Planet Ubuntu content
There has been quite a few posts about the type of content fetched by Planet Ubuntu. Some say the content should only be related to Ubuntu, while others support the idea of having personal, not related to Ubuntu, posts.
Suggestion …
Using Gentoo.org as example:
Planet Gentoo is limited to Gentoo-related posts. The author uses a tag or category. Then theres the Gentoo Universe, which is also written by Gentoo developers and collaborators but who is not limited to Gentoo-related articles.
Creating an Ubuntu Universe would result in duplicate content, but I believe it’s the easiest and more efficient way of separating content. Everyone wins.
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Freedom to choose - I like it!
I myself will be reading the universes if this goes ahead.
na, I like it the way it is. Forget the blog police and post what you like.
I personally read the Gentoo Universe because I like knowing what is going on in my favorite developer’s worlds (and potentially how to incentiveize them when I feel that they deservice an incentive).
As long as the policy stands, you are able to post what you like…
I think one of the good things on p.u.c. is that there is no one who can actually restrict someone…there was one incident, which belonged more into the commercial area, and I’m really biased about that, but regarding my person: I’ll post what I feel is important…
I’m really interested in what Ubuntu people do in their lives - for me it’s “staying in touch” with people and know how they are doing. Traffic on Planet Ubuntu is not insane, so it’s fine if somebody talkes about something other than Ubuntu. If I don’t like reading it, I don’t.
That tag idea would work for WordPress users,and WordPress users only. Blogger either aggregates every post or none. No other options are given. I mean, you can aggregate just the first 250 char (nope, can’t choose any other length) or all of the post, but other than that…
And I’d say it’s nice to see what’s going on with people and what the non-geeky aspects of everyone else’s lives are.
What comments 2 through 5 said. :)
Like Daniel, I like to hear about peoples personal lives and what they’re up to, their opinions and feelings. It’s one reason why I also subscribe to numerous other planets which are related to things other than what I’m involved in. I also use twitter to keep in touch with people I don’t see often, or don’t even know well.
I don’t like it when people get kicked off a planet, or feel chased away. I was disappointed that someone was chased off my LoCo team planet because she posted something one person didn’t like.
However if there’s one thing that _really_ “grips my shit” (great phrase my mate Matt says a lt) it’s when someone blogs something and then adds “If you don’t like it move on” or “don’t comment” (as both you and Stephen have done in the past).
You either have the confidence in your own convictions to post your blog article or you don’t. If you don’t then don’t post, or post in a category that isn’t syndicated. If you do have confidence in the post then post it and have the balls to take the flak for it.
Attempting to censor peoples opinions of your blog posts is _as_ _bad_ if not worse than people censoring the planet in my book.
But that’s just my opinion, and I’m one of many readers of Planet Ubuntu and as a consequence your blog. What does my opinion matter?
I kind of like the planet the way it is, the non Ubuntu related posts can often be amusing. Having said that, I decided to only have my Ubuntu tagged posts aggregated, so feel free to ignore this walking contradiction :D
Alan,
I understand what you have saying, however, when you read “Hold on your stupid comments” it’s because I don’t have confidence on what I write, because as you noticed, only A FEW posts I write are fetched by p.u.c and i feel sad (which proves I DO want people to read it, but they dont). When I say that, I say it to get comments like:
- eat shit
- fuck you and ubuntu
- you’re a X
Sorry, but, I see this as not having the balls to accept thing; it’s JUST NOT STUPID, ITS GOOD to post something like that, and if I want it.
I also don’t think making that statement ever stopped anyone from making a comment here, as I try to be as kind as possible when someone does in fact post something, in fact, i can also lick balls.
And BTW, your opinion DOES matter. Otherwise I wouldn’t have posted this on the category fetched by p.u.c.
Thanks for the comments. And please take this post the wrong way. It was just an idea. wanna fuck?
I, not being a developer, greatly enjoy reading Ubuntu members talk about a wider range of topics. For me it’s a way to check they’re not just some kind of coding machines, but human beings with feelings, dreams, joys and frustrations, etc.
I enjoyed when in the beginning of the blogging scene most people talked about lots of different things in their blogs, but now most of them are “object-oriented” at a specific topic. IMHO.
I think that “post what you want” gives to planet an Human side that sometimes is missed in restricted places as ML, forum, irc channels, etc…
It’s a way to feel real human beings in community…
IMHO :)
i used to blog for the ubuntu user’s planet but one too many mistakes with signing up for new services, warnigs about posts being off topic, and other such nonsense i decided i’d rather keep my open source advocacy to myself thank you very much.
as to the planet ubuntu, planet gnome planet kde “restrictions” i prefer them as they are now. i like sometimes being surprised to find that someone out there in the FOSS world has a polar opposite opinion than my own. i like hearing about births, deaths, sicknesses, and mental imbalances that are displayed in their full humanness. these are the people who make my software of choice, i like knowing something about them and this is one of the strongest aspects of teh FOSS community., we can air our incredibly dirty laundry transparnetly without concern for maintaining that corporate message.
how many core developers for Windows or OS X are allowed to discuss whatever they want in a semi-official publication?
n8k99, I don’t understand why UbuntuWeblogs.org was mentioned. For some reason, you seem to want to tell me something, still, you don’t. Warnings? I actually don’t have to WARN anybody, I did it because I wanted to.
If you recall correctly, when you first submitted your weblog to PUU, you received an email explaining a few important things, one of them, was that your weblog would be removed if you posted off-topic. So I’m doing you a FAVOR when warning.
Planet Ubuntu Users is a COMPLETELY different Planet than p.u.c, so please get in touch with me if you feel the need to discuss something (like I told you before).
i brought it up as an illustration of the different planets. the one i was originally informed the nature of which- and which through several different incidents i made a chose to cease my participation. that’s it.
the other is a window into the lives of developers and people who make ubuntu linux- planet ubuntu. which i enjoy reading very much the way it is full of things that are not necessarily ‘ubuntu.’ if planet ubuntu does get restricted to only talking about all ubuntu all the time then it will go the way of other aggregated blogs- deleted from my news reader. i want to know about people- that’s what this technology is about, people.
My preference? Only on-topic ubuntu posts though I perfectly understand it if other people like to read more about Ubuntu community members than just their work related to Ubuntu.