Category: Weblog Concepts

Apparently if an MT blog allows HTML in comments and uses an executable file extension (such as .php or .shtml) this opens up a security risk from code that could be inserted into a comment. Brad Choate has released a plugin called Sanitize that enables MT users to exclude all but a specified list of…

DWS passed along this link to an RSS Tutorial: The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) project of the Utah State Library has a tutorial on RSS that shows examples of its use in a variety different scenarios. They do good work. [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog] [RadioFAQs] I’m going to check it out to see if…

Ben and Mena Trott today released version 2.5 of Movable Type on the one-year anniversary of its initial release. Some of the changes include: An integrated version of Jay Allen’s mt-search plug-in, called public search More accessible default templates that follow Mark Pilgrim’s Dive into Accessbility guidelines A new default stylesheet (it was the date…

In The Death of the Newspaper at Teal Sunglasses, Chuq Von Rospach takes on some recent commentary about the online publishing, editors, and professionalism, responding to my post over the weekend prompted by C.W. Nevius’s Chronicle column (whew! tracking these threads is hard work!). But that argument is like arguing that because McDonalds has automated…

A writer for Pigdog Journal disagrees with most of Rebecca Blood’s advice in her Handbook, lampooning it in an over-the-top way: And then there are all the bits where web writers are cautioned to never insult a blogger. “Even relatively mild criticism of another weblogger or her site design will reflect very unfavorably on you,”…

Hylton at Blogging News continues to do a wonderful job of rounding up interesting commentary from the blog world. In my lazy way I wish to respond to a few of the comments here without bothering to track down the original posts, bookmarklet them, and respond invididually. Richard Poe on why blog-politics may skew to…