tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91156446058333841382024-03-13T21:16:17.380+01:00X de XavierUnos y ceros. A veces, en el orden adecuado.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-78603933397120283482009-11-03T10:59:00.005+01:002010-03-24T14:07:18.499+01:00Analyze your traffic without you<div>Even when you have like a dozen visits a day, checking <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">google analytics</a> now and then is nice (<i>hey! a vsitor from Belize!</i>). However, it is nice to be able to tell what traffic comes from yourself and what comes from your two readers (if any). A <a href="http://code.verg.es/sharebookmarklet.html?author=%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fx.verg.es%22%3E-Xv%3C%2Fa%3E&description=%3Cp%3EBookmark%20the%20link%20%22Exclude%20myself...%22%20link%20below%2C%20or%20copy%20its%20location%20to%20the%20clipboard.%20When%20visiting%20your%20tracked%20page%2C%20run%20the%20code%2C%20by%20clicking%20on%20the%20bookmark%20or%20pasting%20the%20code%20in%20the%20address%20bar.%20Once%20your%20cookie%20is%20set%2C%20you%27ll%20need%20to%20set%20a%20custom%20filter.%20Check%20the%20second%20step%20in%20%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fcatbirdanalytics.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F03%2Fexcluding-visitors-from-google-analytics-via-cookie%2F%22%3EExcluding%20Visitors%20from%20Google%20Analytics%20via%20Cookie%3C%2Fa%3E%3C%2Fp%3E&title=Exclude%20myself%20from%20Google%20Analytics&code=(function%20SetFilterCookie()%0A{%0A%20%20var%20field%20%3D%20prompt(%22Google%20Analytics%20custom%20field%20value%22%2C%20%22Xavier%22)%3B%0A%20%20if%20(field)%20{%0A%20%20%20%20if%20(typeof%20pageTracker%20!%3D%3D%20%22undefined%22)%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pageTracker._setVar(field)%3B%20%2F%2F%20ga.js%0A%20%20%20%20}%20else%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20__utmSetVar(field)%3B%20%2F%2F%20urchin.js%0A%20%20%20%20}%0A%20%20%20%20alert(%22Set%20%27%22%2B%20field%20%2B%20%22%27%20in%20your%20custom%20field%20filter%22)%3B%0A%20%20}%0A})()">bookmarklet</a> can help you to enable a filter that will allow analytics to remove you from its stats, or even to track your own usage of your site.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Update</b>: bookmarklet magic moved from the defunct googlepages to amazon s3 to <a href="http://code.verg.es/sharebookmarklet.html">http://code.verg.es/sharebookmarklet.html</a> </div><div><br /></div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-16626972380992618282007-12-30T14:03:00.000+01:002007-12-30T14:55:55.888+01:00Tag-decorated feeds<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_T679aggANRU/R3eXdF14IMI/AAAAAAAAADE/wM8nnW6DIYo/s1600-h/tagged-feed.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_T679aggANRU/R3eXdF14IMI/AAAAAAAAADE/wM8nnW6DIYo/s320/tagged-feed.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149751224961605826" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://xdexavier.blogspot.com/2006/11/arriba-los-tags.html">Tags should be a good cue to tell us if a blog post should be read or skipped</a>. I find puzzling that most (all?) feed readers just ignore tags. Surprisingly enough, I could not find any feed decorator.<br /><br /><a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/">Yahoo! Pipes</a> to the rescue: after some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">copy'n'paste</span>, a pipe that decorates feeds appending to every post title its categories (for atom and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">rss</span> 2 feeds), and also adds the tags to the top of the post: <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsintitle">http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsintitle</a><br /><br />This one does the same, but also adds the results from Yahoo! Term Extraction to the top of the post. I just cooked it, so I am not really sure if the list of terms is a useful addition: <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsandtermextraction">http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsandtermextraction</a><br /><br />Annoying side effects: the feed name, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">url</span> and description become those of the pipe, so a bit of manual work is required after subscribing to a feed. I hope <a href="http://discuss.pipes.yahoo.com/Message_Boards_for_Pipes/threadview?m=te&bn=pip-DeveloperHelp&tid=1131&mid=1131&tof=3&frt=2#1131">they fix it...</a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-58303891730042521362007-12-14T14:46:00.000+01:002007-12-15T10:13:21.962+01:00Social Note Taking<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ripplerap.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.ripplerap.com/images/ripplerap_logo.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I just played a bit with <a href="http://www.ripplerap.com/">Ripplerap</a>, a tool to take and share notes during conferences<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>. Brilliant. If downloading and unziping is too much for you to get an impression, take a look at <a href="http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2007/11/introducing-ripplerap.html">Phil Whitehouse's ripplerap-is-about-to-be-born post</a>.