Category: Required Reading

  • Crash Course in RSS Development

    Dive into Mark today is a great place to start for anyone trying to get up to speed on the weblog-mediated RSS development collaboration.

  • Reports of the Death of Publishing Greatly Exaggerated

    Don Park responds to Ray Ozzie’s obituary for publishing, saying “Publishing is not dead.” I would tend to agree. Publishing is definitely sick, buffeted by unfamiliar pressures, in disarray, due for some changes, racing to keep up with technology changes, slow to adopt technology. Publishing is many things. (I feel mildly qualified to comment myself…

  • The Legacy of Eve Andersson

    Adam Barr takes to task the insider-y side of the blogosphere’s hypocracy in this article posted to kuro5hin: Back then you had to be able to write pure HTML to put up a site like that. With modern blogging has come authoring tools that free you from that restriction. So is this the huge breakthrough…

  • Small Business Blogging

    Rereading Bricklin’s Aug 12 article on small business blogging, I realized that his first example is a pretty close fit for the intangibles I get from doing this blog: One type of small business is the “consultant”. This covers a wide range of areas, from engineers, to marketers, to event planners, to freelance writers and…

  • Deep Roots of Hypertext Journaling

    Believe it or not, I’m still sorting out what I’ve learned about Traction Software, sifting and trying to digest what I’ve learned. Traction was heavily influenced by Doug Engelbart and his ideas about

  • Mining Udell on Radio and the Two-Way Web

    I should have known I’d get sucked in. I remember reading Jon’s columns as he continually documented what he was learning about web servers, content managemenet, database-backed websites, and so on. From the link mentioned in my previous entry I’ve now read Udell’s review of Radio 8 and a three-part article on the writeable web,…