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Technology

Server update

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just put in for a quote on a dedicated server, hopefully running Linux 8.0. The plan is to add the following software: Python 2.2 Tomcat – limited use since this is a CPU hog Perl 5.8 PHP 4.x Apache 2.x MySQL 4.x ImageMagick Other (TDB or requested by co-op […]

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Weblogging

Weblog standards

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m tired tonight, but Anil asked a fair question and I wanted to try to write a fair answer. He wrote in my comments: Shelley, just curious: (honestly, not being sarcastic) what standards body do you think would be appropriate for hosting these formats, protocols, and APIs? If I was a dreaming […]

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RDF

Harvard Support?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer uses his Harvard weblog, and we assume the clout and prestige of his Harvard position, to push the weblogging industry into backing his versions of both RSS and a Weblogging MetaAPI. There’s already been discussion about Winer taking on ‘co-creator’ claims with RSS — something I and others dispute. […]

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Just Shelley Web Weblogging

Server update

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The money received from the sale of Threadneedle, combined with the other money you were all kind enough to contribute to a server will enable me to get a dedicated server. I’m looking at RackForce, a Canadian provider. Then, if what I write becomes too hot for Mr. Ashcroft and Mr. […]

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Diversity Writing

Art and the artist’s dilemma

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ezra Pound has been under discussion lately, and not just in Loren’s analysis of Pound’s Cantos — his lifelong work. Jonathon also discussed Pound but from a different perspective. He wrote about the dilemma between Ezra Pound the poet, and Ezra Pound the anti-Semitic traitor. Specifically, the issue had to do with Pound being nominated […]