BurningbirdThe 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 […]
Allan heard my whining and undignified pleading and created another installment in the Dizzy the Cat saga: Dizzy goes pub crawling. Among the tidbits Allan provides: The chef, a tough tattooed ex-Hell’s Angel, soon got tired of requests for a “special extra bit for Dizzy”, but it didn’t take long for Dizzy to realise it paid […]