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Weblogging Writing

New O’Reilly book on weblogging

We’ve been given the go ahead from O’Reilly, the “…FRIENDLIEST and most WONDERFUL publisher we’ve ever dealt with” (sorry, a little editor tease there), to announce a new book on weblogging! Among the authors is yours truly, writing the chapters on Blogger. I’m joined by Mena and Ben Trott writing about Movable Type, Scott Johnson who’s been dropping […]

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Weblogging Writing

In support of Content

Normally I don’t insert my body into the ranks of the weblogging intelligentsia when AKMA, Searls, Weinberger, Himmer, and so on become deeply engaged in cross-blogging about particularly heavy and philosophical topics. I’m usually happy to just sit back and watch the flow — brain pushups. However, when the topic is “content” and the by-play […]

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Political

Freenet and Freedom of speech

One person I admire greatly is Ian Clarke, the founder and architect of Freenet — the most sophisticated and open distributed network. In an interview in news.com, Ian talks about 9/11’s impact on Freenet, and the greater need for this type of technology today. When asked the question: What effect has Sept. 11 had on your drive for online […]

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Weblogging

MT claims another

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last post. Another Plutonian has come over to the MT side — welcome Will otherwise known as Transcendental Petroglyphs. Now, is Mr. Delacour going to share his Radio to MT conversion secrets and scripts? The world awaits anxiously. And the question remains: Who’s Next? Who will be the next to … […]

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Stuff

Mother’s Day dessert recipe

I love to cook. It’s one of my favorite forms of relaxation. I thought I would borrow an idea from Rogi and post a recipe or two every once in a while. An advantage of not having Google crawling over my weblog page is that I can add recipes without worrying about search phrases such as hot oiled […]