steve

On the street in new york. Not bad.

Cool, right?

We've made it so you can use a BlogSpot.com template to display your journal. Here's how you do it. Go to your Blogger account and edit your template. Copy it out of the text field, then go to Buzznet's New Journal >> Templates page, and paste in the blogger template. Hit save and your journal will look like your blogger acct, except it'll display Buzznet journals.

Now, by popular demand, you can now ignore  people's bulletins! Go to your inbox and click [Ignore] on the offending person's message. This will hide all the person's past and future bulletins. You can undo this by changing to the "ignored" view of your bulletins and clicking the [Un-Ignore] next to the person's post. Please don't do this to me!

For those of you even know what it is, you can do it.

Audio is next...

Now, by popular demand, you can change your default homepage!

When someone goes to yourname.buzznet.com you can make them land on either your photo main page, photo gallery, video, journal, links or profile page.

You can change this by going to Dashboard >> Quicklinks: Change Main Page.

Enjoy :)

PS: Hmm. i just thought of something. Wouldn't it be cool if my homepage always landed on the newest thing I posted regardless of media type? Like right now my newest post is a journal, so my homepage would be my journal.... maybe later...

hey. we have forums in buzzwords now. just FYI.

Xris has placed an apple on the teacher's desk. His gallery of the West Hollywood Halloween Parade is exceptional!

http://xris-weho.buzznet.com/user/

Here's some new stuffs we've added to the Buzznets:

• Bigger photo on your page
• You can now change page colors to anything you want.
  
• We've taken the Buzznet navigation elements out of your topbar so you can now have more control over how that space looks
• upgraded the toolbutton widgets beneath your pics so there's not like 5000 annoying buttons in your face. They're all in a neat little pop-up list now.
  
• Ajaxificated Add Buzz, Send to Friend, comments (almost done) to speed things up a little
• Leaner and meaner homepage
• Way to import photos and profile info from other websites into Buzznet.
  
• When inviting friends you can now pull out contacts from your GMail, Yahoo, or Hotmail addressbooks
• You'll now be updated when someone makes a comment after you on another person's photo. If anyone has ideas on what to call this page let us know =]
• Added a gallery to see all of Buzznet's featured photos.
  
• Improved dashboard page and made quicklinks more useful.
  
• Buncha other stuff I can't recall
• always, if you have any suggestions on how to make things better, let Buzznet know.
• FIXED comments to me list to show the last updated comment list at the top instead of the last updated post. tome/byme will be a lot easier to read now.
  

Buzznet founder, Anthony Batt, is part of a ragtag crew that's boarded a big truck loaded with supplies on its way to the gulf states worst affected by the hurricane.
Check out Abatt's Buzz to see progress of the trip.

Buzznet has partnered with the Mississippi Sun Herald to get your Stories of Katrina.

Our hearts go out to the people of New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, Pascagoula, and other affected areas.

Check the bottom right-hand side of your journal pages for links to RSS, ATOM and JavaScript versions of your journal.

With the JavaScript version you can simply paste the url to the feed into a <script> tag and your main blog page will show up without any of the Buzznet UI around it -- perfect for putting your Buzz Journal into your own website. Works like so:

<script src="http://steve.buzznet.com/user/journal/js/" type="text/javascript"></script>

Replace "steve.buzznet.com", of course, with your own Buzz url.

Enjoy

What's the deal with women taking so goddamn long to get organized at the cash register?

Today I'm at the gas station. One dude in front of me, a woman getting a calling card at the counter. Clerk tells her the price and she then twists her purse around to get the wallot. Thoughtbubble:  "nope. compact. no. keyring with 5,000 keys and trinkets... no.mysterio bulky zippered bag. Oh! there it is! gigantic wallot with 30 different credit cards, receipts, photos, coupons, post-its, and perhaps some cash". She takes out the wallot. now she's fishing for the perfect exact change. FUCK!. Just have the fucking money ready. If not cash then, have the debit/credit ready to  slash. Why the wait until you hear the total to then get the money? It won't be free. Fucking plan ahead!!!!

Finally, she pays and it's next guys turn. She's not out though. She stays put and starts organizing her life. the transaction is over. she now owns this calling card. over. she's still there. arranging. fixing. sorting out the huge mess that was created by removing her wallot. dude behind her just hands 2 beer bottles over the woman's head to the clerk with a $20. He gets his change, and he's out. *BANG*.

My turn. I politely say "excuse me" to her with a warm smile. she moves a micrometer to the left. Not good enough. "marb'ro reds". Hand him a $20 over her head, and receive the handfull of bills in change, stuff 'em in my pocket (i will rearrange my cash later. maybe in my car. my priority right now is to get out of the way of the patiently waiting customers behind me). And i'm out *POW*.

Another, guy comes up and also is forced to pay over the lady's head. She's still there shuffling and arranging.

i want to get a job at this gas station, any gas station or convenience store, so when someone does that i can just be like "Uh, Miss? BEAT IT!" 

Don't get me started on the old ladies who still pay with checks at the grocery store.

Bugs to fix:

• editor broken in safari.
• editor broken in mac opera (low)
• image tool misleading. people are putting url to image PAGE instead of the actual image.
• link tool doesn't work for images.
• make sure it looks right in all custom templates.
  

To Dos:

• add copy somewhere explaining that a photo can actually just be dragged from a web page into the editor and it will display the image. (this doesn't work in IE, but does in firefox. in IE, however, you can copy+paste an image from another webpage)
• add ability to somehow associate photos at the data layer.
  • have search interface built. problems w/ SQL slowness joining buzzwords data in
    
• buzzwords.
  • new buzzword "gallery" for journals. (in progress)
    
• integration into feeds.
• integration into API.
• text posts via email (pending migration from PERL)
• font color (easy easy) saweeeetaaaah
• font size (easy easy)
• spell check (bleh)
• visitors (very fucking difficult and time-consuming)
• strike-through (cuz I'll need it on this post)
• do something with blog feeds (?) implementation is garbage right now but whatever.
• blog-This
  
• make journal edit a little more navigable
• add to friends page
• fix user sidenav to either toggle photos and journals or have journals below
• integrate with BuzzBlog and kill MT