Dave Hall wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 17:14 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > >> Melissa Draper wrote: >> >>> Do you have a blog? Does it occasionally mention Ubuntu? >>> >>> If you answered yes to both of those questions, then congratulations! >>> Your blog qualifies for a listing on the Ubuntu Australian Team blog >>> syndication feed at http://planet.ubuntu.org.au! >>> ... >>> Those with existing listings on the Ubuntu-Au planet that need the URL >>> updated (I'm looking at you, Ben and Harrison) or a picture added should >>> also heed this invitation and send relevant information to me. >>> >> To those people who already have a blog on planet: it would be really >> great if you could provide Melissa with a URL that filters out articles >> on your blog that are not about Linux & Ubuntu. I grabbed the RSS feed >> and found some stuff that i consider (how can i put it nicely?) >> less-than-relevant. >> > > I'm not sure which items you are referring to. I just looked at the > front page and I could only find 1 item which I thought had no > connection to Ubuntu or FOSS. > > If this is to be new policy for the planet, feel free to remove my blog. > I have no ability to set policy for the planet. It was only a suggestion. And your blog was one of the most relevant. > I have stated in another thread recently that I have no interest in > tagging items specifically for the ubuntu-au planet. A lot of my stuff > is broadly related to FOSS, and you will also get some random stuff too. > The same policy applies to the LA planet. > Stuff that is broadly related to FOSS makes sense. Apollo missions and open letters to TV stations seem to me to be a little hard to classify as FOSS-related. Maybe i missed something in the content, because as soon as i started reading some of those key words, my brain automatically went into "skim mode"... > Take the good with the bad, that is the beauty of a free for all planet. > If you don't like the planet content you are free to unsubscribe then > (optionally) subscribe to the relevant tag/s feeds of the blogs on the > planet you are interested in. > It's all well and good to say "if you don't like it, don't subscribe", but then i have to ask: who are we hoping to benefit by running it? Is it just to drive more hits to our individual blogs? I don't subscribe because all these people are my mates and i want to know what they are thinking about. I subscribe to get news relevant to the Ubuntu-AU community.
Paul
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