06 Mar 2008

On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles

So you’ve decided to start a weblog and have a really clever idea for titling it based on a snippet of code you find particularly novel. Rad!

tomayko.com   20:22

23 Jan 2007

A Healthy Venus

On launching the Health Benefit News River.

tomayko.com   23:05

01 Oct 2004

tomayko.com   00:14

25 Sep 2004

tomayko.com   23:15

21 Aug 2008

Best Comment Policy Ever

“This ain’t the goddamn Barney show, I’m not a goddamn purple dinosaur, and I don’t give a flying fuck about your feelings. I don’t love you, I don’t want to be your friend, and as far as I’m concerned, caring means not setting your house on fire.” — Phillip Birmingham

weblog.pell.portland.or.us   18:46

06 Jul 2008

blog.txt

A minimalist’s WordPress theme. Focus on typography and simple markup. Various configuration options and a print stylesheet.

plaintxt.org   23:07

05 Oct 2007

Overlapping Circles

Sam’s Planet Intertwingly is my TechMeme.

intertwingly.net   04:21

09 Apr 2007

Blogger’s Code of Boring Irrelevance

“If I want to publish a picture that shows Ronald McDonald smoking a joint made out of the rain forests, I can.”

elharo.com   10:34

10 Mar 2007

Primary sources? You don’t need ‘em. Trust us. [jonudell.net]

I’m surprised to see that any of the news sites linked to the original report.

blog.jonudell.net   05:12

23 Jan 2007

Baron VC

“Most of the sites that suffer from Digg are blogs that are trying to establish ongoing dialogue with their readers. The authors are more interested at developing ideas and sharing them with people that come across from organic channels.”

baron.vc   21:42

26 Oct 2006

Blogging: Bad for coding

and vice versa.

nutrun.com   14:56

17 Oct 2005

The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Ouch. I’m making 50% of these right now :/

useit.com   09:35

30 Jun 2005

Squawkbox: Corporate Use of MSN Spaces-- check out CNBC. Rant alert

Damn, looks like Microsoft is back to their old ways again…

redmonk.com   05:41

29 Jun 2005

Journalism and weblogs, part 327

Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)

philringnalda.com   18:17

24 Jun 2005

Microsoft makes web feeds easier

Looks like RSS will finally be coming to “everyone else” now.

news.bbc.co.uk   14:51

Get Rich Quick With Blogs

The always insightful James Governor’s with a fist full of insight into insightless topics such t-shirts… weeeeeeee!

redmonk.com   06:34

26 May 2005

Fear, Greed and Social Software

Why corporations will have to pick up on blogging…

corante.com   05:55

17 May 2005

My Long Bet with the NY Times

It’s quite possible you’d win that bet today.

davenet.scripting.com   09:45

10 May 2005

Typo - Weblog package atop Rails

I’m going to see about moving my weblog to this..

typo.leetsoft.com   23:50

25 Apr 2005

Business Week predicts corporate takeover of blogs

BusinessWeek has “Blogs” on cover but they don’t get it. Predicting a massive takeover of the blogosphere by major corporations – no one is going to some shitty feed-me-PR blog. We have those today, they’re called “Corporate Websites” and “Magazines”

weblog.blogads.com   09:21

22 Apr 2005

The spit fight that ended my career at MSNBC

“So, fuck it. I quit.” – David Weinberger on leaving MSNBC because they’re clueless.

hyperorg.com   11:21

21 Apr 2005

tecosystems: Five Developer Blogs You Should Read

Awww shucks, Mr. O'Grady, I’m flattered!

redmonk.com   02:23

20 Apr 2005

Rupert Murdoch should buy Jon Udell.

I wish I could buy Jon Udell; I’d keep him in my cubical to impress my friends.

redmonk.com   06:58

08 Mar 2005

It’s Not Dangerous

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

tbray.org   09:46

07 Mar 2005

AMERICA - ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

Simon Willison showed me this scan of a Newspaper from April 14, 1865. It looks like a blog.

archive.scotsman.com   12:17

The on-demand blogosphere

An Udell screencast on the future of the blogosphere. del.icio.us as a shared brain.. all great stuff. watch it.

weblog.infoworld.com   07:11

16 Feb 2005

Markdown in Python

An implementation of John Gruber’s markdown text to XHTML processor in Python.

freewisdom.org   08:33

01 Feb 2005

New York Times Link Generator

Generates non-expiring links to New York Times content. Bookmarklet included.

nytimes.blogspace.com   01:10

30 Jan 2005

cluetrain/hughtrain

Cluetrain Manifesto: “This is why we hate you.” Hughtrain Manifesto: “This is how we’re going to fuck you up.”

gapingvoid.com   18:19

21 Jan 2005

Open Source Radio

“A space for you to help contribute to a forthcoming CBC radio column about the open-source movement.” This is a great example of blog-as-collaboration-tool.

opensourceradio.blogspot.com   07:31

03 Jan 2005

Why There's No Escaping the Blog

Fortune looks at the impact of weblog’s on business.

fortune.com   23:29

30 Nov 2004

Bloggercon 3 - Law

Lawrence Lessig’s talk at Bloggercon 3 just hit IT Conversations.

itconversations.com   01:49

29 Oct 2004

Fear of Bloggers in Business and Journalism

sigh.. corporate resistence to change never fails amuse me.

weblog.siliconvalley.com   00:48

20 Oct 2004

Scobleizer: Are you afraid to blog

Surprisingly interesting look at fears of corporate blogging both internally and externally. Scoble thinks most people are afraid to get fired.

radio.weblogs.com   01:48

05 Oct 2004

WordPress, Tagging, and a Critique of Hierarchy

LaughingMeme: tags for wordpress.

laughingmeme.org   09:19

09 Sep 2004

The Atom Syndication Format 0.3

I know it says 0.2 in the URL and PRE-DRAFT in the title but this as normative as you can get with the 0.3 feeds in the wild.

mnot.net   12:04

19 Aug 2004

Identifying Atom [xml.com]

atom:id will use URIs (hurray). markp explains why.

xml.com   01:35

14 Aug 2004

QuickTopic - Instant Discussion Space

Thinking about using this for my comment system. They have an XML-RPC API but it isn’t documented on the site.

quicktopic.com   20:48

13 Aug 2004

Blog Interrupted

Some lady that throws away mail for my very own Sen. Mike DeWine got fired because she kept an anonymous X-Rated blog about relations w/ FIVE upper staffers.

washingtonpost.com   19:24

08 Aug 2004

First look at MSN blogs

Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!

philringnalda.com   20:30

27 Jul 2004

d.sankey.ca

TODO: copy (gratuitously) this sites organization.

d.sankey.ca   16:43

23 Jul 2004

Weblogs Compendium - RSS Readers

Bunch of News Readers

lights.com   23:10

Am I missing something

Why all the anonymous blogs? Wusses.

leuschke.org   05:23

20 Jul 2004

planetpython.org   00:43

19 Jul 2004

XML.com: XML Source Highlighting

Need to get this in the blog.

xml.com   16:48

fedora.linux.duke.edu   16:32