Monthly Archives: April 2007

Digg API released

Today Digg released their API:
The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg. The API returns Digg data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site.
I had a quick look at the API documentation and it looks like [...]

New (temporary) design

As returning visitors may know I have been using the default Wordpress theme since I started this weblog. Since today however, I’m using a modified version of Phu Ly’s excellent Treba theme.
As soon as I get some spare time I will create my own custom theme, but I think this new theme works pretty well [...]

My (mt) MediaTemple experience so far

As some of you might know I’m hosting at MediaTemple for about a week now. I went for a GridServer which normally costs about US$200 a year. I got 50% off using the coupon code surfstation.
Ordering
Signing up was pretty straight forward. It looked like they didn’t support Paypal but after an email to MT support [...]

OpenKarma, combining OpenID and karma

In his post Blogging is broken Ryan Carson makes a valid point about blogs, large ones in particular. Basically he writes that once a blog gets too big, trolls will be able to slip in and out unnoticed. You see this all over the internet, whenever a website gets very popular a lot of negative [...]

In case you were wondering..

In case you were wondering who I am, here is some basic information:
19/male/netherlands
Occupation
Student @ Communication & Multimedia Design
Freelance webdeveloper & graphic designer in my spare time (portfolio coming soon)
Interests
Graphic Design; Interaction Design; Coding; Web-standards; Psychology; Concept Development
Favorite Movies & Television series
Pulp Fiction; The Matrix Trilogy; The Godfather Trilogy; Scarface; Lost; Prison Break; Heroes
Favorite Books
Brendan Dawes’ [...]