Blogging
I've just launched my new weblog over at simonwillison.net. I will no longer be updating simon.incutio.com, and will be putting redirects in place for old content over the next few days. You can read ...
I'm horribly ill again: having defeated the mumps I now seem to have come down with some kind of 'flu thing. Lovely. In between whinging about my state of health and watching episodes of Frasier I've ...
Wow, I think this is the longest gap in my blogging since I started! I wish I could say I've been enjoying the sunshine or taking up a new hobby, but the truth is that the weather's been horrible and ...
I just posted my 1000th blogmark. I can't emphasize enough how much of an impact this 15 minute hack has had on both my browsing and my blogging habits. While I still tend to leave browser windows ope...
No, you can't have a Gmail invite. No, I won't hack your email account for you. And if you can't find your hotmail inbox, you shouldn't be using a computer.
Semantic HTML is a two-edged sword....
Blogger are now using the redirect-without-PageRank technique to protect their hosted blogs against comment spam (also used by Moveable Type). At the risk of sounding incredibly pleased with myself (w...
Vin Crosbie, a highly respected commentator on the online news industry, recently published his long awaited essay What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive. It's long but captivating and...
Who would have thought a year ago that Microsoft would be the company that took corporate blogging to the next level? Say what you like about the company itself, you can't fault the quality and quanti...
I continue to try to improve my writing. "Omit needless words" is all well and good, but identifying needless words can be a difficult task for the untrained eye. Paul Ford's Passivator bookmarklet hi...
I love Charles Miller's Fishbowl. His latest entry introduces his rules for argument. Read them, follow them and save a truck-load of time avoiding protracted debates in the future. Heck, if everyone ...
Via Boing Boing, this fascinating and utterly chilling photographic journey through the abandoned ruins of the Chernobyl dead zone.
As an aside, the free hosting provide used by the site appears to...
Via Kevin Fox, Wired are running an article that claims that authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers -- and they often do so without attribution.
The first ...
A well documented side effect of the weblog format is that it brings Google PageRank in almost absurd quantities. I'm now the 5th result for simon on Google, and I've been the top result for simon wil...
Via D. Keith Robinson, LinkedIn is a social software system that works kind of like Friendster but is targetted at professionals. You sign up, create a profile that includes your industry and geograph...
I'm back to work after enjoying that most precious of things: a holiday without computers. Comment spam has been deleted, email spam has been saved in a special folder (for rapid training of bayesian ...
Wow, that's what I call feedback! It's a shame pretty much everyone hates the new design but I like it so it stays. I've taken a few tips though and tweaked the link colours a bit, as well as making a...
Out with the orange, in with the green. As with my last redesign, only the CSS changed. A fun deviation with this one was that it was a collaboration between myself and Natalie over nearly 5,000 miles...
This entry was going to be another list of links, together with a note about how much I really needed to set up a separate link blog. Then I realised that it would make more sense just to set one up s...
There's blogging a list of links, and then there's blogging a list of lists of links:
Elizabeth Lane Lawley has collated a list of responses to Clay Shirky's latest.
Kayode Okeyode has a round...
Dunstan Orchard's great looking blog has had a whole bunch of upgrades, and some of them are pretty interesting. Firstly, he's taken my blockquote citations script and modified it to handle citations ...
Evan Williams on Google's intranet weblogs:
How many people blog at Google?
Not sure what the count is, but I know there's a couple hundred or more. It's really interesting to see the network ...
I've set up a new blog, A Year in Kansas, to chronicle my adventures during my 11 months in the States. I'm going to keep my two blogs pretty much separate; my Kansas blog is going to be squarely targ...
Paul Sowden is the blogger who inspired me to start my own blog over a year ago. He's restarted his blog at a new domain: delete.me.uk. Let's hope the new site doesn't live up to its name. Oh, and be ...
I'm fed up with comment spam. From now on, any comment I judge to be spam will be deleted, and the domains linked to from that comment will be blacklisted. Any future comments that contain links to th...
