This Digest turned 5 a little while ago, and here’s another milestone: this is post 3,001.  There’s 1,300 comments or so, too.

Sorry about a week without posts!  I was in the wilds of Canada and without any Internet access, for probably the longest period for me since 1995.  It was weird.  Regular posts resume tomorrow.

Upgrading WordPress to 2.6 yesterday broke the direct links to articles on the Digest.  It’ll be updated in the 2.6.1 release of WordPress, but until then I’ve changed the links to correct for the issue.

This post on the “gentrification of geek communities” is interesting, and somewhat relevant to what I’m trying to do with the Digest. However, the author seems to have more of a concern about which sites appear the most hip, rather than viewing them as secondary mechanisms for reporting on the actual news items found there. (Via)

Perhaps that’s the sign a geek news site has ‘jumped the shark’: when appearing on it is more exciting than reading the news articles present. e.g. the Slashdot Effect rather than the Slashdot News.

I updated this DragonFly system from 1.12.1 to 1.12.2 Sunday night, and PHP (and therefore this WordPress-based Digest) stopped working. Dion (dblazakis in #dragonflybsd) found the reason and fixed it, for which I am very grateful.

I had a number of posts I had made ahead of time, so there’s no actual gap in posts from when the server wasn’t responding.  Make sure you catch the past few days of articles.

I’ve added the various BSD-related links from an earlier story over on the sidebar to this site.  If you have more suggestions for BSD-related site, please tell me at justin@shiningsilence.com, or in the comments.

For some reason, I’ve had more material for posting in the past few weeks than just about ever.  I’ve had a 2-3 day backlog of news all this time.  I’m not complaining, mind you, I’m just thrilled that there’s this much going on.

According to Google image search, this very Digest has something to do with boobs. If this trend continues, I predict a significant increase in traffic. And disappointed visitors. (via Joerg Sonnenberger, who is apparently the common thread)

I missed the actual event, but this Digest reached over 1,000 comments recently - thanks to the folks that read and give feedback. The 1,000th comment was on the 1.10.1 release post. Incidentally, there’s close to 2,500 posted news items here, since August 2003.

I’ve removed some of the inconvenient antispam features (comments from new people are always moderated, http:// links get a post filtered, etc) and switched to different antispam software.  Email me if you add a comment and can’t get through…

I’ve changed the theme, and added some elements to make this match the other DragonFly sites a bit more.  If I’ve removed a link you need, please let me know.

The exact count stands at 2,003 posts with this one.  Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this may be the most frequently updated BSD-oriented news site in existence.

A combination of software upgrades and me changing my apache config on shiningsilence.com led to some unplanned downtime this weekend - sorry!

I’ve moved to HiddenNetwork for the sidebar ad. HiddenNetwork provides ads for computer jobs, which I’d bet would interest most of the Digest’s readers. Some of them look tempting to me, in fact.

I originally heard of HiddenNetwork from reading The Daily WTF, and then had a followup recommendation (good idea, Simon). Please let me know your opinion by comment or email.

If there was a mailing list that had regular summaries of the posts on here, would it be useful to you? If so, would you want it daily? Weekly?

Ian R. Stephenson suggested this, and I’ve had more people than I expected agree.

I’ve been traveling, and not posting - sorry!  Back to a regular schedule tomorrow.

The links for the old RSS/XML news feeds for this site now redirect to the new feed locations.

Please update your links to the RSS file, if you are using it.  I’ve configured the permalinks to hopefully be more reasonable.

I moved from Movable Type to WordPress.  The original links to the XML and RSS feeds are broken, as are old links to individual stories.  This will be fixed soon, and then I’ll improve the layout from the current default.