http://www.propublica.org/article/how-you-can-help-us-flag-great-journalism-now-even-easier-1230

If you have an account with the bookmarking site Delicious, now all you have to do is tag an article “PPlinks” and we’ll see it right away. (If you don’t already have an account, Delicious is just a handy way to share links. It’s easy to sign up for. And no, we’re not getting any Delicious-y kickbacks.)

Yeah, that’s what I’m using, in some places — including here, actually, but WordPress ate the angle brackets! I’m putting them back now.

Elsewhere I’m using System.Collections.Hashtable. It’s an opportunity to compare the ways in which declarative typing can help or hinder.

“An additional benefit: a false sense of security when Twitter’s down for a week.”

:-)

As a fellow Python fan who has to write way more C# than Python, there’s an even more generic collection type, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary. Besides being a fine example of Internet Pedantry on my part, the generic dictionary allows you to specify the type of the key and value which saves the boxing and unboxing from string to object and back again, which improves performance on large enough datasets.

Great idea, btw. I’ve been thinking of moving my error logging over to private Twitter accounts to buy me free SMS & email alerts without having to write any code. An additional benefit: a false sense of security when Twitter’s down for a week.

I often do use Pipes for feed-splicing, so maybe yes. OTOH in this case the splicing, fetching, and combining of feeds are the core activity of the service. Makes sense to have 100% control over that activity rather than outsource it.

It’s essential. That’s why, on the events page, every link points back to its source. A user has as much info on which to evaluate the site administrator’s feed-trust decision as does the decision-maker.