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Ah! Webl0gging like it used to be!

Ah! Webl0gging like it used to be! 02/10/2004 02:46 AM

Another unexpected joy of this trip so far is the unfettered bad-quality weblogging I'm doing. I'm using the site as a jotting diary of my time here, and I'm dropping in all these little references to things that will hopefully make it easier to remember what happened in years to come. I'm not worrying too much about sentence construction, I'm not fussing over the shape of an argument or anything like that - and as a result this feels the most fun it has in a couple of years. I don't know how useful it is of course, but it's definitely nice to have a beak from more serious industry-related writing. Assuming anyone will want me back when I'm done, of course...

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Webl0gging about your job and career

Webl0gging about your job and career 06/22/2004 01:12 AM

I do not talk about my regular job on this or my private website as I know my employer would not be real happy about it. But I have been thinking about writing on a particular facet of my Job that my employer probably would not have any issue with. I have had a domain for a couple of years that fits perfectly with the subject I would like to write about. Their are a few other sites out their that attempt to draw the same audience that I would like and I know that I could affect their traffic in a negative way. I have been working on a set of self imposed censorship rules after all the last thing I want to do is write about something that could cause my employer embarrassment.

Some have been fired from their jobs and I personally like mine enough that I would censor myself to protect my job. This may seem crazy to some people but I am not stupid. As I like my job and I like the paycheck. Unfortunately it is a catch 22 I hope that someone someday has the vision to generate a policy document spelling out what is ok and what isnt as I am sure companies like Microsoft have. [Business Week]

another simplistic look at webl0gging

another simplistic look at webl0gging 05/31/2004 01:02 AM
For Some, the Blogging Never Stops .. Blogging Is Killing Our Society! .. visited

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Standards for Webl0gging.

Standards for Webl0gging. 12/17/2004 06:38 PM
Brent Simmons, the author of the wildly popular mac RSS reader NetNewsWire talks about standard weblog features in a recent...

Wireless Webl0gging

Wireless Webl0gging 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
On impulse, I drove to the computer store today and picked up a Cisco 350 series wireless networking card. It appears to work fine with Linux. I'm currently participating in an ad-hoc wireless network relayed through a laptop with two wireless interfaces--one to serve the local net, and a long-range card to relay traffic to a nearby building. Slick.

Webl0gging news because it's far too hot
to go out

Webl0gging news because it's far too hot
to go out 06/27/2004 10:02 AM
One tool leaves, more enter. The weblogging market grows by the day, with the latest being the UK answer to Typepad/LiveJournal/Japanese Clipart/Moblogging craziness, The Zpace. Yes, that's how they spell it. It has some rather interesting features: like the option...

Ethical Webl0gging Part One

Ethical Webl0gging Part One 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Update: Wednesday March 5 - The text of this post has been slightly edited and adjusted in an attempt to tighten up and clarify my argument. I believe that my position is essentially the same, but you are advised that some of the comments that follow this post were responses to an earlier version.

With Blogger's acquisition by Google, the weblog space has changed more fundamentally than I think any of us had previously realised. The main impact of that acquisition is not faster servers or a better weblog infrastructure, it's that marketing and public relations firms - always more brand-conscious than perhaps they should be - have noticed Google turn our way, and (carefully following the integrity-based brand's line-of-sight) have finally noticed us... "What is this new grassroots phenomena?" they seem to be asking - as if the press hadn't written about almost nothing else on the web for the last three years, "... and how can we get it promoting Dr Pepper?"

First things first - why should they care? They should care because there are hundreds of thousands of weblogs out there - and they're all connected to each another, spreading information and ideas around the web at tremendous speeds. The bums-on-seats factor is huge - get something on Metafilter and you can guarantee thousands of views. Get it on b3ta, tens of thousands. Get it on Slashdot, hundreds of thousands. And that's not including the impact of the thousands of personal sites. Nor does it include the people who read those sites, pick up links and e-mail them to their friends, to their bosses, girlfriends and mums. Weblogs are becoming the natural meme ecology - almost as good at spreading ideas as e-mail but with one particular advantage for marketeers - their sole raison d'etre is to point people at other web pages. They are almost inherently a tool for rating and promotion. They are public opinion made manifest. In fact the only mystery is that marketers haven't been trying to exploit them before...

