Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

elliptical in OPML (version 2.0)

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Hammered together the next version of the wp-opml.php template over the last day or so. This version shows the post links for the entire blog, within their respective categories. Categories are also properly nested. You can see the results here. The template file is available here. You could also browse [...]

elliptical . . .

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Wow. Busy morning posting. Making up for lost time, I suppose.
Astute readers will probably have noticed a gradual change in the “branding” of my blog. I decided a while ago that “house of the hanged man” didn’t really suit, and while it was, in Allen’s words, unique, I wanted something a little [...]

Speaking of OPML…

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

… and of Dave …
I’ve seen Dave talking a lot about browsing blog posts via OPML. I like OPML for a lot of purposes (subscription lists, reading lists, almost any kind of list, outlines), but don’t get Dave’s big picture vision yet. That said, I like the idea of being able to include [...]

Kudos to Allen (and Wondir)!

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

On two (belated) fronts.

On the professional level: Revolution Health Group Announces Initial Acquisitions, Wondir acquired. I think this is good news, and Allen seems to think so, too, though the portion of the press release dealing with the Wondir purchase minimizes Wondir’s true nature:
“Wondir, Inc., which provides a community-based search for information about health [...]

More on microformats: microformats meet social software

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

My interest in social software has been growing recently. In point of fact, I’m not sure why. I’m truly not a very social person, and I basically have no friends (OK, I have few friends), but something about the networks possible in the social software web spaces intrigues me. Perhaps it has [...]

from Scripting News: 7/13/2005

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Scripting News: 7/13/2005
If you’re in the Boston area on Thursday and want to see the OPML Editor, come by Berkman Center at 7PM. Open to the public. Bring your Q’s.
Dave, when are you bringing it to your old haunts in Wisconsin? I’d be there!

A problem with the Structured Blogging plug-in for WordPress

Friday, July 8th, 2005

I’ve found a problem with the Structured Blogging WordPress plug-in, namely that it generates non-valid XHTML.
I haven’t done a lot of background poking at it, but my evidence is that when I attempted to validate my blog against The W3C Markup Validation Service. I came up with 180 errors (most of which are my [...]

ReBlg This!

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

In another off-line conversation with Allen Searls I was discussing the “release” of ReBlg (among other things). Allen quite correctly gently smacked me down for having these conversations in email and not blogging my thoughts, and that reminder and his recent post spurred me into action today.
I think that the ReBlg critics have been [...]

The end of comments?

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Scoble says:
It [new blog service that he can't discuss in detail] also will make comments unneccessary.
I’m not so sure, but am willing to be convinced. I’ve been thinking about how to solve the comment problem for a while but haven’t had any good ideas. As I was discussing with Allen a few days [...]

Joshua at Bokardo thinking about attention

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

I’ve been really digging a lot of what Joshua Porter says over at Bokardo (and I really like the layout and interface of his site). But here’s a timely tale:
Here’s a scenario sure to be familiar to most of you:You’re in your feed reader, and you’re scanning your feeds to see what’s new [...]