MovableBlog: Asides: January 2005
January 31, 2005
Another lengthy comment about open source software documentation 
Possibly my longest comment ever, on any subject, which could conceivably have been shortened to "I agree, Matt". The comment is in reply to Gordon. [#]
How to write open source documentation I replied at some length at photomatt.net. I refer obliquely to contributions I've made to Drupal's documentation as well as support documentation I've written for Bryght. [#]
January 30, 2005
If syndication formats were cars [#]
January 29, 2005
Just remember, all caps when you spell the man's name [#]
January 28, 2005
Open source year in review for 2004 Good summary, with a mention of the Creative Commons. I always get a little uncomfortable when people discuss it in reference to open source software licensing. [#]
January 27, 2005
Boris Mann on picking a blogging platform [#]
January 26, 2005
Vancouver-based Susan Villecroze on how to hire a web designer [#]
January 25, 2005
6A releases MT 3.15 to fix a spammer vulnerability Use the plugin if you wish to fix your 2.661 installation. [#]
January 24, 2005
Jon Udell on an example of the Wikipedia editorial process Jon's is also a good use of audio to describe a changing HTML document, where a written description would have been hard to follow. [#]
January 23, 2005
Some thoughts on small software companies, usability and support [#]
January 21, 2005
Referrer spam lulls weblog administrators into thinking the referring URL is dead, then turns into a redirect Reid says that Verio's "customer" is costing the company money. [#]
January 20, 2005
Andy sees answers.com links to definition links in Google Possibly replacing dictionary.com? [#]
January 19, 2005
Drupal supports nofollow A 3-line patch. [#]
January 18, 2005
Converting from Manila to Movable Type [#]
MT supports nofollow 6A say they were approached by Google to implement this. Both movabletype.org and sixapart.com link to the Google and MSN announcements, which are not live yet. (Yahoo's announcement is live, however.) [#]
Google releases Picasa 2 with More Google Integration (tm) Strong work, but can somebody ping me when there's a version for Macs? Or when it can post to Flickr? [#]
Why Google should buy Technorati See also: Why Yahoo! should buy Six Apart. Soon there will be a web app that automatically generates a speculative weblog post that fills in the blanks of "Why [large publicly-held company] should buy [small privately-held company]". [#]
January 17, 2005
The Mac Mini and relatives [#]
Pitchfork's redesign sucks Pretty much. I didn't care really as long as there were RSS feeds, but looks like I will have to rely on scraped feeds for now. [#]
"With SXIP the user actually has the option of providing proof of something without providing the actual item" [#]
How to create a dynamic Web 2.0 brochure site in an hour using Drupal The instructions are specific to Bryght-hosted sites, but as Bryght hitmaker Roland Tanglao says, any properly-configured Drupal site can accomplish it. [#]
January 15, 2005
Brad Choate on serge.sixapart.com [#]
January 14, 2005
Technorati's Kevin Marks on their new Tags functionality [#]
Social podcasting Roland wants to know where to get free web space to host the MP3s. [#]
The Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle are triumphs in marketing, "not engineering, not sales, not design, not usability" [#]
Joey DeVilla's uses for the Mac Mini Interesting to see power users like Andy and Joey come up with ideas for using what appears to be Apple's play to the "actual user" market. [#]
LJ down due to power failure at a data centre [#]
An implementation of TypeKey in PHP, for use with Movable Type weblogs Now on a static page. [#]
January 13, 2005
Search Flickr, del.icious tags and Technorati blog posts all at once But can we make watchlists from the tag search? [#]
Skweezer implemented changes including removing its copies of sites' content from Google No comments on that entry at this writing. What say you, those who piled on initially? [#]
January 12, 2005
Nick Bradbury on centralized subscription He recommends the feed:// protocol. [#]
Boris Mann on 'my preferred aggregator' [#]
Phil Ringnalda on centralized subscription [#]
January 11, 2005
Andy's uses for the Mac Mini Beowulf cluster. Beowulf cluster. Beowulf cluster. [#]
Is the Mac Mini good enough for Mom? Tim is the second power-user today that I heard was considering buying one for his mom. [#]
iTunes update deletes songs that have DRM removed? [#]
Suw says it's been a good week for Technorati Must have been the rainbow. [#]
January 10, 2005
Drupal conference 2005 on February 26th in Brussels, Belgium The page puts some faces to some of the CMS' key developers, including Bryght's James Walker, who will be presenting on multimedia and Drupal. [#]
January 9, 2005
Al3x also doesn't like non-HTML markups either Though along with Micah, he suggests investigating Markdown. I'm going to give it an honest try, but that said, neither the wiki and project management software (which I use for work) that have different markup systems than each other use Markdown. [#]
January 7, 2005
Rainbow over the Technorati building [#]
January 6, 2005
If you need custom plugin development for Movable, David Raynes is your man Please, think of the children. [#]
Am I the only one who has to look up wiki and other non-HTML markup tags every time I use them? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of them? [#]
Ed Cone interviews Karl Martino of Philly Future When he speaks of "blog aggregation", he's talking syndicating public sites, which for me is the most exciting aspect of RSS and Atom. [#]
LiveJournal licensing changes? Seems there are some blurring in people's minds of licensing and terms of service. (Interesting to see all these bloggers linking to LiveJournal posts, isn't it?) [#]
LiveJournal's (Danga's) Ben Fitzpatrick on Six Apart's acquisition I love the way LiveJournal does commenting. [#]
January 5, 2005
Six Apart professional network on LiveJournal Anil says they released open source code before, but I still distinguish between code released as open source by companies and code released by the company's employees. (See my comment at rolandtanglao.com for what I mean, though the discussion is unrelated to 6A.) [#]
Six Apart FAQ on the LiveJournal acquisition See also: Mena Trott on the acquisition and the press release. [#]
Mena's Corner from July of 2004 with a paragraph on LiveJournal [#]
Mark Yuasa review iTunes Music Service Canada [#]
Danah on the cultural divide between Movable Type/TypePad users and LiveJournal users Remember the last time 6A bought a hosted service? [#]
Dave Sifry has created some Technorati watchlists for the Six Apart-LiveJournal deal [#]
January 4, 2005
Andy Baio confirms "with very reliable sources" that the 6A purchase of LJ has gone through Then it must be true. [#]
Matt: 6A is interested most in LJ's engineers, though the revenue won't hurt [#]
Rumours on the Internets about Six Apart buying LiveJournal Jeff Hume asks all the questions I have, i.e. what does this mean for TypePad? and what does this mean for the LJ open source code? (If this goes through, I nominate LiveApart as their new hosted service name.) [#]
Six Apart's excellent guide to combatting Movable Type comment spam Though it emphasizes Six Apart solutions like TypeKey and MT-Blacklist, it acknowledges limitations (e.g. that a spammer could sign up for a TypeKey account) and links to other plugins as well. [#]
January 3, 2005
60 Minutes makes fundamental errors and intentional misrepresentations about Google I, for one, am outraged! [#]
Andy Smith's feature requests for 43 Things [#]
January 2, 2005
43 Things is a social to-do list with profiles, RSS feeds, comments, tags, post-to-blog functionality, and "teams" No API yet, but everything cool has one, and no doubt so will 43 Things. [#]
A fine defense of Apple See also: growing up without Apple. [#]
