I'd prefer a way to add tags so I can exclude them from the feed. I'm simply not interested in reading about Ruby, Erlang or any of these obscure languages that have little relevance for me.
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at 192.168.100.84. This could mean your host's database server is down."
Indeed. Services like RPX (http://rpxnow.com/) are good ways of presenting the ability to log in with user accounts from OpenID providers. It's mostly relegated to plumbing, although you can just type in your OpenID if you want.
Is it me, or does nobody seem to quite understand why Adblock Plus is such a good solution for blocking ads?
Let me list a few.
Automatic updates - a requirement for me.
Ads are removed as the page loads, rather than after loading.
Element Hiding Helper lets me pick DOM elements to remove and create filtering rules based on that.
And all of this is wrapped up in a nice UI too!
Yes, yes, Adblock Plus doesn't block as much as Adsweep by default, but I don't care because I don't just use the default blocklist. I add my own on top. And I can see no way of doing that in Adsweep, so Chrome + Adsweep remains a no-go for me until they sort that out!
The main problem with Knol is that none of these experts are working to create one definitive article on a single subject, which is what Wikipedia is doing. It's all very well having a collection of articles on a subject written by experts, but I use Wikipedia because it generally has good detailed summaries of subjects.
In fact, a few grammatical oddities aside, the automatic translation is quite readable. I was quite surprised, not least because it's been a while since I had to use one.
Germany seems to suffer worse from the reactionary types who are quick to pin blame on anything innocuous (paintball, anyone?) over any kind of human tragedy. I mean, look at the ludicrous film and videogame censorship they have over there, partly self-enforced just so companies can avoid having their works indexed (which effectively puts a permanent black mark against it, and I suppose nobody would want to touch it).
And when you combine reactionaries with career-seeking politicians, a recipe for disaster is in the making.