MovableBlog: Asides: March 2005
March 31, 2005
Yahoo! is the new Google 
Y! coming out with 1 GB storage almost a year after Google is not really that impressive, and its Creative Commons search has a long way to go. [#]
Changing the permalink icon in Blogware I don't actually use Blogware, but I've always loved Joey's documentation style (with lots of cropped screenshots and speech bubbles). [#]
Mac blunders after Steve Jobs' return Everybody I know that bought a Powerbook recently would agree with #7. [#]
Sam Ruby serves Google ads to browsers that don't support XHTML In general (since there are a few exceptions), I serve ads to people coming in from search engines. My revenues have covered my hosting costs and that's about it. [#]
Requisite link to wordpress.org link farming article at waxy.org I was offline for all of yesterday but heard about it this morning. [#]
March 29, 2005
Phil Ringnalda on Yahoo!'s Creative Commons search It might give people the idea that stuff is licensed under the Creative Commons when really it's not. [#]
Bloglines emphasizing aggregation and search? Found through a PubSub feed for 'moneyball' of all things. [#]
March 28, 2005
Bryght is now 6 together No, not a name change, just a weblog post acknowledging how many people work at the company now. [#]
March 25, 2005
Roland keeps pushing on structured blogging prior art He links to Jon Udell on the subject. (I installed the WP plugin as soon as I heard about it and like the ideas behind it too.) [#]
March 24, 2005
Unofficial del.icio.us API documentation [#]
Yahoo!'s Creative Commons search Bug report: a search for the name of this weblog shows links to content—i.e. mine—that is not (yet) licensed under the Creative Commons. [#]
evolt.org moving to Drupal [#]
March 23, 2005
Disable the news box on the top right corner of the Movable Type entry screen Done. What's the Wordpress equivalent? [#]
Aggregator market share That Bloglines is #1 is not surprising, but NetNewsWire seems higher than what an average weblog (Tim Bray's is definitely not average) would get. [#]
Video and audio of the presentations at the Drupal conference last month In an open format, of course. [#]
How photos that "may offend" get removed from Flickr [#]
March 22, 2005
Upcoming.org API forthcoming Every web service that imports and exports data needs an API. Audioscrobbler, I'm looking in your directon. [#]
Questions about Google's "Similar pages" links This really isn't the type of thing that should keep me up at night. [#]
March 21, 2005
Using Blogger in conjunction with Audioblogger to post to Movable Type [#]
Boing Boing miscredited as source of Vancouver Sun article [#]
March 20, 2005
March 18, 2005
Why Flickr rocks Been seeing a lot of praise for Flickr on high-profile weblogs lately. Must be because it's true. [#]
OpenSearch and Movable Type [#]
March 17, 2005
Oleg Kourapov improves on my del.icio.us feeds script using Magpie I need to add my various PHP snippets to a Subversion repository at some point. [#]
Skype launches SkypeIn beta, Boris lists the geographical locations of the area codes offered I became the proud 'owner' of a 415 number today. [#]
March 15, 2005
Multiple authors in Movable Type [#]
Update to the Blogger Developer's weblog meta tag [#]
March 14, 2005
Phil Ringnalda noticed the NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW in code.blogspot.com's meta tag too My respect for Google as owner of a blogging company continues to plummet. [#]
The Blogger developers weblog links to 'competing' developer weblogs What's the deal with the "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" in the meta tag though? [#]
March 12, 2005
Structured blogging prior art [#]
There's no way Ruby on Rails makes web services programmers 10 times more productive "Any task that can be performed in a demo must necessarily have an essential complexity close to zero: it’s a solved problem before the demo even begins." [#]
March 10, 2005
Deleted comment about Internet Explorer and CSS standards republished on commenter's own weblog "Like a bad customer service experience, I don’t enjoy that I was only responded too after I became a nuisance." [#]
Fix Paul Graham's footnotes Waitaminute! Simon's bookmarklet adds links to Graham's page! Therefore it must be evil! [#]
Short tip on archiving log files in Apache 2.0 under Linux The number of problems restarting Apache solves is surprisingly high. [#]
March 9, 2005
Interview with Sheila and Brent Simmons of Ranchero [#]
March 8, 2005
Post to your Movable Type weblog from Lifeblog [#]
Google needs a chief blogging officer Their official weblog is ridiculous. They should have blogged something about Google Toolbar two weeks ago! [#]
Yahoo uses Drupal internally [#]
March 7, 2005
Jason Kottke wonders if Technorati is censoring their employees' weblogs Using only Anil Dash an counter-example to Jason's final paragraph, he (Anil) still writes extensively about blogging, but he just shifted to his professional space for it. [#]
March 6, 2005
Businesses should be using PubSub (or similar site) to keep track of what their customers are saying about their products Not coincidentally, I found what Tris Hussey said in a PubSub feed for the keyword 'drupal'. [#]
March 4, 2005
Tim Bray, a guy I respect, is right about the Google Toolbar Retracting my earlier stance. [#]
March 3, 2005
Tim Bray, a guy I respect, is wrong about the Google Toolbar He spreads the FUD that it violates Creative Commons licenses, but at least he's honest by coming out and saying he doesn't trust Google. [#]
March 2, 2005
Display message in Drupal when a user has not entered any blog entries I cleaned it up a little and converted it into a patch. [#]
Google is the master database for spammers [#]
March 1, 2005
Keywords in URLs don't matter [#]
Get rid of nav-commenters.gif on your MT comments with a plugin [#]
