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Weblogging

Build the walls higher, boys

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was astonished to read this morning, a little brain storm between Don Park and Dave Winer, to have ‘refereed conversation’, i.e. a conversation between two people on their weblogs, given a special category, which is then aggregated and captured into a weblog and managed by a third person. Or I should say […]

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Books Just Shelley

A little puffery

I discovered that I’m a Google Scholar. I guess this means that you’ll have to treat me with more respect; call me “Ms. Powers” or perhaps “Lady Burning” (please, not “Lady Bird”) and that sort of thing. I don’t normally jump on all the cool gadgets that come out, but the Google Scholar looks to be […]

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Weblogging

Beginning Morph: Wordform for groups

Rather than closing The Kitchen we’re moving into a totally self-sustained environment. To that end, I captured a snapshot of the most recent WordPress 1.3a code and have started modifying it to provide administration free group weblog support. This will become, eventually, a group form of Wordform. (My inclination is to separate out the group aspects of […]

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Weblogging

Ethical Committees

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This is not a good day for my blood pressure. Catching up on other weblogs, I found a pointer to this at Head Lemur’s weblog: Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog […]