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The Blogging Church
The Blogging Church: Really interesting idea for a book. The Blogging Church offers church leaders a field manual for using the social phenomenon of blogs to connect people and build communities in a whole new way. Inside you will find the why, what, and how of blogging in the local ...
Published: February 16, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Blogging Standard Name Change
AtomNameUsage - Atom Wiki: Apparently Echo the new blogging standard has changed it's name to "Atom."
Published: July 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 967
No One Has Ever Gotten Fired For Blogging
Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging!: Anil Dash nails it here when he explains that "no has ever gotten fired for blogging." Take a person's words, and guess what would happen if you took the exact same words or ideas and sent them to the public via letter to the editor, streetcorner ...
Published: February 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 943
Business Blogging Workshop
Blogging Works Workshops: Chicago in September and October. "One day workshop on how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve efficiency and communication."
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 941
Sioux Falls Argus Leader Blogging Story
Blogging: A venue to rant, rave and review: The hometown newspaper in Sioux Falls has an article on blogging today. Blogging is a contact sport, and he said those who post comments "should be ready to be challenged. They should be ready to be inundated with e-mails every time they ...
Published: August 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 939
Blogging the Microsoft Way
Blogging: Design Your Own Weblog Application from Scratch Using ASP.NET, JavaScript, and OLE DB: "It seems like everyone wants a blog these daysâ I know I did. But I couldn't find any pre-built ASP.NET blog code with the features I wanted, so I built my own." I found this ...
Published: October 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 920
Are You Blogging Yet?
This is an excellent article at InformationWeek about the blogging trend and how blogs can be useful inside a company for things like project and knowledge management. Interestingly, UserLand popped up again: "John Robb, president and chief operating officer of UserLand Software Inc., which develops blogging technology, envisions individual workers ...
Published: September 3, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 919
Blogging Addiction
Technology > Circuits > For Some, the Blogging Never Stops" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/technology/circuits/27blog.html?pagewanted=print&position=">For Some, the Blogging Never Stops: Please don't let me become like this. Interesting story about blogging addiction. To celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West, Fla. ...
Published: May 27, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 913
Gallina: Blogging Via Gmail
Gallina: This programmer from Mexico turned his Gmail account into a blogging platform. Uses GMail messages as "entries" (the message star is the publish status), Replies to conversations are the "entry comments", Uses libgmailer (gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail
Published: September 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 911
Yahoo! May Go Blogging
The Blog Herald: Yahoo! to buy Blog hosting company "....Yahoo! is set to launch into blogging based on the blog service it appears to be running in Korea (but no one is sure as its in Korean except the logo: Yahoo Korea Blog) ignores the recent history of Yahoo! and ...
Published: August 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 898
Towards a Blogging Standard
RoadMap - Sam Ruby's Wiki: This is a consortium of some of the A-list bloggers to standardize what a Web log is. They're trying to distill the basic elements of a blog, and develop a standard to which blogging tools can adhere. While that seems unrealistic in the vast blogging ...
Published: June 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 896
Freeway Blogging
Someone is blogging the freeways  of Southern California - FREEWAYBLOGGER.com: They totally ripped off Joe's yardblogging idea. When you put a sign on the freeway people will read it until someone takes it down. Depending on its size, content and placement it can be seen by hundreds of thousands of ...
Published: November 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 889
AOL Plans Blogging System
AOL Time Warner | Home: Buried deep within an AOL press release, is a half-dozen words announcing AOL's blogging plans: "For example, the same, easy approach used to share embedded pictures in AOL Mail today will also be used to create customized online albums, to send pictures through instant messages, ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 884
This Guy Really Hates Blogging
Why your Movable Type blog must die: This is a really great rant about (1) blogging in general, and (2) Movable Type in particular. Very funny. You are all pretentious twats Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on ...
Published: February 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 873
Blogging Scholarship
The Blogging Scholarship: This is admirable. Is Your Blog Worthy of a $10,000 Scholarship? [ ] Do you maintain a weblog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on. We re giving away $10,000 this year to a college ...
Published: September 28, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 873
The Blogging Network
Here's an interesting idea from a group called The Blogging Network: "Paying each writer, one at a time, is too painful to think about. It's one of the reasons why donations don't work. ... Instead, let's use the Disneyland approach: 'entrance to the park costs money, and all the rides ...
Published: February 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 871
Good Corporate Blogging Advice
Sun Policy on Public Discourse: Tim Bray, XML inventor and all around tech God, has published blogging advice for his colleague's at Sun. I wouldn't call this a policy, it's just some good advice. In general, "sucks" is not only risky but unsubtle. Saying "Netbeans needs to have an easier ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 869
Blogging for Hire
Could You Blog For Hire?: I've always wanted to do this -- blog for another company, just to provide them with content. We've pitched it to a few clients, but no one has taken us up on it yet. There are a few options, you can freelance your writing to ...
