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New site design

Brendan Nee — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:03:35 +0000

Remember this?

It was about time to clean up the crusty wordpress template powering bnee.com. It was one of the first templates for wordpress I created, and it has powered this website since 2006.

I’ve kept track of all of the revisions of my website since 1997, you can see the whole progression on my old stuff page.

This new site features fewer images and more emphasis on links to the various web services I use, like facebook, twitter and goodreads. It also features the posts from the Blnktag blog, which is where I’ll be writing updates related to cities, planning, transportation and my business.

I also took this opportunity to remove the “www” from my sites URL. It makes everything shorter, and is very easy to do using htaccess.

Facebook Scores – Mashup with google maps, facebook data & census data

Brendan Nee — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:58:02 +0000

I looked at the facebook network for La Crosse, WI, my hometown and was impressed that there are 12,856 people on this network alone. People on facebook can belong to only one regional network at a time, so its likely that most of these users actually live in the La Crosse metro region. The city of La Crosse has a population of 51,818 and the metro region has a population of 126,838.

Surrounding cities, like Onalaska, WI don’t have their own facebook network, so people living in these cities are no doubt in the La Crosse network. Regardless, this means that 10% of the population of Metro La Crosse is on facebook.

La Crosse is not extemely tech savvy, but 10% is much higher than the New Orleans, LA facebook score. With 42,789 facebook users in the New Orleans network out of an estimated 1.2 million metro New Orleans population, New Orleans facebook score is a 3.8%.

San Francisco (city, not metro area) scores 15.4% (114,792 users of 744,041 population) and New York is 5.1% facebooked (425,963 users with 8,214,426 population).

It would be an interesting mashup to take facebook network membership numbers, us census data and put them on google maps.

Integration = good

Brendan Nee — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:45:35 +0000

I just got the wordbook plugin for wordpress. It should post my blog posts from bnee.com automatically to facebook. This combines two of my online presences. I also got the Twitter Widget for wordpress which shows my most recent twits on this blog. Facebook also recieves my most recent twits and posts them into my facebook feed. I can also email photos directly from my phone to facebook.

I’d like to be able to show my facebook photos on my blog and have my facebook status posted to twitter. I also use dodgeball a fair amount to let people know where I am at. I’m not sure this would be useful to post anywhere else, but it would be cool if I could do so. Overall, it looks like more things are getting integrated, which is a good thing. Techcunch is suggesting that google will help facilitate this integration by opening up a lot of their services via API starting Nov 5. I think that will be interesting.

Myspace: gone!

Brendan Nee — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:08:53 +0000

Not wanting to be the last of my friends to cancel their myspace accounts, I pulled the plug today. (Preston did it the day before, but hasn’t written about it yet). I realized that I rarely logged in, most of the messages I got were spam and not very many of my friends were on myspace. Most of the people who were my friends on myspace were also on facebook and were much more active.

Myspace is difficult to navigate, full of irrelevant ads and lacks most of the features of facebook. It won’t be something I miss.