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Weather Weblogging

Weather junkies rejoice

I’ve been a subscriber to the Weather Underground for a few years now. For the cost of 5.00 a year, you can access all the functionality at the site, without ads and including radar pictures during peak times. The weather forecasting is superior to Weather channel’s site, and the maps and graphics much cleaner and […]

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Copyright Weblogging

The EFF’s Blogger legal guide

As much as I’ve tweaked the issue of Creative Commons and weblogging accountability, I would be remiss if I didn’t provide a link to EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers. The guide provides some good overview of issues such as legal liability, copyright, and defamation. It isn’t detailed, but chances are if you need detail, you probably […]

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Technology Weblogging

Wordform: Release

I’m reaching a burn out point in trying to enhance and support Wordform (and get it ready for a release) and do enough work to pay the bills. At this time, I’m working 15+ hours a day, and it’s taking a toll. What I’ll most likely do is release bits of the tool as extensions […]

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Weblogging

Speaking of Technorati

I was asked why Technorati shows me not having updated in 125 days. Since we all know that if I was that long between updates I’d be dead, I have to wonder: does Technorati think me dead? Seriously, anyone know where this value comes from? I’ve noticed that my links to posts aren’t showing up, […]

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Weblogging

Onions have layers

Here’s an interesting pattern, see if you can spot it: As regards to the first Chris Lydon radio broadcast, Dave Rogers makes a comment that Mike Sanders really liked but which Doc Searls counters with more positive feedback. Dave then responded to Doc who responded back to Dave. Dave writes more, and in the middle somewhere points to Jon Garfunkle’s *New GateKeepers –where Jon points to a […]