Sunday, August 31, 2003For all you folks that haven't come across hicksdesign it's well worth a visit. The site is a beautiful example of CSS based design and should provide inspiration to us all. Poking around in my comments I also came across this little gem from Jeff Croft. It's still under construction (aren't most blogs though?) but is already high on my reccomendations list. Both these blogs have a few things in common. First off they both make use of overflow: auto to create a scrolling "frame like" area for the content. Normally frames and their ilk bug me but in both...
[Andy Budd::Blogography]
5:31:34 AM
comment [] trackback [] Zen and the Art of Social Software
Teledynamics Communiqué reports on a local project to leverage social software in an alternative health-care clinic: "The Hoita Kokoro Centre has contracted Teledynamics [ie us] to create a new social software portal...
(via TeledyN) [Channel 'social_software']
5:29:14 AM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft Bloggers Multiplying Exponentially
It had been a while since we updated the Microsoft Watch list of current and former Microsoft employees who are bloggingThere are now more [sigma]
lots more. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
5:22:28 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tagging conventions for microcontent
Jon Udell has put up his structured blog search which allows you to write XPaths over an XML representation of his blog and get some useful information out of it. In the accompanying blog post he makes the plea for well formedness, since that makes things easier. No argument from me. What I'm more interested in is a description of his tagging conventions.
[Ted Leung on the air]
5:06:19 AM
comment [] trackback [] The September That Never Began
I have been watching and waiting for the impact of AOL Journals. Back in January I outlined the business case for AOL to enter the market, using LiveJournal stats to suggest a $48m revenue stream as the prize. I wondered...
[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
5:01:43 AM
comment [] trackback [] Second sight
It's a strange time to be a weblogger. Our little hobby looks like it's finally about to enter the big time. I mean, you know you've made it when Lycos has a weblogging system, right? When AOL's system has just been launched? ....
(by Tom Coates)
4:32:00 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 29, 2003Imagine posts and comments flowing from blogs to wikis like the way streams feed into lakes. Got the picture yet? Now think of a blog category as a wiki page. The picture changes so that the blog becomes a mountain and categories become the streams running down the side of the mountain in all directions toward wikis into which streams from other mountains also feed into.
The resulting picture you have in your mind is the 10,000 feet view of how I think blogs and wikis should be connected.
[Don Park's Daily Habit]
3:22:32 PM comment [] trackback []
Typepad Gripepad
Walter of HTML Life reviews the blog hosting service of the Six and glowers at the camera.
[Blogalization Community]
3:10:07 PM comment [] trackback []
Blog History, Made in Brazil
Lest we forget, the geeks came first; in the global South, however, they're seeing it the other way around.
[Blogalization Community]
3:07:47 PM comment [] trackback []
AP gives LiveJournal great press
The folks at LiveJournal will be very happy with an AP report heavily syndicated today which focuses almost exclusively on them:...
[The Blog Herald]
12:36:52 AM comment [] trackback []
Thursday, August 28, 2003...At evectors we are working on a reputation-based filtering system, where users of k-collector will be able to have their news filtered according to who is writing about some specific topic. It's still at a very early stage, but it sounds promising.
Whew... it looks like there's still a lot of stuff to invent and code to write, uh? 
[w4feed:RSS 2.0]
6:43:04 PM comment [] trackback []
Bush Campaign Reaching Out to Bloggers
Perish the thought...
Washington Post: President Bush's campaign will unveil a Web site today that allows proprietors of online journals -- Blogs or Web logs -- to "get the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop posted instantly to your site through a live...[The Blog Herald]
6:37:16 PM
comment [] trackback [] Tripod Blogs better than Blogger?
PC Mag has rated Tripod Blogs higher than Blogger, Live Journal and Weblogger in a review published today that is bound to attract criticism. Lycos is trumpeting its win with a release to Yahoo! Finance, although the Blog Census figures...
[The Blog Herald]
6:33:57 PM
comment [] trackback [] Integrating Trackbacks into the whole blog but not just in post comments... Everywhere!
MT did a poor job of integrating trackbacks. I've made some changes that push them up the focus a little. They will now appear in the main and archive templates and in the comments sections. I hope everyone finds this useful in one way or another :) Adam Kalsey has done a lot to help out with this with hist fantastice MT Plugin, SimpleComments, which is required for these changes. (It's a simple install of copying 2 files to your...
(via Reflective Reality) [Channel 'social_software']
5:38:46 PM comment [] trackback []
Update: My.Yahoo RSS Aggregator is live
Just tried it myself - works like a charm.
You have to add the Blogs section, available here:
http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/add_module?.module=xcontent
The interface is nice. Summaries of the latest entries, headlines for older entries. [Blogdigger Development Blog]
5:15:10 PM comment [] trackback []
Enriching Blog Calendar
Someone has to thinks of it first - here's another natural blog feature development in the making:
"Most blogs have a calendar for navigation but not for much else. I was thinking how nice it would be to enrich it automatically with other information like birthdays of people on blogroll, anniversaries, schedule of conferences I am planning to attend, etc.[Don Park's Daily Habit]Size of the calendar will have to get a little bigger, but mouse-over sensitive date specific details can be displayed in an area immediately below the calendar. FOAF and iCal/vCal formats can be useful here. Calendars are also amazing yet under-utilized advertising medium IMHO."
5:09:39 PM
comment [] trackback [] My.Yahoo is now an RSS Aggregator!
"Sneak peek: Yahoo RSS module
"The My Yahoo RSS module appeared briefly yesterday on the Choose Content page under Personal Information Management with the name "Blogs", but it seems to have disappeared now. Here is a screenshot of the config page for the module:"
(via Blogdigger, BloggingRoller, Arjun) [Blogdigger Development Blog]
5:03:27 PM comment [] trackback []
Blogware developed in Ruby!?!
"Congrats on the first publicly deployed blog hosting system in Ruby!
Cool! Could we have some more technical details please, Joey? Like why
Ruby and why not Perl, PHP, ASP, etc? The things you mention are nice
computer science arguments, but some juicy ammunition for PHB's :-)
would be awesome!"
"Boss Ross has declared that we are far enough out of stealth mode for me to use my powers as Tucows' TC/DC (Technical Community Development Coordinator) and actually say what language the developers are using to write this pretty cool blogging tool called Blogware...(via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
Ruby!
Some of you might right now be cocking your head to one side. Ru-what? If you're one of these people, Ruby is:
* A complete, full, pure object oriented language. Even the number 1 is an instance of class Fixnum.
* Flexible and dynamic. It's both dynamic (no need to declare variables) and strongly typed (types are checked at runtime). What to add methods to a class at runtime? No prob. Want to add methods to an instance at runtime? Once again, No prob.
* A language with a nice clean, consistent syntax
* Open source
4:56:26 PM
comment [] trackback [] Blogging Explained to Old UNIX Hacks
"The other day I was talking to an old friend of mine that used to be really into UNIX but that ended up choosing a different path. He wanted to know what the heck a weblog was. I had to evoke old UNIX images: back when we were in school, people used to cook up elaborate .plan files and change them occasionally to reflect news in their lives. The .plan files were displayed whenever that user was fingered (always elicited a giggle or two from UNIX newbies), and that was the state of the art in displaying up-to-date personal information. (Of course static web pages quickly made .plan files extinct, but we're talking prehistoric times here). During that time, there was also the Usenet phenomenon - news protocols such as NNTP, and newsreaders like rn and variants. Usenet was a huge time sink for us back then - I remember a year or two where I was religiously following newsgroups such as comp.unix.wizards or comp.os.research, and I knew others that spent multiple hours a day keeping up with dozens of newsgroups. Well, combine those two things and you arrive at my explanation of blogging in terms of old UNIX analogies: you're basically pivoting the table - you're publishing a "newsgroup" about yourself (alt.omrig.die.die.die :-)) on a set of topics (a.k.a. categories) where all the threads are started by you, and others can subscribe to it using an RSS aggregator, and post responses. Most people are probably thoroughly confused by this definition, but to my friend this seemed to make perfect sense..."
(via Omri Gazitt's Weblog [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
4:49:30 PM
comment [] trackback [] Macworld's Weblog Roundup Falls Short
MacWorld magazine's July issue contains an article by Scot Hacker (great name for a computer magazine writer, no?) entitled 'Put Weblogs To Work' (sorry, not yet available on their site). In it, he compares seven weblog packages (Blogger Pro, Geeklog, iBlog, LiveJournal, Movable Type, pMachine Pro, and Radio). It's too bad he didn't think to include Free-Conversant (which this blog is built on). It competes extremely well in all categories he looked at, and then some. What's more, it adds depth to many.
Take 'Search', for example. Everything in Free-Conversant sits in a hierarchical database and one can performed very detailed searches (by date, author, subject, message body, etc.) and includes the ability to search for user-defined metadata. Take a look at Free-Conversant's Support site search page. Any weblog hosted there can have a similarly robust search interface.
Rich Site Summary. Every package he looked at can generate RSS. Conversant can generate numerous rss feeds via channels. What does that mean? Let's say you only wanted to see posts I make on a certain topic. With Conversant, I can give you access to rss feeds that are topic specific (see the right side of this page. See all those rss feeds? Lots of work, right? Wrong. All done automagically, leveraging Conversant's search capabilities. Pretty clever, huh?