Doc Searls has argued that this incursion by marketeers will be routed around - like so much censorship or damage - by the distributed nature of weblogging. I'm less convinced, and the reason I'm not convinced is that to a lesser - and mostly unacknowledged - extent, weblogs have already had their integrity 'corrupted' - we're already advertising things for companies in return for money. The most common and widespread form of integrity-reducing advertising we are undertaking are Amazon referrals. I'm not taking a high-ground here - I often place them on my site when I've bought something that I thought was particularly good, or wanted to reward an artist I like. We don't tend to think of them as interfering with our credibility or compromising our integrity - but we make more money if we write in a way that puts more Amazon links into our sites, and we make money if those links are recommendations....

The 'Project Blogger' approach is a simple and effective one - you make webloggers (members of the public) feel important and special as 'in the know' opinion formers. You ask for nothing in return because that could be perceived as pressure. Inevitably this will be something that people sign up to believing that there's no price to pay. Except they've been given expensive and cool things by a marketing organisation - so there's always the pressure of a threatened withdrawal. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and you pay with the soul of your site - the place you've carved out as a place of personal expression becomes yet another platform to sell rich teenagers Nike shoes...

There's a really good article about weblogs as marketing devices over at chronotope at the moment which I think drags a lot of the issues into the light of day. There does seem to be a perceptual difference between the analysis of weblogs from outside and attempts to manipulate them or direct them through advertising or promotional approaches. The people behind this campaigning strategy honestly cannot seem to see how their work might deform or debase the integrity of individual sites, and I suppose we couldn't expect them too. But this does seem to me to be the crux of the issue - that as soon as advertising enters the space of personal publishing, integrity becomes questionable - the particular authenticity of weblogs and diarist content becomes under threat.

So now that the marketeers and public relations people have turned towards us - what are we to do about it? The idea that weblogging would need any kind of united sense of ethics hasn't previously been very palatable to people, but I think that's changing - Nick Denton has made some very sensible comments on Blogger Freebies that try to clarify what an individual's responsibilities might be considered to be and he in turn links to Mitch Ratcliffe's Ethics and Blogging and Rebecca Blood's piece on Weblog ethics. In turn Rebecca mentions Dave Winer's position from quite a while ago. There's a resurgence of interest in the rights and responsibilities of the 'good' weblogger, which I think should now probably be opened up for debate and discussed at greater length.

So what do you think? What are the particular ethics of writing a weblog? Is it possible to preserve your integrity while taking advertising?

Webl0gging increasing: new studies

Webl0gging increasing: new studies 04/09/2004 04:01 PM

Weblogging is increasing, according to recent studies , and emerging as a significant part of the United States media landscape. Bloggers constitute a statistical minority of the online population, but include between two and eight million Americans. While perceptions of tone, content, and the newnewness of blogging may prevent widespread adoption at the moment, advertising is beginning to take root.

Towards a picture of European
webl0gging...

Towards a picture of European
webl0gging... 06/17/2005 03:22 PM

Found via a referral and then a couple of moments later via Euan Semple, Loic Le Meur is attempting to put together a rough picture of The European Blogosphere on his wiki - with core questions about the country's main blogging platforms, total number of weblogs, famous weblogs, impact on mainstream media etc. I haven't really had time to dig around in it as much as I'd like, but my first impression is that - as ever - what's going on in the UK tends to get lost in the larger picture of English-language weblogs across the world. I mean, I simply don't believe it's true that there are only 200,000 UK weblogs in existence as opposed to the several million in France. My instinct is that these figures are artificially low because it's so hard to technically differentiate with statistical analysis alone (and without any strong weblogging platforms aimed directly at people in the UK) which weblogs are British, which are Irish, which are American (or Canadian or Australian or English-speaking French / German etc).

Anyway, in a nutshell, I don't think the page about the UK adequately reflects the culture of weblogging that I've seen in the UK over the last five and a half years. So I'm going to go and try and improve it now, and I thought I'd ask in public for Brits (and people from the rest of Europe) to come and help me find trustworthy information online that can help Loic give a fair representation of what's actually happening. The link again for those of you with a short attention span: The European Blogosphere.

has webl0gging and document-sharing
features

has webl0gging and document-sharing
features 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
Microsoft Research Packs 'Wallop' .. E-week reports

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U-bl0g! - The ultimate webl0gging system

U-bl0g! - The ultimate webl0gging system 09/13/2004 02:24 PM
U-blog! 0.0.5 released!

Six Apart: Webl0gging Software Leader
Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal

Six Apart: Webl0gging Software Leader
Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal 01/06/2005 11:55 AM
Six Apart: Weblogging Software Leader Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal .. official press release

sixapart.com/press/weblogging_software_leader_six_apar.shtml
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"Six Apart: Webl0gging Software Leader
Six Apart Acquires Live..."

