Category: Weblog Concepts
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Step 1: Become fabulously wealthy
I have so many plans for the future that share that same first step. (Sometimes I feel like Homer in a Simpsons re-run I saw recently: he and Marge are stalking a judge and they are startled by an nighttime milk truck delivery. Homer says, “Hey… maybe I should become a milkman!” and Marge asks…
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Meta enough for you?
Lately, the Reverse Cowgirl has been blogging about the process of making a rough TV pilot for the prospective cable show inspired by her blog. The very fact of metablogging a blog tv show about your blog on your blog by itself was enough to make my head spin, but the fact that in so…
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Count me in!
I so want to do this Weblogs in Meatspace conference I can taste it. I want to attend. I want to help make it happen. Where do I sign up? From DaveNet: Your schedule is on the Web. You implement policies. Can anyone make an appointment with you? Block out times you don’t want to…
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Redesigning salonika
I’m doing some maintenance around “this old blog,” tweaking the main design and planning a new version of my Salon blogs category, salonika. The problem with the current approach is that Radio’s news aggregator encodes certain special characters that Radio’s DHTML whizzy interface inserts into blog entries, and then recodes them or unencodes them differently…
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All's well that ends well
Now it can be told: In some ways the most frustrating thing about the deal I signed in August to write a guide to blogging for professionals was that I wasn’t permitted to discuss the project here in my blog-about-blogging. This was probably a good business decision for my publisher, as they did not want…
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Blogger API 2.0 developer preview
As promised, Steve Jenson of Pyra has uploaded developer-preview documentation of the Blogger API 2.0 to a temporary location at the Yahoo group bloggerDev. He says I’m waiting for a DNS change to propagate before I give it a permanent home. Once that update is finished, I’ll open up access to [an] API Validator [that]…