<br /><br />It is in its infancy, and there are several things that need some ironing, but I believe that its simplicity gives it a huge potential. Good news for us compulsive note takers and/or conference-life-blogging addicts.<br /><br />And I must confess that I did not see much of a point in one of Ripplerap bulding blocks, <a href="http://jaybyjayfresh.com/2007/09/24/tiddlychatter-decentralized-collaboration/">TiddlyChatter</a>...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</span> It is a funny coincidence that the very same day that I played with Ripplerap for the first time, fellow IBMer <a href="http://sachachua.com/">Sacha Chua</a> - <span style="font-style: italic;">tech evangelist, storyteller, geek</span> - <a href="http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2007/12/14/tips-for-conference-bloggers/">made me aware</a> of <a href="http://www.lunchoverip.com/conferencebloggers.html">this collecton of tips for conference bloggers</a>.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-46776026999136650092007-10-19T01:11:00.000+01:002007-10-19T01:28:01.280+01:00SabelotodosÁngel Expósito, en su <span style="font-style: italic;">Mirón Perplejo</span> de hoy en <a href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/">La Vanguardia</a>:<br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">(...) que los periodistas sepamos tanto de todo. Absolutamente de todo. ¡Qué estupido es el mundo!, al no percatarse de que un solo tertuliano español podría ser secretario general de la ONU, director del FMI, seleccionador nacional de fútbol y número uno del ranking de toreros. Todos en uno.</blockquote>Y quién dice un tertuliano, dice un blogger. ¿Por dónde debe andar mi traje de luces?-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-82676315356067478282007-02-14T12:49:00.000+01:002007-02-14T12:54:35.081+01:00Shouting "fire" in a crowded place<a href="http://epredator.blogspot.com/">Ian Hughes</a>, on a comment to a post by <a href="http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/end-of-messages">Andy Piper announcing a blogging break</a>:<br /><blockquote>“I am stopping blogging” is the Web 2.0 of shouting “fire” in a crowded place.</blockquote>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-85296818509464346692006-12-20T12:18:00.000+01:002006-12-20T12:23:22.723+01:00Man against Machine: Technorati ranks and spamMy <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/xdexavier.blogspot.com">(lousy) Technorati rank</a> owes some points to splogs (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog">spam blogs</a>). It looks like some spam blogs are being created by posting whatever they get from subscribing to a google blog search. So far, I've been hit by two of them (<a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/yn8zb7">sample</a>, using tinyurl). According to an unscientific Technorati search, this particular spam amounted to <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Google+Blog+Search%22?language=en&start=0">about 10000 posts for December 8th</a>. Yuk(*).<br /><br />(*) Two posts in a row ending with "Yuk". Not good.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-5433343381861036062006-12-06T11:55:00.000+01:002006-12-06T14:05:52.301+01:00dW chats: Grady Booch on the latest Rational tools releaseAnother developerWorks chat that looks very interesting: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/chat/booch.html">Grady Booch answers your questions about this week's Rational tools release</a>. On Thursday December 7th, at <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=7&amp;amp;amp;year=2006&hour=16&min=30&sec=0&p1=179">4:30 pm his time or 10:30 pm my time</a>.<br /><br />I did not learn about this <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/gradybooch?entry=empowering_the_a_in_soa">from Booch's blog itself</a>, but from a comment by <a href="http://www.rodenas.org/blog/">Ferran Rodenas</a> to a <a href="http://kellypuffs.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/rational-software-delivery-platform-v70-released/#comments">post in Kelly Drahzal's blog</a>. The interesting bit about this is that Ferran works for "la Caixa", a very important ibm client, and it is a very good thing for me and some team mates to be able to read his posts and keep track of his blogroll. Or explore <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/frodenas">his linkedin profile</a> and our common connections. The openess that blogs and social software have brought rocks!-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-88387552793187109162006-11-21T15:13:00.000+01:002007-01-02T12:07:20.401+01:00Comments/Sorolls/Noises/Ruidos<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=8XyOShEAAAAV509Ba5Eoa75KxG5ApxfekdEasx1kiYTQavV7mdW13Q"> Posts in Google Groups</a><br /><br />A javascript-based box from <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/">coComment</a> should show <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/comments/XavierVerges">my comments here and everywhere</a>, unless<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">you are viewing this in your rss reader (if you see the box, run fast to get a secure reader!)