[mefi-projects] #023 04-Nov-2001

Boy, do I feel like a twit.  I didn't get any mefi-projects submissions last
week.  I didn't get any this week.  So I decided that, with the new TextAds
on MetaFilter, nobody wanted to use this mailing list anymore and decided to
close it down.  If you go to JerryKindall.com you'll see that there's no
longer a link to the mailing list signup page.  If you happen to hit the
mailing list signup, you get a message saying it's gone.

Then, tonight on #mefi (the MetaFilter IRC channel at irc.turlyming.net),
moz happened to mention he was feeling anxious about his submission to this
mailing list.  I told him that I hadn't received any submissions for two
weeks and was closing the list down.  He replied that he had just sent in a
submission Friday.  I looked in my mefi-projects folder in Entourage and,
nope, nothing from him, nothing from anybody.

I manually told Entourage to check for mail in the mefi-projects POP
mailbox.  Moz's submission, plus four others, plus five subscription
confirmations immediately came in.  I checked my schedules and somehow the
one that was supposed to be checking that POP account every five minutes had
somehow been turned off.  Probably for just about two weeks.

Sigh.

So there is obviously still a demand for mefi-projects, even after TextAds,
and tomorrow I'll put up the signup page again.  (I need my website backup,
which is at the office.)  And tonight I give you the five extant entries,
three of which you would have received last week if I had been paying closer
attention.  Sorry for the confusion.  Spread the word: mefi-projects lives!

BloggerBot
<http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot>
    I wrote BloggerBot, an aim->blogger gateway that uses xml-rpc for
communication. It's open source, you can run your own if you want, but you
don't have to. Just add BloggerBot to your buddy list and follow the
instructions.
    -- chacal

A History of Ireland in Song
<http://ireland.home.dhs.org/>
        The history of Ireland as seen through the songs of its people.
First cut of a book I'm working on.
    -- Paul Dunne

[ I have an interest in this site myself, as my mother's side of the family
is extremely Irish. -- Jerry ]

Dichotomy: It Was a Matter of Time and Place
<http://outtacontext.com/dichotomy>
    Submit stories about your day on September 11 in one of two categories:
Witnesses (either directly or via the media) and Participants (survivors,
rescuers, families of victims, and others directly affected). View the
Pairings page where randomly-chosen stories from each category are
juxtaposed to reflect what we all feel: time and place were very important
that day (and, it seems, every day since).
    -- Taken Outtacontext

TCN: The Celeb Network
<http://www.thecelebnetwork.com>
    Spotted a celebrity on the street? Without their make-up on? Looking a
bit chubby? I've never been much good at writing PR copy, sorry. TCN - the
new celebrity news, spots and links discussion forum. It's a project I'm
running (and partially developed) at work and I'm strangely proud of it...
    -- Barbelith

Stagger Than Fall
<http://www.theperfectkiss.org/s/>
    Stagger Than Fall is an experiment in short fiction.  I don't know if
many webloggers would find it interesting (we largely deal in non-fiction
with a few infamous exceptions) or if what I've written is any good --
that's really what I want to find out.
    -- moz


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