If you wanna blog, take a look at Conversant. For me, it's not just a blog platform, however. Macrobyte (Conversan't creators) hosts my e-mail accounts, ftp accounts, and static web hosting. Macrobyte does custom developing, too. From really big stuff (like writing a Conversant plug-in to import xml data from the National Library of Medicine), to smaller stuff (like writing an Applescript that automates image uploading to the static server) and, soon, adding a WYSIWYG editor to my weblog posting interface...
[romanvenable Weblog]
2:26:46 AM comment [] trackback []
Closing the loop on XHTML blog content
James Farmer asks about the difference between WYSIWYG XML and HTML editing:
[Jon's Radio]
1:08:45 AM comment [] trackback []
Wednesday, August 27, 2003"This is no "for money" product. We have developed that for our own needs and because we are educators and will use this code base in excercises with our students and therefore will give it away for them to play with, anyways, we can just as well share it with the rest of the folks out there, too.
This is "free software" without the politics. The software license we chose for DasBlog is plain and simple: BSD. You may use, modidy and redistribute our stuff as long as you keep us out of trouble and leave our and all of the other contibutor's copyright notices in. If you want to derive a closed-source, proprietary product from it ... just go right ahead. We don't like the GPL and the whole "must disclose source of derivative works" interpretation of "free"."
(via dasBlog.net) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
6:34:07 PM
comment [] trackback [] BlogPlanet
Moblog tool for Nokia 3650 camera phones and similar camphones with Java Midlet camera access.
"With BlogPlanet, updating your blog while you're on the go is as easy as writing an SMS. It runs on your mobile and lets you write new blog entries, send them to your blog, edit them afterwards and delete them. On top of that, you can take pictures with the mobile's built-in camera and include them in your posts. Here's an overview of BlogPlanet's features:[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
* Create, edit and delete posts
* A user dictionary which lets you add shortcuts for frequently used words and phrases
* Take pictures with the built-in camera
* Easily include the pictures in your posts, without having to enter HTML code
* Supports the BloggerAPI and MetaWeblogAPI for compatibility with a vast number of blog sites
* English, German and Spanish language support
BlogPlanet has been tested with the Nokia 3650."
5:48:25 PM
comment [] trackback [] Stock market blogs
Here are some more blogs that contain trading and/or stock market information. This is a continuation of the list I made back in May. These have been on my blogroll for a while, but I thought I'd highlight them here.(via Trader Mike: More Stock Market Blogs) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
- The Capital Spectator
- The Learning Curve
- Stable Value
- Stingy Investor
- The Gagalac Style - Charles has merged his stock blog, It's All About the Benjamins, into this blog. If you like, you can filter the stock market commentary via his archives by category.
5:42:32 PM
comment [] trackback [] Text America
... The problem is, moblogs are too uninformative. Here, take a look at the moblog from our dinner. I see the team now is off drinking somewhere. But, no context. No text. Here's a hint from the guys...that'll soon change.... [The Scobleizer Weblog]
5:29:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft Bloggers
Ever want to aggregate your way into the mind of a Microsoft employee? Well here is your chance. I have a round up of folks that are either currently work for, have worked for, or are associated with Microsoft. You will find handy RSS syndication links on all of the blogs. So pull a feed or two today. Who knows, you might just get lucky and find out about some super, secret project like Operation Blue Screen. ;-)
By matt@ctsdownloads.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
5:05:18 AM
comment [] trackback [] blogs+im
Wikis, blogs, IM and other collaborative tools are going through a variety of trial matings as part of a grand experiment that is searching for new utility. I've been very interested in blogs and email (more precisely rss+news aggregator email)...
[tingilinde]
5:00:28 AM
comment [] trackback [] Finding Comfort in Strangers With an Online Diet Journal
Hundreds of overweight people are sharing detailed reports of their calories and cravings on self-created Web sites. By Amy Harmon.
[New York Times: Technology]
12:28:09 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tuesday, August 26, 2003Rael Dornfest, (who I assume is the creator of Blosxom) incorporated a few suggestion I had for improving Blosxom 'Flavours' (themes). Instead of 4-5 text files spread around in the root folder, he has boiled a template down to 1 file stored in its own folder, inside a themes folder. This is going to be a much cleaner system, and now Blosxom has a standard model for themes with component parts, like images and css files. Simply store your images in the same folder as the theme file, and they will be automatically detected and used. In addition to this innovation, Rael will incorporate a standard way to designate different themes/flavours for subfolders in your directory.
[BryanBell.com]
7:32:37 PM
comment [] trackback [] Semantic Blogging
Phil Wolff has a great post about sematic blogging. There was a ton of talk and hype about the sematic web a couple of years ago. The combination of simple formats, such as RSS and XML-RPC, make sematic blogging attainable and remove a lot of barriers that confronted the sematic web.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
7:19:37 PM
comment [] trackback [] People Out Post Commerical Feeds
A keen observation which I can confirm:
I noticed for the first time this morning that the majority of my news aggregator content was from individuals rather than media organizations like the New York Times, CNET, or InfoWorld.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
What are the implications?
7:17:31 PM comment [] trackback []
RSSlets Are Just the Beginning
Phil had a nice post tonight about RSSlets from Eightlinks. I remember the Amazon RSS feeds hitting the ether about a month ago. RSSlets by themselves provide point functionality. I disagree with the location of the intelligence -- on a server. RSSlets in a MoveableType world can only be server based. In a Radio world, RSSlets are desktop based. Once you move this type of functionality to the desktop, a whole new world opens up. What is needed is a supervisory engine in Radio that provides a plug-in architecture for RSSlets. The rough structure is there with Tools, but this structure needs to be extended to provide management for RSSlets, a simple interface for creating RSSlets, interfaces that feed the news aggregator, and an engine capable of learning your preferences based on RSS subscriptions, RSSlet return data, and specific user input.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
7:14:14 PM comment [] trackback []
MetaWeblog API
"It is now safe to deploy applications based on this spec."
[Scripting News]
7:09:24 PM comment [] trackback []
AOL launches blogging service (News.Com) [Scripting News]
2:34:10 AM comment [] trackback []
Dan Gillmor on RSS.
"One problem with the current crop of newsreaders is a sign of their youth. They assign equal weight to everything they display. So the headlines and text from Joe's Weblog get roughly the same display treatment as material from, say, the New York Times."
This is exactly what we are working on at the moment within K-collector. What we are trying to achieve is ranking based on topics. Most of the times is not only about who is writing something but about who's writing on some specific topic. I might find very interesting what somebody writes about technology but not, for example, about politics.
Thanks to topics embedded into RSS feeds via ENT, we have the basic necessary pieces. Now the challange is to make it useful and easy: a lot of people are not using filters to organize their email, so we can't expect them to have to set up complex filters to organize their feeds, it must be easy.
Btw: if you haven't visited our w4 beta site recently, you will find some interesting news. I especially like the new floating window in the topic view and the classifications pages organization. It definetly helps understanding where we are going.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
2:26:00 AM comment [] trackback []
Monday, August 25, 2003"BlogTV is a fun and easy way for you to create your own personalized blog. Not unlike television, BlogTV offers several channels for you to "STAR" on.Whether it is you.BlogAmerica.com or you.BlogSports.com you can create your own channel to begin publishing and documenting your life without having to know how to program and design a Web page. If you can use email you can use BlogTV.
Because you can create your own channel which reflects your personality, your interests, and lifestyle you have a distinct advantage when it comes to acquiring and maintaining an audience. Not just any audience mind you, but a relevant audience (people that you enjoy writing for and communicating with). This is where your relevant community begins--on your own BlogTV channel."
2:36:10 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 24, 2003Nico Lumma just pinged me to tell me about his companies new German language blog listing site BLOGG.de. The site is building a categorized directory of blogs and they are using a combination of trackback and ENT 1.0 to do it.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]
10:45:59 PM
comment [] trackback [] The shape of things to come:
mt courseware documentation and templates
Okay, I think I’ve “gone about as fur as ah c’n go” for this first version of the courseware. I’m ready to call it version 1.0, I guess, with all the caveats that go along with that. You can see it in action on my fall course site, though I’d respectfully ask that you not post comments related to the courseware itself there—it’s a production class site. This post would be a better place to discuss process....
[mamamusings]
Awesome!
4:32:35 AM comment [] trackback []
Inspired inspiration
The positive energy and motivation radiating from this post is tangible.
How BloggerCon has changed me.
"A single event has given me a focus that I haven't had for four years..."[house of warwick]
I'm reminded of the energy that eminated from DaveNet and Scripting News in those early days of RSS, XML-RPC and weblogs.
It's very gratifying to witness that same spark of "infectious enthusiasm" continuing to spread.
Go for it, Steve!
4:09:16 AM comment [] trackback []
Saturday, August 23, 2003"Sometime around the beginning of this year, I realized that I was encountering way too many sites to write an individual weblog post about each and every one. My threshold for what to post was way to high to catch many of the sites I was laughing at, engaged by, and sending on to my friends. Instead of losing these links thanks to my imperfect brain, I decided like many others to create a separate weblog just for the ephemeral sites that didn't deserve discussion."
