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

Edward Andrew Robinson — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:25:48 +0000

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:

#	Site	Comment	Source
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:

#	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.

New Hackergotchi

Edward Andrew Robinson — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:48:16 +0000

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

A planet to call my own

Edward Andrew Robinson — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:00:50 +0000

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?

I have moved my blog … again.

Edward Andrew Robinson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:38:57 +0000

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