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Writing

Dave Winer’s ‘help’ with book

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Wow. Generosity itself. Dave wants to try and “salvage” O’Reilly’s weblogging book, by putting together his own mailing list rather than let O’Reilly go through the usual editing process. According to the intro page at the list, Dave writes: I was hoping this book would start like the WebMonkey survey of blogging software and […]

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Writing

Morality

Yes, I said I was taking a few days off from the weblog, and I am. However, I have these words banging at the top of mouth screaming “Let me out! Let me out!”, pulling at my tongue, digging into the roots of my teeth. I know I will get no peace until I let […]

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Weblogging Writing

Essential blogging

BTW, since Dave Winer only pointed to the Radio chapters (?) when he mentioned the Essential Blogging book from O’Reilly, note that the book covers Movable Type, Blogger, and Blosxon weblogging tools, as well as other material. If you’re a Blogger user, I wouldn’t mind your input into my chapters — what should I cover in more detail? What […]

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Weblogging

The debates

In debate, when your opponent is reduced to attacking your character rather than your words, you know you’ve won. I should have remembered this yesterday when I became so angry. Blame my reaction a bit on the move. And the fact that I’m not called Burningbird because I coo like a dove. I had a note from […]

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Just Shelley

Pearly nights

I’m sitting here in my living room with the lights off, looking out on to the Bay. The moon must be nearly full because its light combines with the fog to cast a pearly quality over the water. In the Bay one of the dinner boats is floating by, bright golden lights marking its outline. […]