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Social Media Weblogging

WordPress and the hidden articles

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. An interesting story appeared today about the WordPress site, and several thousand articles that could be found in a http://wordpress.org/articles. Disclaimer. I’m hesitant to even write about this, knowing the web’s fondness for angry mob justice, but I feel like it’s an important issue that needs to be addressed. My one request: […]

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Weblogging Writing

Telling a story

Loren Webster has taken his new addictionfascination with PhotoShop and combined it with philosophical reminisces of cars he’s owned into a set of really lovely posts, beginning with this one about a boy and his Studebaker. I like every form of writing I find in weblogs, being more interested in the person and/or work rather any specific type, […]

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Technology Weblogging

Update

Just a quick FYI in how this is going: I need to integrate fulltext in the application. This allows people to view a single page in a multi-page posting. I’m still trying to get the RDF meta-data component finished, using RAP (RDF API for PHP). Some troubles with data updates. Still hunting down SQL statements […]

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Weblogging Writing

The syndication feed fair warning indicator

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week I’ll be posting writings that violate the concept of ‘proper weblog entry’ all to heck–either by the use of fiction or the length of the writing, or both. As happens most times I do this, one or more people access the entry expecting to find a traditional weblog […]

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Technology Weblogging

The Survival Guide to LAMP: MySQL and Saving the Pig

In the last two weeks, two WordPress weblog sites have had their sites suspended or moved to interim servers because of performance issues. In both cases, the ISPs who hosted the sites (different companies) sent snapshots of the MySQL processes that caused the problems with the emails. I worked with one of the sites offline, […]