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Technology Weblogging

Movable Type tips and tricks

So, how do you like the new look, eh? Still playing a bit, but it’s getting there — blue/green for sky and water; tan/rust/brown for earth and fire; gray/black/white for air and snow. I’ve also been exploring different things to do with Movable Type; this weblogging tool is amazingly versatile. The Trott’s have left all sorts […]

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Just Shelley

I left my heart (bed, dishes, books…) in San Francisco

I received a letter from the storage company I rent a unit from in San Francisco — it’s raising the rate on my unit in February. I can’t continue with it so I have to figure out what to do with my ‘wordly goods’. Once I have a break in writing and screwing around with […]

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Technology Weblogging

Tiny thread, small needle

In The Third Generation of Weblogging I wrote the following about ThreadNeedle:   I discovered that my original concept was infeasible because of the space requirements and the forced centralization. Now, with trackback and increasing uses of other technologies, we’re starting to see ‘threadneedle’ take form, and we’re finding that what was wrong with my original concept is […]

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Political Weblogging

Route-About

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is collecting links to a growing story about Blogger weblogs being blocked in mainland China. Eatonweb portal has a list of Chinese bloggers many of whom use Blogger. From this list, the About China blogger, leylop, writes:   Proxy Wow, I’m really excited ! Finally, I’m able to access by own blog and any other […]

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Weblogging

Suffer the little children

I want to refer you to two compelling, powerful essays, both related to a very difficult subject: child abuse. The first is Tansu by Jonathon Delacour. The second, written by Loren Webster and inspired by Jonathon’s work is The Simple Hell People give other People.   Hell is for Children They cry in the dark, so you can’t […]