"Six Apart: Webl0gging Software Leader
Six Apart Acquires Live..." 01/06/2005 11:51 PM

Perfect Corporate Webl0gging Pitch
Competition

Perfect Corporate Webl0gging Pitch
Competition 04/17/2004 05:47 PM

As some of you know, I am a judge in Weblogs, Inc's 'P erfect' Corporate Weblogging 'Elevator Pitch' Contest which is now in the scoring phase.  I just spent an hour on the submissions and, frankly, it was difficult to judge because:

1. I know too much about blogging to emulate clueless executives.
    
2. There are too many unknowns about the audience.

Making a 'pitch' without knowing much about your audience is like pitching without knowing where the strikezone is.  Know who they are and what they are interested in so you can select the appropriate bait and dangle it where they are likely to bite.

Anyhow, I think such a contest should be held once a week with a specific target description.  For example, VP of Marketing at Nike, VP of Sales at Victoria Secret, or VP of Engineering at Sony.  Forget the judges too.  Instead let the readers cast their votes to select the Pitch of the Week.  Fast forward and I wouldn't be surprised if executives send in pitch requests to hear how blogging can help their particular company.  Heck, asking for help is a form of marketing after all as enterprising Nigerians have showed.

Polywogg Webl0gging service goes beta;
.Mac users free

Polywogg Webl0gging service goes beta;
.Mac users free 11/06/2003 12:21 PM
Rainjul LLC has released a public beta of Polywogg, a personal journaling ("blogging") service for Mac OS X 10.2 ("Jaguar") and Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther"). It's designed to let you include movies, digital photos, audio files, PDF documents, rich text documents, HTML pages, HTML pages formatted as PDF and freeform formatted documents in your journals.

Ben and Mena Trott sucker punch the
webl0gging community

Ben and Mena Trott sucker punch the
webl0gging community 05/13/2004 02:02 PM
Of course Six Apart has the right to charge whatever they want for MovableType, but having repeatedly said that they would provide a free version of MovableType 3.0 for personal use then announcing this crippleware that is MT 3.0 personal is stupid at best, dishonest at worst. Enraging your first customers and your developer community is a strange path to business success. Hopefully they will reconsider after being enveloped in the perfect storm that is brewing....

Six Apart Announces Integration of Its
Webl0gging Tools into Adobe GoLive CS2

Six Apart Announces Integration of Its
Webl0gging Tools into Adobe GoLive CS2 04/05/2005 02:24 AM
Investors Business Daily Apr 5 2005 6:38AM GMT

Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism
and Webl0gging in Their Corrected
Fullness

Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism
and Webl0gging in Their Corrected
Fullness 04/16/2004 10:22 AM
Here's my Introduction, take two, for the Saturday morning session at BloggerCon. Let's start by separating two things. Blogging is not journalism. But if each imagined itself as the other, some good might come of that.

2MHost Announces Hosting for Movable
Type Webl0gging Platform

2MHost Announces Hosting for Movable
Type Webl0gging Platform 03/19/2005 02:59 AM
2MHost.com, a hosting provider serving over 5,000 clients and 10,000 domains, announced this week that it has established a partnership with software developer Six Apart Ltd. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Blogs, Bandwidth and Banjos: Tightly
knit bonds in webl0gging

Blogs, Bandwidth and Banjos: Tightly
knit bonds in webl0gging 07/10/2004 10:13 AM
Blogging evolving from publishing to communicating .. talk

sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/07/blogs_bandwidth.shtml
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"San Diego weekly publishes entire month
of Brian Dear's webl0gging "

"San Diego weekly publishes entire month
of Brian Dear's webl0gging " 06/09/2004 03:46 PM

PressThink: Brain Food for BloggerCon:
Journalism and Webl0gging in Their
Corrected Fullness

PressThink: Brain Food for BloggerCon:
Journalism and Webl0gging in Their
Corrected Fullness 04/16/2004 10:22 PM
Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism and Weblogging in Their Corrected Fullness .. takes on a question .. Rosen

journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/04/16/con_p relude.html
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Newspaper publishes entire month of
webl0gging by Brian Dear @ Radio Free
Blogistan

Newspaper publishes entire month of
webl0gging by Brian Dear @ Radio Free
Blogistan 06/08/2004 04:25 AM
San Diego weekly publishes entire month of Brian Dear's weblogging .. Radio Free Blogistan .. Here's his writeup

radiofreeblogistan.com/2004/06/07/newspaper_publishes_entire _month_of_weblogging_by_brian_dear.html
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What, Me Register?