Published: January 25, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 863
Business Blogging for Money
Toward a Weblogging Empire: This is about the new Weblogs Inc. site that's launching. "The former editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, the once high-flying chronicle of Manhattan's high-tech mania, plans this week to launch a new venture, Weblogsinc, that intends to make a go of publishing business-to-business blogs. Essentially, ...
Published: September 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 851
Exchange 2000 as a Corporate Blogging Platform
So you want to give blogging a go at your company, but you dread the thought of getting sign off on new software, setting everything up, handling permissions issues, etc. What a huge pain, especially when you have no idea if anyone is going to even like the concept. Never ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 851
Blogging From Beyond the Grave
Andy Olmsted: A blogger in Iraq left a pre-written post with a friend in the event he died. He did. This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of ...
Published: January 5, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 832
PaidContent.org
Wired News: Blogging for Bucks: The guy who runs the paidcontent.org site is pulling in $60,000 a year by blogging alone. Good show.
Published: July 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 825
Frequency: Desktop Blogging Client
Frequency: This one supports Blogger, Movable Type, Radio, pMachine, GeekLog, and EraBlog.NET. Frequency is a desktop weblog client. If you have a weblog you manage with Blogger, Radio, Movable Type, or other Blogger API or metaWeblog API system, you can use Frequency to add new posts instead of logging into ...
Published: November 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 812
Blog Posting from Word 2007
Blogging from Word 2007: Microsoft is apparently building blogging support into Word 2007. Seriously -- they're adding the ability for it to use the MetaWebBlog API to communicate with most blog platforms. Word is a great tool for writing stuff, right? Blogging is all about communicating with words (and pictures, ...
Published: May 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 812
Blogging Burnout
Bloggers Suffer Burnout: Because I'm nothing if not "sharp, witty, and incisive." Billmon's inability to keep up with the demands of moderating comments in the face of a job, family and other responsibilities is just one manifestation of a problem increasingly faced by popular daily bloggers: burnout. While they enjoy ...
Published: July 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 809
Mephisto
Mephisto -- The best blogging system ever: First we get Beast, a forum in Rails; then Radiant, a CMS in Rails; and Mephisto, a blogging platform in Rails. There may be something to this Rails thing.
Published: October 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 807
Blogging and Interview Transcripts
Are emails private? And should bloggers scoop their interviewers?: I did an email interview recently, and I guess it never occured to me to post the transcript before my interviewer did (I never posted the transcript, in fact). "Mark Glaser, a friend and columnist for the Online Journalism Review, has ...
Published: September 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 807
The Onion Takes on Blogging
Mom Finds Out About Blog In a turn of events the 30-year-old characterized as horrifying, Kevin Widmar announced Tuesday that his mother Lillian has discovered his weblog. my links alone contain unlimited fodder for Mom s neuroses, Widmar said. She ll have access to not only my life, but the lives of ...
Published: November 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 802
Navy Starts Blogging
Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications: If the Navy can use it to evaluate top secret technology, you're description of the cheese sandwich you had for lunch should be pretty safe. The Office of Naval Research and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) are testing ...
Published: December 31, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 802
Attribution in Blogging
Are there any hard-and-fast rules about attribution in blogging? Blogs are essentially just links to other content sources, so if you find something via someone else's blog, do you link to the link, or link to the target? Put another way, if you follow the link all the way back ...
Published: August 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 801
The Blogging Food Chain
Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious: I would complain, but I'm probably guilty as hell. The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that authors of ...
Published: March 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 801
Blogging from Prison
Killer taunts victim's family over the Internet: With the good, comes the bad. ...[Jack] Trawick's twisted writings about how he beat, strangled and stabbed Stephanie Gach and killed other women are available to anyone who wants to read them on the Internet. .... The killer even taunts [the victim's mother] ...
Published: January 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 801
How to Be a Job(less)-Blogger
How To Get Rich & Famous By Blogging At Work: This is a pretty funny parody of the whole, "I got fired for blogging..." craze. Refuse To Stop Blogging About Your Work, Even If Threatened With Dismissal. Freedom Of Speech is what it's all about, so screw off, Mr. Bossman! ...
Published: March 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 801
Daschle Blogging His August
Travels with Tom: Tom Daschle, Senate Minority Leader from my own Great State of South Dakota (the greatest state in the Union, incidentally) has a temporary blog: "Welcome to my travel web log. For the last ten years, I’ve gotten in my car every August and driven all over South ...
