Archive for March, 2005

Posts should have fixed identity

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Adam Sacarny floods the Planet : time and past that we start designing weblog software so that a post has immutable identity fixed at the moment it’s first saved, not mutable identity generated when a feed is rebuilt.

Those who can

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Social protocols: the guys who decided to focus on the positive went out and did something; those who want to mix in the negative seem to have nothing to offer except complaints

Thanks for more ‘fish to come

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

paulhammond.org live: a happy day. Paul is astonishingly good with a few words and a link, and I’ve been missing him

On making comment moderation not suck

Monday, March 7th, 2005

It’s nice that weblog tool producers are giving people comment moderation as a spam fighting tool, but it’s probably time to start thinking about making it less hostile to commenters.

Watch that zipper

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Just giving Shelley a little link flow, ’cause she’s clearly begging for it. And if she pulls you off to the ladies’ to talk about her referrer stats, she’s lying, you hear me?

Spammers are lazy

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Just encoding an email address as numeric character references has a huge anti-spam effect, to my great surprise.

(Grease)monkeying with Blogger’s BlogThis

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

A user script to turn the quotes around quoted text in Blogger’s BlogThis popup into a real blockquote element.

Thirty minutes to Jeffrey Foucault

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Live (and webcast) house concert with singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault starts in thirty minutes. You don’t need more warning than this, do you?

Hope you weren’t counting on them

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Torsten’s working on a plugin architecture for RSS Bandit. Plugin number one? An ad-blocker.

Your rights are what I say they are, damn it!

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Discussion on NYPL Copyright : err, public domain, so that’s “copying rights” rather than copyright. Some decidedly odd “legal” opinions being thrown about in hopes they’ll stick, these days.