(via overstated) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
3:06:51 PM
comment [] trackback [] HaloScan.com - Weblog Commenting [Daypop Top 40]
5:25:59 AM
comment [] trackback [] Yahoo Korea Blog
(via Jeremy Zowodny's blog) [Scripting News]
4:35:09 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 22, 2003Every once in a while one comes across a post that ignites a whole bunch of ideas. This one from Mathemagenic did it for me: BING!
Sebastien Paquet asks about value/problems of using Trackback in Radio and use of other add-ons too. This is what I think about it:
1. In spite of Trackback in Radio bugs and features it was easy to install and it works. It just doesn't make all the things I want. No breaking Radio in my case.
I agree with Stephen Downes who is "not sure trackback is the way to do it, because it means that we listen only to those with specialized software". I'm not relying much on incoming trackback, but I don't mind pinging others (especially Movable Type users) who use it more.
For me the main value from using Trackback would be in tracking connections between your own posts. For example, if you write something now and link to your earlier post there is no way that readers of that post know that there is a follow up. Trackback can solve this problem. I'm not sure if it does now because it worked for some of my posts and not for others. Will try to get some clarity on this.
2. This brings me to the broader issue: tools to digest your own blog.
I use my weblog as a learning diary. In this case connections between posts (=development of ideas) is one of the most important things (Jay Cross about this) and one of the less supported. Do you have the same pain of finding earlier posts relevant for your current "to be post"? I have, even with many ways I use to seach my weblog. Yesterday I tried to find posts that I could use for my PhD literature review. It pains.
Just think about this: if I (the author and the person who uses these pages most) have problem of tracking ideas how easy then it is for others?
3. On of the tools I use to track ideas in my weblog is liveTopics. It works well, although it's not bugs-free and it's not supported any more since Matt Mover works on k-collector.
I wrote earlier about it in comments to one of my posts:
' got to explore these thoughts a little further...
Good value! "I believe in work around k-collector, but I think that it serves totally different goal - discovering emergent connections between people. I use liveTopics to provide an alternative navigation for my weblog and I value this aspect as well (especially given not-easy-to-find-a-way chronological structure of blogs). Both aspects are important for me and it's really pity that I have to make choices between these two tools. May be one day k-collector guys will also provide "one blog" functionality next to "group" functionality."
The only reason I'm not switching to k-collector is simple: I have news aggregator, Technorati and long list of other tools to track my connections with others, but I don't have many ways to connect my own posts. liveTopics is one of the tools that makes it possible. [Mathemagenic]
11:49:15 PM comment [] trackback []
Movable Type meets Mujahedeen
Ben Hammersley -- adventurer, athlete, programmer, RSS-wonk, reporter -- has decided to pull up stakes and become a freelance reporter for a while. In Afghanistan. And he's going to report it all in his blog. Jeez. "So, anyway. I figure it's about the time this nano-publishing journalism-of-the-future meme started to get off its collective bottom. So I'm off to Afghanistan for your education and pleasure. I fly to Islamabad tomorrow, and from there by train or bus to Peshawar. On Saturday I'll be crossing the Khyber Pass and making my way to Kabul. All being well, technology and men-with-guns willing, I'll be posting from every stop, and weblogging from Afghanistan for ten days or so. Movable Type meets Mujahedeen. It's going to be fun."
[Boing Boing Blog]
2:43:26 AM comment [] trackback []
Blogs listed on Yahoo
[thomas n. burg | randgänge]
1:56:43 AM comment [] trackback []
zBlogger [Daypop Top 40]
1:44:42 AM comment [] trackback []
Thursday, August 21, 2003Comprehensive list of Microsoft .Net bloggers
[thomas n. burg | randgänge]
12:57:33 PM
comment [] trackback [] The Million-Blog Multitude
A benchmark event: Idle Words' blog census reaches the million-blog mark.
[Blogalization Community]
12:40:08 PM
comment [] trackback [] Kevin Marks blogs: "How I emailed myself into a job ....
... and blogged my way out of it" [Joi Ito's Web Lite]
11:47:10 AM
comment [] trackback [] Wednesday, August 20, 2003"KAYWA Ltd is a privately held company based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by a group of weblog enthusiasts in 2003, KAYWA offers products that make publishing on the Internet effortless, mobile and personal. KAYWA believes in the power of weblogs to fundamentally change communication patterns and social networks. It is our mission to help this transition towards a more expressive Internet by creating products that empower users to publish. With KAYWA, users can finally write back."
(via KAYWA AG) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
11:58:17 PM
comment [] trackback [] Blogdigger's Top Topics
It has been really interesting to watch the aggregation-by-topic. For the most part, the general categories bubble to the top, with a few exceptions from blogs that post stuff frequently. A quick look at Blogdigger's top topics gives you a good idea on what might be good to search on:
- Politics
- News
- Personal
- Music
- Iraqi-American War
- Technology
- Blogging
- Headline
- Headline
- Humor
- Tech
- Science
- Elections
- Weblog
- Movies
- Internet
I'm thinking about putting links for the Top Topics on the Blogdigger home page. Probably later in the week...
(via Blogdigger) [Channel 'social_software']
11:37:28 PM comment [] trackback []
Journalist Michel Dumais interviews
Dan Gillmor, JD Lasica, and Doc Searls - all three of whom wear both blogger and professional journalist hats - about the relationship between weblogs and journalism. Look towards the end of the post for full transcripts of the interviews.
[Seb's Open Research]
11:03:00 PM comment [] trackback []
Nicely written 'Baghdad Burning' weblog
(via NewsIsFree) [Robot Wisdom]
10:50:28 PM comment [] trackback []
My Blog Experiment
For his Ph.D. thesis project on weblog writing style, Scott Nowson, a PhD student in Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, is soliciting a month's worth of blog entries from native-English speaking authors of personal blogs. He has a page on studying blogs and maintains a weblog himself detailing the progress of the project.
[Follow Me Here...]
3:05:50 PM comment [] trackback []
Eric Zorn Now Blogging on Chicago Tribune Site
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has started a blog called Breaking Views
[The Shifted Librarian]
3:01:26 PM comment [] trackback []
I'm Yours, Body And Soul—But Not Blog (LazyBlawg)
Phil Wolff observes that "One in 4 or 5 bloggers will start a new job this year. Maybe 750 thousand. They and their blogs are at risk." Phil is interested in developing some form language for use in employment agreements that would govern "my blog, my rights to blog, my ownership of my blog, and explicit freedom from retaliation for anything I post."
Justin Hitt offers an excellent comment in response to Phil's post, discussing employee/independent contractor distinctions and his own experiences in negotiating similar issues with employers. Justin's comment helps emphasize how a "one size fits all" approach might not be the best solution to this problem. The same thing can be said about licensing, but that doesn't make Creative Commons any less valuable, or, on the other hand, any guarantee against potential litigation. Could a Creative Commons-type system nevertheless be implemented for this situation? Of course, in theory, but Creative Commons represents a unique combination of expertise, commitment, and funding, and unfortunately I don't think it's realistic to expect such programs to spring up wherever a legal powderkeg awaits a match.
As for Phil's hope that a boilerplate "Blogging Employee's" agreement could include a provision ensuring "explicit freedom from retaliation for anything I post?" If someone manages to negotiate such an arrangement, I want that person as my lawyer. I cannot imagine any employer willingly giving any employee carte blanche to potentially defame the company or its representatives, or to disclose its competitive confidential information. That said, there may be work-related subjects an employer would be happy, even eager, to have employees blog about, and there may be employers that would make a church-and-state distinction for employee writing that is purely non-work related. More reasons why it's smart to address such concerns up front, and not to take on employment terms and conditions without some trusted legal advice.
My panel at the Weblog Business Strategies conference touched on these kinds of issues, and I have linked to all the panel coverage I could locate from B&B's About page. The panel also took a stab at answering some of Phil's further and related questions after the conference ("Drops Of Jupiter").
[Bag and Baggage]
2:57:05 PM comment [] trackback []
Blog for the world's poorest
Bloggers have been trashed lately for being too parochial and introspective. In an attempt to hitch the medium to a global cause the Guardian (in an editorial ) today is launching a political blog with one aim: the abolition of all agricultural subsidies. In less than a month the World Trade Organisation negotiations will resume in Cancun, Mexico. There is still a vast gap between the desire of developing countries for a big cut in the $300 billion a year handed out in subsidies to Western farmers and the mood of governments, heavily influenced by agricultural lobbies, to keep the status quo in one form or another. Yet the abolition of subsidies is the nearest thing to a free lunch in economics.
Developing countries - with natural advantages in growing products like sugar, cotton and cereals - would be given an unprecedented boost if they didn't have to compete with heavily subsidised products dumped in their back gardens at uneconomic prices by Western (ie European and American) producers. And the West would have $300 billion (equivalent to over $200 a year for each of us) to spend on schools, hospitals or whatever. Reform won't happen by tinkering with the incredibly complex system of subsidies. There is only one answer: we must KICK ALL AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES. Join us and KICKAAS. Only the politicians stand in the way.
[onlineblog.com]
2:53:53 PM comment [] trackback []
Ben Hammersley is one of the first with ads in his RSS feed...
Notice how complex the RSS RDF laden feed he uses is. Dann Sheridan has some ideas on dynamic ad placement in RSS streams.
