BurningbirdIn the mornings I catch up on my weblog reading through Bloglines. I’ve developed the habit recently of reading full content feeds within the tool rather than clicking through. I feel guilty about this because I’ve been critical in the past about full content RSS feeds, and about reading entire posts in aggregators rather than […]
Thanks to Phil Ringnalda, I found out about Blogger’s new look and feel, including the addition of comments. I have old Blogger accounts, and first thing I did was pick one of the templates, and re-build my Blogger pages. The user interface for the tool is improved, but I don’t completely understand this obsession with rounded corners; I […]
While working on my next LAMP post, my thoughts drifted to those who are interested in using open source weblogging tools, but don’t want to play with the technology. After all, weblogging is about writing. I think it is. Isn’t it? Another alternative to learning about LAMP and managing your own software updates is to […]
I was going to write another LAMP essay tonight, but my mind isn’t in it, and I think I’d rather work on the books, instead. But I did want to mention that you can see Textpattern in action with a couple of people who are moving from Movable Type to this new weblogging tool. Steve […]
Joi Ito pointed to the article from the Telegraph, which interviews the mother of one of the women involved with the photos of the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. First: Why the focus on the women soldiers? Why not the men? Or both? Second: Remember when you read this article that the folks in New York, Boston, and San […]