Having set up the updated R/Finance site, the Rcpp Gallery and Rcpp sites as well as the much-needed overhaul of the html side of the CRANberries RSS feed (which also integrates it with the static blog compiler I use), I figured I just needed a little time to get this done. Well, eight months later we're there. It still uses Twitter Bootstrap for layout, and a slightly modified Bootswatch theme.
Comments welcome, and please let me know if links are missing or going nowhere in places.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.
Back now at the computer, I just saw MJ Ray's riposte which I happen to, no surprise here, agree fully with. To me, one of the nicer aspects of Debian Planet is how it, at least occassionally, brings out the other, non-computing side of fellow Debianers. That is clearly not a bug but a feature.
Coincidentally, while running errands this afternoon, I listened to Chicago Public Radio (one of the very few remaining stations worth turning on) which carried an interview with a U of Chicago law prof on the origin of the word 'echo room'. His thesis is that people self-select themselves more and more into virtual communities. The main point here that these communities are all non-overlapping, so people simply reinforce prior beliefs and opinions as the only feedback they get is from people who, by virtue of the pre-selected, are likely to hold views very similar to their own.
Getting back to the prior topic, having non-Debian posts on planet.debian.net allows us to break the 'echo' pattern at least a little bit.
Right now, and for kicks, I manually turned html mode on and off again as we don't formal document header for a blosxom input file. Better than nothing, but far from ideal.