MovableBlog: Asides: October 2003

October 27, 2003

Your Own Dot Org: A song about Ben and Mena Trott [#]

Adam Gessaman interviews Anil Dash [#]

October 26, 2003

Posting to MT from FeedDemon Close to making me want to buy the damn thing. [#]

October 25, 2003

MyTunes extension for iTunes for Windows Allows you to save music from other computers to your hard drive. [#]

October 24, 2003

Scoble says that customers will have a say in designing Longhorn See also: the second paragraph of this comment. [#]

October 18, 2003

Suggestion for Realtime Blackhole Lists to deal with MT comment spam [#]

Ben and Mena interviewed at Foo Camp [11 MB Quicktime] So she admits it: their goal is world domination! [#]

October 17, 2003

The great metadata debacle of 2003 iTunes for Windows reorganized Adam's music collection without asking him. Shocking abuse of authority! [#]

October 16, 2003

TypePad-like "Publish-On" capability for MT Very cool, I was just thinking about this today. [#]

October 15, 2003

Interview with Six Apart VP Anil Dash [#]

One line of code is culprit preventing posting entries without titles using MetaWeblog API in MT Phew, another long sentence. [#]

Bayesian comments filter for MT I'm still partial to my comments policy: you getting your own weblog. [#]

Mark Pilgrim compares the Atom API to the LiveJournal API, the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API 'since we're using straight XML (rather than a serialization of XML over RPC over XML), extensibility is handled by XML namespaces.' [#]

October 14, 2003

Six Apart on Trackback and Google 'it is not the job of the Web to conform to Google’s search algorithms'. [#]

Six Apart is hiring Luckily for them I'm not qualified for those positions, otherwise I'd feel bad for not living near San Mateo. [#]

TypePad down for maintenance from 10 PM Thursday to 1 AM Friday Pacific Time <kidding>Oh sure, right when I'm most likely to blog! Yeah, thanks Mena! (Another irony: TypePad is down for maintenance at this writing. What? It's Thursday already?!)</kidding> [#]

October 13, 2003

Mark Pilgrim's discussion of comment spam From a year ago. [#]

Alternative comment spam solutions From a month ago. My solution is to disable comments and let people, if the want to comment, they can email me or blog on their own site. [#]

Why not use Bayesian filters for MT comment spam? Evidently spam robots are targetting MT weblogs for spam, but the site linked is now 404. [#]

Six Apart on MT comment spam They're aware of the problem as well as possible solutions. [#]

October 12, 2003

MT-Blacklist: Monday, hell or high water [#]

Ben and Mena in deep concentration [#]

Mena on a Segway [#]

Easier removal of new comments in MT Requires hacking MT's Perl code. [#]

October 10, 2003

MT Plugin expert needed to help with comment spam project [#]

October 9, 2003

Shaving cruft in MT URLs (i.e. the index or index.html or index.php etc. in monthly/daily/weekly archive URLs) I use PHP, but the comments have likely better options. [#]

October 8, 2003

Interactive Microcontent Am I the only one who's scratching his head wondering why Udell puts text instead of a URL inside the cite attribute of <blockquote> tags as per the spec? [#]

October 7, 2003

Ben and Mena on CNN [Quicktime] But I thought blogging was about getting really large audiences! [#]

Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours I want it I want it I want it me me me. Well, not that badly. But I'd be interested to know what's in the book that I didn't already know. [#]

10% lifetime discount for new TypePad users this month [#]

October 6, 2003

Bloglines feature request: orgasms +1. [#]

October 4, 2003

URL blacklisting in the comments section of MT weblogs Pre-alpha, 0.001, experimental release. [#]

PHP "dirify" function for MT (but not necessarily just MT) Came in handy recently, that's all. [#]

Using the upcoming.org RSS feed in MT Using the RSS Feed plugin. [#]

Scoble: Microsoft "copying Six Apart or Radio UserLand or Blogger is just gonna be the wrong path to go down" [#]

October 3, 2003

Adam Kalsey is providing MT consulting The guy's no slouch. [#]

October 1, 2003

Anil Dash interviews Paul Bausch Most interesting sections for me were those on weblogs as journalism and the psychology of weblogs. [#]

Ampersand-encoding plugin for MT Finalement! [#]