Archive for the 'blogging tech' Category

Make ins and del not suck

Saturday, February 8th, 2003

I want del to make it clear what was deleted, not make it impossible to tell what it was, and when I insert text I don’t want it to look like a huge long link. But how else should they be styled?

Power law distribution of links

Saturday, February 8th, 2003

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.

A TrackBack is a comment, except when it’s spam

Friday, February 7th, 2003

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.

Whose voice?

Wednesday, February 5th, 2003

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 on Copyfight!

Tuesday, February 4th, 2003

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

CC? Not for me, thanks

Tuesday, February 4th, 2003

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

Dear Sir, I hope this weblog comment meets you well

Tuesday, February 4th, 2003

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

SimpleComments

Sunday, February 2nd, 2003

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

tblib: a Python TrackBack library

Saturday, February 1st, 2003

Matt Croyden’s Python library for sending TrackBack pings

Vellum just keeps getting better

Friday, January 31st, 2003

Vellum, Stuart Langridge’s weblog script written in Python, started out great and just keeps getting better and better.