If you've been wondering why the site has been so quiet for the past few days, here's the reason: I've moved to the States! To cut a long story short, I'm here in sunny Lawrence for a couple of weeks ...
I'm addicted to tabs. Several times a day, I scan down my blogroll looking for blogs that have updated since I last checked, then middle click each one to open it up in a new tab in the background. I ...
John Robb: NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don't control. Nice to see he's back....
Delimiter is Scott Andrew's new TypePad blog. Unlike his primary blog which mostly talks about his adventures as a musician, Delimiter promises to cover fun and interesting Web stuff. Should be good. ...
Tristan Louis' RSS to Necho convertor puts paid to the idea that the success of one format will be detrimental to the usefulness of the other.
O'Reilly's RegExp Power series (part one and part tw...
Daring Fireball: Independent Days. A sprawling essay that covers web design principles, corporate vs. independent sites, Mac punditry and the justification for adding Google Ads to a weblog. Well wort...
Adam Curry is a dangerous man: He's throwing $10,000 at a problem he clearly doesn't understand. Quote from June 29th:
I wonder if netscape came up with the Really Simple Syndication when they hi...
Burningbird starts a discussion on how much harm the addition of AOL users will cause to the blogging eco-system. She compares this development to the chaos caused when AOL users were first introduced...
From Scripting.com:
Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand. This is part of a bigger transition, one that we're not ready to talk about yet. It should be, net-net, good news for Manila and Radi...
Artima.com keeps getting better and better. In addition to the world's most interesting collection of technical bloggers, Bill Venners has just added Artima Technology Buzz, a collection of community ...
Tom Gilder has finally started his blog properly, powered by Moveable Type. Nice design too (be sure to view source to figure out how he achieved the drop shadows). He's already covered the RNIB site ...
My friend Tristan has got his blosxom powered blog up and running again. He's also set up an experimental public aggregator of feeds from a small group of friends from Uni, using blosxom's companion a...
Fantastic! Tom Watson has now been joined by Richard Allan (Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam) in the ranks of MPs with their own weblog. It looks like it's going to be really good; Richard is ...
I've changed from using the day as the principle heading on the front page to using the title of each post instead. This is quite a minor alteration, but I expect it to have a relatively large impact ...
Today marks the first anniversary of the start of my blog (and, by a slightly contrived coincidence, my thousandth blog entry). It's been a fun year. Here are my highlights - if you can't stand length...
Exams are all over and I've had a few days of doing nothing to recuperate. I've also made a couple of small improvements to my blog. Firstly I've finally updated the comment system (after numerous voc...
I'm experimenting with using MySQL full text indexing to generate a list of "related entries" for each entry (click on an item's permalink to see it in action). It works by concatenating the item's ti...
I've added titles to every single one of my archived blog entries; nearly a thousand of them. It took just over an hour, thanks mainly to my decision a long time ago to use camelCase for my permalinks...
Ben Hammersley reports on SixApart's (creators of Moveable Type) new venture, TypePad:
SixApart, the company behind the Movable Type weblogging system, is to lanch a new "hosted" service called Typ...
As promised many times, I've finally implemented titles on my blog entries. I'm in the transitional stage at the moment - new posts will have them, old posts won't. At some point in the near future I'...
Via Tom Watson himself, a short interview with Tom, the UK's first blogging MP:
It is a huge political risk (Watson's spoof page for teenagers caught the eyes of the national newspapers last week...
Artima.com recently started hosting weblogs, with membership by invitation only. With people like Guido van Rossum and Ward Cunningham already signed up Artima looks set to become a very interesting c...
Phil Ringnalda posted a rant about sites that don't tell you how their comments system works - like this one. I've been meaning to add instructions for ages but never got round to it; now I have. Hope...
Mike Golding has some interesting thoughts on Archive Navigation in blogs. He uses mine as an example of what not to do. I agree - the archives on this site leave an awful lot to be desired. I've got ...
I spent most of today knee deep in RSS, writing an aggregator for a project at work. It has been quickly becomng apparent that "Really Simple Syndication" is anything but! There are currently three m...
