BurningbirdSomeone had described my cross-browser DHTML objects recently as old code that bends over backwards to be compatible with old crusty browsers…, when compared with up-to-date and well maintained modern libraries. I found it odd that objects that have managed not to break for six years of DHTML generations are ‘bad’ where new ones, barely tested, in beta, […]
Congratulations to Jeneane for getting a new and interesting gig, blogging strategist for a new startup: BubbleShare. Congratulations to AKMA for being a priest for nineteen years and for writing about soup. Finally, congratulations to my old, moltychicken friend, Stavros the Wonderchicken for finally writing to his weblog again; not to mention creating a rather interesting way of screwing up Technorati’s blog counts. […]
I made the changes to the initial development section in the Wikipedia entry on podcasting and aside from a couple of comments, not much has been said about it. I’m not sure if it was because I actually made the change, or because the new entry is uninteresting and dull. I rather think dull might be good; […]
One of the most wickedly ironic moments this week was reading in Robert Scoble’s weblog about how he and Shel Israel–two men–gave a talk about weblogging to PR and marketing folks at L’Oreal: a company whose clientele is almost exclusively women. Turns out that L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, is one of Microsoft’s best customers. But […]
I haven’t been following much about Les blogs, until I heard about a problem with backchannels. I gather that the official backchannel for Lesblogs was more than a bit disruptive at times, resulting in Mena Trott calling one of the more disruptive participants, Ben Metcalf, an asshole during her talk on being civil in weblogging. (The post I linked has […]