Published: August 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 801
Blogging Across Boundaries
A little while ago, I made a short post on Miguel de Icaza s comments on Avalon, Longhorn s new UI API (which obsoletes WinForms, which obsoletes the unmanaged API s). Miguel, one of the driving forces behind mono and Gnome, pointed out what he considered to be problems with Avalon. Well, Chris ...
Published: September 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 796
Examples of How Blogging Can Matter
I've read two things on blogs lately that I find very cool. These are two situations in which blogs were used to connect people, and to do things that matter outside of this little, fake world we bloggers have created for ourselves. 4 Generations Blogger A writes about how a ...
Published: January 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 793
Joyce Park Fired From Friendster
Fired for Blogging: This is making the rounds pretty fast this morning so we're going to pile on just for fun. Joyce Park, author of the PHP Bible and architect of Friendster's new PHP platform, was fired for blogging about it.
Published: August 31, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 791
Discussion Forums as Blogging Apps
Rob left a comment on a previous entry about the site Pocket PC Thoughts. This site is doing something I've been thinking about for a while: running a blog-type site off of discussion board software. I first investigated the idea in this posting to the Movable Type support forum where ...
Published: September 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 773
NCAA Silences Blogging Reporter
NCAA criticized for ejecting reporter who blogged at game: Before you go and do something like this, you really have to ask yourself, Am I firing the first shot in a war I can t win? Media groups blasted the NCAA yesterday for ejecting a Courier-Journal reporter from the press box ...
Published: June 14, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 766
Guest Blogging at HYCWS.com
How DO You Serve Two Masters?: Dean Peters over at Heal Your Church Web Site is on vacation. so he asked a bunch of us to guest-write for this week. My day was today. I hope I didn't suck. [...] church Web sites have an interesting challenge in front of ...
Published: September 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 762
TextPattern 1.6B
Textpattern: Dean Allen of Textism has finally released his open-source content management system. I downloaded and installed it and was quite impressed. It's more flexible than Movable Type and actually slips out of the blogging format quite a bit. It's closer to the metal than some of the other systems ...
Published: June 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 758
Iranian Blogs
Iran's blogging boom defies media control: There's an opportunity here for me to spew some long-winded treatise about how blogging is changing the world...but I'll just label this one as "pretty cool" and call it good. Take one exasperated Iranian woman. Add a computer. Hook it up to the Internet. ...
Published: February 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 756
PHP XML-RPC Vulnerability
PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits: This is very, very bad. Many popular PHP-based blogging, wiki and content management programs can be exploited through a security hole in the way PHP programs handle XML commands. The flaw allows an attacker to compromise a web server, and is found in ...
Published: July 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 755
Sparkpod
Sparkpod: A new blogging service. Looks fairly straightforward, and the price is right: $25 / year.
Published: January 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
Are bloggers authors or editors?
I've been thinking a bit about blogging lately, and here's a little experiment I did this morning. I went out to Technorati, and looked at its list of the most popular blogs. Then I visited each blog and looked at the most recent ten posts, and tried to determine what ...
Published: August 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
First Look at AOL Journals
matt jones | work & thoughts: Screencaps of the new AOL blogging tool: AOL Journals.
Published: July 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
Movable Type Enterprise
Blogging Solutions for Business - Movable Type Enterprise: I guess the only big differences I'm seeing from the standard version are LDAP integration and Oracle as a possible data backend. Of course, these are both huge for a lot of companies. The most popular platform for business blogging now offers ...
Published: March 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 747
Blogging Attributation Revisited
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?: There's a really interesting conversation going on over at Slashdot about something I've struggled with in the past: blog attributation. Some guy on Slashdot evidently just copies and pastes content from other sources, drvies traffic to his site, and then reaps the ...
Published: December 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 747
Sioux Falls Blogger Meetup
Some friends and I are looking to organize an informal meetup of bloggers in Sioux Falls. And when we say "blogger," we don't absolutely mean "those who blog." We mean people interested in blogging, whether or not you actually have a blog. This is not a large-scale formal endeavor. We're ...
Published: November 20, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 743
The History of Weblogs
This article from Salon in May 1999 has a great summary of what blogging is: "Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides. A good weblog is updated often, in a ...
Published: September 3, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 740
Living in the Blog-osphere
Living in the Blog-osphere (BAD LINK: this link has gone bad as of July 2003): Another good, general article on blogging from NewsWeek. Covers all the basics, and has an interesting story... "The blog format lends itself to a new kind of reporting: on-the-spot recording of events, instantly beamed to ...
Published: September 3, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 737
Winer Predicts the Assimilation of RSS
Scripting News: Dave Winer, creator of RSS, is immersed in a continuing battle over the blogging standard and the Echo project. I still can't figure the whole dispute out, but Winer is apparently upset that people are trying to re-write RSS...or something. I don't know, but Winer is a smart, ...