[John Robb's Weblog]
2:10:36 PM comment [] trackback []
Blogstakes -- sweepstakes for blogs -- launches
My former Silicon Alley Reporter Magazine colleague Brian "Dr. Frankensite" Alvey, host of the very cool "Meet the Makers" web building workshop series, just launched a new project called Blogstakes. It's a sort of sweepstakes that rewards blogs that link to it by giving them the same prizes that the people they referred win ( = if you win a Hawaiian vacation on Blogstakes, so does the blog that referred you). I'll let Brian explain:
A friend of a friend was asking me for ways to promote his product that were better than begging top bloggers for links in exchange for samples. I took more than a week to respond since I didn't have any answers. Then I told him he should do a contest and give out prizes to the randomly-chosen winners AND the blogs that sent them. The more I explained about it technically (how it should track 'referer strings' rather than force blogs to sign up for affiliate tracking URLs and how that means everyone can just use the same link to the contest), he explained that it was beyond him to build.Link, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]So I built it. It was quietly launched yesterday afternoon and already this morning I've had a bunch of requests from people who want to either interview me about it or have things that they want to give away (or both). Many of them have been people with blog-related software that they want me to promote. I did a lot of testing of the concept and the execution to make sure it conveys the message that I'm just a guy who builds Web sites, not a Raging Cow marketing outsider who is here to rip you off and the feedback was great. People were worried that they were going to refer thousands of people to my site and I was going to steal their email addresses and my sponsors were going to spam them endlessly. They're not, because they never get to see individual data on anyone except the winners. So the privacy policy is really simple and in-your-face. We hate spam too.
Another person was concerned about having to link to contests that they didn't want to win. The easy answer is: link to contests you want to win and don't link to ones you don't want to win. And already some people are adding this to their non-content column -- in fixture positions just like their Blogrolling lists and Blogshares icons. That was without prompting. They just saw that as how these contests will fit into their blogs. That was really cool to see. In many ways it's a social experiment. I've been asked why the contests last 4 weeks and 6 weeks. "Won't they have a ton of interest in the first week and then die off?" Who knows? I'm going to find out.
2:01:45 PM
comment [] trackback [] The world as a blog
Congrats to Mikel. Dave finally discovers Mikel Maron's Geoblog site..
"Weblogs.com + Geocoding + RSS." [Scripting News]
Congrats Mikel. You've finally made it. [Marc's Voice]
1:49:23 PM comment [] trackback []
Macromedia's Version of Weblogs.com
After seeing John's post about Macromedia weblogs, I took a closer look at the site and found this page. It look like they are attempting to replicate what you get from Weblogs.com. The problem is that they are using Cold Fusion on the backend, which can't scale to meet the demands of hundreds of thousands of weblogs pinging it with updates. Furthermore, the list appears to be dated or not yet set up to receive pings. [Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
1:46:01 PM comment [] trackback []
MP3s via RSS 
An experiment with RSS enclosures. If this works, users who subscribe to my feed with an enclosure-aware aggregator will have an MP3 of the interview Chris Lydon did with me last month, with no click-wait. [Scripting News]
Whoa!! I got it, Dave. Very nice. [Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
1:44:02 PM comment [] trackback []
Blogstakes launch
A new sweepstakes leverages the network and in particular the segment that develops weblogs and other forms of independent content.
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
1:20:37 PM comment [] trackback []
Lessig and Trippi
Over at Blog for America, Lawrence Lessig interviewed Joe Trippi. Too much good stuff to even bother trying to do pullquotes... [Backup Brain]
1:16:36 PM comment [] trackback []
Tuesday, August 19, 2003I've received my first donation and I've updated the tote board under the donate button. Every bit helps. John, thanks for the vote of confidence! [house of warwick]
3:51:02 AM
comment [] trackback [] BlogHost - cheap blog hosting with blogging tools like MovableType pre-installed
"Jace Herring of Bloghosts wrote me the following: "We are happy to do the install and setup of lots of different types of software including blog software, to image galleries, to whatever else you might need. We will assist in these installations completely free of charge by request after your account is activated. "Check out their Summer Special that end on August 31.[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
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* cPanel7 Control PanelSome of the Blogware they install is:
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2:09:53 AM
comment [] trackback [] Monday, August 18, 20032:48:41 AM
comment [] trackback [] Skynet blogs - a new Belgian weblog service (in Dutch)
[Daypop Top 40]
2:40:57 AM
comment [] trackback [] Howard Dean Weblog Dan Gillmor is at the campaign headquaters and reports. [owrede_log]
1:55:59 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 17, 2003"I've put together a service to send out alerts via AIM whenever someone reads a blog entry." [Scripting News]
3:53:44 PM
comment [] trackback [] Grade School Report for my weblog
Actually in New Zealand, we don't have "grade schools" (they're called Primary and Secondary schools here). But I wanted to subtly reference Jon Udell's influential article called "Grade School CMS". i.e. I'm just being a smart ass :-)
Things I want to do with my weblog:
- Contribute formal articles on the subject of the Two-Way Web. I'm still thinking about this, but one idea is to write a weekly "(insert Two-Way Web subject) for Newbies" article. eg "RDF for Newbies", or "The RSS Wars for Newbies". The Two-Way Web is on the cusp of becoming mainstream. Lots of people will soon take up blogging, moblogging, and other New School Tools. People will want to know what it all means, without getting into the minutiae of XML Namespaces etc.
- Develop my Web of Ideas application. I've set up an experimental Movable Type weblog to develop this notion. If anyone wants write access to my MV weblog to help develop it, you're more than welcome - send me an email.
- Continue my Literary Web Development articles, as I enjoy writing these. e.g. my Moby Dick/Semantic Web post was quite popular, although personally I was just as pleased with my XML as Literature post (which nobody linked to).
- Re-design my weblog. I've gotten some inspiration from the recent re-designs of Julie Wiggins and Keith Robinson. I need to make my weblog unique-looking, plus I wouldn't mind testing out some modern CSS design techniques.
- Synch my weblog blogroll with my RSS Aggregator subscriptions. This seems an easy win and a sensible thing to do.
Above all I want to keep following these principles when I write to my weblog:
- Be Original. Contribute something new to the Web of Ideas, don't just regurgitate what other bloggers are saying.
- Keep it simple. OK I admit I've been influenced by Dave Winer and Jon Udell here, but I do believe that successful Web Development is all about making things work. If it works for the user, becomes popular, and there is room to bootstrap to new levels, then that's a success. This is how Tim Berners-Lee built the Web (and he's probably my main influence).
- Automatic for the People. This isn't really relevant for my weblog writing, but it's another principle I believe in for IT/Web Dev. Where possible, automate it. Of course, this is where most of the challenge (and fun?) comes in with Web Development!
Wow, I have lots of things to do! Isn't the Web great ;-)
[Read/Write Web]3:24:50 PM
comment [] trackback [] Faceted Movable Type
Tanya Rabourn has written a blog entry about combining Movable Type and faceted navigation
(via Column Two) [Channel 'blog_network']
1:10:03 PM
comment [] trackback [] BlogShares
Joe inspired me to take a different approach to Blogshares. through gifts and no sales, plus playing Joe's game, I was able to increase my Blogshare worth and take my blog private. It was fun. I've subscribed.
I've created ShareBlogs as the new home for Joe's-slightly-less-crazy-but-fun-nevertheless game and should be moving forward with it soon. Hope to see some of you players there... ;~) [jenett.radio][house of warwick]
1:01:02 PM
comment [] trackback [] RSS Is Amazing!
Here's an example of the power of RSS. I posted my "Bye, Bye VCR" entry at 6:16pm. Between 6:16pm and 6:26pm, Dave Winer picked it up in his news aggregator and linked to in on Scripting News. Dave's post made it into my news aggregator at 6:26pm. If that's not powerful, I don't know what is. [Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
1:51:33 AM
comment [] trackback [] A Powerful List Of Business Blogging Resources
When Camilo put out the call for ideas to enhance his presentation to the CIO about blogs in corporate environments, he got some excellent responses, including pointers to a series of essays from Dave Pollard, a paper from Martin Roell, and insights from Anil Dash. All are worth some quality time if you are analyzing or advocating the role of weblogs within your company. [Bag and Baggage]
1:14:45 AM
comment [] trackback [] Saturday, August 16, 2003
Well, at least about weblogs surviving in the mad business of advertising. Have a look at more brains. The full article is here as a PDF file, featuring yours truly, The Cartoonist.
Oh bugger - I forgot to mention - it's all in German. Get it translated via Google and whatnot. Sorry about this. [The Cartoonist]
2:36:22 PM comment [] trackback []
The commercialization of weblogs...
Joi Ito points at the Economist story and waxes philosophic on the commercialization of weblogs. Which reminded me of of a piece I wrote in 2001 covering similar ground. There are two easy ways to commercialize blogging. The first is to become the known expert on a subject people are willing to subsidize knowing about (the Instapundit model), or to become a source of entertainment and/or enlightenment (the James Lilieks or Dave Berry type of writer.
A second way, but one I think depends more heavily on micropayments, is that of the data miner... [Teal Sunglasses]
2:33:13 PM comment [] trackback []
Bloggercon
I'm close to getting bored, but I know that there's a few people who are keeping track of the BloggerCon... [Backup Brain]
2:21:29 PM comment [] trackback []
Thursday, August 14, 2003So you have a blog or a website and you do have your pages listed in Google. Do you have several hundred visitors a day come to your site because they found you in Google? In nearly every site I have seen over the past two weeks, I have identified at least three or four things in most every site that, when minor changes are made, can get more free referrals from Google than at present. Why pay for AdWords referrals when you are not yet making the most of Google free-referrals? You always will want to use AdWords to add to the traffic you get free from Google, but right now, let us focus on getting more from what is already free. [Microdoc News]
12:29:22 PM
comment [] trackback [] Aren't Links and Titles part of the Bill of Rights?
