Category Blogging

Huff N’ Puff

The Huffington Post has been active all of two days and already people of all stripes are tearing it a new one. (Internal spats are also turning up in spades) Jeff Harrell is the most recent to join the crowd,…

Blogger Autosave Function

Now this is cool. Blogger has apparently implemented an “auto-save” function for blog posts, meaning that if you’ve composed something at work and forgotten to save it as a draft or if your browser crashes in the middle of a…

A Trend Worth Following

A short time after I began blogging, I noticed that most blogs provided RSS feeds (or some variant thereof, such as Atom) which allow readers to use “feed readers” to check for content updates at their favorite blogs, news sites,…

Really, People. Backgammon?

I guess “texas holdem” spammers have finally figured out that every single red-blooded blogger out there with an ounce of intelligence is now actively, preemptively deleting any and all comments that even come close to containing either of those words…

Online Intimidation

A few stories have cropped up over the past week that cause me to worry quite a bit about free speech protections on-line. First up is the silencing of GayPatriot by a gay activist convinced that if you’re gay, Republican’s…

A Bloggospheric Engagement

From the Everybody predicted it, but lo! it finally happened department: FrankJ. and SarahK are officially engaged. Congratulations are in order, as is a bit of well-timed advice for F&S, courtesy of Scott McCollum. Congrats, you too, and ’bout darn…

Inaugural Philly WordPress Meetup

The Philly WordPress crew (Left-to-right): Maurice (Mo), Ryan, Yours’ truly, Andrea and Owen. The inaugural Philly WordPress Meetup was held yesterday at Fergie’s Pub in Center City Philadelphia. A good time was had by all (as Andrea and Ryan have…

WordPress, Incorporated

Exciting news on the WordPress front: Not only has version 1.5 surpassed 100,000 downloads, but, apparently, WordPress, Inc. has officially been formed. Let’s just hope that they don’t go the Six Apart direction and suddenly find the need to close…