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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. […]

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Technology Weblogging

More important stuff

After phone call with friend, I am calmer. Sort of. Enough to spend time on more important things. Such as wishing Mark Pilgrim half-a-Happy Birthday!. He’s 29.5 today. (Mark, I have a clue for you — when you hit 40, you start celebrating birthdays biennially, rather than semiannually.) Secondly, Jeneane asked folks to link to her co-worker’s weblog. […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

And another shot…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Just in case my previous posting doesn’t piss enough people off at me – and it will – may I pass on to you this link to an entire page that the person known as The Head Lemur has written because I expressed my opinion about realtime blogging. Shelley Powers wants to be the […]