Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Each of the For Poets sites, of which this weblog is a member, has a different photo representing the topic of the site as part of the design of the main page. The photos are compatible with each other and complementary to the page; more importantly, though, they provide a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I commend the effort on the part of the Pie/Echo/Atom people to come up with interoperable syndication formats, export/import formats, and a common weblogging API, but one other thing I wish they would address: a common permalink structure. The one single cause of hesitation about moving from one tool to another is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you change your weblogging environment, such as move to a different tool, different archive structure, or even different server and domain, and others have linked to your posts, you’re going to be leaving broken links behind. What can you do? Actually, quite a bit, depending on how important the […]
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Edd Dumbill: I like RDF Dammit!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Edd Dumbill has a new essay on why he continues to support RDF. Much of it has been heard before, but I like what he had to say on RDF being failure-friendly: Processing RDF is therefore a matter of poking around in this graph. Once a program has read in some RDF, […]
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Bye Bye Wiki Necho or Pie
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am finishing the Permalink essays as you read this (well, depending on when you read this, I may be finished), though about to take a break because the words are running away with me. I’m glad I waited on Part 4 until today because the essay is writing itself […]