Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis of today’s algorithmic arms race against...
Lighting up the Internets A few more recent links/responses to posts I’ve written, collected mostly for my own future reference: Mediabistro published video excerpts of a panel I...
Meet up at PodCamp? Are you in New York for the PodCamp NYC conference ? Well, I’ll be there representing Six Apart and if you’re podcasting with Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJourn...
FTP-RPC Is FTP the worst web services interface ever? I’ve been publishing Froogle product lists (which I guess are now Google Base upload files ) with Movable Type j...
Making some tweaks If you’re reading my blog in a feed reader, c’mon over to the HTML version and take a look — it’s painfully bright! Thanks to Lilia for making a beautiful...
Why Is My Blog So Ugly? Donnie asks , “But why is your blog soooo damn ugly man?” And the answer is, because I am a lousy designer. I’ll probably be updating the site to use the s...
Experimenting With AdSense Just because I like to try new things out, I threw Google’s AdSense for Feeds on my Atom feed that lots of you are subscribed to. I’ll probably take it off,...
Still chugging along I’m still in the process of doing some reworking of my blog here, but if you’re interested in a lot of the blog-tech-related posts I put up on my Daily Links o...
Tidying Up I made a bunch of improvements to my Daily Links , with more on the way. The blog is AtomEnabled , the layout and font size are improved, the explanatory tex...
What Firebird Needs My recent ranting about fonts notwithstanding, I’m usually seen by the web development community as a Microsoft apologist. I use (and like using) Windows a...
beautiful book Today I saw Hirata-san ‘s new Movable Type book in person for the first time, and I know it’s tacky to say since it’s about our company’s products, but the...
Google API terms If you’re using a Google API with your weblog system, like the MTGoogleSearch tags for Movable Type or google.macros.box for Radio Userland, you might wish...
Six Apart buys a fax machine It seems like the next big piece of weblog news is going to be about Six Apart buying a fax machine . Though I guess they’re to be commended for their brave s...
controlling design in a microcontent browser So, after we’ve all graduated to using microcontent clients to navigate through websites, people whose weblogs are primarily read through their RSS feeds are...
movable type survey Ben and Mena are doing a survey of Movable Type users to get information about how they use the system and how many there are....
moving to movable type Well, that worked. This main blog now runs on Movable Type . I put off switching from Blogger Pro for a long time, for a lot of reasons. First among thes...
hit-or-miss.org : Daily Crawl In the vein of Dan’s BlogTracker , Matt has made a cool Perl script called Daily Crawl that lets you host your update list on your own server. I’d proba...
The Web Standards Project returns Bzzz… it’s the return of the Web Standards Project . The site looks great, the content is dead-on, and it’s another major win for Ben and Mena as another sign...
