Notes"The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme."Unfurl
Notes"Last week I got eighty-five emails from people I've never corresponded with before. Strangers to me. However, I wasn't a stranger to them."FeedUnfurl
Notes"You see, Iāve fallen into that blogging trap where you start to feel as if you have to write a very long and involved essay in order to post to your blog."Unfurl
Notes"Enter Perl Buzz, a new blog set up by Andy Lester and myself. I think of Perl Buzz as āthe shiny, happy Perl blogā, and Iām not ashamed to pimp it out with every web 2.0 gimcrack and widget we can find."Unfurl
Notes"This means that it HAS to be possible to update your Facebook from a program. Using nothing but cURL (or, in my case, PHP with the cURL extension), you can update your Facebook status"Unfurl
Notes"This release of ecto3 is an alpha-release. In other words, it has bugs and it has missing features that will be incorporated in later versions"Unfurl
Notes"This time I wanted to easily implement del.icio.us bookmarks into blog posts without having to use a server-side component and add to the already slow loading of this blog."Unfurl
Notes"CommentPress, a free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text."Unfurl
Notes"When Dave Winer started blogging, he used to have two forms. Some would be the long form essay, some would be the short form sentence. His blogging platform encouraged you to build up a day's journal entry from a mix of the two."Unfurl
Notes"The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products."Unfurl
Notes"There are troublemakers in all sorts of settings, in all sorts of mythologies - a troll can be equated to Loki or Anansi just as easily as they could a vitriolic bigot. Who knows? All I understand is that the Internet troll exists by the grace of those wUnfurl
Notes"If you've got a site/service that is ad-supported but also has some membership, do your best users a favor and think about turning off ads (I'm looking at you Facebook and LinkedIn). It's likely to make a small dent in your bottom line but will pay off wUnfurl
Notes"And looking over press coverage of the announcement today, youād think it was the late ā90s and Six Degrees had made Flooz its official currency and offered free Kozmo.com deliveries to all its members."Unfurl
Notes"One of his most mindboggling skills is information management. He currently reads 622 RSS feeds a day ā it used to be 1,400 feeds a day!"Unfurl
Notes"this networking facility allows people to go from 0-60,000 displays of a stretched rectum in just a couple days, where that same period of time can lead to hundreds of people "discussing" what is essentially a prank, and the bell-curve of likelihood of "Unfurl
Notes"Iām not a millionaire, and may never be, but there are now hundreds of people making their living using WordPress, and I expect that number to grow to tens of thousands. Thatās what gets me out of bed in the morning, not the prospect of becoming a feFeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"...led me to declare the classic and much-parodied Star Trek fight theme [1.8 MB MP3] as the official song of internet discussions and blog comments."Unfurl
Notes"A Slifeshare is an online space where you share your digital life activities such as browsing the web and listening to music with your friends, family or anyone you care about."Unfurl
Notes"Elgg is an open source social networking platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities."Unfurl
Notes"Iāve started to implement this machine tag format here. If you look at my last postāwhich has a whole list of booksāyouāll see that Iāve tagged the post with a bunch of machine tags in the book:isbn format."Unfurl
Notes"Anytime you find yourself saying, or even thinking, how 'dependent' you are on a service, you should immediately look for the exit strategy. If there isn't one, decrease your dependency."Unfurl
Notes"I have a funny feeling that I will be the last blogger who writes untitled posts. Even Dave has left, and the Atom folks have written us out of the specification (title is required in Atom 1.0). Boo hoo. We still exist, by the way."Unfurl
Notes"I'd much rather see your blog go quiet for weeks, months, or even years and then happily find the occasional post than just find links where I once expected to find your own original words."Unfurl
Notes"I think that blogging is a natural fit for introverts. I blog because it's such a convenient way for me to connect with people. I blog when I want to. ... I can withdraw and re-join without anyone noticing."Unfurl
NotesI'd totally forgotten that FeedBurner now offers JSON renderings of RSS feeds. I should use this if I ever revamp to a new portal-of-me homepage.Unfurl
Notes"We need to move beyond the idea of omnipotent services running behind the curtain, which is what we have come up with in the past, to a truly secure model where the user consciously delegates and systems demonstrate this in an auditable fashion."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Personally, I find it hard to have faith in Six Apart's commitment to developing, improving and supporting Movable Type, which is why I now advise clients to avoid it at all costs."Unfurl
A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Ants and Grasshoppers
BlackGray 1.0 | Theme viewer
Elgg: the open source social networking platform
Showdown - Markdown in Javascript
