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Burningbird Weblogging

Burningbird Big Plan—step 1

Spent several hours this evening integrating Movable Type into my other web sites: Burningbird Network Dynamic Earth P2P Smoke YASD The job is far from finished. I have to work with XSLT to provide a template that works with Movable Type, as well as with the rest of each site’s content. I’m also salvaging my […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Human Rights

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Read the following very carefully before you react to any one specific piece of information. I don’t think there’s been any action the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has taken that hasn’t angered somebody, but one thing I’ve always seen in this organization is its adherence to the Constitution and […]

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Technology

Next Generation P2P?

John Robb at Userland has defined a set of constraints for what he considers to be next generation of P2P. I appreciate that he’s put Userland architecture interests online — it generates conversation. However, I am concerned about the interpretation of “P2P”, for what is, essentially a lightweight server system. Requirement one: The ability for individual […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

On Human Rights

Read the following very carefully before you react to any one specific piece of information. I don’t think there’s been any action the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has taken that hasn’t angered somebody, but one thing I’ve always seen in this organization is its adherence to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Even […]

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Writing

Writing update

I just finished the final pre-review draft of my chapters for O’Reilly’s weblogging book, Essential Blogging. Once the chapters from all the authors have been gently messaged by the wonderous editing talents of Nat Torkington (first rule of thumb — always suck up to the editors until the book is in production), the book is going […]