Posted in Blogging on March 8th, 2003 5 Comments »
I just peeked at my site's "search terms" section to see what people were using to get to my site in February, the first month I enabled statistics (around February 16th). Every month I plan to post these stats because, frankly, they're kind of amusing. Here's February's…
Posted in Blogging on March 7th, 2003 2 Comments »
I promised Tom Coates and Christian Claiborn a response to their comments left on my Ethical Blogging entry yesterday.
Before I do so, I'd like to point out three other articles that I've read (via TrackBack). The first is Matt's fairly long piece, mostly in response to Rebecca Blood's article. The second more closely covers product [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 7th, 2003 2 Comments »
You know that nifty feature in MovableType that allows you to choose "Yes" to "Remember Personal Info?" It's braindead.
It only remembers your information for that article. Safari had over 500 cookies in its cookie cache… for 12 blogs.
I've posted a query in the MT support forum. Let's see what happens.
Posted in Blogging on March 7th, 2003 4 Comments »
I will not be adding MTThreadedComments to this blog because:
It looks like a whole lot of work that I'd have to do with every new version of MT.
It's quite new (version 0.1.1?).
I don't think threading provides much gain. If you can't figure out how to quote someone using text between a pair of " then [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 5th, 2003 14 Comments »
I read four articles yesterday (1, 2, 3, 4) about the "ethics of blogging." I'll be blunt: I think it's a bunch of hooey.
If you're an ethical person, your ethics leave their mark on everything you do in life, everyone you know. If you're ethical, you're most likely an ethical parent, business person, citizen, and [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 5th, 2003 4 Comments »
Like Vinay, my site (you're reading it right now, so no, I'm not going to make it a link) is accessible to the colorblind inhabitants of the earth. In fact, some of those color schemes gave me some interesting ideas for the next redesign… B-)
Posted in Blogging on March 4th, 2003 3 Comments »
I must say that I agree with Judi on this one. Blogging is attractive because it's not canned, it's not "professional," and it's, for lack of a better word, more "personal."
The distinction between "Pro" and "Amateur" can not be made based on how well someone writes. It can't be made based on how well someone [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 3rd, 2003 5 Comments »
Calling Brent Simmons. Paging Brent Smmons. Judi has uncovered a bug I believe I can confirm: feeds in NNW show up 4:55 off.
Some examples (the NNW-displayed time is a link to the article in question):
<dc:date>2003-03-03T17:35:17-05:00</dc:date> shows up as 12:40 PM
<dc:date>2003-03-03T18:00:19-05:00</dc:date> shows up as 1:05 PM
<dc:date>2003-03-03T17:44:09-05:00</dc:date> is shown as 12:49 PM
Any comments, anyone?
Posted in Blogging on March 2nd, 2003 2 Comments »
I hate multiple TrackBacks. They're like spam: the burden of time and effort is on the recipient, and besides turning TrackBacks for an entry off, there's nothing you can really do to prevent multiple TrackBacks from the same article from being attached to your entries. Once a day I have to delete a duplicate TrackBack.
MovableType [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 1st, 2003 No Comments »
I've updated my RSS 1.0 feed per the instructions on O'ReillyNet. Actually, I only implemented the errorReportsTo thing, but I'm blogging this so that if I ever want to list comments and TrackBacks in my feeds, I can more easily do so.
Posted in Blogging on March 1st, 2003 1 Comment »
Looking for a quick AppleScript to update your blogroll? Look no further than the script posted in the comments to Jeremy Zawodny's Blogroll Updates and… Scripting NNW. I've got a longer entry on AppleScript planned for later, but this example illustrates some of my points nicely. Quite nice, quite useful, quite Mac. B-)
Posted in Blogging on March 1st, 2003 4 Comments »
Why would I buy Weblog Hacks. Everything about it is available online, for free, because bloggers like to share. At least on the MovableType platform, I guess. Witness, for example, http://mt-plugins.org/.
I'm honestly asking: why would I buy this? I'm not opposed to sp money if I get something out of it, but a book falls [...]
Posted in Blogging on March 1st, 2003 1 Comment »
I'm blogging this link, which links to pop2blog because I may some day want to implement it, and I'm sure the first place I'll search is on my blog, probably by typing in http://nslog.com/pop2blog.
Posted in Blogging on February 27th, 2003 2 Comments »
Slight re-design on my individual archives tonight. Moved the trackbacks to the left menu, took out the popup link for comments since they're below the article, and so on. Next thing will be to rebuild articles when i get a TrackBack, but I'm still concerned about this:
If you have a fair amount of faith in [...]
Posted in Blogging on February 27th, 2003 1 Comment »
I'd like my archives (individual, daily, monthly, category) to be rebuilt every time an article gets a TrackBack. I did a search and found this article by Phil Ringnalda, but this sentence is preventing me from doing his hack:
If you have a fair amount of faith in the speed of your rebuilds (or in your [...]