If your news reader didn’t like the gFeed – I’m looking at you, NewsFire – then give it a second shot. I’ve tweaked the gFeed RSS feed and it should be more compatible with validation-hyper-sensitive readers – I’m looking at you, NewsFire. Also, if your reader supports it – NetNewsWire – the audio of the …
Category Archives: Weblogs
How long does it take to build a website?
A year or so ago, I had this ‘Website-in-a-Weekend’ idea. Walk a group of people from nothing to a nice looking, easy-to-update, custom website in a weekend using WordPress. Something like this; Day 1: Install WordPress (t d), define categories, pages, generally get everything in place. Add some images and text. Day 2: Edit the …
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Introducing Tag Maker for MarsEdit
I’m a big fan of MarsEdit, I use it for all my weblog posting. The other day, I was wondering about making any arbitrary text a Technorati Tag. The result was the Tag Maker Applescript for MarsEdit. It takes any selected text and appends a ‘(t)’ to it linking to the corresponding tag at Technorati, …
Blogger Forces Company Blogging Policy Issue
Update: 9 Mar 2005 9:04 am …we do not censor people’s blogs, and we take the censorship allegation extremely seriously. I actively encourage our employees to blog, and to express their opinions. However, many readers do not make as clear a distinction between personal and work lives as many experienced bloggers do, and will view …
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Fact Checking My Own Ass
Google alerted me to MarketWatch’s Bloggers won’t keep a secret article where my mis-quote of Dan Gillmor got a mention. Some bloggers are almost proud of making a mistake. It gives them a chance to make a correction and appear oh, so humble and honest. Garrick Van Buren, who blogged about a showing of “Blogumentary” …
Get Paid to Do What You Love
Jason Kottke is making the biggest decision of his life. He’s testing a hypothesis I’ve had since I started podcasting. I believe the business model of the future is the one public television and public radio have been using for years: If your customers like what you do, they’ll pay you to continue. Dean Allen …
Hello, welcome to the hub of Garrick.
Hi all. A couple weeks back, Jen Bohmbach and I talked about weblogs for an episode of the First Crack Podcast. In that conversation, you’ll hear us talk about the strengths (“you have a very comprehensive view of that person”) and weaknesses (“you have a very comprehensive view of that person”) of having a single …