Getting back on Planet Olin
June 8, 2008 – 10:09 amFrom an email I just sent, after replying to Adam/Joe’s post about the death of planet olin:
Yo.
As best as I can recall, you’re in charge of Planet Olin these days - would you mind adding this feed to the list? I’ve started an ‘olin’ category on my current blog for Olin-relevant posts, and would love to jump back into the stream of Olin news.
http://blog.melchua.com/category/olin/feed
(this shows things from http://blog.melchua.com/category/olin/)
Thanks!
-Mel
So yep… Olin folks, I’m coming back to the Planet. I will warn, however, that very few of my posts these days are what I’d consider to be Olin-relevant, so it’s going to be very much a trickle.
One Response to “Getting back on Planet Olin”
Hey Mel,
I think part of the message I was getting across was that we can’t complain about an overall lack of communication between alums/students/other groups and then not have at least a directory of blogs and the like. Originally, I thought PO should be sort of a larger students.olin.edu (as in, students-alltime.olin.edu), but after thinking about it some more, I don’t think Planet Olin should be that place.
Your approach is much better. The whole Planet concept is designed to be a way to get information about a specialized topic: whether it is Linux or puppies or Olin. Right now, the common link is not our discussions about or related to Olin, but that we all attended it. So I think I’m going to do the same, create a feed just for my Olin/Oliners/Engineeringesque posts, and have that be the PO feed.
Then I can write about naked time-travelling robots on my main feed and still maintain dignity in the Olin Community.
By Adam on Jun 9, 2008