<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dave Hall wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1269070785.10537.68.camel@possum.skwashd.lan" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Paul, On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 17:14 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Melissa Draper wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Do you have a blog? Does it occasionally mention Ubuntu? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then congratulations! Your blog qualifies for a listing on the Ubuntu Australian Team blog syndication feed at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://planet.ubuntu.org.au">http://planet.ubuntu.org.au</a>! ... Those with existing listings on the Ubuntu-Au planet that need the URL updated (I'm looking at you, Ben and Harrison) or a picture added should also heed this invitation and send relevant information to me. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">To those people who already have a blog on planet: it would be really great if you could provide Melissa with a URL that filters out articles on your blog that are not about Linux & Ubuntu. I grabbed the RSS feed and found some stuff that i consider (how can i put it nicely?) less-than-relevant. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'm not sure which items you are referring to. I just looked at the front page and I could only find 1 item which I thought had no connection to Ubuntu or FOSS. If this is to be new policy for the planet, feel free to remove my blog. </pre> </blockquote> I have no ability to set policy for the planet.  It was only a suggestion.  And your blog was one of the most relevant. <blockquote cite="mid:1269070785.10537.68.camel@possum.skwashd.lan" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have stated in another thread recently that I have no interest in tagging items specifically for the ubuntu-au planet. A lot of my stuff is broadly related to FOSS, and you will also get some random stuff too. The same policy applies to the LA planet. </pre> </blockquote> Stuff that is broadly related to FOSS makes sense.  Apollo missions and open letters to TV stations seem to me to be a little hard to classify as FOSS-related.  Maybe i missed something in the content, because as soon as i started reading some of those key words, my brain automatically went into "skim mode"... <blockquote cite="mid:1269070785.10537.68.camel@possum.skwashd.lan" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Take the good with the bad, that is the beauty of a free for all planet. If you don't like the planet content you are free to unsubscribe then (optionally) subscribe to the relevant tag/s feeds of the blogs on the planet you are interested in. </pre> </blockquote> It's all well and good to say "if you don't like it, don't subscribe", but then i have to ask: who are we hoping to benefit by running it?  Is it just to drive more hits to our individual blogs?  I don't subscribe because all these people are my mates and i want to know what they are thinking about.  I subscribe to get news relevant to the Ubuntu-AU community. Paul </body> </html>