Recently readHaving had a number of problems with Movable Type over the years, and knowing countless people who have thrown up their hands and ditched Six Apart products completely - to the point where I no longer recommend MT to clients, and actively discourage others from building their online presence with it - I was very […]
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As a customer and evangelist for his products, I’m pretty cheesed off with Matt Mullenweg (someone I like enormously, having met him in San Francisco when I volunteered at WordCamp) and the Automattic team for imposing the dreadful Snap page preview bug (it sure ain’t a feature) on all Wordpress.com blogs. As someone who has […]
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I now have password-protected wikis (I use Writeboard) for:
- collecting quotations for my best friend’s wedding favours
- listing Christmas gift ideas for others
- listing Christmas gift ideas for myself and Antoine (to satisfy my father and stepmother’s annual request for wish lists, which I am determined to fulfil for once)
- listing recipe possibilities for our […]
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Busy day today - Adriana and I are hosting a party for Waxxi CEO Tracy Sheridan tonight, and I fly to California in the morning. Which means I should probably pack at some point, I guess.
While I’m gone, you could entertain yourself by listening to me being interviewed for the Social Media Club’s inaugural […]
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Thanks to Sam Sethi for pointing me towards Performancing, a very handy Firefox extension which is similar to Qumana, but allows you to blog right in your browser. Its GUI isn’t overly slick, but it works and makes sense. You can set it up to let you post to multiple blogs, save posts as drafts, […]
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I’ve met the boy in person and honestly, Matt Mullenweg is the cutest thing. If he had been born several years earlier*, I might even think he was hot. Alas, alas…
*The creator of WordPress was born in 1984. I have bottles of nail polish that are older than Matt Mullenweg.
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Wordcamp was pretty fun; I was there at 7.45 this morning, but only sat in on about ten minutes of one session (podcasting and vlogging). I spent the rest of the time handing out free t-shirts or printing name tags for people, answering questions about timetables and where the food was and where the nearest […]
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I have two - email me if you want to get Voxxing.
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Yay, Wordcamp is today! The schedule looks great. I’m up at 6 AM (jetlag rules!) and will be volunteering at the entry table and t-shirt/sticker table at various points throughout the day. So if you’re going to be there, please do say hello!
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I’ve been tagged by Antony Mayfield to give my five must-have blogging tools; let’s see if I can answer him before my laptop battery runs out…
1) Reading: Like Antony, I use a combination of Firefox and Bloglines (read RSS feeds on Bloglines.com, open any interesting links in new Firefox browser tabs) to catch up on […]
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Yay! If you’re also going and want to get together, shoot me an email.
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Having received an early invitation to play around with Six Apart’s new blogging platform, Vox, of course I couldn’t resist the urge to do just that. Here’s my Vox blog. (Actually, I am kind of resisting the urge; will save the real play as a reward later in the week. I’m geek like that.)
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It’s an oldie but goodie:
Once the users take control, they never give it back.
Dave Winer said that in 1994. He just re-posted it the other day, but a lot of my readers don’t read Dave, and I like this so much that I’d post it here even if you all did. Ditto for this other […]
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Jeff Nolan, a former SAP VC who is currently helping the company implement social networking and who was in my discussion group after the first three Techdirt Greenhouse demos, does a pretty good job of summing up the general feeling about Renkoo, whose CTO Joyce Park had the unenviable role of giving the first five […]
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