phil ringnalda

Clay Shirky’s essay on power law distributions and the fairness of inequality in Blogaria is right on, except for missing the stickiness of linking.

An MT hack to add an “Edit this post/category” link to the “new TrackBack” email, which I’m afraid will be useful for deleting spam pings.

Something only vaguely related caught my attention while reading about Dorothea going public (domain, that is). She says that As for Shelley’s fear of someone posing as her via her writing—look, I am me and you are not. Shell is Shell and we are not. No poseur can take that away. A weblog is particularly […]

Copyfight, a Corante “weblog column”, has a badly split personality when it comes to terms of use.

I don’t object to Creative Commons licensing, I just don’t see why I would want or need it.

Weblog comments by email, meet the inevitable spam comments by email.

She’s in!

Testing Adam Kalsey’s new plugin to intermingle comments and TrackBacks

In 1981, when Columbia first flew, I was young, and filled with hope, more than a little space-struck, and delighted that my species was doing something so right. In 1986, when Challenger last flew, I was a little less young, a lot more bitter and cynical, and sure that the response would be wrong, and […]

Matt Croyden’s Python library for sending TrackBack pings