ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco
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ProNet: Blog Jobs Abound for ProNet
Members
ProNet: Blog Jobs Abound for ProNet
Members
03/14/2005 06:05 PMPardon the promotional interruption, but if you're reading the
Professional Network website or feed and haven't had the time to sign
up as a member, you've got a little extra incentive to join the
Network today. If you take a...
ProNet: Here come the Feds!
ProNet: Here come the Feds!
03/14/2005 06:06 PMCNET News.com interviews Bradley Smith, one of the six commissioners
of the United States Federal Election Comission. Though there's few
specifics, the conversation covers the idea that the FEC might be
considering the impact that weblogs have on elections, and...
ProNet: Purseuing
ProNet: Purseuing
03/22/2005 06:45 PMAnother entry in the growing number of topic-specific blogs is the new
Purseuing. Dedicated to covering everything having to do with
handbags, purses, and totes, it's a cleanly-designed new Movable
Type-powered site that covers its niche well. Perfect for
inspiration...
ProNet: EPIDEMIca
ProNet: EPIDEMIca
06/06/2005 12:12 AMThe variety and breadth of ideas that weblogs can cover continues to
be amazing. Witness one of the latest efforts, EPIDEMIca, a weblog
about infectious diseases. Powered by Movable Type, this site adopts a
serious tone and a professional look...
ProNet: blo.gs goes to Yahoo
ProNet: blo.gs goes to Yahoo
06/17/2005 02:04 PMblo.gs is one of the most popular update pinging services, having been
a default service in Movable Type and TypePad for years. Today, Jim
Winstead, the service's creator, has announced that blo.gs was sold to
Yahoo, after announcing a change...
ProNet: Supernova workshops
ProNet: Supernova workshops
06/22/2005 01:55 AMCongrats to Kevin Werbach on organizing yet another successful
Supernova. Having been lucky enough to attend the first two West Coast
editions, it's great to see the gathering getting stronger by the
year... Yesterday I was part of the workshops...
ProNet: feedmap: bl0gmapping
ProNet: feedmap: bl0gmapping
04/12/2005 01:35 AMWe'd noted recently that GeoURL had relaunched, and if you're still
hungry for more blog-mapping fun, you'll want to check out feedmap,
which has a clean RESTful API and looks like a good basis for building
location-aware blog applications....
ProNet: Feedburner Stats API
ProNet: Feedburner Stats API
03/14/2005 06:05 PMRichard MacManus, who's been on a roll lately with his excellent blog,
Read/Write Web, presents a look at a Collaborative Feedburner Stats
Project. Richard's talked to the team behind the popular XML
processing service and convinced them to make individual...
ProNet: PBS implements TrackBack
ProNet: PBS implements TrackBack
03/23/2005 10:15 PMPBS Online recently implemented TrackBack support on almost every page
on their site, and The Dead Parrot Society has a Q&A with the team
responsible for the deployment. One of the keys to implementing
TrackBack is being able to work...
ProNet: Appnel's Apps
ProNet: Appnel's Apps
06/06/2005 12:12 AMAward-winning Movable Type plugin developer Tim Appnel's just launched
a new code section on his Appnel Internet Solutions site, where he's
launched a number of powerful new plugins and updated a bunch of his
existing plugins. Among the new releases...
ProNet: LiveJournal Hacks
ProNet: LiveJournal Hacks
03/19/2005 02:53 AMBrad's been active with a cool little LiveJournal hack, inspired by
the buzz around tags at this year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology
conference, where he displays LiveJournal's interests in a new
variable-sized tag-style display, instead of the years-old sorted
list. Pretty....
ProNet: Changed files in MT 3.17
ProNet: Changed files in MT 3.17
06/06/2005 12:11 AMYou may have noticed that we just announced the release of Movable
Type 3.17 over on the MT News blog. This release is a small bug fix
release in terms of changes, but an important one for those who are...
ProNet: BlogHer Sponsorships
ProNet: BlogHer Sponsorships
06/06/2005 12:11 AMJust a reminder, if you're interested in attending the upcoming
BlogHer Conference in Santa Clara, CA, we're offering sponsorships for
five women bloggers, as outlined in the post on Mena's Corner. The
deadline is today, so if you want to...
