Joe Shelby, in the comments associated with my last posting made a good point about “Echo” as name of this weblogging initiative: Echo is already a name for a product, a Java web application framework, that just released its 1.0 earlier this month, and very nicely under the LGPL license. By choosing “Echo”, the Wiki participants have […]
The Echo Project for Poets
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying from Lord Tennyson’s “The Splendor Falls” If one could typographically represent a blur, then that’s what I would use now to annotate the Echo Project – an online, collaborative, and extremely fast paced effort to define a […]
What’s the motivation?
I’ve reached a lull in the activity for the Burningbird Network Co-op, though I still have additional work to do reorganizing my own stuff. That’s the fun about moving from tiny, cramped quarters to brand new spacious digs. I guess this means I need to go out any take many more photos. I’m heading to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The weblogging model and effort seems to be focusing at this point on a Roadmap, with a call to signify support of same. What does this mean for you? It could replace RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0, providing a completely neutral syndication feed format. It could replace all existing weblog APIs. […]
Switchover
My DNS change to the new server switched over in mid-post, and that created some interesting results. I’m still recovering from them. Note to self: take a break from weblogging next time you switch servers. Once this all stabilizes I’ll move any outstanding comments and trackbacks from the old server to the new one so […]