Could Tom Watson be the blogging world's best kept secret? He's the Labour MP for west Bromich East, he's been blogging apparently since since July 2001 and posts updates several times a day, includin...
Bjørn Borud (a Senior Software Engineer at AllTheWeb) has recently started blogging. His thoughts on wikis make interesting reading. I also rather liked his description of something he calls th...
When I started this blog, I made the decision to use days rather than entries as the principle navigation unit of the site. Each day's entries are grouped under a single heading for that day, archives...
Recent additions to the blogroll:
Andrew Hayward - a friend from Uni with some serious javascript skills. As well as document.getElementbyClassName, recent innovations have included a rewrite of d...
I've inadvertantly discovered a flaw in the tabbed browsing model - if you're not disciplined about them you can quickly end up lost in a see of tabs. Right now I have 6 Phoenix windows open with a to...
I've been hearing a few good things about Blosxom recently, so a few days ago I decided to see what all the fuss was about. It's a blogging tool, but it's a very different species from the average sys...
Blogs I would read a lot more often if only they pinged weblogs.com when they updated:
Decafbad
Stop Design
Keith Devens
Tony Bowden
afongen
Brent Ashley
The Web Standards Project
...
Scott Johnson has put together a blog search engine with a difference: it indexes RSS feeds rather than crawling the blogs themselves. Roogle is still under heavy development (and Scott is blogging it...
Wow. Jeff Minter has a blog....
Matthew Haughey (freshly redesigned) has published a Mozilla advocacy article explaining why Mozilla (and variants) are excellent tools for bloggers. Spot on....
Gordon Weakliem reminds us that the most important RSS element is <title>. I'm painfully reminded of this each and every time I add a new entry - I have well over 800 entries now, and I've promi...
I've been pretty much ignoring the whole "Blogging vs Journalism" thing but recently I've begun to understand what the big fuss is about. One of the most popular arguments put forth by journalists con...
I think I've worked out a way of implementing Pingback (or a Pingback-like system) without any need for XML-RPC, <link> elements or custom HTTP headers.
There are three principle reasons for ...
Lots of analysis around the blogosphere today of Google's surprise aquisition of Blogger. Cory Doctorow's analysis is (in my opinion) especially worth reading. Personally, I just hope Google do someth...
Via Paul Freeman, detailed instructions for installing Stuart's Vellum Python blogging system on Windows using either IIS or Apache....
Vellum 1.0a4 is out, and features comment support via a new Comments plugin and an Audience generic object type that abstracts the concept of "responses to your post" and is also used for Pingback sup...
Another Dave inspired post: It seems I misunderstood Dave's objections to blogging feedback mechanisms yesterday. I thought he was ruling out what I see as an invaluable tool for low traffic bloggers,...
Dave Winer: The "You Know Me" Button. Dave hates posting comments on blogs and then having to check back constantly to see if anyone has replied (I do too). Sam Ruby's solution is to provide the comme...
Dave Winer on TrackBacks and push backs (and presumably PingBack as well):
I'm old school. I think the cool thing about weblogs is that they are not discussion groups or mail lists. If I want to ...
Les Orchard describes an intriguing blogging tool built with AppleScript that posts links to a weblog when they are dragged on to a special folder on the OS X desktop....
Stuart has released the code for Vellum, his new Python blogging system. I haven't tried it out yet (the installation process is pretty in depth and I don't have a properly configured server to hand) ...
Mark Pilgrim has been having an interesting problem with his Further Reading feature: Feedback loops.
I always said that my "further reading" was like a prisoner's dilemma: great for me as long a...
Oooh... Stuart has moved his blog over to Vellum, his brand new sparkly Python powered blogging system. The full post is here, but his archive / permalinks aren't working yet. It's going to be fun wat...
News.com: Apple snub stings Mozilla. Surprisingly comprehensive coverage of the Mozilla communities reactions to Safari. What impressed me was the number of links to weblogs in the news story. It look...
