These tips on attending the O'Reilly conference are just as good for BloggerCon. Some of them might not be as relevant (“Partition your hard drive”) but room sharing, business cards and others jumped right out at me.
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Sept 11 Remember by the blogosphere
A collection of posts from a September 11th anniversary remembered:
Ed Cone, Robert Scoble, Jeffrey Zeldman, Don Park, Sean Gallagher
iTunes is an iSuccess
Writing, Linking and the Handspring
BloggerCon excitement
I am very excited about BloggerCon. I got approval today to go to
BloggerCon under the credentilas of the Springfield Business Journal thanks to the
foresight of Clarissa French, managing editor. I'm writing two feature
articles for their consideration. I hoping to have them published
quickly after the conference, but in this world of instant online
publishing, I can have my unedited versions on the web in a matter of
moments.
I'm writing this from my Handspring (where will that name go, now that
the corporate vacuum cleaner called 3Com has sucked them up?) so linking
will be sparse. When I write now, I think in rich links remembering
posts and mentally linking them as I go.
Rambling… Writing from the
Treo takes a little more effort, because I seem to touch-type with my
thumbs–not the best since the right thumb gets the most workout. The
intended purpose of this paragraph was to discuss mental linking. As I
said before, I think and write with mental linking, skipping from
watching the Treo's keyboard while I type to remembering the linked post
or commercial news item, all as a fanatastic mental surfboard ride.
True mental multitasking without the work threads, letting the mind
slip into neutral mode.
Done with rambling post for now. BloggerCon will be a great eye-opener
for me. It's one thing to create your perception of the universe;it's
quite another to greet the reality head-on.
Always make a backup
I heeded some advice on Thursday last week. My little voice was telling me to make a backup of my Radio install. I stopped right then, shut Radio down, opened Stuffit Deluxe and archived the whole folder. I then copied the folder to different drive partition and restarted Radio. It was a good thing I did. (insert forboding music here)
I decided on Saturday (9-6) to open Matt Neuberg's book about Frontier and play a little. I thought I was being careful not to change anything, copying things to the workspace table before mucking about. Wrong. I did something somewhere and created an error rendering the weblog posts. This makes sense because I was reading the rendering code in Radio, trying to get an idea of how pages are rendered and when. This unfortunate mistake was just an annoyance. I killed the offending Radio, dumped it to the trash, opened the backup and unstuffed it. Restarted with the good Radio, and here we are.
Always make a backup…
Bloglines button added
Added the easy to use Bloglines button to the right side of the site. Thanks, Mark! Where's your RSS feed and I'll subscribe, too.
Lodging ideas for attendees. The BloggerCon team has created a list of hotels in the area for
conference attendees to reference. We will do our best to keep it up to date
over the next few weeks. Please feel free to contact us anytime if you need assistance – we cannot make reservations for you, but will do whatever we can to help.
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RSS Subscriber Poll
RSS Subscriber Poll
If you are reading this from an RSS feed, could you please post a
comment? I'm comparing webalizer traffic stats for my rss.xml
files and I'm trying to get an idea of how many real subscribers I
have. I'm guessing three.
:>
Google meets Technorati?
I just found this:
Google Link
That's for my site. Here's the explaination page.
My ISSN Application
I just spoke to a wonderful lady named Linda, working for the the
Library of Congress, about my ISSN application. She said that
there will be a meeting later this month about the Library of Congress'
policy regarding weblogs and assignments of the ISSN. Considering
that a few already carry numbers (like Dave and Zeldman), there's some prior history to consider.
Post on zeldman.com that got me started.
LOC ISSN site.
I'm going to write an email this weekend to help sway the arguement for consideration of weblogs as a serial publication.
Steve Kirks 