AOL Journals and iBlog
"OK, I was never serious about AOL Journals - but I was curious. Now I've discovered a flaw that makes it almost worthless as a blogging tool. In AOL Journals you must choose between making an entry with a title (which is essential), or making an entry which contains links (which is also essential). You can't have both - and this is an anathema to any self-respecting blogger. This is because you can make an entry with a link by using AOL instant messenger - but when you use AOL instant messenger, you can't designate a title for your entry. Now there is a way of editing an entry, when you could theoretically add a title, but if you try this, you will lose your link! Because the stupid editor only handles plain-text - it doesn't even support any HTML tags! So until this is fixed, it's quite useless as a blogging tool." [explodedlibrary.info]Do you suppose Microsoft is paying attention? Morgan goes on to note the following:
"The trouble with iBlog is that I'm yet to find a iBlog blog which seems to offer a good RSS feed. This is crucial for a blog - your blog may as well be invisible if it doesn't have a reliable RSS feed (this was something which AOL at least, could get working)."Extra emphasis on the word "crucial," except apply it all types of web sites.
[The Shifted Librarian]
12:22:04 PM
comment [] trackback [] Baghdad Blogger
As you go into Baghdad from the west there is graffiti on the walls that says "Welcome to the Republic of Darkness and Unemployment".
Salam Pax [The Guardian]
11:46:34 AM
comment [] trackback [] Can Johnny Blog?
This may be the year that school blogs come into their own. A school blog is simply a Weblog - an online blend of diary, links and commentary - that is used by teachers and students.
By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL [NYT]
11:43:05 AM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft's Blogging Future revealed through employment ads ?!?
Hmm. It's only logical that MS would get involved in this. No conspiracy. Just good business sense.
"Chuq Von Rospach sends along the following employment links at Microsoft. All use the word "blog" or "blogging" in the description of the position:
# Software Development Engineer
# Software Development Engineer
# Site Manager (MSDN)
# Software Development Engineer (MSN Messenger)
Read them carefully and you get a flavor of what Microsoft is up to in this space. There's a clear intention to bake it into MSN and Messenger, and to go against AOL Journals.
Interesting, to say the least" [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
1:37:09 AM comment [] trackback []
Online Communication Planning: How I Would Implement Weblogs in Business
We are in the process of doing this at E-xact.
"I see two possibilities for businesses to use Weblogs: Internally and Externally
1. Intranet-based Internal Weblogs:
...
2. External Weblogs: While the tool and concept is the same, I think external Weblogs are a different animal for businesses. The basic reason is how they represent a divergence from traditional Marketing. Traditionally, I think Marketing wants to "control the message" and build loyalty and awareness via branding- which does work.
However, Weblogs offer an opportunity to break away from controlling the message and allow businesses to build relationships via people with real voices on a web site- voices that represent the brand and the message in new ways.
...
How?
Well, we're seeing new examples all the time. If I were running a company- here is how I'd do it... This example might not be as appropriate for something like GE, but I hope it serves as a good example.
1. I would find someone (or mutiple people) in the company who has a great record of connecting with customers. Maybe it's not a VP or Marketing person- but someone with a personality that customers seem to like. It would need to be someone who knows the organization and embodies the culture and attitude of the organization and is comfortable communicating electronically.
2. I would set up some basic guidelines for posting in the Weblog. No trade secrets, competitive information, no secret future plans- Marketing Communications should know what not to talk about...
3. I would set up what is good to talk about- and this will be hard to grasp. I'd encourage personal anecdotes, random stories and pictures from the office, observations about the industry, references to the company in the news, references to upcoming events, random highlights, employee profiles, clean jokes etc.
4. Create a rule: No editing of Weblog posts by Executives. The company has to trust the person enough to let them be themselves and write in their own style. If you edit- you're missing the point. This will be hard.
5. In the beginning, I'd make the Weblog a less obvious part of the site. Let visitors find it, but don't promote it on the front page for a while. Let it develop and let the person find their voice. Once the Weblog develops, there may be an opportunity to make it more obvious and perhaps think of it as a part of the front page.
6. Once (if) it become valuable, make it more accessible, offer email subscriptions, promote it actively, link to other related Weblogs, have fun.
These are just my speculations on how it might work. Below I've provided some examples and links to others..."
[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
1:34:49 AM comment [] trackback []
Wednesday, August 13, 2003At tolerant Microsoft, some wonder when journals will cross line..
Allen, a Microsoft program manager for Web data, may have been the first company employee to begin blogging, launching his weblog about three years ago. Today, about 150 Microsoft employees maintain personal weblogs, by some estimates, and the number is growing steadily.
"My main worry with a lot of new webloggers coming on board is that somebody is not going to know where to draw the line and blow it for everybody else," Allen said in an interview. "But I think people just kind of try to use common sense."
(TODD BISHOP
- SeattlePI) [via Technorati]
11:57:16 PM comment [] trackback []
Bemused About Blogging
Dennis Kennedy chimed in yesterday about the ABA's July 25 Bemused About Blogging article: [Bag and Baggage]
6:30:44 AM comment [] trackback []
Blah Blah Blog
The most telling sign that the Internet is no longer the cool American frontier? Blogs have been overrun by the establishment. By Maureen Dowd. [New York Times: Opinion]
6:09:52 AM comment [] trackback []
Weblog Link Series
Shelley Powers has published an excellent series of articles about linking in Weblogs. Part 1 -- The Impermanence of Permalinks Part 2 -- Re-weaving the Broken Web Part 3 -- Architectural Changes for Friendly Permalinking Part 4 -- Sweeping out the webs Since I'm thinking about making a move with... [Artima MacOS Buzz]
5:49:29 AM comment [] trackback []
Monday, August 11, 2003Inspired by Unwirer, the story that Charlie Stross and I co-wrote in public, on a blog, Warren Ellis has decided to write a novel on a blog he's created for the purpose (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 are already online). Link Discuss (via Charlie's Diary) [Boing Boing Blog]
10:19:18 PM
comment [] trackback [] ISSN for weblogs
The definitive reference, by Clark.
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
8:20:49 PM
comment [] trackback [] Easyjournal.com weblogging & "social software" news.... via judith meskill's knowledge notes...: statesman.com: "Adam Weinroth has built one of the busiest Web sites in Austin" Easyjournal.com... Web experts put it in the realm of "social software" ... [Channel 'social_software']
8:13:12 PM
comment [] trackback [] Building Permanence into Nano Publishing
Building a Nano Publishing business using a weblog platform is a huge investment. There is the investment in time that the weblog writer puts into writing and publishing each article, the investment in time in reading other people's weblogs and responding to them, as well as the investment in money required to pay for hosting, development of artwork, and other content investments that may be required. Building up a large store of permalinks and their impermanence and also provide a guide to understanding what actually does happen should you need to move from your current hosting platform. I provide tips on what actually you need to invest in to make sure you develop a good permanent nano-publishing base.
[Microdoc News]
1:51:56 PM
comment [] trackback [] New Features for Blogdigger
Got some new Blogdigger features for ya.
The first is topics. Blogdigger now returns results of topic (subject, category) matches for your search terms. You will notice at the bottom of search results that have topic data, a link to the topic is displayed. Also, popular topics are displayed at the top of the search results page. You can search explicitly for posts from a specific topic by using the "subject:" prefix. So a search for "subject:politics" would return all the posts that were classified into the politics category by their authors.
Right now, only the <dc:subject> field is being used for this data, so it is mostly RSS 1.0 feeds that are returned. I am working on RSS 2.0 (categrory, ENT) solutions. You might recall, way back when, that there was some discussion about incorporating data from the TopicExchange into Blogdigger. That is still the plan, hopefully soon something will be in place.
The interesting thing about this, is that I didnt think it would work so well. I figured most people use diverse names for their topics, and there wouldnt be a lot of commonality, just a lot of garbage. Turns out their is a fair amount of garbage, but also a whole lot of commonality. Topics like politics, music, news, technology and others all have posts from many different blogs. And remember, you can subscribe to all of these topic searches in RSS!
The second new feature is the ad bar on the side of the results page. This is powered by Amazon Web Services. I wrote a small service that takes your search terms and sends them to Amazon and returns the top 10 book results. I hope it isnt too obtrusive and all proceeds go to making Blogdigger better (i.e., buying more hard drive space). Please let me know if the ads are taking to long to load; I am working on a caching mechanism, but I can take them down in the interim. And if you want to get the ad bar for your site, email me, we can work it out.
Many thanks to Michael Fagan, Phil Pearson, Bill Kearney and Brother Mike for the input, feedback, swift kicks and help with this.