Scott makes an interesting observation: Are blogs nothing more than agents for the internet?. A few years ago "intelligent agents" which knew your tastes and found content you would be interested in w...
Stuart has a good summary of the recent advances being made in the Pingback/Trackback implementation sphere....
Pepy's Diary is a serialization of the Diary of Samuel Pepys in weblog form, which launched on Christmas day plans to continue for the next ten years (the time period covered by the diary). The weblog...
Matthew Haughey asks why no one has launched a free host for people to set up Wikis, similar to blogspot for blogs or Yahoo Groups for mailing lists / collaborative communities. It's a good question.
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Tantek:
[...] we now have Trackback and Pingback to help automate generating comment hyperlinks to blog-on-blog commentary. While I certainly applaud these efforts at automating the plumbing, I m...
Stuart has some interesting thoughts regarding Mark Pilgrim's latest entry: an excerpt from The Real Thing, a play by Tom Stoppard....
Coursework is done and dusted; normal service can now resume :)...
Soup is Good is a new blog by a friend of Jeremy Zawodny. It looks like one to watch - two quality rants and counting....
Phil Ringnalda: The perils of good semantic markup. A throwaway comment by a blogger about some trashy manufactured band results in his (properly marked up) site ending ranked higher by Google than th...
Coursework continues, but I'm taking a quick break to blog the fact that Tony Bowden has changed the CSS style for blockquotes on Understanding Nothing. This may not be earth shattering news, but con...
It's coursework crunch time. Deadline is Thursday, we have an application that works but doesn't work (if you get what I mean) and it looks like I will be spending the next few days immersed in Java. ...
Mental note: add the rel="bookmark" attribute to my permalinks, as recommended by Tantek. I'd never realised the rel attribute could be applied to normal hyperlinks....
Mark Pilgrim pretty much single handedly killed the discussion thread on syndicating weblog content with XHTML started a few days ago by Anil Dash. Stuart's reply to Mark's post is definitely worth a ...
Anil Dash suggests using structured XHTML as a blog syndication format. Scott Andrew points out that this has semantic problems in that it would mean using the class attribute to add additional meanin...
Aquarionics is Gone (well, not entirely - the old site can still be found here). Aquarion has committed to building his new blogging system, Epistula 2, and vowed not to add any more entries until the...
Mark's back, and he's been tinkering. In addition to a whole bunch of changes made yesterday in response to Hixie's markup critique, Mark now boasts php.net style shortcut URLs, an RDF powered about p...
I frequently find myself reading something on someone elses blog and thinking "that's interesting, and it fits in well with XXX that I read the other day". I often end up blogging a link to both just ...
Douglas Bowman has left Wired, and is striking out on his own with Stop Design, his one man consultancy business. With the Wired redesign Douglas gave a massive and long-awaited boost to the web stand...
Phil Wolff: We need a census of blogspace....
Rick Klau: A K-Log Pilot Recap:
Given the flexible nature of weblogs (unlike structured applications, weblogs really can be what you want them to be), it wasn't entirely surprising to see users sha...
Handy bookmark for bloggers who wish to validate: cleanURL. It gives you the URL of the current page with all &s replaced with &, ready to be posted in to a blog entry. Unescaped ampersand...
All Consuming is another one of those information-about-weblogs sites, but with a heavy emphasis on books:
This page is the result of several different processes. Inspired by Book Watch, I create...
webgraphics have an interesting discussion running about the need for a weblog entry XHTML validator. Dave Lindquist suggests using his JavaScript XML Parser to perform validation on the client side, ...
Spotted in my referrals today: ReadingEd.com. A promising new blog, well worth checking out for the innovative "Outside Reading" panel which uses the DOM and some very funky javascript to pull in the ...
I haven't been checking my referrer logs recently, so it was a nice surprise to see that Richard from Incutio has finished redesigning his blog and is now back to updating it frequently. He also has P...
tidakada has redesigned, with a funky new 4 column CSS layout and a brand new blog o' links....
