BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine (Insert your favorite mental image of troll here) Introducing the troll We all know what a weblogging troll is; it’s the person, man or woman, who writes a comment or comments in post after post trying to pick a fight with one or more members of a comment thread. This […]
I had volunteered for TechWatch because Missouri is one of the states that had contested election results in 2000 and several of the counties are using the electronic voting system. I heard that they needed experienced tech people, especially people familiar with PHP and MySQL. One of the emails I received was a call for someone […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine Excuse me. The Delta Airlines flight attendant was not fired for blogging. She was fired for posting photos of herself in a rather provocative pose, wearing her uniform, on one of her company’s planes. She was fired for posting the photo, and that specific photo I have no doubt – not for […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Following on the theme of how we can have a lovely time in London, thanks to RDF and the seman…ooops! Semantic Web, rdfdata.org has pointed to another set of RDF data related to travel: OpenGuides . According to the site, OpenGuides is a network of free, community-maintained “wiki” city guides to which anyone […]
You’ve had a weblog for a couple of years. You started out with a Blogspot weblog, but have since started your own domain. You write about politics, but also about your life and interests, just like most webloggers. You’re aware of not giving away much about yourself, so you don’t talk about work or the […]