Two features for Jay

[Dave Winer]

A milestone podcast yesterday with myself and Jay Rosen.

http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/reboot11Apr25.mp3

Jay is now a Blork user, and we talked about the product, and how users and developers can work together.

Jay made a point that the Top 40 page is not quite ready for prime-time. I asked what it needs, he told me, and this morning I did it.

http://changes.scripting.com/#p6454

Just a couple of prefs and a bug fix. Happy to help a smart user like my buddy Jay.


***Mirroring your stuff on S3

There's one thing Jay needs that's already in the software. You can cause it to write all the files it maintains to an S3 bucket of your own. The URL for the prefs page, assuming you're on the server machine, is:

http://127.0.0.1/prefs?page=3.1

Here's a screen shot of the page.

http://scripting.com/images/2011/04/26/s3prefs.gif

Highly recommend investigating this, and setting up a place on S3 for us to mirror your stuff. This way if there's an outage, or you want to switch to a different server, all your data is under your control.

Dave