BurningbirdI get my cable modem today, which means I can move my work on ThreadNeedle over to the server. Unfortunately, that’s the same server that serves this weblog as well as my other sites.
My way of saying stuff happens.
Progress reports, status, work in effort reported over at ThreadNeedle discussion.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
I like Movable Type’s trackback, but the problem with it is that now there’s two areas whereby the popularity of a posting is judged – the comment count AND the trackback count.
If a posting is a zip-zip, should it just quietly fold its tent, wonder off into the desert – the dog seeking an elegant death? Or is the posting so powerful, graceful, and eloquent that the readers are literally struck silent by the sheer beauty of it.
(In this crowd? Are you kidding? The only way to strike this crowd silent is to hit them with a 2 x 4.)
This same issue comes to mind with ThreadNeedle – the very fact that you register a posting with ThreadNeedle implies that you think the posting is strong enough to generate comment, but what happens when the weather’s nice, the readers are lazy, and you score zip. If you use Movable Type and allow comments, your score would then be:
zip-zip-zip
Geez, only the strongest and most confident personality could survive this with ego unscathed.
This is changing one of my overall views of how to incorporate ThreadNeedle into a weblog. What I did NOT want from ThreadNeedle was another measure of ‘popularity’, which I dislike.
Thanks to Ben and Mena for the cool new technology. Also thanks for opening my eyes to a potential new problem with ThreadNeedle.
(Should I track this? Huh? Huh? Should I? Should I? Go ahead, you know you want to…)
Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
DSL is still a problem. The phone company will be coming out to test for a short in the line, and I’m on modem until then.
Also working on ThreadNeedle, which I want to finish and put out so that others can grab and manipulate and improve. Big whoop.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
Heat index in St. Louis today was 105. That’s 1-0-5. Rather than out finding new paths, I’m keeping my San Franciscan acclimated butt inside, playing around with the new version of MT.
Stavros – someone is watching you. Hee Hee.
(Now, you’re all supposed to go over to Empty Bottle and see trackback in operation. Who else wants to play?)
Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
Dave Winer can sometimes be over the top at times (in truth, so can I), but he’s not far off the mark when he writes, “…foreclosure. That’s what MS is doing with everything we hold dear.”.
What Dave’s talking about is Palladium, Microsoft’s newest innovation.
What’s it all mean? Well, think about that machine you’re using to look at this post. Now think of it modified to include a “security chip” that will most likely, among other things, have a unique identifier that lets anyone know, anyone, where you’ve been and what you’ve done with your machine. In addition, that nice open protocol that you used to gain access to the Internet? Well, kiss it good-bye and see it replaced with something developed under the benevolent auspices of Microsoft.
This is the worst piece of technology-related news I’ve heard in a long time. This is also an example of how corporations can manipulate the US while the American citizens are hiding with their heads in the sand.
While we give Bush et al high marks for “doing a good job”, our beloved president and his gang are selling this country to the highest bidder – in this case, Bill Gates and Microsoft. And as we let the Bush gang manipulate and discard the Constitution and our freedoms in order to wage “war on terrorism”, so now we’re allowing Microsoft do the same to wage war on hackers.
More:
Microsoft’s Palladium: A new security Initiative
Palladium: Microsoft’s Big Plan for the PC
Who trusts Microsoft’s Palladium? Not me
Microsoft Security: Will it be different this time?
Cringely: I told you so
The Big Secret
Why Intel loves Palladium