As they put it:

Annoying Sound-FX, Over-Acting, Cheesy Dialogue, Zooms galore & senseless Violence… this is Kung-Fu Moviemaking at its best. Prepare for The Legend of Koos Lee.

What is not to love about that!? Also check out the dialog in episode 2. Epic! I know the guys are doing some HUGE other project which is going to be very, very good, but I’m sworn to silence on that one. Can’t wait for episode 3… Will keep you all posted as soon as it is out!

Episode 1

Watch on Vuzu.tv

Episode 2

Watch on Vuzu.tv

As terrible as this is though, it is FUNNY!

The good news is that all is good on Afrigator now. All blogs that are using some form of Pubsubhubbub service will be realtime in no time.

If you’re running on Wordpress (not Wordpress.com) and you have not yet installed PuSHPress, please do so soon!

If you are using Wordpress.com (i.e. yourname.wordpress.com) your good to go. If you run your own installation of Wordpress, I strongly suggest that you install the PuSHPress plugin. Why? Here is a good couple of reasons:

1. It get you more exposure. Your latest post would be published immediately. This results in your content being distributed as they’re published instead of hours later.

2. It saves you bandwidth. We don’t need to check your entire feed every hour. We sit back and wait until you publish a blog post.

3. We’re not the only ones doing it. Other services and aggregators also uses Pubsubhubbub. Services like Friendfeed, etc. Which means you’ll save even MORE bandwidth and your content would be even more realtime.

Okay, I’m still having issues with Blogspot blogs. They use a Google Appspot application to enable the realtime publishing of their feeds. However, when I try to subscribe at pubsubhubbub.appspot.com it always returns a 500 Internal Server Error and I’m not sure why. I tried setting various headers as I thought that maybe it is because I’m using a Python script to subscribe, but to no avail. I checked using the service Hurl and that works every time without fail. I’m a bit frustrated and lost. If anyone have any ideas, I’d welcome it.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
– Brian W. Kernighan

Broadcast media structures take one critical thing for granted: attention. There is an assumption that everyone will tune in and give their attention to the broadcast entity, even though that was never true in the first place.

It also shed some light on how information flows in a networked environment. We all know that when we tweet, our tweet isn’t necessarily seen by all our followers. Similarly, we don’t sit and watch our Twitter stream day in and day out to catch up on all thats being said. That would have been a broadcasting model. In a networking environment we decide what can have our attention and what can’t. Very tricky…

Read it. It is well worth it! Streams of Content, Limited Attention

A lot of services uses it nowadays and it is gaining traction. If you’re on blogger/blogspot or wordpress.com you needn’t worry about it as they have already enabled it for those platforms. If you are on a self hosted wordpress blog, I suggest you check out the awesome wordpress plugin called PuSHPress. Install it now! It would be worth it ;)

Oh and here is a video explaining it in a cool way.

Note: I’m going to churn quite a bit of posts to test our Afrigator implementation of Pubsubhubbub.

It always without fail amaze me how good some people are at doing random things like this.

This truly is one of the best things I’ve seen someone do with an iPhone.