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Technology Weblogging

Bye Bye Wiki Necho or Pie

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am finishing the Permalink essays as you read this (well, depending on when you read this, I may be finished), though about to take a break because the words are running away with me. I’m glad I waited on Part 4 until today because the essay is writing itself […]

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Technology

NotWiki

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Liz wrote a great note on the recent and growing pushback against the use of the Wiki for Pie/Echo/Atom, based in part on a discussion at Phil’s and a posting over at Sam’s. Liz’s summary hits all the points: I’m not yet at the point where I see wikis as adding sufficient value to any process […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Two down, three to go

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve installed two weblogs in the For Poets site: Linux for Poets – maintained by the freebie pMachine installation. Internet for Poets – maintained by WordPress an open source weblogging tool. Both support comments and trackbacks, and both weblogs feature the look and feel straight out of the box. I couldn’t install Blojsom, based on RDF and […]

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Browsers

Good-bye Netscape

In the golden age of the Internet, Netscape was the darling, the poster child for the Dot Com Boom. My first server-side development effort was based in Netscape’s LiveWire technology, which eventually went on to become the Netscape Application Server. My second book I wrote was on Netscape’s JavaScript. My interest in RDF started because […]

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Web

One of those days?

Have you ever had one of those days? One of those days when you’re faced with trying to get a whole bunch of moving parts working together such as on a web server, and there’s a hundred million possible combinations of Things you Can Do, but only one works? And have you had one of […]