Posts tagged ‘earobinson’

8 Open Source Websites I Use, and 2 I Don’t

September 5, 2009, 2:25 pm

I love lists, and I love open source software. Whats more I find that I am using more and more open source websites in my daily life. Without further ado here are 8 open source websites I use:

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1 Wikipedia Great free encyclopedia Source
2 Reddit Social news site, similar to digg. Source
3 Planet Ubuntu Ok well I mostly just use the rss feeds. Source
4 earobinson.org That was a bit of a shameless plug but really any wordpress blog would do. Source
5 Identi.ca micro-blogging service similar to twitter. Source
6 Trac Great project management tool! Source
7 Launchpad Another great project management tool, used by the ubuntu community and many more. Source
8 Pastebin Great way to share snippets of text Source



and two that I don’t:

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 Site
 Comment
 Source
1 Drupal Like Wordpress another great CMS Source
2 Libre.fm The open source version of Last.Fm a great music tracking service Source



Update: I just realized I also use tr.im as my url shortener and they will be going open source.

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New Hackergotchi

August 18, 2008, 10:48 pm

With the release of wordpress 2.6.1 I have once again updated my hackergotchi. This will be my third hackergotchi since 2006, and the original image was taken by my mother at our cottage in Pointe au Baril, and yes I am sitting on the barrel that markes the site of the original barrel that the town gets its name from.

New Hackergotchi

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A planet to call my own

February 28, 2008, 1:00 pm

I love planets, both the ones in the sky’s, and the ones on the web. But this post is about the latter. One of the things about the web is that you have profiles everywhere, and while openID partly solves this problem allowing me to use one user name to authenticate everywhere it does not solve the problem that people have to visit a bunch of different sites to find out about me. They need to visit my facebook profile to find out what I’m up to, last.FM to see what music I’m into, Digg to see what I’m digging (but I can never decide if I like Digg or not), and the list goes on. I guess if something really important happens, like the launch of Ubuntu brainstorm, I can always blog about it or Digg it but I’m not about to go blogging or digging everything I see. There are a few facebook apps that allow me to display my google reader info on my facebook page and thats kinda cool but I want it all in one place.

My solution planet earobinson, this lets me put any content I have with a rss feed onto my own personal planet its kinda what I’m up to everywhere and until I find a better way to link all my content into one place I’m sticking with it. Google’s open social has some promise but as of right now i’m only linked to my last.FM profile.

So how do you keep all your content in one place?

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I have moved my blog … again.

October 16, 2007, 2:38 am

I hope to have now found a new home at www.earobinson.org. Please report any broken links you find.

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Category: Blog  |  6 Comments