The Practice of Tagging

July 28, 2006 – 3:32 pm

At the Blogher session on tagging and structured blogs, lots of questions about the practice of tagging, so here’s a relevant entry of Kellan’s on the subject from a couple of years ago.
People are still too stiff and rigid with their tagging technique. Loosen up. You don’t have to find the “right category” to put [...]

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Blogher

July 26, 2006 – 11:45 pm

Cyn and I are going to Blogher in San José this Friday and Saturday. Friday is the technical track, and I’m looking forward to Susan Kitchen’s talk on podcasting. Saturday’s the social/practice track. Don’t worry Grace, you’ll run circles around Huffington at the keynote.
My plan for the conference is to listen and learn. And if [...]

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Policy: Book Blurbs and Reviews

July 22, 2006 – 2:32 pm

If you, your publicist, or publisher would like me to comment on your book on this weblog, please contact me via email to arrange to send me a review copy.
Please do not ask me to link your book sight unseen. This is not Locus or Publishers’ Weekly.
I need a Nancy Lebovitz button reading: WAJaGDH.
ETA: See [...]

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Landing Pages

June 27, 2006 – 10:30 pm

Joe Clark uses a landing page as his link from comments in other blogs, such as over at Mark Pilgrim’s.
The page is a mixture of personal bibliography, and Mark Bernstein’s PIP concept.
Not a bad idea if you have several blogs.

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Using Source Control to Predict Bugs

March 21, 2006 – 12:36 am

Jim Whitehead and Sung Kim looked at the source control logs from large software projects, and used the information to predict when a code check-in will have bugs. They gave a talk at Google on their work, and there a video available.
You can save a copy formatted for iPods and PSP, versions less dodgy (on [...]

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The Old Ones Migrate

March 9, 2006 – 11:16 pm

Jeffrey Zeldman moved his “daily report” from hand-edited markup to WordPress. Another of the class of 1998 who’ve moved from handcoded or homebrew to one of the major blogging tools.

Rafe migrated his homebrew system to Movable Type last year.
Rebecca Blood switched from hand-edited markup to Movable Type at the start of 2006.
I don’t know when [...]

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Why They Named it WoolfCamp

February 20, 2006 – 11:51 pm

Mary Tsao followed up on my post about WoolfCamp with a critical thing I missed:

Sometimes after a long day of bellying up to the juice bar and being an on-demand short order cook, I would give anything (especially my kids) for a long uninterrupted conversation about how writing is as important to me as air [...]

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Three Thoughts on Woolfcamp

February 20, 2006 – 12:30 am

Cyn and I spent Saturday at Woolfcamp, a barcamp-style event, instigated by Grace Davis and Liz Henry.
The Value of Jam/Camp Events
Badger mentioned some A-list geek telling her that the original jam/camp organizing thing was now obviously “diluted past recognition”. Now it’s worthless. To which I say 愚か! Consider:

You: Boss, can you send me to [...]

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Leap and a Redirect Will Appear

February 18, 2006 – 1:49 pm

I paraphrase my friend Julie Gomoll, who advised people starting new ventures that they should Leap, and a net will appear.
I switched the weblog over to WordPress.
Archival material hasn’t been ported over, instead I wrote some mod_rewrite rules to catch requests for old posts and deliver them using the old system until I import the [...]

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Switcher

February 17, 2006 – 12:10 am

After 8 years of running on a homebrew system written over a weekend, I’ve decided to try someone else’s software.
What I was after was:

Commenting
Most of my posts are link+comment, but if I write something longer than a paragraph, I wanted to throw the post open to feedback. But I didn’t want to write my own [...]

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