if you don't understand the title, you should take a look at the technorati tag for flockbuzz.
when i saw photo matt's post about Akismet stopping spam, i figured i'd give it a go, since the WIMP stack i'm running on doesn't allow me to run any of the GD-based anti-spam tricks. what follows is like an RPG for beta software:
i go download akismet.
akismet requires an API Key. API keys can only be obtained from a wordpress.com blog.
i go to wordpress.com.
wordpress.com blogs are invite-only. but they're currently partnered with flock.
i go download flock.
flock won't run on anything but tiger.
lose turn, go home, download flock for windows on my home machine.
go back to wordpress.com, using windows flock.
get wordpress.com blog set up
get API key
go to archgfx.net blog
activate akismet
insert API key
Akismet seems to have identified all the spam on my moved! post, the only post to have ever recieved spam (possibly because i linked it from my blogspot blog).
Flock seems to be the butt of a whole lot of ridicule because people think of it as a firefox fork. forks always cause flamewars. always. i don't see flock as much more than the difference between firefox and mozilla. except that where mozilla (nee netscape) lets you make webpages that sit on your home computer and do nothing (unless you're savvy enough to set up your own website, in which case you probably hand-code anyway), flock lets you post to as many blog or bookmark sites as will publish an API.
for the 5 minutes that i used flock, it seems pretty cool. it certainly looks sexy enough. and instead of thinking of it as a set of add-ons to firefox, think of it as the first cross-platform, open source weblog tool (with a built in browser and RSS reader). since the only other viable OS X (pre-tiger) weblog tools run $40 a piece (ecto and marsedit), i think that's a pretty good thing.
as far as the wordpress.com blog, i'll probably code that in to this page as a sideblog. i know it's lighter to use matt's asides, but since i've got both blogs anyway, what the hell.
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Flock runs on Panther OSX.3. So what happened with you?
I’ve been thinking about trying Flock, maybe I will.
hmmm. i couldn’t find anyone who had it running, but i’m sure it’s possible. mine just bounces on the dock a couple times, then dissapears.
i’m trying it now. it’s veeeery weird. and it didn’t import any of my bookmarks (i have a lot). the blog editting isn’t as slick as i’d hoped (w.bloggar is better for windows). but we’ll see. it’;s only alpha/beta software yet.
ok, i’m wrong. it did import all my bookmarks, but it doesn’t use bookmarks the same way. it uses favorites, and it doesn’t import bookmarks into favorites.
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