Archive for the 'blogging tech' Category

Confidential to Barbara Pluff

Friday, June 13th, 2003

Yes, having a missing archive template will make Blogger throw a 104 NullPointerException error. You can recreate your archive template from these instructions. And your mail server seems to think that there’s no mailbox with the name in the From: that you sent your question from.

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Friday, June 13th, 2003

An interesting approach (or bug): redirect the comments link to the weblog author login.

Local blogs?

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

pb’s ORblogs.com list of Oregon blogs is an interesting idea, but I’m not sure I’m ready to be that local.

Missing the blog-clog point

Monday, May 19th, 2003

Eric misses the point of Google indexing weblogs, and sometimes ranking them rather high for some searches: most people would consider google to be a better service if i, and a relatively small number of other people, didn’t get in the way of the information they really want. He’s referring to the way he tops […]

The hazards of really large numbers

Sunday, May 18th, 2003

The new version of Blogger uses 18-digit post ID numbers. Sadly, that’s one digit more than the precision of a javascript number, so anything (like dotcomments) that treats post IDs as numbers in javascript needs to stop doing it, and soon.

MT rebuild type mod

Tuesday, May 13th, 2003

Not for the faint of heart: hack MT to offer more flexibility than just “rebuild this template” or “don’t rebuild this template”.

Gawker to leave weekend field open

Monday, May 12th, 2003

Gawker decides to take weekends off, I celebrate one less site looking for your attention during my favorite time to publish.

A call from Google! Oh, the legal division

Monday, May 12th, 2003

BlogMatcher looks for other weblogs that link to the same sort of things as you or your favorite weblog. Expect a logo change, though.

Not long at all

Monday, May 12th, 2003

Technorati API, and, seconds later, PyTechnorati, Mark Pilgrim’s Python API wrapper.

What Google could do with weblogs

Monday, May 12th, 2003

I don’t know what Google will do with weblogs in their search results, but I know one thing they could do: treat everything that pings something that produces a changes.xml file as a weblog, index it and follow its links immediately, but only put the page itself in a separate weblog search.