http://crazedmonkey.com/blog Ian Stevens' weblog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/gnip-delivering-the-webs-data.html http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/gnip-delivering-the-webs-data.html#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:02:48 +0000 Ian Stevens http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/gnip-delivering-the-webs-data.html Yet another crawler/indexer which opens up data to be consumed. “Re-launching in February 2010″, whatever that means.

]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/gnip-delivering-the-webs-data.html/feed 0 http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/sketchpad-free-online-paint-application-puts-desktop-apps-to-shame.html http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/sketchpad-free-online-paint-application-puts-desktop-apps-to-shame.html#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:05:32 +0000 Ian Stevens http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/sketchpad-free-online-paint-application-puts-desktop-apps-to-shame.html Free or near-free paint applications are so ridiculously crappy that Sketchpad is a breath of fresh air by comparison. Most simple paint tools are supported, with PNG export. If it included SVG export as well, I’d be unable to contain my excitement.

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]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/so-you-want-some-social-data.html/feed 0 http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/spinn3r-a-blog-crawler-and-index.html http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/spinn3r-a-blog-crawler-and-index.html#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:55:16 +0000 Ian Stevens http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/spinn3r-a-blog-crawler-and-index.html “Spinn3r is a web service for indexing the blogosphere. We provide raw access to every blog post being published – in real time. We provide the data, and you can focus on building your application, mashup, or search engine. We find the weblogs and RSS, index their content, fetch the links, index their comments, etc.”

]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/spinn3r-a-blog-crawler-and-index.html/feed 0 http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/when-you-get-caught-giving-bad.html http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/when-you-get-caught-giving-bad.html#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:12:56 +0000 Ian Stevens http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/when-you-get-caught-giving-bad.html When you get caught giving bad service, the obvious winning strategy is to attack your customers. http://tgam.ca/Huk (via @globeandmail)

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]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/hawksley-workman-performs-a-so.html/feed 0 http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/the-dust-has-cleared-at-wychwo.html http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/the-dust-has-cleared-at-wychwo.html#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:13:09 +0000 Ian Stevens http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/the-dust-has-cleared-at-wychwo.html The dust has cleared at Wychwood Barns trivia night. We ranked 16 of 40 teams. Nice work guys!

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]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/at-the-wychwood-barns-for-the.html/feed 0 http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/hawksley-workman-jammed-with-m.html http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/hawksley-workman-jammed-with-m.html#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:44:02 +0000 Ian Stevens http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/hawksley-workman-jammed-with-m.html Hawksley Workman jammed with my prorogue chorus on today’s GO! on CBC 99.1. Amazing talent!

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