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Writing

Typos, screw ups

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just had to fix several images for the Essential Blogging book. There was a typo in several of the screenshots – I used “weblob” rather than “weblog”. It would be funny, but after a while, I get tired of mistakes. I get tired of using the wrong word, but […]

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People Weblogging Writing

AKMA meets Ferret Face

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to point you to a Pixelview interview with AKMA that went online this week. I thought AKMA did a nice job with the interview questions. I hesitated to link to the interview considering that it was conducted by my old friend, Head Lemur, a man who has been less than complimentary about […]

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Technology Writing

Calling all Unix gurus

Rule number one if you’re taking a break from your weblog: turn off email notification for your comments. I kept responding to the comments rather than working. Speaking of working, the main reason I was taking the break was to finish my writing on two books for O’Reilly: the Essential Weblogging book and UNIX Power […]

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Political Weblogging Writing

SFSU “Blog burst”

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several bloggers have gotten together to express their opinions of the SFSU pro-Palestinian/pro-Israel clash. You can view a summary of this event at Winds of Change. Of particular interest to me was Facts of Israel claims of bias at the San Francisco Chronicle. The reason for my interest is the Jewish Bulletin pointed out […]

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Writing

Blogging as Journalism and other modern myths

I’m not sure if webloggers buy into the whole “weblogging as a new and better form of Journalism” because they truly see themselves in this light, or because they seek some form of justification for all the time they spend weblogging. People can call themselves whatever they want in their weblogs; their space, their place. […]