My Aunt Linda has started a new business: custom DVDs.
She's just beginning, but her enthusiasm is infectious. She's
gone from a simple project for the family to a website with samples in
less that six months. That's a great example of the marriage of
opportunity and technology. Of course, she couldn't have done
this without her Mac.
Monthly Archives: September 2003
More Lessig funnies
In case you are one of the few who doesn't subscribe to Lawrence's blog:
too (onion) funny.
re: Domain Name disputes. [Lessig Blog]
When is a blog not a blog?
Edwards in blogland. Senator Edwards has launched a blog.
Built on Slash, with ratings, and a special icon to signal staff
postings, the site has local (well, state) blogs linked to the national
blog as well. [Lessig Blog]
Built on Slash, with ratings, and a special icon to signal staff
postings, the site has local (well, state) blogs linked to the national
blog as well. [Lessig Blog]
Lessig notes the Senator's blog. I read the front page and
thought it's less of a blog and more of a news website. Like
Lessig noticed, it's based on Slash code, so I'm sure the goal was more
discussion and less posting thoughts and views. Also it treads in
the shameful category of being a “me too” site. It's a collection
of sanitized postings and general information. Becasue
politics is so *political*, it's doubtful we'll see true personality
insight like Dave gives us.
Radio Tools
I found this while
stumbling through a set of links from the manila-dev mailing list. Posted
here for posterity. Why don't we have a Radio community evangelist? Dave
is weblog evangelist. Who's the Radio equivalent? Tell me in comments or
trackback.
I spent some time today trying to fix my server Mac. It's display is a little worn, causing flickers and random shutdowns. It turned out to be corrupted system software, fixed by a clean installof MacOS 9. I wasted two hours that I shouldn't have–yuk–and missed two phone calls because I get bad cell service in my basement. Life happens, eh?
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RSS FAQ Pointers
RSS 101. Every so often I get questions from people interested in figuring out this damn RSS thing. These days, I point them at: What is RSS? and RSS – A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers. Good references for this stuff…. [Teal Sunglasses]
Chuck points to two great sources for RSS background. Here's some other links:
Dave's RSS comment post from 1999
On this day in 1999, I stated my vision for RSS, and asked others to express theirs. [Scripting News]
What's funny is that Dave asked for comments and got 3. Now, he'd get 30 and several trackbacks, plus the occasional “Dave is trying to control us!” rant. Thanks, Dave, for starting this whole thing.
I also went back and read the first three messages in the archive from 1998. Dire Straits? Music and programming always seem to go together.
A List Apart redesign
A List Apart redesign. Behind closed doors, secret servers, and firewalls, A List Apart Magazine is undergoing a redesign on its front end and back. When it relaunches in a week or two, ALA will be pretty to look at, easy to read, and far more usable, and will be powered by a standards-friendly custom publishing system. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Living without NNW (temporarily)
I've been living without NNW for two days now. I've got the old Powerbook wiped and ready for delivery and my server Mac doesn't run MacOS X, so I'm back to using Radio's aggregator. There are plenty of things to like and dislike about it. Mainly: grouping and layout are dislikes, display of posts, inline content and comment links are likes. Still trying to fix it myself, but failing due to lack of education. I'm reading Matt's book, too. Patience, I tell myself.
Steve Kirks 