MovableBlog: Asides: February 2005
February 28, 2005
Google breaks its silence about its Toolbar 
They say AutoLink "is a user-elected feature" which is 100% correct. What bugs me is why couldn't they say that on their weblog immediately after people started complaining about it? [#]
Nick Bradbury, another guy I respect because of the great software he writes, is also wrong about the Google Toolbar [#]
Google Suggest extension for Mozilla Firefox Once it gets keyboard navigation for search results, this extension is really going to be hot. [#]
February 27, 2005
Karl's reaction to the Northern Voice conference in Vancouver last weekend He's exactly right about Tim Bray's speech, as well about the anglophone blogging community. [#]
Manage your blogroll inside Movable Type I'm not big on blogrolls any more, but I can see why this would be useful. [#]
February 26, 2005
Andy Smith on Will's RSS anti-phishing idea [#]
February 25, 2005
The truth behind the Flickr acquisition gossip [#]
How to end phishing with RSS [#]
February 24, 2005
Zeldman, a man I respect, is wrong about Google Toolbar You specifically need to request the links. ISBNs don't "trigger" a link, nor does an address "magically sprout" into a link to a map. Rogers Cadenhead, whom I also respect, is also wrong. (Number of Google weblog posts about the Toolbar so far: 0.) [#]
User errors in PHP Evidently "OR die()" is laziness. [#]
February 23, 2005
Epic: the past and future of the web [#]
February 22, 2005
Long critique of distributed authentication, with emphasis on SXIP, Drupal, SharedID and Idenity Commons [#]
February 20, 2005
Photos of a guy destroying his laptop Can anybody guess what movie that reminded me of? (Though in the movie, a pellet gun was not involved!) [#]
Mena says the CNN.com (actually AP) story captures well the sense of humour that goes around in 6A After reading it, I didn't take the 6A employees' quotes too seriously, although the article read like they were being taken seriously. [#]
Kubrickr, a tool that looks at Flickr photos with Creative Commons licenses, and converts (with cropping!) the photo to a Kubrick theme header Works with Drupal (kind of) too. [#]
Weird CNN.com story on Ben and Mena Trott I never got the impression that Mena "craved stardom" or that Joi Ito stumbled on TypePad (MT, maybe, but I was always under the impression was that he convinced the Trotts to "think big" by launching a hosted service). And wasn't MSN Spaces trying to undercut LiveJournal, not TypePad? [#]
February 19, 2005
Tim Bray on Julie Leung's session at Northern Voice I felt the same way at the end of it. An excellent mix of her stories, photos and quotes about the personal and family side of weblogs. (To my pleasant surprise, I was quoted.) Also, to disagree with Tim slightly, her lack of polish and stagecraft made it seem more personal and real. [#]
Northern Voice photos on Flickr [#]
February 17, 2005
Bryght, the company I work for, launches open beta [#]
WordPress relases version 1.5 Strayhorn [#]
February 15, 2005
Push vs. pull content management systems Also known as static vs. dynamic. #1 is a moot point, since Drupal and other CMSes can do clean URLs via mod_rewrite anyway. Also, sub-point #2 of main point #3 is irrelevant as open source CMSes all give you the database scheme. Sub-point #3 of main point #3 is not necessarily true either. Also no mention of hybrid systems that cache data in flat files when necessary. [#]
The economics of a hosted service Less risk, possibly more total payment but less total cost of ownership, say the authors. [#]
Playing music files from more than one computer on the iPod shuffle [#]
February 13, 2005
Bryght doesn't do content See also: Bryght does content [management and serving]. Reading your own company's weblog may save you from writing a hasty update. (In fairness, neither Boris nor Roland contradict really each other. Also, as disclosure, I work for Bryght.) [#]
February 11, 2005
Dave Shea's article on CMYK doubles as a Photoshop tutorial [#]
Linux has come a long way, baby [#]
CHMOD converter For those of us who refuse to memorize the combinations. [#]
February 9, 2005
Running PHP 4 and PHP 5 concurrently [#]
February 8, 2005
Features of Y! Japan's blogging service Was it developed in-house? [#]
Napster downloads expire when you quit the service Add this to the implication in their ads that their music doesn't work on iPods...yeah, they're screwed. [#]
February 7, 2005
Northern Voice press release Less than two weeks away. [#]
Phil Ringnalda says goodbye to Bloglines and hello to Feed on Feeds Built on top of Magpie. [#]
Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield talks to O'Reilly's Richard Koman Yeah, I heard the purchase buzz too. [#]
February 6, 2005
Paulo's solution to Trackback spam: remove Trackback Not a terrible idea, but for those (like yours truly) who have a purpose for allowing Trackback, it's not the most nuanced solution. [#]
February 4, 2005
Update on the SMS.ac spam Complete with astroturfing and insults! [#]
Wordpress development further approaches that of Drupal I'd say that all they need is the aggregator, but there's already code in WP to do that. [#]
February 3, 2005
Suw: meta-RSS feeds are a technical solution to a non-technical problem I loved her discussion about "information completism". [#]
Six Apart hires Chris Whipple He's been on my 'cool dude' list since first interacting with him on IRC and then briefly on a project. (I found out about the hiring via his girlfriend's weblog.) [#]
Arvind Satyanarayan on the folders in a default Movable Type install More great unofficial documentation from Learning Movable Type. [#]
February 2, 2005
Why switching from Movable Type to Drupal makes sense Written in May of 2004. No mention of the aggregator, but I like the idea that information doesn't have to expire and that you can resurface it if necessary with Drupal. [#]
del.icio.us blocks search engines Doesn't really matter too much, because many bloggers syndicate their links and . [#]
Secret tags to fight comment spam in MT Another temporary solution. [#]
Spam from SMS.ac I've been getting those from somebody I know as well. [#]
February 1, 2005
Some of the new features in Drupal 4.6 Categories plus enclosures for RSS feeds! [#]