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">you have javascript disabled</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">something is broken</span><br /></li></ul><br /><br /><!-- START COCOMMENT.COM BOX --><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cocomment.com/mybox-js/XavierVerges/1"></script><br /><style type="text/css"><br />#cocomment-box{ border:1px solid #DDDDDD; padding:2px; margin:1px;} #cocomment-box div{ margin:0;} #cocomment-box .boxhead{ background-color:white;} #cocomment-box .boxheading{ color:#0D497B; font-size:small;} #cocomment-box .entry{ padding:5px; font-size:x-small; background-color:#DBE8FF; border-bottom: 1px dashed #CCCCCC;} #cocomment-box .title{ padding:5px; margin-bottom:3px; background-color:white;} #cocomment-box .article{ color:#0D497B; } #cocomment-box .author{ color:#0D497B;} #cocomment-box .author-alias{ display:none;}#cocomment-box .comment{ color:black;} #cocomment-box .boxfooter{ font-size:x-small;}</style><br /><!-- END COCOMMENT.COM BOX --><br /><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-6949511135225482"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "468x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel = ""; </script><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js/xvugly"></script>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-17071613982046954322006-11-21T00:06:00.000+01:002006-11-21T00:06:58.574+01:00blogspot,tags,feeds<img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4298/1112749585673020/320/738137/tagsnorss.png" alt="Tags without feeds" align="middle" border="0" /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> -> </span></span><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4298/1112749585673020/320/864549/tagsrss.png" alt="Tags with feeds" align="middle" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">:-)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://purplemoggy.blogspot.com/2006/09/adding-label-feeds-to-your-template.html">http://purplemoggy.blogspot.com/2006/09/adding-label-feeds-to-your-template.html</a><br /><a href="http://purplemoggy.blogspot.com/2006/09/adding-label-feeds-to-your-template.html">http://phydeaux3.blogspot.com/2006/11/label-feeds-come-home.html</a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-25186160349415046832006-11-20T16:10:00.000+01:002006-11-20T16:15:09.478+01:00¡Arriba los tags!¡Qué convención más tonta que los tags estén después de lo etiquetado! Leo el título, leo los tags: decido si leo el resto o no. ¿No?-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-23901244062432441772006-11-18T18:32:00.000+01:002006-11-18T21:44:44.180+01:00Unofficial PlanetIBM SearchIntroducing... the <a href="http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=001939661192509195071%3Atkhozjqigu8">Unofficial PlanetIBM Search</a>, based on <a href="http://google.com/coop/cse/overview">Google's Custom Search Engines</a> and on <a href="http://torrez.us/archives/2005/08/29/387">the unofficial list of IBM bloggers maintained by Elias Torres</a>. Search box in this blogs side bar.<br /><br />I've set everything by hand now, but it does not look very hard to script it now that I've learned a bit about Google's CSEs. Lots of things pending: write the scripts to automate the maintenance, get a semi-decent logo, give more weight to the official unofficial IBM voice (<a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/</a>, executives...), make visible what sites are searched and with what weigth (as now, everything in Elias list, with the same weight), check if I can get Google to be nice and avoid inserting ads from our competition in the results page...<br /><br />And, why? Because I think that it is a good thing to be able to search what IBMers have been writing outside the firewall. (And because the procastinator in me thought that this was far more interesting than completing two pending assignments that I have from two friends... <span style="font-size:78%;">Cris, Rodri, ahora me pongo, de verdad...</span>).<br /><br />It is often said that it is better to ask forgiveness than permission. (Wait! Don't let my kids know that I agree with this!). So, without being 100% sure about this being the right thing to do, here I go.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update.</span> Re: reasons, permission and forgiveness. The main reason for doing this is shaking the tree and hoping that this can help to get in place sooner an official search, using IBM technology, a list of bloggers maintained officially, rss available on searches, no adds, nice integration with ibm.com... Based on what I experience in the IBM intranet, putting in place a proper solution should not be hard at all.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1