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Weblogging

Kind people, neat pictures, and Kookaburra

It wasn’t hard to tell that I was in a pretty bad mood last night, was it? Not just yesterday, my mood has been down for a few weeks. Stuff. But I thought I would start practicing some of that discipline I wrote about earlier, and rather than wax maudlin here in the weblog, pull […]

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Political Weblogging Writing

A Missouri woman heads to American Streets

Starting this next Sunday, I’ll be writing a weekly essay at The American Street–my first time as contributor to a group weblog. Each essay is a longer writing, and may or may not include links. Though the topic will vary from week to week, I hope to bring a unique perspective to each that reflects, among […]

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Technology Weblogging

Talkback as plugin

In my last post on WordPress, Carthik asked about my “Talkback” implementation. I hadn’t included this as part of my WordPress modifications because I’ve had the beastie since Movable Type times and didn’t think of it as a WordPress mod. However, I’ve since converted it into a WordPress plugin; you can access the text of the plugin here. […]

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Diversity Political Weblogging

Women blogging the Convention?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Since I’m on a roll about women’s apparent invisibility in weblogging circles, well except when we’re naked or shoving our titties in front of the faces of the boys, I am curious: which women bloggers have been credentialed by the Democratic party to cover the Convention? We’ve already heard that […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

WordPress modifications

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rather than cover each modification I’ve made to WordPress 1.2 to run my site just so, I’m including them all here with links to downloadable source for those interested in implementing one or more of the changes. Very few of these changes fit into the criteria of ‘Wordpress plugin’, primarily because […]