Published: June 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 731
Sun's Java Blogs
weblogs.java.net: Following on the heels of Microsoft's GotDotNet.com blogs, Sun has created their own developer blogging community.
Published: June 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 726
Business Blogs
Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki: This site aggregates blogs by the employees of Fortune 500 companies. This is a directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products. Found via this New York Times article, which ...
Published: January 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 719
How Do You Make Them Understand?
Here's something that plagues organizations and their Web sites: knowing what information should be published to their readers and having the willingness to publish that information. I don't think a lot of organizations get it. I just did some work for a group with which I'm involved. Part of the ...
Published: February 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 719
Handblogging
Hand-blogging Explained?: Don Park's mind works in strange ways, but this post is fasincating. Read this one first, as this is what he's talking about. Great stuff.
Published: August 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 710
Give Bloggers Free Stuff
Blog wine Stormhoek doubles sales: Seriously, give us free stuff. Cars would be nice. Computers are good too. Anyway, this South African winery was really upfront about a blogging-focused marketing campaign, and it appears to have paid off. Around 100 bottles of the Stormhoek Shiraz 2004 and Sauvignon Blanc 2005 ...
Published: January 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 703
ecto
Someone on the ProNet mailing list mentioned ecto today. It's a desktop blogging client seems like a good one. ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, WordPress, Drupal, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is ...
Published: September 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 693
What Makes a Blog?
Today in the sky: Here's another interesting example of a USA Today blog. It's about air travel, of all things. Ben Mutzabaugh posts at least a dozen things a day about airlines. He seems awfully well informed. Now, I'm not interested in the subject, but I'm curious about the evolution ...
Published: October 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
Santa's Blog
Proof positive that everybody is blogging. Even the big guy in the red suit. Link. One of the more interesting posts is the list of 100 Things About Santa. Turns out even Santa has an iPod. See number 38.
Published: December 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 690
Ruminations on Posts vs. Pages
Blogging systems have always confused "posts" and "pages." We've talked about this before: what is the difference between a time-sensitive "post" and an "eternal" page? At what point does a "post" get re-visited and revised enough that it should become a page? We wrote about this at length almost two ...
Published: September 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 684
No MT Support in Google 2.0 Toolbar
The people over at Movable Type are miffed that the new Google 2.0 bar doesn't support MT blogging the "Blog This" button goes to Blogger only. Anil Dash is asking people to report this to Google as a "bug." Maybe he's kidding.
Published: June 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Six Apart and Live Journal?
Six Apart to buy Live Journal: This is all over the Net this morning, so I'll jump on the "Holy Cow!" bandwagon. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount.
Published: January 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
Mark Pilgrim is Back
dive into mark: Eighteen months after he wandered out of the blogging world, he's wandered back in with a heart-warming post about giving his kid a bath. If you don't know who Mark Pilgrim is, read his Dive into Accessbility sometime. It fundamentally changed how I structure Web pages.
Published: April 10, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
Thoughts on Posts and Articles
What's the difference between a blog post and an "article" or a "story"? By those terms, I mean content that isn't as ephemeral as posts that hit the site every 15 minutes. Blogs are, by definition, transient they're time-based, and items get essentially dropped into a stampede that tramples ...
Published: September 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 667
So THAT's What We're Doing...
nanopublishing: I always knew we'd latch onto the "nano" craze somehow. nanopublishing (nan.oh.PUB.lish.ing) n. An online publishing model that uses a scaled-down, inexpensive operation to reach a targeted audience, especially by using blogging techniques. Also: nano-publishing. nanopublisher n. They use Nick Denton and Gizmodo as examples.
Published: June 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 667
Really Movable Type
Pocket SharpMT is a Movable Type client for the Pocket PC that features a lot of the same abilities as most desktop MT clients, including the ability to upload images. As mobile blogging becomes more and more popular, I expect we'll start to see more tools like this. If you're ...
Published: August 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
WordPress
WordPress : Looks like a good blogging platform built on PHP / MySQL, which is just so much more hackable than the Perl / MySQL backend Movable Type uses. GPL, even. WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Anil Dash on the Semantic Web
waffle: under the iron: Anil Dash of Six Apart and LinkedIn has some comments over at Waffle about the future of The Semantic Web: "The most productive next steps are going to happen in a few phases, I suspect. The first will be new generations of blogging tools that natively ...
Published: June 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
Blog Survey
Blogging Survey Results: Blog Search Engine did a survey. The 610 survey respondents were made up mainly of blog owners who have submitted their blog to the Blog Search Engine (over 2,800 blogs submitted) and other blog owners contacted through different channels. Only 13% of bloggers run ads. Movable Type ...