ProNet: New version of MXNA
ProNet: New version of MXNA
04/05/2005 07:56 PMMacromedia's XML News Aggregator is one of the most popular resources
for people who build on top of Macromedia platforms, collecting their
broad community into one web-wide conversation. The MXNA team has just
launched a comprehensive revamp of the site,...
ProNet: Google Code
ProNet: Google Code
03/19/2005 02:53 AMGoogle's just launched Google Code, a repository for all of the open
source code that they're contributing for you to make use of in your
apps. Much of the code is (not surprisingly) oriented around building,
testing, or debugging large-scale...
ProNet: So you'd like to make an Ajax
map
ProNet: So you'd like to make an Ajax
map
06/06/2005 12:12 AMOur own Mark Paschal just visited Linden Lab, the creators of the
popular online gaming community Second Life, and he was inspired to
create a new app called Landmarker. From Mark's description: At Cienna
Rand's suggestion, I've been building a...
ProNet: Sploid launches
ProNet: Sploid launches
04/06/2005 05:57 PMGawker Media's just launched Sploid, a new tabloid-style news site.
Like all of Gawker's sites, it's powered by Movable Type, but the part
that caught our eye was the truly distinct design style. In
combination with the tone of the...
ProNet: Using Ajax with TypeKey
ProNet: Using Ajax with TypeKey
04/12/2005 05:16 PMSince anything worth doing on the web is worth doing with Ajax, Joe
D'Andrea's written up his technique for using Ajax with TypeKey. It's
a clean and simple implementation of the authentication service, and
it's found a good home on...
ProNet: The EFF on How to Blog Safely
ProNet: The EFF on How to Blog Safely
04/08/2005 07:58 PMThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has just published a new guide on
How to Blog Safely. Covering topics like anonymity, workplace
concerns, and simple common sense, it's a great reference for those
who want to be careful about blogging....
ProNet: Vote in the Photobl0ggies
ProNet: Vote in the Photobl0ggies
03/23/2005 10:15 PMVoting for the 2005 Photobloggies is open for five more days. Like all
web awards, the Photobloggies are a reflection of their community and
show the growing popularity and prominence of photo blogs. Be sure to
check out the many...
ProNet: CNET's Blogging on the job FAQ
ProNet: CNET's Blogging on the job FAQ
03/14/2005 06:05 PMCNET News.com has published a FAQ about Blogging on the job. While
there's some of the usual hype about people getting fired for
blogging, they do point out that their own research didn't show anyone
in their sample who'd had...
ProNet: Blogging the Family Guy
ProNet: Blogging the Family Guy
06/17/2005 02:08 PMThough this one's been running for a little while, we couldn't skip
mention of the Family Guy Blog that's accompanying the animated
series' return to television. Though the show is already popular with
bloggers, we're guessing the Movable Type-powered weblog...
ProNet: OpenSearch at Etech
ProNet: OpenSearch at Etech
03/19/2005 02:53 AMA few of us from Six Apart are at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference, as mentioned on our Six Apart news blog, and if you're
here, you'll want to check out Ben Trott's session on Making Web
Services Personal at...
ProNet: Politicians with Permalinks
ProNet: Politicians with Permalinks
03/26/2005 05:38 AMThe Christian Science Monitor has a broad look at politicians using
blogs to better communicate with their constituencies. Anything that
improves transparency, increases accountability and encourages
communication from elected officials can only be considered a good
step....
ProNet: Upcoming revamps
ProNet: Upcoming revamps
03/28/2005 06:59 PMUpcoming.org is a popular web-based events-tracking service, and Andy
Baio, the site's creator, has just announced a number of significant
new features. In addition to expanding the types of events that can be
entered, Upcoming now supports tags, a powerful...
ProNet: Consumerpedia's launch
ProNet: Consumerpedia's launch
04/04/2005 01:13 PMOne of the most interesting new sites to launch recently is
Consumerpedia.org, which is being billed as a Wikipedia-style site for
people who are looking for purchasing information or consumer
resources. Though it's still early in the site's development and...
