posts are the atomic element of weblogs I’m very fortunate to get the chance to go around and talk to people who helped create the tools that have shaped the weblog medium, and so I tend to notice trends in the way we’re all talking about weblogs. One of the recurring ideas that I’ve seen...
simple pleasures One of the best things about my job is that I get to go to conferences, meet interesting people, and then watch all their wifi-enabled laptops’ screens turn blue-and-gray as they all log into their Movable Type screens so they can blog the...
conclusions from the SXSW panel About two weeks ago, I did a panel at SXSW with a coupleoffriends, and the topic was the future of personal publishing. There were a handful of points that I keep coming back to in regard to the future of weblogs, and they’re all based around the...
well, excuuuse me My, you’re all a sensitive bunch! I wrote a little ha-ha peevish thing yesterday and now everyone thinks I’m mad. This is what I do for fun, kids. Since everyone’s having trouble reading my feelings, I am going to have to resort to emoticons. They’re...
another benefit of open content licenses Another benefit you accrue by publishing your creations with more open licenses like the ones at Creative Commons is that when you get unanticipated surges in traffic due to being linked by a high-bandwidth site, savvy readers can know in advance...
bogus blabbing about AOL blogging Don’t be suckered in by the non-news of the CBS MarketWatch story on AOL providing weblogs to its users. This is a rehash of the weeks-old Rick Robinson interview that Mark Hurst did. Robinson didn’t commit to any weblogging tools being released by...
Movable Type's First Anniversary Congratulations to Ben and Mena on Movable Type‘s one year anniversary and the release of MT 2.5. Amazing that they’ve gone in one year from launching a product to having more features than any of their competitors, all from just two people’s...
more Actual Emails We get the best random emails to the webmaster account at work. Today’s: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:49 PM To: Webmaster Subject: comment I plan to visit NYC in the next two-three weeks.(havent been there in 3 years). Are women wearing black...
it defies reason One wouldn’t think it possible, but today, someone we know discovered CSS’s a:hover class, which lets you change the color of a link, or worse, its background, when you point at it. We eagerly anticipate the upcoming discovery and usage of the...
UT blogs A Network World story entitled Blogs finding fans in business world alleges that Phillip Windley, Utah’s state CIO, is testing weblogs in a business environment. I’m a little skeptical of that claim, given the significant differences between state...