Via Adrian Holovaty I discover Craig Saila has an excellent weblog, and is now pinging blo.gs whenever he updates. A welcome addition to my blogroll....
Catch up time...
An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News - Eric Meyer interviews the man who headed up the team responsible for the fantastic new CSS Wired design. A great article both for t...
Paul Freeman has a clever new feature on his blog: List o Links, a list of links that he wants to record without writing up a full blog entry. I'm tempted to borrow the idea (which originated with Ani...
A year ago, Mark Pilgrim's manager told him to stop blogging. He refused, and was fired a week later. Today Mark celebrates. ...
It seems Google have tweaked their algorithm a bit, resulting in several high profile webloggers losing their top ranking positions for a search on their name. Scott Andrew summarises the situation ni...
Today's weird blogging observation: Bloggers love Peter Gabriel. Jeremy Zawodny is a big fan, Scott Andrew can't wait for his new album, Jeffrey Zeldman praises his sophistication and daypop returns 4...
As you can see, I've posted some more lecture notes. The second set uses a HTML entities to display greek letters, as listed on this page of the HTML 4.0 recommendation.
I've been thinking about va...
The Pingback 1.0 specification is getting some serious attention. Mark Pilgrim and Dave Winer have linked to it. Ben Trott (co-author of Moveable Type and creator of TrackBack, the system that inspire...
Hixie has published the specification for Pingback 1.0. In general the specification is an excellent document, but I'm not entirely happy with the following statement:
HTML and XHTML documents MAY ...
So what was all that about? University term started today, and with it comes my grand plan to blog my lecture notes. Don't worry, I will be restructuring this site in the near future to keep lecture n...
Cameron Barrett is back from Russia and brings photos. Scott Andrew is back from his summer vacation and brings CSS tips. I am back at University and stuck without bandwidth for the next few weeks....
I'm moving back up to Bath this afternoon, in to a student house with 4 other people. I don't know if we even have a phone line at the moment so I'll probably be offline for the next few days....
Jeremy Allaire, Chief Technology Officer at Macromedia, now has a blog. Macromedia's attitude towards weblogging has been fantastic - they seem to really understand the medium and the opportunities it...
This post exists partly to list the blogs I know of that support PingBack, but mostly to help test my new PingBack client implementation.
Hixie welcomes feedback on his text/html document.
Aquarion l...
I've flicked the switch and redirected my old blog to this new site. Unfortunately the Bath University web server appears not to obey .htaccess directives so I am currently having trouble redirecting ...
If you were wondering why this blog went quiet all of a sudden, here's the reason. I've moved to a new host, and in the process completely rewritten the engine that powers this weblog from the ground ...
Adrian Holovaty in a blogite thread about features that can be added to blogs:
Change the time zone. I've noticed a lot of blogs don't specify which time
zone they're in, which pretty much makes the...
JellyBath (via Aquarionics). It turns your bath water in to Jelly. From the FAQ:
Q. Can I use Jellybath in a Jacuzzi or Hot Tub?
A. No, it is not recommended that you use Jellybath in tubs with jet...
More on PingBack. PingBack can be seen in effect on this blog and in this entry on kryogenix.org. If you wish to ping my blog you can do so using the following XML-RPC details:Server: www.bath.ac.uk
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I've implemented PingBack on my blog. PingBack is a system for tracking who is linking to your blog in a controlled way, based on a post by Stuart a few months ago. The idea is that when you link to a...
Aquarionics has joined the Mozilla <link> element party....
A discussion on Aquarionics nails why TrackBack isn't quite there yet (emphasis mine):Plus, to support Trackback, I must put what amounts to part of an RSS feed in each post so that Movable Type's Boo...
And some more...
Open Source Tools and the Process of Programming
How Penny Per Page Might Work
Describing Document Text for Accessibility
A revised method of defining link pseudo classes
Optim...
A few other things I read today:
Develop rock-solid code in PHP, Part 1
My Web site is standard! And yours?
Dr. Strangeglobe: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The W3C.
Charlotte Gray: ...