Enjoy [Blogdigger Development Blog]1:49:17 PM
comment [] trackback [] Comments in RSS
We've added a separate Comments feed in our sidebar, but this is merely a workaround. Steven Garrity sends word that there's an includedComments RSS Module Proposed Specification online. "With a simple namespace extension, we can enable inline comment syndication for aggregators who wish to use them. Users may then bring comments into their microconent aggregation as a valuable source of information and community interaction." UPDATE: The Comment API was last revised on March 20th this year. By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
1:43:05 PM
comment [] trackback [] TypeLists
One of the better TypePad features is TypeLists, just a list of links, what I use to make "Linkorama" to the right. Now, we all can't be Anil, and I am jealous of having an RSS feed for a TypeList,... [Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
12:49:21 PM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 10, 20033:47:21 PM
comment [] trackback [] Saturday, August 09, 2003This is why blogging, wikis and other forms of 'social software' are important. They change and enhance our soical practices.
"Says Rheingold, who thinks this wave will be as big as the PC and the Net: "The killer apps of tomorrow will not be hardware or software, but social practices." It sounds a little scary. But maybe that's a mark of something big."
(via The Quest for the Next Big Thing)[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
1:20:35 PM
comment [] trackback [] Linking from Other Weblogs to yours with TrackBack
Nice 2 paragraph explantion of the most common application of TrackBack. Note that TrackBack could be used for other things like the often used example of updating your blog with what is plyaing on your MP3 player.
Note that I said "linking from" - usually linking is about linking to another web page, but TrackBack lets you link from someone else's weblog to your web page. It's typically used to alert that weblog's readers that you've linked to it because you had something to say about it, and then someone reading that weblog can follow your trackback link to see what you had to say. This is what makes it an interesting development in the history of web linking: the web's lack of two-way linking is a classic topic for Old Hypertext Guys to complain about, but now we can do it. (Well, sort of.)
For example, I once wrote a weblog entry titled Link Typing: Who cares?. Jeremy Smith posted an entry on his own weblog that commented on mine. To make it possible for people reading my entry to find out about his comments, he added an entry to the TrackBack listing for "Link Typing: Who cares?" that linked to his entry. By adding an old-fashioned HTML link from his weblog entry to mine and a TrackBack link from mine to his, he essentially created a two-way link. If I had written a new entry responding to his comments, I could have added a TrackBack link from the weblog entry with his comments back to my response. This can continue as a linked "conversation," and people have written software to follow these threads.
(via O'Reilly Network: Linking from Other Weblogs to yours with TrackBack [August 08, 2003]) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
1:16:36 PM
comment [] trackback [] Technorati Tutorial, Part 1
Lilia Efimova at Mathemagenic asked an interesting question about Technorati on her weblog today, and I popped by (thanks to my watchlist) and answered her questions. Given the interest, I thought I'd republish my response here, along with a few elaborations. Lilia asked, Does anyone knows how Technorati works? Do they process blog homepages only? Or only items in RSS feeds? Or only things "not older than ..."? I wonder because I usually observe some fluctuations in numbers of inbound blogs and inbould links. E.g. yesterday I had 100+ inbound blogs and today it's 80+. It would be interesting to know why these things change. I tried Technorati site and weblog of David Sifry with no luck. I guess this is a quite typical question that user has about systems that digest information: what are the criteria that are used? Some basics about Technorati 1) We spider weblogs, and correlate each weblog's outbound links to any page on your blog/site 2) Technorati works on any URL - not just URLs for weblogs. For example, you can see what people are saying about an interesting article or favorite company, and get an instant read on the conversations going on around that article or site. 3) The simplest way get your weblog included in the Technorati index is to ping us whenever you update your weblog. That puts you in the high-priority queue for indexing. You can save the page as a bookmark, or you can program your weblog software to do... [Sifry's Alerts]
1:08:55 PM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft's Blogging Intentions
Just got a note from a Microsoft PR person, answering some questions I had about how the company plans to... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
12:45:22 PM
comment [] trackback [] BlogShares Hostile Takeovers are really very fun
Just had another hostile takeover of one of my portfolio blogs. Lawrence Lessig was taken by Ron Shelton using a Legal Brief (artefact). Very appropriate if you ask me. This is a very interesting portion of the game that I have just learned about courtesy of Joe Jenett and Joe's Crazy Game. If you have not participated in Joe's Game head on over as quick as you can, Phase 5 will be open over the weekend for your sharing pleasure.
[Dewayne Mikkelson and his Radio WebDog, Shadow]
12:37:05 PM
comment [] trackback [] System Administration Quick Links
If you are a Java weblogger chances are good that you are running your weblog on your own site or are contemplating the possibility. If so, bookmark this O'Reilly page. This resource provides some great helps that will make system administration a whole lot easier. The page provides articles that covers backup options, implementing DNS, setting up... [Artima Web Buzz]
12:31:48 PM
comment [] trackback [] MT courseware update
I’m chugging along on the MT as courseware project. It’s forcing me to brush off my rusty SQL skills, learn more about MT plugins, and really think about organization of information. All good things. I struggled for a while with the calendars, because I wanted them to link not to a specific entry (which is the default in the provided templates), but rather to a daily archive. That way all important entries for a given day—due dates, class topics/readings, in-class exercises—would be displayed together on that date. I finally found the solution on Sillybean’s blog... [mamamusings]
3:09:19 AM
comment [] trackback [] Site statistics for weblogs
More pragmatic questions: what site statistics could you recommend to use with a weblog?
I'm most interested to know the following about my weblog:
- history of referers and tracking changes (quantitative, for the rest there is Technorati :)
- search strings and their change over time
- most popular visited pages (I have some insight about popular linked pages from Blogdex)
- RSS requests/traffic vs. pages requests/traffic
- visitors that are RSS readers (this comes down to knowing how many people are subscribed to your RSS)
[Mathemagenic]
2:55:10 AM
comment [] trackback [] Iran Translated
"things you always wished your english speaking friend could read ..."
[Blogalization Community]
2:42:54 AM
comment [] trackback [] BloggerCon 2003
I just got my invitation to BloggerCon 2003, hosted by amazing Dave Winer. Although I can't make it to the conference due to previous engagements, here are some juicy bits about the conference to entice you to go:
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Time is October 4. Place is Harvard Law School.
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It's a one-day Saturday conference, with an all-day open house on Sunday for impromptu meetings and discussions about anything you want to talk about.
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This is a user's conference. Technology is important, but at this conference the people who make the products are here to listen, to learn how people use the software, and to learn how we can improve it. This guarantees that something will actually get done here. It's an important role-reversal.
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Presenters include Glenn Reynolds, Joshua Marshall, Doc Searls, Scott Rosenberg, Adam Curry, Elizabeth Spiers, Jim Moore, Susan Mernit and more. Moderators: Lance Knobel, Ed Cone, Christopher Lydon and myself. And new discoveries, people we hadn't heard about until we set out to find the most interesting and eclectic blogs and bloggers.
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We're going to talk about how weblogs are used in politics, business, journalism, the law, medicine, engineering and education.
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We're going to have a lively discussion including Web Energy and lots of philosophy, great art and technology and lots of ideas.
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Our local host committee of Boston-based bloggers includes Cluetrain author David Weinberger, InfoWorld's Jon Udell, author Halley Suitt, MIT's Andrew Grumet and Tracey Adams, Harvard librarian Jessica Baumgart and Larry Bouthillier from Harvard Business School. They're here to make sure you find what you're looking for at Harvard and in the Boston area. If you have ideas for speakers, or people we should invite, please let any of us know, including the local hosts.
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Anyway, it's time to say that seating is very limited, so if you want to come, please sign up right away. The cost for this incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience is a mere $500, and if you're a student (please provide a photocopy of your ID) it's only $250. Harvard affiliates also qualify for the discount (Harvard ID, or harvard.edu mail address). We're using the money (where needed) to get the talent in and out of the city, and to put on a few great parties so we can all mingle, share ideas, and learn a lot.
You can reserve your space, right now, at this URL:
Looks like it's going to be a great party of a conference.
[Don Park's Daily Habit]2:42:11 AM
comment [] trackback [] Martian Soil...
Now this is truly cool... a blog on the news involving Mars and our explorations of that planet....
[Teal Sunglasses]
2:36:07 AM
comment [] trackback [] Orlando Vacationer weblog launched
I'm using Radio UserLand's categories feature to publish a new weblog at a separate domain. Orlando Vacationer is a weblog devoted to "Disney discounts, park perks, and tourist tips" for the Mouse-infested city that I visit with my family around 8-10 times a year. The domain is new and may not have propagated to all parts of the Internet yet, so if it can't be reached, try its category address.I'm going to write an article on Workbench about using Radio to publish a category that looks like an entirely separate weblog. Right now, the biggest issues to resolve are two problems in the RSS file: the title element calls it "Rogers Cadenhead: Orlando Vacationer" and a link element that is using a Workbench URL instead of orlandovacationer.com. [Workbench]
2:34:50 AM
comment [] trackback [] Salam Pax has a photoblog
The aliased Iraqi warblogger responsible for "Where is Raed" now has a photoblog, which contains some wonderful street scene images from Iraq. (Thanks, Emily!) [Boing Boing Blog]
2:30:07 AM
comment [] trackback [] The other syndication format [Daypop Top 40]
2:27:24 AM
comment [] trackback [] Weblogging ethics [Daypop Top 40]
2:25:34 AM
comment [] trackback [] David Pollard
reports that microcontent is on a roll.
