New Site: Cocoa Blogs
I'm very happy to announce Cocoa Blogs, a brand new site designed to track the goings-on in the Cocoa developer community. This is an expansion of the blog listings on the Cocoa Dev Central home page.
The site tackles Cocoa community content from two angles. Featured and Recent Posts highlight current topics of discussion and new (or newly-discovered) tutorials. Featured Blogs focuses on authors with a consistent level of Cocoa and Mac-related content.
I developed for Safari and tested with Camino. The design is a combination of Leopard, MacBook Pro and Bruce Wayne's office.
Donations to Cocoa Dev Central go into a communal fund for the Cocoa projects I work on. In other words, if you donate to Cocoa Dev Central, it directly supports this site. Thanks to all of those that have already done so. Your help made this site possible.
Enjoy, and tell your friends.
New Site: Cocoa Blogs
Posted Dec 11, 2006 — 30 comments below
Posted Dec 11, 2006 — 30 comments below
Daniel Jalkut — Dec 11, 06 2629
Peter Hosey — Dec 11, 06 2630
And thanks for adding me. :)
Jesper — Dec 11, 06 2631
Ross — Dec 11, 06 2632
Scott Stevenson — Dec 11, 06 2633
Maybe, but "Cocoa Periodically-Updated-Web-Based-Journals" just doesn't have the same ring.
Would Bruce Wayne refer to the regular Batman or the drunken one?
The original one. I think the other would have to be modeled after a bar.
@Ross is it likely to turn into a PlanetCocoa type site a la http://planet.jabber.org/ ? Or some OPML to I can keep my feeds in sync with all of the feeds in the list
We'll see what happens. Some sort of aggregate feed or OPML thing makes a lot of sense.
Jesper — Dec 11, 06 2634
I am sufficiently intrigued to ask: do you manually pick the noteworthy posts? Are they selected through a process not unlike bovine bingo? Is it an ancient Chinese secret, only passed down from father to son through generations? Were all of these options except for the first one a load of hooey (er, or the second one) specifically to pad this comment?
Jeff Johnson — Dec 11, 06 2635
On my blog, I provide an opml file for download that contains an extensive list of Cocoa blogs (among other things). The file is date stamped for updating purposes, so I won't link to it here, because the link will eventually become broken.
Rob — Dec 11, 06 2636
You took my advice about dropout text and ran with it !!
VERY NICE !
Jeroen Leenarts — Dec 11, 06 2637
Especially a featured post feed would be nice, since reading up on the 12 featured blogs can take a bit of time.
Jon Trainer — Dec 11, 06 2638
I'd like to echo the suggestion for an rss/atom feed.
Dunk — Dec 11, 06 2639
Great minds and all that, eh?
D.
Marc Charbonneau — Dec 11, 06 2640
Scott Stevenson — Dec 11, 06 2642
The selection process is based on an incredibly complicated system of levers and pulleys. In other words: they're all hand picked. I figure if I find them interesting, other people will too.
@Jeff Johnson: On my blog, I provide an opml file for download that contains an extensive list of Cocoa blogs
I just downloaded it and will check it out. As you know, I'm a regular reader (and fan) of your blog.
David Young — Dec 11, 06 2643
Dunk — Dec 11, 06 2644
Great minds and all that, eh?
D.
Ankur — Dec 12, 06 2645
B. C. — Dec 12, 06 2646
http://briksoftware.com/blog
Thanx for the site, we wish you all the best :)
William Henderson — Dec 12, 06 2649
http://whenderson.blogspot.com/
Jeff Johnson — Dec 12, 06 2650
I apologize that there's been nothing regular to read lately. I started a new job (yay!), so I've been focusing on that. I do have some post ideas in the hopper, though. Anyway, let me know if there's something I can do to help maintain a blog list.
That seems to link to a Bible studies site.
Chuck — Dec 12, 06 2652
Looks like a software blog to me. Are you sure you didn't miss part of the address when you copied and pasted?
Hkan W — Dec 12, 06 2655
Scott Stevenson — Dec 12, 06 2657
Ten miles uphill, both ways.
Seriously, here's the issue. If there's an RSS feed for all the posts, I feel like the site just becomes a feed server where you bounce directly to the article. I'm not sure that makes sense, but I could see room for an authenticated feed for users who make a donation (DF-style).
Does that seem reasonable?
Jeff Johnson — Dec 12, 06 2659
Actually, I didn't copy and paste. I clicked the person's name. That link has a typo: "blogpsot" vs. "blogspot".
William Henderson — Dec 12, 06 2660
Rob — Dec 13, 06 2662
http://www.cocoafl.org/
B. C. — Dec 14, 06 2688
Cocoa & Scotch
Hkan — Dec 14, 06 2695
Well, right now, Cocoa blogs is just a few collections of links that will be regularly updated, right? So if one particular collection (for example "Featured topics") interests me, why can't I be kept updated via a feed?
I don't think you will have to worry about people just reading a post and not commenting, if that's what you mean. Feeds is mainly a way to be notified of new content; if a topic really interests you, you will join the discussion in the comments section as well.
Scott Stevenson — Dec 14, 06 2697
Whether people intend to comment on other sites isn't really what I was thinking. I mean that the site is meant to be more than just a feed service. Will people ever visit the site if it's just a link vending machine? I don't know.
However, if a link vending machine is a service people would be willing to donate for (effectively, the DF model), than the situation is different because it can be used as a tool to fund other related projects.
B. C. — Dec 19, 06 2746
Yet Another Mac Dev Blog
A new blog, could be a good one. Nice title at least.
Zenith — Mar 24, 08 5687