Published: December 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 659
Wired Outs Wallop
Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?: Wired peels back the curtain on Wallop. "In fact, Wallop is Microsoft's venture into the red-hot social-networking arena, using the common Microsoft tack of piecing together existing technologies and packaging them for the novice user. Those technologies include Friendster-style social-networking capabilities, super-simplistic blogging tools, moblogging, wikis ...
Published: November 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
MSN Spaces
Microsoft gets in on blogging phenomenon: All your blogs are belong to us. MSN Spaces, which debuts in test form Thursday, is targeted at home users who want to share things like vacation pictures, text journals or a list of favorite songs. The service, free to anyone with a Hotmail ...
Published: December 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Microsoft Tests "The Spoke"
theSpoke: Here's another blogging / social networking app from Microsoft. From Microsoft Watch: So far, The Spoke seems to be in an early public test phase. There are about a dozen registered community members, or "hubbers," participating in the message boards. Within the past few days, Microsoft added a Real ...
Published: December 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
MT Goes Two-Way
The Movable Type Community Pack: This is interesting. Probably the first big cultural shift I ve seen in MT in a while. They ve been focused on incremental interface and functionality improvements. The Movable Type Community Pack brings exciting, new levels of public participation to your Movable Type powered website. Beyond simple ...
Published: May 23, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Bloggers at the DNC
Bloggers get convention credentials: Does this mean we've arrived? A new breed of political observers will be offering volumes of pointed commentary at this year's political conventions. But most of these bloggers (short for Web loggers) don't fit the profile of a traditional journalist on the campaign trail. [...] For ...
Published: July 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Blogs and Usability
Something to consider: Blogging has taken off, and blogs are some of the most popular sites on the Web. Why is this? Could it be because they're so friggin' usable? A blog has all the latest content on the front page. Users can instantly see what's new. The layout is ...
Published: February 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 649
Trackbacks as an Internet Standard
Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard: Six Apart is forming a "Trackback Working Group" to try and make trackbacks an Internet standard. Six Apart has engaged many companies wishing to extend the TrackBack protocol in some way, a proposition that Six Apart is excited about and encourages. However, no one ...
Published: February 21, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 649
Shelfari Fixed?
I found this comment from Josh Hug in another blog post. We actually just pushed an major update to our invitation system last night. Our small team has been slammed just trying to keep our site running recently. I apologize for not pushing the team to address usability complaints about ...
Published: November 11, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Fighting Comment Spam
Unwanted Comments: Comment spam is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Shirley has a good roundup of resources to help you fight it. "Some site owners stave off comment spam by closing off older comments, using blacklists, using filters, just deleting them when they occur, or a combination of these. ...
Published: October 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
RSS Aggregator Review
RSS News Readers Browse for You: PC Mag reviewed aggregators. FeedDemon and NewsGator came out on top. Regarding NewsGator: "Don't underestimate the convenience factor here. With the other news readers, you have to open a separate application. Most business users will agree that having the news feeds directly in Outlook ...
Published: September 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
The Cyberwar is Here
Cyberspace Barrage Preceded Russian Invasion of Georgia: Apparently the actual war in Georgia was preceded by an online war against their network infrastructure. [ ] the Web site of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been rendered inoperable for 24 hours by multiple D.D.O.S. attacks. The researchers said the command and ...
Published: August 12, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Kottke Goes Full-Time
Doing kottke.org as a full-time job): Jason Kottke is going to blog full time. His "real" job infringed on his blogging, so he quit. After thinking about it for a few weeks, I had a bit of an epiphany. The real problem was the tension between my web design career ...
Published: February 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Amazon Interview
JSPWiki: AmazonInterview3: Here's a report from a guy who just interviewed with Amazon. Yikes tough questions, although whiteboards in the elevators still makes working there worth it. What would be your advice for rapid growth sites such as FriendsterDesign a web based email system. Describes pieces, components, design, large ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Thoughts on Permalinks
Weblog Links: Part 1 The Impermanence of Permalinks: Some good thoughts about links in blogging, and how you get tied to both your domain name and your permalink structure. "This happened recently with a well-known weblogger, John Robb. When John left his old employer, Userland, his Userland-hosted weblog was ...
Published: August 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Movable Type
The time for my custom-built blogging app is over, I think. This site runs off a PHP/MySQL-based app that I wrote, but I'm tired of dealing with it. It's stable and everything, but to get to the functionality that, say, MoveableType offers would be more work than I'm interested in ...
Published: February 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 641
Guy's First 100 Days
The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger: Guy Kawasaki has been blogging for 100 days now. He has some good insights: The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the ...
Published: April 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 641
This Old Blog, Part II: Modeling
For this installment of This Old Blog, we'll be looking at the only kind of Modeling that anyone will ever ask me to do: Object Modeling with UML. Last time, we took a look at an idea for a new blogging interface, and discussed how it would interact with the ...