"The top 75 Salon blogs received an aggregate 1,000,000 hits this month, a record and up 5% from last month. The aggregrate number of inbound links to the top 75 blogs is up 25% this month to over 3,000. We're still getting blogrolled in record numbers."
[John Robb's Weblog]2:24:23 AM
comment [] trackback [] How Technorati works? (2)
David Sifry answers my question about Technorati:
Here's the basics:Thanks for fast reply! And for fixing the category problem (I had it in my stats). I suggest that you add this explanation somewhere, so people know that inbound blog/link statistics are calculated based on links from homepages of other weblogs. (I guess I'm getting spoiled as a researcher: I want to know the method to trust results :) [Mathemagenic]1) We spider blogs, and match up their links to your blog - to anywhere on your blog 2) In the inbound blog list, we use the outbound links from the blog homepage, not from the archives 3) We do process RSS feeds an other metadata, but that doesn't affect your inbound blog stats 4) Nightly, we go through the database and re-calculate the number of inbound blogs and links, which helps us double-check our work and also allows us to create the interesting newcomers list, the interesting recent blogs list, etc.
We strice to be accurate all the time. Sometimes things slip through. For example, one of the reasons why your inbound blog count may be down today is because we were doing maintenance of the database last night to remove duplicate blogs - for example, Radio Userland has an obnoxious habit of sending pings to www.weblogs.com for each weblog "category" if you use multiple categories on your blog. Same information, same author, just link spam, basically. So, last night we cleaned out a bunch of that stuff. If you were linked from a bunch of people's blog categories, then you lost those inbound blogs. Then again, so did everyone else. :-)
The last thing to remember is that while we strive for accuracy and completeness, we still do have bugs and have to fix things. If you notice something strange, please don't hesitate to send us feedback (feedback@technorati.com) and let us know.
2:18:38 AM
comment [] trackback [] Authentication for RSS and Atom: Basic over HTTPS and digest over HTTP
We only have 2 mechanisms in 2003: 1. Basic Authentication over HTTPS 2. digest authentication over HTTP
We need something better but that's all we have today.
2. The auth mechanism chosen does matter on the server-side, but it depends on how big you are. A. If you are large then security matters, you have control over your servers, and because of that you can implement the security mechanism of your choice. (AOL, Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal) B. If, on the other hand, you are a smaller site, like a single user install of MT, then either auth:
1. Isn't as high of a concern.
2. It is a concern and you are a power user and would choose a hosting vendor with such things in mind.
In particular I want to note that:
1. I'm offering up this categorization to generate a discussion, I *want*
people to poke holes in it.
2. SixApart has the unique position of living in two worlds, as it were,
with MT and TypePad.
1. The auth mechanism chosen doesn't really matter for the client side. Let's be realistic, if AOL Journals goes with Digest authentication only and you are a vendor of client side tools, *you will find a way support Digest*.
(via Re: Authentication) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
2:12:30 AM comment [] trackback []
VC webloggers Introducing if you haven't started reading them yet are: Tim Oren of the Pacificafund. Charles Hudson, formely of In-Q-Tel. Ventureblog, a group weblog. Geekfishing, a group weblog, and Martin Tobias from Ignition Partners. Rich Miller of Breo Ventures. [John Robb's Weblog]
1:18:44 AM comment [] trackback []
Thursday, August 07, 2003TypePad is a wonderful idea whose time has finally come. UserLand started this with the right idea some time ago, but couldn't make a go of it. Now that the rest of the world is ready, Ben and Mena of Six Apart, developer of Movable Type, have rolled out TypePad.
I was ready to purchase the service, but I stopped to take an inventory of my blogging self. I have a server-based weblog product. It has multiple categories, scripting, automation, no recurring fees, supports multiple standards and is frequently updated and fixed.
I'm sticking with Radio, and I'm ready to evaluate Frontier and Manila. I want to create websites, give 'blog space to friends (through Manilla) and have a place to experiment and evangelize RSS and weblogs.
[house of warwick]I'll second that!
12:58:35 PM
comment [] trackback [] Filtered by experience
Linkfilter, an occasional source of MetaFilter material, takes community weblogging to a new level, granting experience points for participation and requiring contribution points to "keep one user from hogging the whole site on any given day." [MetaFilter]
3:02:58 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tracy Adams
"I wrote this entry without typing." [Scripting News]
12:09:11 AM
comment [] trackback [] I'm Not Doing the Ad Thing
(...)
Publishers take note: You will not pollute my aggregator and remain on my source list. There is a boundary of decorum you should not cross. When I see an interesting article I will go to your site and read it, seeing your ads. It is sufficient that you do not put the full text of your articles into the RSS feed. That will draw me to the site and the ads if I choose to read it.
To subject me to a litany of ads to read your headlines and single-sentence intro is absurd. I refuse to participate. F**k You Very Much. Strong letter to follow. [b.cognosco]
Yep, as inevitable as advertising in RSS may be... there is a limit.
12:01:05 AM comment [] trackback []
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
[Don Park's Daily Habit] 11:16:18 PM
comment [] trackback [] Tuesday, August 05, 2003(Google Weblog) [Daypop Top 40]
8:40:04 PM
comment [] trackback [] Bye-bye, Miss Blogistan Pie
Radio Free Blogistan reinvents "American Pie," and inspires this competition. Crank up the karaoke and step away from the laptop. Link, Discuss (Thanks, RCB) [Boing Boing Blog]
8:29:09 PM
comment [] trackback [] Mirror gets blogging
Back from sabbatical today, and catching up on my reading - and spam deletion. And it's good to see this blogging lark is catching on around Fleet Street. After the Times' tentative steps into the blogosphere earlier this month (sorry - they don't do a free archive), the Daily Mirror is getting in on the act with the launch of their iBlog, a tech blog which replaces the now-discontinued Amy's I column in the paper. "Nobody else does it", claimed the Mirror's new internet editor, Steve Purcell, in the Press Gazette the other day. Perhaps we should introduce him to that wonder of the blogosphere, Stephen Pollard, a freelance political journalist who spoke at last month's VoxPolitics event at the House of Commons. He managed to boast - more than once - that he was the only national newspaper hack to have a weblog, while sitting in a room with quite a few... national newspaper hacks with blogs. All in all, I'm sure the arrival of us national newspaper scribes is going to do wonders for the blogosphere's notoriously lax standards of accuracy. Oh yes. [onlineblog.com]
8:23:51 PM
comment [] trackback [] Trillian 2.0, webEdit & Jabber
I'm using the new Trillian 2.0 beta. So far it seems stable (just like 1.0), not too different - although I love the new tonal sound scheme. What I was really waiting for was the Jabber support. This works seamlessly (even though it's implemented as a plug-in) and has allowed me to develop a new application.
Frontier has a webservice based code editing environment. You can check objects out of the server, edit, then check them back in. Although there is no version control it is a convenient way to edit server code. However one of the issues is working out who is doing what. I thought about a web page, or an RSS feed, but it actually seemed like a nice IM application.
Since Dave, Jake, Lawrence, and Jeremy had already done the work this was as easy as adding a call-back to the Frontier webEdit code that said tcp.im.send( message ) and Voila! Instant notifications about who is working on what code.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]8:10:11 PM
comment [] trackback [] New Law Blogs Ahoy!!!
Robert Unterberger, a lawyer and legal writing instructor, has started a bevy of blogs: Law Student Writing Blog, Delaware Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, New Jersey Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, and Pennsylvannia Personal Injury Blog. I'm guessing that Robert probably is a personal injury lawyer. I'm also guessing that he is taking advantage of the newly relaxed FCC rules that allow for concentrated ownership of media.
Also, spotted on the horizon is a blog by C.E. Petit (also a practicing attorney) called Scrivener's Error. His focus is on law and publishing from the author's often sarcastic perspective.
Steph over at BlueBlanket has a new blawg called The Blawg Review that focuses on new developments in academia, such as new law journal articles.
Finally, James Carruth is a 2L at BYU Law School and he has a blog that he'd like ya'll to know about. Enjoy!
[Ernie the Attorney]8:08:44 PM
comment [] trackback [] Remember Me, Movable Type
By making it easier for people to comment on your blog, more people will. [Kalsey Consulting Group :: Measure Twice]
8:06:56 PM
comment [] trackback [] Trackback for Radio
RE: the multiple ping post to mamamusings:
I must apologise to Jake - the problem would seem to have been at my end.
Just a day earlier, I'd installed Mark Paschal's Kit .... activating it and meaning to check it out later. Upon seeing the Userland release of trackback, I naturally went ahead and fired away the first ping posts.
Now Kit employs an earlier implimentation of trackback which, I assume, running independantly from that of Userland, must have been responsible for the multiple pings.
I've since disabled Kit and tested successfully on Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!
So, lesson learnt... but not without the negative feedback, especially from a high profile blogger like Liz, for which I do apologise.
Thanks for the hard work, Jake - it actually works like a charm.
7:15:18 PM
comment [] trackback [] Medlogs
A weblog aggregator for medical weblogs Medserve, another aggregator, has medical RSS and scroll boxes available. [John Robb's Weblog]
5:49:51 AM
comment [] trackback [] Add a 'Blogs I Read' Search to Your Site
as seen on McGee's Musings
Another feature to look into.
5:02:41 AM
comment [] trackback [] Matt Round's weblog:
another adjectiveanimal weblog....has got to be one of the most superlativedang blog designs out there.
