Evan Prodromou's blog

Quick note: we'll be releasing a new version of Laconica on Identi.ca tonight, December 11 2008, at 11PM EDT. Although it is a minor release, it will include some new user-visible features, such as "blocking" unwanted subscribers, and finer-grained control of subscription output.

Identi.ca will be down for about 15-20 minutes.

I'll be present at StartupCampMontreal3, the upcoming event for entrepreneurs and investors in Montreal. The event takes place at the SAT at 1195 blvd. St. Laurent on Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 between 6PM and 10PM. If you'd like to meet, please let me know -- it's going to be a busy event for everyone!

(Update:  We had a couple of cool features and optimizations that we really want to see go out in a pack, so we postponed our upgrade from Thursday night to Sunday night.)

Identi.ca will be down for about 10-20 minutes tonight, 20 Nov 2008, at about 11PM EST, for a software upgrade. We're trying to do a code drop once a week at this point, on Thursday nights.

Last week's upgrade was a big mess; hopefully tonight's goes much more smoothly.

Two new media references worth reading in the last week:

• Taking on Twitter with open-source software on CNET News.
• Cooking with Linux - Warp-Speed Blogging in Linux Journal.

Definitely both worth adding to our clippings file.

Brief notice: Laconica 0.6.1's release (a minor release with some bugfixes, optimizations and API enhancements) will be delayed until Sunday, 5 Oct at midnight EDT. This should allow us to incorporate any optimizations that are made during Codefest 2.2.