Published: September 27, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
Think First, Blog Second
Recently a couple of bloggers have discovered the unintended consequences of blogging. Greg Easterbrook made some comments regarding the favored religion of the heads of Disney and Viacom. He gets to keep his job with The New Republic, but his weekly Tuesday Morning Quarterback piece on ESPN's Page 2 is ...
Published: October 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
Yahoo Offers Site Management Tools
Yahoo launches Web site publisher: How long until they offer a blogging tool? "The tool, called SiteBuilder, lets customers create a Web site using an array of templates and interface options. The product also lets people develop pages while offline through an application download and then upload publishing changes onto ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Kalsey Buys Blogsnob
Kalsey Consulting Group acquires BlogSnob.: Adam Kalsey is set to become a blog mogul. He just made his first acquisition. Not quite on the order of the EMC / Documentum coupling, but still very cool. "Kalsey Consulting Group today announced that it acquired weblog advertising service BlogSnob from idya Research. ...
Published: October 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 638
Open Source Radio
A Radio Program Turns to a Blog to Cull Ideas: Blogging is coming to the airwaves. Here's the site. Listeners are invited to make suggestions on Open Source's blog, where they are openly posted along with ideas from the program's five producers. When the comment flow starts and suggestions are ...
Published: July 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
"A Pedophile's Dream"
Kids' blogs a 'paedophile's dream': I don't think I'd ever let my kid have a blog. We've schooled him repeatedly on never giving anyone his real name on EverQuest. I think he calls himself Frank on that game. A forensic psychologist has warned that children's blogs pose new threat to ...
Published: January 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
Employee Blog Issues
Worker blogs raise some company concerns: I read Scoble quite a bit, actually. We talked about employees blogging some time ago I wonder if Microsoft has come out with a definitive policy yet. "There are an estimated 1.2 million blogs, or Web logs — Web pages that function as ...
Published: October 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
ISV Diaries
The ISV Diaries: This guy is starting his own software company, and he's blogging the process from start to finish. So far he's dealing with getting all the unglamourous infrastructure stuff set up -- source code management and bug tracking. The purpose of this blog is simple: I am going ...
Published: February 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
Yahoo! Offers Movable Type
Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers: Good for Yahoo -- instead of building their own blogging software, they just partnered with Six Apart to offer Movable Type to all their hosting clients who want to blog. Pre-installed, even. Yahoo will effectively act as the preferred provider of Movable Type for ...
Published: December 12, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
The Blog Graveyard is Growing Rapidly
The Blogging Iceberg: Interesting stats. "The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned. Apparently the blog-hosting services have made it so easy to create a blog that many tire-kickers ...
Published: October 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
Blog Empire Building
Building a Web Media Empire on a Daily Dose of Fresh Links: This guy would probably qualify as the first blog magnate, with Gawker, Fleshbot (NSFW), and Gizmodo to his credit. [Nick] Denton, a British entrepreneur and self-styled "play magazine editor," is trying to turn blogging - once only the ...
Published: November 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
It's All About Me
Are Bloggers Narcissists?: I've thought this exact thing for years. I am a narcissist when it comes to blogging -- there's no other way to describe it. When it comes down to it, most blogs have sometype of self serving or self promoting interest. The company does it to inform ...
Published: April 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 627
Reinventing the Wheel
So, I'm using w.bloggar, and some things are annoying me: (1) there's no column for Extended Entry, (2) it's not WYSIWYG when there are lots of ways it could be, (3) there's no way to assign multiple categories, etc. I posted a request on the Movable Type Support Forum ...
Published: March 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 625
Rails Video
How to build a blog engine in 15 minutes with Ruby on Rails: I haven't watched this all, but it's a video of the Rails guy showing you how to build a blogging platform on Rails in 15 minutes. It sounds like it was a conference presentation that he recorded. ...
Published: July 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 624
Whatever 2.0 - It's Getting Out of Hand
We (Deane) has talked about the utter meaninglessness of the term Web 2.0. Tacking "2.0" onto just about anything must be the cutting edge to do. A few days ago I saw Nissan's shift_2.0 TV ad. (I can't find a link to the ad, but here is an article about ...
Published: June 9, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 623
Bill Gates Has Left the Building
For the first time ever in the two years I've been blogging, I have closed the comments on an entry. I always thought I could never get enough comments, but the things happening on the semi-legendary Bill Gates entry need to stop. Comments are split between very sad stories, and ...
Published: April 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 622
Blogs and KM
Companies get into weblog act: The article is so-so, but it includes this great paragraph on the value of blogs to knowledge management: Consider: Every business needs to know what its employees know. Companies are crammed with experts on various topics whose knowledge goes to waste because nobody knows ...
