last month marked the ninth anniversary of me starting this blog more or less continuously updating since then. as i begin my tenth year here on dashes.com ive made a few changes around the site. first and foremost theres a new look to the blog. my incredibly talented coworker jim ramsey created the basic theme which i made a little bit uglier and naturally added some purple to. movable type users...
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one of the most satisfying and fun things ive ever seen in my job was the sight of my friend and coworker michael sippey onstage with steve jobs and the apple crew showing off typepad for iphone. in our line of business apple keynotes are just about the biggest shows in town and sippey killed it on the toughest stage around. as michael graciously mentions in his own post the demo wouldnt have been...
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the release of movable type 4.2 seems to have breathed new life into the movable type community as todays post will reveal. the past week gave us a series of new proposals from the open source community covering topics from new and deprecated templates tags to major code refactors a number of new plugins including several action stream plugins and a slew of tutorials welcome to movable type monday...
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as i described in my last post the efforts to tag astronomical images with useful information is well under way. however the current plans are only to tag images. that ignores the huge amounts of astronomical content delivered asvideo audio or prose. suppose you wanted to find episodes of your favourite podcasts that contained a particular type of astronomicalobject video clips of the andromeda ga...
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its been a while since i last posted a movable type monday and during that time ive been in three different countries and theres been a lot of movable type activity most importantly movable type 4.2 was released and introduced one of the largest licensing changes since the mt 3.0 debacle the introduction of movable type pro what used to be two separate products the professional pack and community...
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i dont claim to be a social networking expert but as someone who has spent quite a bit of time thinking about endtoend user experience and how companies can best use social services like twitter to their best advantage i decided to see how two of the biggest names in blogging use twitter to support their brand identity. wordpress automattic ive been a wordpress user ever since six apart who il...
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six apart faretaget som skapat bloggverktygen typepad och movable type och vox ett slags community av bloggare har lange agt domanen blogs.com. nu har de gett den en ny funktion och gjort den till en redaktionell produkt som har koll pa den internationella bloggvarlden. de gar alltsa precis det vi har som mal med bloggtidningen. fast vi inte har tillgang till en stor redaktionell stab och maste ga...
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for reasons i can only speculate about two of my most popular articles to date remain the next big thing in blogging software and a year later an overview of multiblog software options. the first was written over four years ago and the second just under three years ago. in the online world that is eons. one might ask that if these have proven to be such popular articles why not update them more f...
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kehidupan nyata kita tidak ingin punya musuh di blogsphere mau tidak mau kita harus berhadapan dengan musuh abadi yaitu comment spam janganjangan kamu juga seorang spammer sejak awal blog ini diluncurkan tidak ada pilihan laen selain menggunakan akismetayang dibuat oehaautomattic yang memang secara generik disisipkan sebagai plugin wajib di wordpress. selama ini cukup puas walaupun bosen menggunak...
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the smear campaign has started. no we are not talking about the us presidential race we are talking cms have you visited planet wordpress lately for a new comer it will look more like a movable type blog than wordpress and if that were not enough the mt folks cant seem to keep their egos in their pants and try endlessly to add fuel to the fire. for the sake of history heres how the events unfold...
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o al menos esa es la idea con la que six apart define su nuevo proyecto para el interesante dominio de blogs.com. en principio podraa parecer otro agregador mas al estilo digg o yahoo buzz pero cuando six apart esta detras siempre hay una vuelta de tuerca para bien o para mal. el sistema es sencillo. cualquiera puede enviar a la pagina la direccian de su bitacora. si los editores lo consideran op...
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below are links to some of the things that caught my eye last week. dan covets nikon 1685mm f3.55.6g afs dx ed vr nikkor wide angle telephoto zoom lens for nikon dslr cameras on monday august 11 2008 dan shared onelight real estate photography from strobist on tuesday august 12 2008 dan dugg the link m...
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just a quick one for anyone using movable type who has yet to upgrade to version 4.2 dont. despite more than two months of public beta testing id wait for the next round of bug fixes i should have learned this by now. perhaps the most serious problem so far affects anyone using custom fields. from the movabletype irc channel via pronet upgrading an mt 4.1 install to 4.2 that has custom fields...
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looks like six apart recently asked some high profile bloggers the question what makes for a good blog as a part of the launch of their new blogs.com site. merlin mann of 43 folders fame has a few thoughts of his own on what makes for a good blog good blogs have a voice. who wrote this what is their name what can i figure out about who they are that they have never overtly told me whats their pe...
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blogs.com is the newest service that lets you discover the best of the blogosphere. its a creation of the same people who brought you blogging software rivals to wordpress but everyone is encouraged to submit their favorite blogs for approval. you can quickly and easily find blogs by category and topic or read daily blog roundups of some of the best blog content around the web. top 10 lists from ...
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six apart acaba de lanzar blogs.com su nuevo directorio de blogs para ver top ten de blogs por categoraas para ayudarte a descubrir los mejores sitios que no sabaas que existaan. y si la idea es esa no esta mal si la promesa de tomar tu blog y hacerlo conocido o al menos reseaarlo en ese directorio todos van a tener ganas de enviar su blog a travas del formulario pero por ahora las listas tienen 9...
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my friends at six apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that i enjoy. i think theyre planning to use it for their new blogs.com project. unfortunately im late getting it to them typical but if its still useful ill post it here in a day or four. as i think about the blogs ive returned to over the years and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention i want to start ...
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blogs.com es un nuevo servicio de six apart que pretende facilitar el descubrimiento de nuevos weblogs de calidad mediante la recopilacian en un gran directorio organizado por categoraas de lo mejor de la blogosfera seleccionado por un grupo de editores. el concepto mas relevante son las listas top 10 de las que ya existen cientos donde se pueden encontrar las referencias a los diez blogs favor...
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six apart the creators of the publishing tool moveabletype have recently relaunched their domain blogs.com. blogs.com is labeled by six apart as the best in blogs. asides from having a killer domain name especially in this day in age blogs.com serves as a human edited blog directory with one large post a day dedicated to the hot topic of discussion. the directory contains around 1200 different blo...
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