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Technology Weblogging

For those about to move to WordPress or Textpattern…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart released new pricing information today, and no matter how you package it, it’s not going to have people happy. Yes, there will be a free version of Movable Type 3.0. Mena Trott writes, but what she doesn’t say in the page is that free only works if you have one weblog […]

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Weblogging

Sing in Harmony

In the mornings I catch up on my weblog reading through Bloglines. I’ve developed the habit recently of reading full content feeds within the tool rather than clicking through. I feel guilty about this because I’ve been critical in the past about full content RSS feeds, and about reading entire posts in aggregators rather than […]

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Connecting

Meet me in St. Louis

Woo, boys and girls, but I’m a hot property today. Not only do I have an invite from Ev to attend a Blogger party with several thousand of his closest friends, but I also received a geniune, semi-personal, group email from Tim O’Reilly–yessir the O’Reilly man himself–to attend none other than Web Conference 2.0 this […]

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Critters Just Shelley

My micro world

I have to take Zoe in today to get her teeth cleaned. I hate having to do this. She’s an older cat and she’s had seizures in the past and I worry every time she’s under general anesthesia. However, as the vet said, this is something that can’t be put off. But I hate doing […]

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Writing

Pink feathers and sequins

The APress book deal is off, an event long time coming. We’re just working out the details now about the advance. The whys and wherefores aren’t important other than this necessitates some changes in my life. I’ve just signed with a book agent (please don’t ask me her name, the relationship is new) to help […]