This morning I gave Structured Blogging a spin and decided to put it back on the shelf until it has matured a bit. The basic premise is fun: different layout and metadata for different kinds of posts, for example arts reviews. I occasionally review books and movies, so I thought I’d see what structured blogging [...]
After hearing for years about social-software and folksonomy websites like del.icio.us, Technorati, and Flickr, I have finally jumped on the bandwagon. Okay, so the bandwagon is several miles down the road by now, but I’m making my own way in that direction.
I’m still not convinced about the usefulness of Technorati; although I’ve added tags to [...]
About midway down on the main-page sidebar, there's now a Currently reading section displaying the last three books I've picked up to read. I thought this would be rather fun. Clicking on the cover image there will take you to another page on my site with comments about the book. Clicking on the cover image on [...]
FYI to my regular readers: There’s a little link on the left sidebar where you can create a user account. You don’t have to, of course, but you can if you want. The main advantage of this is that you won’t have to enter your information every time you leave a comment.
The other advantage is [...]
Well, I knew it was going to happen eventually. The Trackback spammers have finally found my weblog. They left fifteen little spams over the last three days, and I found it rather ironic that my last entry about fighting spam got more spam-pings than any other. This minor deluge of spam has at last prodded [...]
Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) looks cool, but I don't think I'm going to implement it yet. I think the idea of a central repository for avatars is a good one, since it would enhance recognition of individual commenters across blogs. For example, I often find myself mousing over URLs to find out which John or [...]
Of course I always miss the elephant memes entirely, not that I would have been able to conjure up a very good offering for Rabbit Hole Day in any case. Aquarion, of course, is the essence of absurdity.
My Bayesian filter seems to be going through a bad spell, so I'm going to try another tactic. The filter will still be running, but now comments won't be hidden completely if the filter thinks they're spam. Instead, links (and other HTML) will merely be stripped. Hopefully this will not be as frustrating to commenters. At [...]
I'm considering creating a feed for comments but am not sure whether it is needed or desired, so I'm conducting an informal and thoroughly unscientific poll. Drop me an email or a comment if you have an opinion. Would you use a comments feed? Entries+comments together, or comments separately? How about feeds for comments on individual entries? Any other [...]
A friend and fellow alumna from MHC interviewed me today for an article she's writing for the Alumnae Quarterly, about students and alumnae with blogs. Apparently it's to be the cover story for either the fall or the spring issue.