Drivel:  I attended Dave Winer's Live Blog this evening at Harvard.  It was a very interesting conversation about very fundamental issues surrounding blogging.  Things like integrity, authoring rules, and just getting started with blogging.  In essence, this illustrates where the world is with blogging and the whole concept of free-flow self-publishing -- the beginning.

I took away a number of things.  First, don't be afraid to put yourself out there in your blog.  Second, blogging takes discipline.  Remembering to write every day is a challenge.  This is one of the fundamental things that I grapple with on this blog.  Blogging competes with my work, travel schedule; work out schedule, and everything else.  And, like every thing else, it is a matter of setting priorities.  Finally, the individual authors and readers determine the rules surrounding blogging.

Some things that hit me after digesting a good portion of the conversation.  The "blogging community", is far too concerned with itself.  I am interested in using the underlying technologies of blogging to connect with people like me, make my time more productive, and ultimately make my life more efficient and meaningful.  We are just starting to scratch the surface of what is possible in this realm.  10:10:38 PM   comments ()  

Drivel:  The U.N. has gone too far this time.  If anything, they should be going after Jacko and the Wonderland Ranch.  Back off of Wonka, Kofi.  This is priceless.  It is also the most emailed story from The Onion.
## U.N. Orders Wonka To Submit To Chocolate Factory Inspections. [The Onion]  2:33:34 PM   comments ()  

Drivel:  I have been working with the search engine in Frontier the past day or so.  It is a very interesting animal and very easy to manipulate.  If you are working on the Frontier search engine, here are the three articles that helped me the most:

• How to Set Up a Search Engine for Manila Sites
• How Manila Communicates with a Search Engine
• Search Engine XML-RPC Interface

I am running the search engine on the same machine as the master Frontier server, so I will be watching the system resources on this machine once we launch the sites.  9:20:35 AM   comments ()