ProNet: Veer on Personality
ProNet: Veer on Personality
03/25/2005 04:56 AMWe love the creative ideas that come from the folks at Veer, not least
because of their great Movable Type-powered blog The Skinny, but their
latest project is another really great way to get your creative juices
flowing. Personality is...
ProNet: The Ten Commandments of
Freelancing
ProNet: The Ten Commandments of
Freelancing
03/25/2005 04:57 AMWe're lucky to have lots of Professional Network members who are
freelancers, and for all of you who are out there fending for
yourselves, you'll want to consider The Ten Commandments of
Freelancing. Scott Thigpen's put together an outstanding list...
ProNet: Looking into consumer-generated
media
ProNet: Looking into consumer-generated
media
04/06/2005 11:35 PMMediaPost has a detailed look at what they're calling "consumer
generated media", including blogs. There's a good explanation of
audiences and current business models, including quotes from BlogAds'
Henry Copeland and PaidContent's Rafat Ali....
ProNet: XSH: Command-line XML shell
ProNet: XSH: Command-line XML shell
03/24/2005 05:21 AMIf you're Perl-fluent amd looking for a cool little tool to work with
XML data, check out the XSH command-line interface. As described in
this DevX article: Enter XSH, an open source command-line XML shell
that lets you interactively query...
ProNet: perl.org infrastructure webl0g
ProNet: perl.org infrastructure webl0g
04/06/2005 07:35 PMperl.org has just launched Perl NOC, a new weblog talking about the
progress the perl.org team is making on its various projects. The best
new discovery courtesy of the blog is the new perldoc site, which
features a nifty widget...
ProNet: Atom steps forward
ProNet: Atom steps forward
04/04/2005 06:21 PMTim Bray reviews some important reasons Why We Need Atom Now, with the
good news that the Atom Publishing Format is nearly complete and
important pieces like an Internet-Draft of the Atom Publishing
Protocol (Basic) are rapidly maturing. Just as...
ProNet: Verdana Meets Its Match
ProNet: Verdana Meets Its Match
03/19/2005 02:53 AMOne area that nearly everyone agrees that Microsoft excels in is the
typefaces they distribute to web users. Poynter Online shows us the
future of Microsoft's font collection with screenshots of the new
family of fonts expected to be released...
ProNet: LiveJournal Style Contest
ProNet: LiveJournal Style Contest
04/04/2005 06:21 PMThere's one week left if you want to enter the LiveJournal 2005 Style
Contest. If you're familiar with LiveJournal's S2 style language or
want to learn it, now you've got a good incentive to get started.
There's the chance to...
ProNet: Feedster bl0gging policy
ProNet: Feedster bl0gging policy
03/24/2005 05:21 AMIt's a great idea to have a written blog policy if your company allows
blogs, and especially if your company encourages blogging. Feedster
has just posted their corporate blogging policy and it looks like a
fairly straightforward set of policies....
ProNet: Tracking Down a Comment Spammer
ProNet: Tracking Down a Comment Spammer
04/04/2005 01:13 PMPC World's Andrew Brandt went to work tracking down a comment spammer,
following a link from a single piece of comment spam blocked from
their Movable Type-powered blog, and discovering a watned criminal.
Like the work Ann Elisabeth is doing...
ProNet: Making Progress Against Spam
ProNet: Making Progress Against Spam
03/24/2005 05:21 AMThe fight against comment and TrackBack spam is an ongoing battle, and
it's worth reviewing some of the new options available for managing
the attacks. Since our last roundup, which covered many mod_security
options as well as the DSBL plugin,...
ProNet: Raw Data on bl0g usage
ProNet: Raw Data on bl0g usage
04/04/2005 06:21 PMStill looking for some numbers and statistics to use when talking
about weblogs? A couple of new resources have just popped up. Perseus
has just released The Blogging Iceberg, which mentions the following
key points: When you say "blog" most...
ProNet: Blog Business Summit SF
ProNet: Blog Business Summit SF
06/24/2005 03:38 PMAfter the success of the first event earlier this year, the Blog
Business Summit is returning, this time in San Francisco. Scheduled
for August 17-19, the event promises a full calendar of practical,
business-centric conversation about the benefits of blogging....
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