Well, it gets my vote - right down to the blog ...er, bogroll!
Good value!2:10:56 AM
comment [] trackback [] Monday, August 04, 2003"Bloggers love to talk about how this RSS-empowered medium is changing journalism forever. What's already clear to me is that blogs and 'traditional' news journalism are ideal partners for delivering, aggregating and analyzing news.For example, I'm subscribed to around 50 RSS feeds that deliver content to my news aggregator on a daily basis. What's happening here is that you quickly notice patterns where breaking news around the web feeds blog discussions, and vice versa. So in that context, Tech Watch is a natural fit for InfoWorld's news team. Expect to see us blog from events like trade shows, and link to enterprise IT news around the web with our spin. Some of us might even try to be funny (but don't hold your breath).
So what makes Tech Watch unique?
1. Every InfoWorld news reporter has been issued a username and password for posting to this site.
2. Some news stories will get blogged, others will run in the news section. If we develop a formula for exactly how those decisions are made I'll let you know.
4. The copy desk is cut out of the loop. Goodbye production latency, and hello group editing!" [InfoWorld, via Jon's Radio]
It will be interesting to watch how these reporters decide what is "news" and what is a blog entry. Will InfoWorld's famous RSS ads run in blog entries, too? And how does the copy desk (and the higher-ups) feel about being cut out of the loop? When InfoWorld evaluates this project in a few months, what will the consequences of cutting out the copy desk be? Will there be extra rewards or recognition (internally or externally) for those reporters that post more (or less) to the blog than to the news section?
InfoWorld is definitely doing some interesting things these days... [The Shifted Librarian]11:21:35 PM
comment [] trackback [] Extending Movable Type into University Courses
"One of the most active entries I've posted this year was my wish for a good open-source courseware package. I ended up looking at a few of the suggestions, but to get what I wanted, all would have required too steep a learning curve and customization process.
So, today I decided to see if I could leverage my existing knowledge of MovableType to generate something that met my basic needs for courseware. I plan on keeping the grades in our Prometheus-based courseware (saves me the hassle of dealing with password-protected stuff, and importing class lists), but putting everything else into a customized course blog. That allows me to make the course content easily accessible to students, colleagues, and other interested parties--and to allow comments and ideas from people outside of the class to become part of the [sic]
The beginnings of the course site can be found at http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/320/320-031/. I've done nothing yet with aesthetics, obviously, because I wanted to first think through functionality...." [mamamusings]
How cool is it that Liz Lawley is extending Movable Type to become basic courseware and documenting how she's doing it via her personal blog?! The next time someone questions the value of blogging, show them this entry!
Of course, it would be interesting if Liz could work the school's library into the course blog, too - assignments, resources, links to live help if available, etc. The key is for librarians to work with professors on these kinds of projects and then promote these services to the entire faculty.
On a side note, let's see how quickly trackback works to show this post to Liz. It will be yet another wonderful example of how blogs open the lines of communication, collaboration, and good-old-fashioned brainstorming!
[The Shifted Librarian]11:17:04 PM
comment [] trackback [] Firebird Web Panel to posts to blogs
I want a Web Panel that posts to any MetaWeblog API compatible blogging system including MovableType, Radio and Manila!
Hard to say exactly what might be "slightly out of date" in Ben's description of how Web Panels will work, but in a nutshell, it's just another web page that you can pop up on the left side of the current page. Bookmarks can be targeted to the Web Panel, for things like a weblog update page or your blogroll, or you can temporarily drag a page into the Web Panel, for things like search results or a list of links. So far, nice enough, but not too exciting. Now, picture your weblog posting form in the Web Panel, so that while you write an entry about a page, that page is sitting there in plain view, ready for you to copy another quote or make sure you spell someone's name right. Since Firebird's just as happy to display XUL (the interface language that defines the whole browser interface) as HTML, picture your posting form having rich text editing, and being designed in XUL not HTML, so that you get away from the clunky interface that HTML forms force on you, with everything being truly resizable and smooth instead
[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
2:40:34 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 03, 2003The world of weblogs isn't a big city. Excellent. I don't even begin to know how to excerpt this. Everybody, go read it in it's original form. Immediately. Then, and only then, go read this. [Sam Ruby]
11:52:28 PM
comment [] trackback [] We have met the enemy and he is us
(That's one of my favorite Pogo quotes of all time. So glad I’ve found a way to use it as a post title.) Sam Ruby points to a wonderful post by Ben Hammersley entitled "There is No They." What Ben describes the "small town" feel of weblogging where change is effected by "us" rather than "them" is a big part of why I like using weblogs in classes. I'm often asked by colleagues why I don't just use the conferencing tools already available to me[~]the Prometheus-based courseware, the FirstClass conferencing system, etc.... [Channel 'social_software']
11:30:11 PM
comment [] trackback [] Word about Blogware got out a little early...
Hey, if I see something in my referer's page, it's fair game! :-)
[The Scobleizer Weblog]
5:23:01 AM
comment [] trackback [] SQL Junkies weblog...
of course there's .NET blogs too...and now here's the Java blogs.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]
5:16:20 AM
comment [] trackback [] "TypePad News: TypePad Features and Pricing" [Daypop Top 40]
1:46:37 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sputnik: A Radio Userland/ Manila E-xact bridge PROTOTYPE
"Sputnik" is a proof of concept DLL (which I call "Sputnik" because it is the first step to doing e-commerce transactions using E-xact's software) that allows Frontier applications such as Manila and Radio weblogs to perform e-commerce transactions using E-xact's technology.
Development seems to have stalled on this ... what a pity (like so many promising Frontier/RU projects over the years)
[found via an earlier post on Roland Tanglao's Weblog]12:31:43 AM
comment [] trackback [] A FAQ with Weblogs?
Yes, we do it on developer.e-xact.com. This is exactly what we are doing on the FAQs on developer.e-xact.com. First, answer the questions as a Manila newsitem on developer.e-xact.com. And then put them in the FAQ (a Manila story) once we have had time to reflect on where it should go and improve the answer.
So could you do a FAQ with RSS/weblogs? Yes, but it would have to go in stages. First, questions by users and answers by staff with knowledge. Posts go into a database and are chewed on by Google-like intelligence. FAQ updates are fed to staff by RSS and staff discuss them on their weblogs. In response to the new discussions, new questions are generated by users *in addition to* the same questions that users asked before. Once again, Google-chewing on the database yields more FAQs of better quality. Repeat this cycle until you have a top 10 FAQ list. Publish *that* with RSS that feeds straight into the help system of your software (if it's finished goods, straight to that product's home page)
(via:house of warwick) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
12:25:05 AM
comment [] trackback [] Saturday, August 02, 2003Wow! NewsGator + MovableType + SharePoint RSS feeds ...(via Jon Husband's Wirearchy) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
3:09:58 PM
comment [] trackback [] Custom Feeds
Adrian Holovaty has custom RSS feeds. Nice innovation. As I begin to scale the number of RSS feeds I subscribe to, I am starting to think that I need multiple "news" pages. One for general reading and others for filtered feeds (based on keywords) that will prevent me from missing critical information in the general page (it "flips" very quickly).
[John Robb's Weblog]My custom feeds include the headline, full text and permalink from the 5 latest entries that include a word or phrase of your choosing. This lets you filter which Holovaty.com content you get. To access a custom feed, use the URL convention holovaty.com/rss/filterstring, where "filterstring" is the word or phrase you want to require in each entry... A few examples:
- holovaty.com/rss/washingtonpost.com -- last 5 entries including "washingtonpost.com"
- holovaty.com/rss/site+review -- last 5 entries including the words "site" and "review"
- holovaty.com/rss/"site+review" -- last 5 entries including the exact phrase "site review"
- holovaty.com/rss/"auto%20refresh" -- last 5 entries including the exact phrase "auto refresh"
3:00:09 PM
comment [] trackback [] InfoWorld.com updates
... the news gang have started a team blog at http://www.infoworld.com/techwatch/. Excellent! [Jon's Radio]
5:47:04 AM
comment [] trackback [] REDpaper: "Publishing for the Little Folks" [Daypop Top 40]
5:42:44 AM
comment [] trackback [] The blogging process and building community
Dave Pollard has written a piece on the blogging process that's making its way around. You can tell by the number of folks that have his flowchart diagram embedded in their posts (I'll spare you). More interesting to me was the stuff after that about enriching the communication medium. This is part of the stuff that's left to do, and it's a big space. Together with Julie's experiences with MovableType, it makes me realize how far this new medium can and will go. [Ted Leung on the air]
5:38:16 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 01, 2003Taking a peek at the new AOL Blogging Pages per John Robb - where you will want to see the links that work -- I cannot help but get the sense that AOL Blogging is going to be anything else than emasculated garbage. . . [Microdoc News]
5:17:57 AM
comment [] trackback [] Moblogging [Telepolis News]
5:05:02 AM
comment [] trackback [] AOL Journals demo
Here are lots of screen captures depicting the AOL Journal editing interface (thanks Matt):
- Create a Journal Start
- Announcement to friends that you are starting a Journal
- Layout and feature selection
- Style and comment selection
- Color selection
- Custom color option
- Main editing screen
- Update via instant messaging
- Published AOL Journal (using Edit this Page type buttons) 2nd screen.
12:19:21 AM
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