Rick Hallihan

How-To: Add Blogpulse Hyperthreads to Your Blog

April 6, 2005 Rick Hallihan

Blogpulse has an interesting feature called a Conversation Tracker. Basically this tool can take a permalink, and build a web showing the various blog entries that link to it, and the blogs that link to those, and so on.

If you use Blogger, you can add a link to Blogpulse by adding the following:

<a href=”http://showcase.blogpulse.com/conversation?link=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>&max_results=50&start_date=20041229″ alt=”Blogpulse Hyperthread for this Post”<{{Blogpulse Hyperthread}}</a>

anywhere in between the <blogger> and </blogger> tags. I added this to my blog template right after the <$BlogItemControl$> tag in my customized template. I’m sure that this should be pretty easy to implement with other blog engines as well.

This post carries no warrantees, since Blogpulse can change their interface whenever they want, but for now it produces some pretty interesting results!

Update: Just for a more interesting example, here’s a link to a hyperthread for Robert Scoble’s Crossfader teaser from last month…

Roll Call!

April 6, 2005 Rick Hallihan

Is anybody listening?

Just a quick post to see if there’s anybody out there. The logs show that there are at least a few people reading. I’m looking for feedback on Blobservations.

What posts have you liked?
What posts would you have rather not seen?
What would you like to see more of?
Any other suggestions?

Feel free to email me at rick.hallihan (at) gmail.com or leave a comment.

Dell Axim X50v First Impressions

April 6, 2005 Rick Hallihan

A recent birthday made me the proud owner of a Dell Axim X50v (Thanks Mom, Steve, & Matt!). Although my free-time has been limited, I figured I’d post my first impressions.

The screen is beautiful! 480 x 640 may not seem like much, but when you cram it onto a 3.7 inch screen, the pixels almost disappear. My last PocketPC was an Axim X5 and the difference in the screens is night and day.

Wi-fi is pretty great too. This is the biggest difference I see between the X50v and my last handheld. The fact that I can be connected at the kitchen table, out in the yard, wherever, makes a PocketPC so much more usable. With my old X5 I had lots of Avantgo channels setup, but the real-time browsing is just so much cooler. The range rivals that of our Laptop with a Netgear 802.11b card.

Next steps will include:

Buy a high quality screen protector. Suggestions are welcome!

Try out Skype.

Save up for a 512MB SD card.

Save up for a CompactFlash GPS receiver to be paired with Pocket Streets 2005.

Set up Ipodder, Doppler Radio, or some other software to download podcasts.

Figure out a good way to use the handheld for reading my RSS feeds.