Plenty of action on the TrackBack front. Michel V is adding TrackBack support to b2, Moveable Type have released a standalone Perl implementation of TrackBack under the Artistic license, MetaFilter ha...
Back from Reading. 3,200 emails (I forgot to unsubscribe from some mailing lists). <sigh>...
I'm off down to Exeter to see my girlfriend this afternoon, then we're heading off to the Reading Festival on Wednesday. Updates will be scarce for the next few days....
If I don't post much today it's because I'm hard at work on the new database driven version of this blog. I'm hoping to open souce it so I'm trying to design it to be as easy to customise and modify a...
Another cracking article from Scott: 12 Tips for Working from Home But Keeping it Under Control. I worked from home for a while last year and these tips make a lot of sense (I know because I wasn't do...
Scott: Why I'm Not Reading Your Blog and Why Others May Not Be Also. Scott likes text he can resize and a decent update frequency. Tony Bowden responds that update frequency is no longer an issue for ...
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web is full of invaluable advice for anyone who wants their weblog to be of interest to other people....
Madhu Menon: Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists....
Stuart has pointed out that this is the second time Jeffrey Zeldman (who is actually Eric Meyer) has spelt my name wrong :)...
Spotted in my referrals: tidak ada, a beautifully designed blog covering web development and other related topics. This is another great example of what you can achieve with some creative CSS....
I'll probably be offline until Sunday. Have a nice weekend :)...
I spotted Mike Pletch in my referrals this morning. His blog has a clean, readable design and some great content, particularly if you are interested in information architecture and content management....
Congratulations Stuart on getting slashdotted. How's the server holding out?...
Slow blogging day today - I've been hit by a round of Aquarionics Syndrome ;)...
There's a great discussion going on at the heart of things concerning different styles of blogging and the way the format is evolving. The range of formats evident across the blogosphere fascinates me...
Mark Pilgrim has made his first update since finishing his accessibility series a week ago. He has launched a new site design (as previewed on css-discuss) in an attractive shade of blue, and posted...
Via Kottke: True Porn Clerk Stories, a hilarious, touching and insightful journal of the trials and tribulations of a female Porn video store clerk in Chicago. This is some of the best and most origi...
Blog Hot or Not. I'm surprised no one had thought of this before - it's clever idea, well implemented. When adding my own blog I was asked to come up with some keywords to describe it, so here they ar...
Mark Swanborough (a friend from Uni) now has a blog. He's getting hooked already.
Since he asked, my results for the first year came through the other day and I scored a respectable 75% average. Ro...
I had a great weekend, and now it's catch-up time. I've managed to find 15 things from the weekend that I want to blog so I'll try and spread them out over the next day or so....
Small Values of Cool - links to things that I find interesting by Simon Brunning. I turns out I find them interesting as well. Lots of Python stuff on there at the moment, including a link to the new ...
Burningbird has hung up her wings. Dorothea thoughtfully blogs her departure, disagreeing with her suggestion that blogged content suffers from a lack of permanence. One of the reasons I blog is that ...
I spent a while today over at Brent Ashley's blog chatting away on BlogChat. BlogChat is Brent's impressive DHTML chat system (backend in PHP, front end via JSRS) which allows anyone visiting his blog...
52 projects (via Peter):
Hopefully these projects will give you a starting off point, or maybe some inspiration, perhaps a reminder of the thing that you've been wanting to do.52 projects is just a p...
Peter has upgraded his blog to the latest version of Moveable Type. As a result, his blog now pings weblogs.com via XML-RPC whenever he makes an update. blo.gs grabs the weblogs.com changes.xml file o...
Lobowalk is a "somewhat daily" blog that has just made the transition to using CSS for layout. The decision to go CSS was accompanied by an excellent rant:Why am I doing this? Because right now the we...
Jordon Cooper on Blogroll Etiquette. I haven't made it on to many blog rolls yet but it's always nice to spot a new site in my referrals. The problem with having a blogroll powered by blo.gs is that y...
