Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Migration project and priorities

    As promised last week, I am going to start migrating some of my weblogs from tool to tool. I’m not doing this just to demonstrate the processes and the problems, but because I have had longstanding plans to do so as a matter of trying to rationalize (or refactor) my web presence a bit. My…

  • His marbles

    Dave’s back, having made his point, rallying support for “mature leadership” against competing big companies and personal vendettas. That was fast.

  • Syndication list for developers

    One tangible effect of the recent weblog format/syndication/api/archiving/interop debate recently is that Rogers Cadenhead has started a mailing list, the Site Syndication Format development list to discuss “ambiguities in the RSS 2.0 specification.” The goal is to develop a new specification from scratch … that clarifies or corrects these issues…. The members of the list…

  • Echo's out

    How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. Jeremiah, 52:7 The Echo Project, née Sam Ruby’s wiki pie, needs (again) a new name. I’m warming up to Shelley Powers’ suggestion (Pubs) and Timothy Appnel’s suggestion (ESP).

  • How to backup and restore the world

    I just added David Pollard’s How to Save the World weblog to my subscriptions. His blog is a nonstop source of fascinating thoughts about business, the web, society, and so on. He has also done some interesting analyses of Salon bloggers by traffic and interconnectedness. (Since Harry Potter will be knocking me out of Salon’s…

  • "I am content"

    Dave Winer’s commitment to RSS is beyond doubt. In fact, he says he himself is content in an RSS container. He has also issued a broadminded endorsement of the Echo project, saying he’ll recommend Userland support it without, of course, backing off from RSS support.