BurningbirdJust writing
The Essential Blogging book is now available for public review at O’Reilly Network. The book was edited by Nat Torkington and authored by Rael Dornfest, Cory Doctorow, J. Scott Johnson, Bejamin Trott, Mena Trott, and myself. In case you’re curious, I wrote the Blogger chapters. Essential Blogging covers basic weblogging technology and concepts, as well as specific weblogging tools: Userland’s Radio, Blogger, Movable Type, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon references an article by Judith Shulevitz about the One Book, One City program — an effort to foster interest in reading and communal togetherness by assigning a book to a community with encouragement to “…stop others on the sidewalk to chat informally about the book, and to attend one of the many […]
Allan heard my whining and undignified pleading and created another installment in the Dizzy the Cat saga: Dizzy goes pub crawling. Among the tidbits Allan provides: The chef, a tough tattooed ex-Hell’s Angel, soon got tired of requests for a “special extra bit for Dizzy”, but it didn’t take long for Dizzy to realise it paid […]
I just finished the final pre-review draft of my chapters for O’Reilly’s weblogging book, Essential Blogging. Once the chapters from all the authors have been gently messaged by the wonderous editing talents of Nat Torkington (first rule of thumb — always suck up to the editors until the book is in production), the book is going […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I love reading about everyday things. Allan talks about a new Sushi restaurant opening in town that uses trolleys to deliver the food. I’m still trying to figure out how this system of food delivery is going to work. I’m visualizing this little trolley racing by, and having to grab food […]