We recently noticed that both the Tagroll and Linkroll that power the Bookmarks page have not been working since July 26, when the good folks at Delicious.com (aka Del.icio.us) rolled out a major update. Until the bug is fixed on their end, and the data feed's service restored, bookmarks and tags will not be visible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Follow-up to the previous posting (and after reading an article about scraping in Wired Magazine titled "Data Wars"): Until there's a better way to control the display settings for the News Aggregator feature, without having to change the source code for the module that powers the RSS feed aggregation and display, we have elected to restrict this feature to members only. Even though we don't use bots, and full credit and link-backs are provided. Sorry!

The Lookdeeper News aggregator has just been opened up to non-members. In addition, new feed categories have been created, and new feed sources will be added over time. Enjoy!

We just performed a minor site update to address several critical security vulnerabilities (they're always critical) and fix some minor bugs.

A new feature has been added that allows members to upload audio files to the site. Once posted, a file can be streamed, but not downloaded. So this is not file sharing, get it? ; ) A nice feature of the upload utility is support for ID3 song information. So any metadata such as Title, Artist, Album, Genre, etc. that was embedded in the file (either through iTunes, Winamp, or some other music software) will be preserved and saved along with the audio. Additional metadata including encoding format, compression rate, and file size, is also determined and saved for every file. Why? Because sometimes that's important information.