November, 26, 2006 archives
services for two
one thing i’ve noticed as we prepare for our wedding is how none of the web-based wedding services seem to have two people in mind. here’s a quote from the help of one online wedding site’s guest list manager:
You can allow your fiance and others access to your online guest list by having them log in to The Knot using your email address and password. Please remind them to log out when they are done, so you'll be able to access your account.
apparently having one list that is accessible by two people would be far too much rocket science.
i wrote our own tool for managing the guest list. it has its own little quirks, but at least when there’s something it doesn’t do, i can fix it. i also hooked up the online rsvp handling to the same database, so for those that choose to rsvp online instead of using the reply card, that information will automatically be linked to our invite list.
and speaking of invitations, the first batch finally went in the mail yesterday. we still have at least one more batch to go, but we really needed to get the out-of-state (and country!) invitations out ages ago now.
they can’t all be winners
i had an idea for a new feature to add to blog-la-sphere: by looking at what people in the blog-la-sphere are linking to, generate a list of the most-blogged-about items. the problem i ran into is that once i pulled out all the links, it turns out that the most-linked-to story in the last month only got five links. the rest of the top five only got two.
the “buzziest” story was michael richard’s tirade at the laugh factory.
the idea was inspired by sam ruby’s mememe implementation, but i didn’t push things nearly as far along because of the low number of blog-la-sphere memes.