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Tech Leader and Blog Planets
This morning I found out about Tech Leader after a post on Muti. At first I was very excited but unfortunately ended up being somewhat disappointed at the end.
Initially I had the false impression that it might be something like the CLUG Park (which, if time allows, I follow daily). There you will find the writings of some of the brightest tech minds in the country come together on one page which is really awesome.
Although there are a few good tech bloggers on the Tech Leader contributor list, for example Stii, most of the people there seem to be much more into the business / marketing side of ICT than the actual technology itself.
Although it's cool to be able to see the inputs of the "other" side of the ICT industry, I would see this much more as a "ICT Business Leader" than as a "Tech Leader". Nothing wrong with it therefore; maybe the name just led my mind into the wrong direction.
However, this did give me an idea. Although planetplanet.org is a pretty cool piece of software, I would like to see support for tag clouds and more search/filtering options. Basically, planetplanet just generates static files but I'm thinking about a dynamic blog planet engine.
I just really don't have much time right now but as soon as I get some time again then I'll see if I can start with something. Hopefully we can make something similar to Tech Leader but just for technologists.
Copyright © 2004-2008 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
5 Comments
Comment by
Neil Blakey-Milner on Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:58:00 AM
Check out my pyaggregator code at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyaggregator and blog posts about it at http://nxsy.org/tags/pyaggregator
Worked well enough for making a replacement CLUG Park - see http://nxsy.org/files/temp/newclugpark.png and http://nxsy.org/files/temp/newclugpark2.png for examples. (Obviously not permalinks...)
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:06:00 AM
Oh yes, I almost forgot about that! Thanks for bringing it up, and the screenshots certainly look very impressive. Why isn't it being used? :)
I'll definitely look into this a bit more. We can do some seriously nice geeky stuff here.
Comment by
stii on Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:52:00 PM
Awh thanx dude! I'm so flattered!
Comment by
matthew buckland on Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:06:00 PM
Charl -- you are absolutely right. It will get... there lots more geeks we need to get onboard...this is how thought leader started too..
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Friday, May 16, 2008 11:09:00 AM
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the comment, glad to hear you're going to get more tech guys on board, please check out the CLUG sometime and the other user groups, there's lots of really good tech bloggers around on those places. :)
Cheers,
Charl
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