Published: June 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 622
Adam Kalsey: Movable Type Consultant
MT Consulting: Adam is certainly the one to do it. We'll see more of these in the coming year, I'm sure. MT has become so much more than a blogging tool. "Between this site, various other sites I run that are managed with Movable Type, and the variety of MT ...
Published: October 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 622
Password Protecting Blogs
the working mom: I wonder if this is the start of a trend. This lady (Jennifer, who runs the awesome ScriptyGoddess.com) password-protected her personal blog. After over two years of blogging about me, my husband and my daughter, I came to the undeniable conclusion that there's just too many freaks ...
Published: March 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 621
Web Content 2008
I m at Web Content 2008 this morning in Chicago, hosted by the awesome folks at Duo Consulting. I drove in yesterday from Sioux Falls. It was nine hours, but I have client meetings through Friday, then my son has a soccer tournament just outside the metro for three days, so ...
Published: June 17, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 621
Attention Theft and Other Crimes
Information Pollution: Nielsen is ranting again, although I think this just came from frustration, as he offers little practical advice. Fun to listen to him rant, though. "The Internet is the worst polluter of all. Spam isn't even pollution, it's attention theft. But even legitimate email is typically copied to ...
Published: August 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 619
This Old Blog, Part I
I've been looking for a small project to test out the Rails framework, so I've decided to combine that with exploring ways to reduce the time and complexity involved in creating a blog entry. This will be an ongoing series of articles, but this is a low-priority project, so each ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 618
Performancing for Firefox
HOW TO: Using Performancing for Firefox: Performancing is a great blog with a really terrible name.  I mean...performancing?  What does that mean? No matter -- it's a top-notch piece of work.  It's a blog about blogging, and they have great content. And now they happen to have the most insanely ...
Published: December 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 614
Media Downloads via RSS
Payloads for RSS: A long time ago (in Internet time), there was a short-lived start-up called LoadTV. You installed the LoadTV viewer, subscribed to some channels which had content you wanted to see, and it downloaded full-motion video in the background all day long. The best part was that whatever ...
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 612
It's Official: Everybody Blogs Now
New on MSDN: IEBlog. The official blog of the Internet Explorer product team. As it turns out, there is an Internet Explorer product team. And they're working on IE 7. Go figure. Their take on IE? I Love This Browser! I hopefully got your attention with the title of my ...
Published: July 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 611
Microformats
Move over, AJAX. Microformats are the new 'it' technology: Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current ...
Published: December 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 596
Comment Spam Prevention Goes Nuclear
Elliot Back has come up with the best anti-comment-spam measure I've heard in quite a while. Taking Matt's stopgap spam solution, which sends precomputed hashes to be echoed back by the user-agent's form, I've added dynamic generation of the md5 hash. Rather than write it to a hidden field, we ...
Published: December 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 594
Your Windows Network is Hackable Right Now
Robert Hensing of Microsoft's Security Incident Response Team has apparently been upgraded to MS Employee 2.0, or fallen victim to whatever it is that's making those MS guys start blogging en masse lately. His first post is a whopper: Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any kind on your ...
Published: July 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 593
Crabby in Redmond
It's nice to see pretty much every last MS employee blogging now, but the background still lingers with that slight marketing/PR fish odor. They've clearly attempted to provide employees with a direct outlet, but I get the feeling that those folks must have to sign some agreements before they get ...
Published: October 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 593
Decloak's Anti-CSS Diatribe
Tables vs CSS: Decloak makes a number of extensions for (I think) DreamWeaver and ASP.Net. Apparently some of their Web authoring tools don't support CSS positioning. So, instead of adding CSS positioning support, or just ignoring the issue, they launched an offensive against using CSS positioning. This page is a ...
Published: November 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 589
w.Bloggar
When I was deciding whether or not to move off my custom-built blogging system, I flirted briefly with Radio Userland. What I really liked about that software was that it was a desktop app. I know that that's verboten in our Web-based world, but it was really handy having ...
Published: March 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 587
Textpattern Gamma
Textpattern: This app has finally been released in "gamma," whatever that is. Sounds like a pre-pre-pre-beta, which is what I thought an "alpha" was... When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to ...
Published: April 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 586
The Politics of RSS
Let's get ready, now: This is a little look into what's shaping up as a political battle over RSS. Apparently the major blog systems can't settle on a standard, and Dave Winer has a brutal (yet probably accurate) explanation on how Bill Gates is going to use this to his ...
Published: June 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 585
Microsoft Hosed By RSS
Since everyone but the janitor started blogging at Microsoft, they've been aggregating their blogs into one big honkin' feed that I call The Fire Hose, since reading it is like trying to drink from a fire hose. I find some interesting stories occasionally, but I probably missed 50 since I ...