What, Me Register? 08/04/2004 04:43 AM
News sites that require registration are just annoying their readers. As a result, many users get revenge by submitting bogus information. So why not drop the charade? Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.

"Register"

"Register" 01/23/2004 02:24 PM

The Register hit by XSS

The Register hit by XSS 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

Here's a nasty one: popular tech news site The Register was hit on Saturday by the Bofra exploit, a nasty worm which uses an iframe vulnerability in (you guessed it) Internet Explorer to install nasty things on the victim's PC. Where it gets interesting is that the attack wasn't against the Register themselves; it came through their third party ad serving company, Falk AG.

This is a classic example of a cross site scripting attack, in which malicious client-side code (usually JavaScript) is uwittingly served up by an otherwise innocent site. Usually, cross site scripting is caused by a badly written server-side application failing to properly escape data sent in a query string before displaying it on a page. This allows attackers to create links which, when followed, steal cookies or cause other nasty effects for the user following the link. Attacks on third parties with scripts served up on a target website's pages (ad serving companies are a classic example) are less common but much more damaging as the malicious code involved will be distributed to everyone who visits that site, whether they click on a hostile link or not.

This problem isn't restricted to ad servers; any service where web pages point to a JavaScript file hosted on an external site are potentially at risk should the external site be compromised by crackers or abused by its legitimate owner.

An aside: users of alternative browsers (Get Firefox!), as well as those who had upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 2, were unaffected.

| The Register

| The Register 02/01/2005 08:41 PM
Interview with a comment spammer: "Link spamming, with its abuse of common resources, turns out the most efficient, just as cutting down virgin Indonesian and Amazonian rain forest is the most efficient way for loggers there to get wood. If it raises the global temperature of the blogging community, well, ...

The Register

The Register 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
refloozle their hossenblobbets with tinklewickets .. users are stupid, part 2 .. computer security issues .. makes a very good case .. The Register .. Register

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"The Register"

"The Register" 01/07/2004 06:08 PM

Register at NYTimes.com

Register at NYTimes.com 12/03/2003 09:47 PM

hello Sir please tell how I can register
in Gmail & when we

hello Sir please tell how I can register
in Gmail & when we 08/28/2004 08:26 PM
TechTree Aug 28 2004 11:38PM GMT

"Register at NYTimes.com"

"Register at NYTimes.com" 12/29/2003 03:39 AM

The Register wants reform

The Register wants reform 06/24/2005 07:26 PM
According to Cathy Kirkman of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, the Register of Coyprights has decided to propose abolishing the compulsory right granted by section 115 of the Copyright Act. This is the provision that gives recording artists the right to record "covers," so long as they pay a specified fee. Remember this quote from a 1967 House Judiciary Report, considering a modification to the law as it existed then:

[T]he record producers argued vigorously that the compulsory license system must be retained. They asserted that the record industry is a half-billion-dollar business of great economic importance in the United States and throughout the world; records today are the principal means of disseminating music, and this creates special problems, since performers need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms. Historically, the record producers pointed out, there were no recording rights before 1909 and the 1909 statute adopted the compulsory license as a deliberate anti-monopoly condition on the grant of these rights. They argue that the result has been an outpouring of recorded music, with the public being given lower prices, improved quality, and a greater choice.

Copyright Law Revision, Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong. 1st, Sess., Rep. No. 83 66 (March 8, 1967). Apparently the Registrer believes performers no longer "need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms." What progress.

Function-Register-1.2

Function-Register-1.2 05/21/2004 05:37 AM

"THE MOBILE REGISTER is "

"THE MOBILE REGISTER is " 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

Fie on the register allocator

Fie on the register allocator 06/17/2005 03:43 PM
One of the things that was plaguing me with $WORK_PROJECT was the interaction of parrot's register allocator with some of my... degenerate code. (Assuming you consider a single subroutine with 1.6M of source text and 20K+ temps degenerate. I certainly do) On the fast machine at the office it topped out at around a gig of memory consumed and somewhere around 360 minutes of CPU time. Needless to say... ick. Far from acceptable, and nearly all the time's in the register allocator. I'd taken a shot at patching that up a while back, but ran into some issues. (Entirely...

Failing to Register

Failing to Register 04/01/2005 11:15 AM
Register.com slips past its filing extension deadline and that's not the only thing slipping through.
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