Category: Radio Free Blogistan
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Tech writer changes her mind about blogs
After dismissing weblogging as just another technology-assisted fad, writer Chris Shipley has reconsidered and started writing a blog herself himself (actually, two blogs, both listed at Shipley’s website). In The Blog Nation, Shipley cites several reasons why she he now believes weblogs are a publishing medium with innovative potential. Among them, she he says, is…
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Dealing with duplicate pings
Weblogs often generate multiple trackback pings to the same entry. This is usually because a timeout in the initial ping caused the process to fail to acknowledge, so the sending weblog tries again next time the user updates the entry. To avoid sending out duplicate pings, if you get an error after posting, go to…
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Help with comment permalinks
OK, I wanted the comments block on the home page to link to recent comments “filchyboy on Is linking like sex” etc. The problem is that the comment links just go to the entry and don’t scroll down automatically to the specific comment’s permalink. I was poking around the templates documentation and I saw that…
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Extreme customization
Anyone who’s worked with UserTalk, Frontier, Manila, or Radio knows that there’s a lot of impressive power packed into these tools and also a lot of idiosyncrasies. The software is ideological in the sense that it reflects the choices and preferences and decisions of mainly one programmer and software architect, Dave Winer: In software your…
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Photos from Joi's dinner
I just put up a gallery of photos from Joi Ito’s November 11, 2003, dinner in San Francisco. I also blogged about the dinner at Radio Free Blogistan, which is now a group weblog.
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Incoming!
As Rayne noted to me in email this morning, we were hit with comment spam this morning. The only new thing about this is that it’s now hitting on articles I didn’t author, so I don’t necessarily see the email notification. We have Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist installed, so all comment notification comes with a link…