Published: September 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 578
MSN Spaces - The One-Minute Review
What they got right I was pleasantly suprised by a lot of the features they are offering. First off, making new entries is terribly simple. They already define categories, give you an easy way to add pictures to articles, and there's neither a WYSIWYG editor nor markup needed to write ...
Published: December 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 575
The End of the "PHP sucks" Argument
PHP Sucks, But It Doesn t Matter: Jeff Atwood essentially closes the PHP sucks argument by agreeing with it, then explaining why it doesn t matter. The TIOBE community index I linked above? It s written in PHP. Wikipedia, which is likely to be on the first page of anything you search for ...
Published: May 21, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 571
Problems No Platform Will Fix
This whole Aestiva thing has got me thinking about development platforms. Every week, there's a new one that claims to be simpler and faster than the last one. ASP is simpler than JSP, PHP is more capable than ColdFusion, HTML/OS makes developing apps faster than the others, etc. You know ...
Published: May 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 568
Google Talk
I suppose that FCC blogging regulations require us to muse on Google Talk for a bit. For folks that have been using IM since ICQ was king (like me, and I'm betting most of you), the Google Talk client itself looks pretty poor. It's missing features that AIM and ICQ ...
Published: August 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 568
Blogs as Disruptive Technology
My buddy Rob sent me a link to an article called "Blogs as Disruptive Tech: How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants," which includes this great anecdote: The convention center was practically empty after the go-go years of the Internet bubble, it seemed crazy to ...
Published: March 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 559
Enterprise Architecture: Top-Down Makes My Head Hurt
My buddy Rob and I were talking the other day about top-down vs. bottom-up entrerprise architectures. My last company attempted to implement a top-down architecture, where every system was planned out as to where it fit in the grand scheme and everything was on one big server under one language, ...
Published: April 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 559
Correct Practice for Follow-Up Entries?
Here's a question on blogging practice: what do you do for follow-up posts or updates to an existing post? Do you make a new post? Update the original post? Post a comment? I have examples of all three options so far, and I have yet to figure out which one ...
Published: June 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 553
Blog Focus and Business Models
We've been tossing around the idea of applying a business model to Gadgetopia for quite some time now. Don't get us wrong, this is fun and all, but it takes time and there's always the nagging desire to "take it to the next level," to overuse a cliche. However, I ...
Published: August 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 551
Open and Closed Content Management Re-visited
I spent some time over the weeked with two major open source content management systems. I'm not going to mention names, since I don't want to start a flame war, but they're both very popular, have big communities behind them, and there's a good chance you've heard of them. They're ...
Published: November 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 532
The Quandary of the Single Table Web Site
What do you do with sites that need a single table of data updated? These are sites which are totally static, except for this one thing... For instance, we have a client for which we built a static site. But they have a page which lists all the locations where ...
Published: December 15, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 527
Open and Closed Content Management
I was over at OpenSourceCMS.com today playing around with some content management systems: phpWebSite, Xoops, and PostNuke. They were all quite good, with phpWebSite being the one I enjoyed the most. But I want to articulate something I've had in the back of my mind for a while... "Content management ...
Published: June 20, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 518
The Waterstone's Controversy
The Woolamaloo Gazette: This guy got fired for his personal blog. He worked at a bookstore in the U.K. and, as he puts it: Anyone who has been a regular reader of the Gazette will know that I do occasionally mention my work life, although it accounts for a fraction ...
Published: January 12, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 516
The Envelope Pattern of Content Management
A friend and I are looking at a bunch of different content management systems for a church Web site. We've been discussing the merits of the various approaches, and looking at some open source offerings like Mambo, Typo3, and eZ publish. During this, I've struck upon a concept that I ...
Published: August 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 503
Uber-Text Pages and the Lack of Inheritance in Content Management
(Note: the audio for this post is here.) We had a build meeting the other day for a client s site, and we walked through the site map to determine what content types we were going to need to pull this off. In these cases, the first content type you ...
Published: April 21, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 496
On Posting Practices
Aaron Mentele is asking about posting practices for people who blog a lot. But while the first part of my prediction seems to be true, I can't say the same about posting getting any easier. Deane Barker tells me he spends 15 minutes on each post with the exception of ...
Published: December 27, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 491
Interview with Josh Clark
Admit it: whenever some group like 37 Signals or Six Apart comes out with a new software product, you secretly think, "I could of done that." How many of us developers thing we could build something just as good if we only put in the time? I do. Yes, I ...
Published: March 2, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 478
A Case for Movable Type as your Intranet
Here s a fact: intranets don t have to be crazy-complicated. Intranets are fundamentally about sharing simple information, which is not as hard as some people make it out to be. As simple as this is, most organizations either have no intranet, or a smattering of HTML pages someone threw together ...
Published: March 30, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 478
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