This blog is one month old today :) According to my category statistics page I've posted 185 entries covering 23 different topics. Quite frankly, that statistic scares me......
Micah Sittig made an interesting suggestion in a comment attached to an earlier entry. Micah suggested adding an inert ?lastUpdated=time attribute to links in my blog roll, causing browsers to display...
Stuart has added an extra innovation to his blogroll. Clicking on a link there now sets a cookie (via javascript) recording your visit - these are then used to display a 'new' icon if a blog has been ...
Stuart at kryogenix.org saw my post about blo.gs and re-implemented his blogroll to update from his blo.gs subscriptions, complete with last updated times. It's such a brilliant idea that I've impleme...
Kevin Burton:
I personally believe that being intellectually open, to the point of promiscuity, not only helps further technology and society, but is an ethical issue as well. We have too many barrie...
I've found a solution to my blog tracking problems. blo.gs is an excellent service which tracks when weblogs are updated by waiting for pings - either directly from the blog or indirectly by co-operat...
A couple of home improvements. I've added a "5 latest comments" box to the front page, and I've implemented a system to ping blo.gs whenever this blog is updated. Next up, Weblogs.com....
I'm listed on the Guardian's weblog list :) The link is quite well hidden (in the Tech weblogs section) but it's still pretty cool. The list details some excellent blogs covering a large range of topi...
Hixie has open sourced his Perl weblog system. It has some nice features but a pretty extensive set of requirements (MySQL, CVS, Expat and a whole bunch of Perl modules). He has also added support for...
Back from Glastonbury. Blog catchup tonight, Glastonbury writeup tomorrow....
Paul Sowden: I've finished my exams and I hope to be back soon....
More on BoingBoing about NPR's link policy. It seems NPR are reconsidering their policy, but in the mean time they have posted a defence of it which Cory Doctorow criticises at length....
Dave's back. Thank goodness for that :)...
djc (formerly of evolt) has posted his views on the recent Kuro5hin problems. His take on things can be summarised as "don't quit your day job until you're sure your hobby can pay for itself"....
Mark mailed me in response to my query about limiting his accessibility series to weblogs rather than expanding it to cover general sites:
Because every project needs to start and end somewhere. T...
I've just finished rebuilding the main data file for this blog, after it became corrupted last night due to a "Disk Quota Exceeded" error. It looks like this was my fault - I inadvertantly filled up m...
Apparently the University of Blogaria was founded on the principle that the ideal university would have no students to contaminate the educational process (Jonathan Delacour). The only way in is to ea...
Jonathan has meta-blogged (I think that's the term) responses to Mark Pilgrim's accessiblity series. He replies to my query about the wisdom of limiting the series to bloggers rather than expanding it...
Meg has replied to Jonathan's criticism of her piece on the nature of blogging via his site's comments system. She defends her original viewpoint, commenting on blogging that we can't define this thi...
With launch notices on both glish and Signal vs. Noise I just had to check out MEETUP. I was not dissapointed. MEETUP is a beautifully simple concept that has been superbly executed. It aims to arrang...
I wonder if Paul Sowden has finished his exams yet....
Meg Hourihan's explanation of blogging (which I linked to and praised earlier) is stirring up something of a storm. Meg's suggestion that the key to blogging is the format has been ripped to pieces by...
Meg Hourihan: What We're Doing When We Blog. It's a curious fact of blogdom that many bloggers blog blogging - why they do it, what it is and why it's so important. I feel Meg has nailed it with this ...
I'm itching to get an XML-RPC interface to this blog up and running so I can start playing with blogging tools (or roll my own in PythonCard). It looks like Dave Winer's MetaWeblog API is just what I...
Dane Carlson: Blog to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary....
Weblog TODO List
I've got the bare bones of a weblog up and running now - essentially the ability to add entries which are categorised and archived in a permanent location. Still to come...
An edit ...
Blogging isn't nearly as easy as it looks. After several days hacking around in PHP (I'm far too proud to use an off the shelf solution) I find myself confronted with a blank slate, and writers block ...