BurningbirdRecovered 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 […]
The Essential Blogging book is now available for public review at O’Reilly Network. The book was edited by Nat Torkington and authored by Rael Dornfest, Cory Doctorow, J. Scott Johnson, Bejamin Trott, Mena Trott, and myself. In case you’re curious, I wrote the Blogger chapters. Essential Blogging covers basic weblogging technology and concepts, as well as specific weblogging tools: Userland’s Radio, Blogger, Movable Type, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon references an article by Judith Shulevitz about the One Book, One City program — an effort to foster interest in reading and communal togetherness by assigning a book to a community with encouragement to “…stop others on the sidewalk to chat informally about the book, and to attend one of the many […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In addition to storing away most of my worldly goods — except my computers, clothes, cameras, telescope, home made recipe book, CDs, books, and kites — I’m also closing down The Burning Bird Corporation. I started Burning Bird under the name of YASD in 1996, primarily because companies had a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today is a lovely, stormy day in Northern California, with enough rain to clean the air and the streets. Dark, forbidding clouds obscure the shore across the Bay, and the sun is just now starting to fight its way through the overcast; glints of gold melting into the pewter pools […]