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Weblogging

Weblogging and Status

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  I made my first posting today at 1:47:09 pm, talking about weblogging buzz and the fact that I had more buzz from my WSP discussion than the recent one on open source associated with John Robb of Userland. I was surprised to see a comment attached at 2:09 — normally […]

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Just Shelley

Big bang teapot

Damn! What is that horrible noise! Throws computer off lap, runs to check it out… Oh. It’s only my new teapot. I had put the water on to boil for afternoon tea and then promptly forgot about it. Unfortunately, I have boiled more than one teakettle dry when working on a new book, which is […]

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Weblogging

Weblogging buzz

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, hey, we made it into 2002. Pat yourselves on the backs. In the comments attached to my weblog postings from this last week’s brouhaha over open source and P2P (primarily open source), readers mentioned that some people, who will remain nameless (“quack”), deliberately make controversial statements in order to […]

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Just Shelley

Happy New Year

She carefully raises her head above the hole of her shelter, ready to pull it in at a moment’s danger. Not sensing any immediate threat, she looks carefully to the left. No wasps. Relieved, and again, moving cautiously so as not to attract predators, she looks carefully to the right. Oh thank goodness! No ducks! […]

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Technology Weblogging

Winer joins Robb non-debate on open source

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Nothing like Dave Winer from Userland cashing in on the open source non-debate by twisting the whole thing back to how we shouldn’t pick on Manila, we shouldn’t pick on him, we can’t pick on “his” XML-RPC, and then goes on to talk about how open source developers never listen to the […]