a page where you can edit an entry. (I frequently need to go back to an entry I just added ... but I guess I should just learn not to click "save" too early.) If somebody has a pressing need to switch to a different provider, I may be able to help you collect all your entries (except the @private ones of course) -- I still have the simple mirror script which I have used for the "delirioussitedump" (see this tag) although of course that too has been working less than perfectly during the last few weeks. Get in touch or ... oh heck, I'll just make it available again at the previous location. I'll post an announcement in "delirioussitedump blog erablog" when it's there. Update 2006-02-06: click on the "delirioussitedump" tag above to see the announcement.

mieses: Not within your control, obviously, except you could try to rephrase the offending entries See also http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/2636, by mieses. My own bookmarks also contain an error; the RSS feed I see in Firefox for the "live bookmark" ends with the last entry before the error. Now that mieses has an error already in the first entry (unescaped ampersand in title), his/her/its feed is completely empty. Update: Rubric 0.08 contains fixes to RSS parsing.