In the past couple of days, we've read about some excellent new features for weblogs. What I need to do is review and understand the overlap and the differences between the following:
Just a reminder. The Google-it macro for Radio (that lets readers search Google for the titles to your weblog posts) has been out for a couple months (just in case you missed it). Pretty much cut and paste simple. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
I downloaded and started using Cloudmark SpamNet (mentioned by Dane Carlson, Gregory Blake, InfoWorld, and The Register) and from what I can see, it's works quite well. I disabled the Rules Wizard in Outlook 2000 and the new software (so far) appears to be blocking virtually all of the senders I had previously added to my Junk Senders list. The good thing is that more messages were blocked, which I would have normally had to stop and add to my list.[jenett.radio]
I'M RE-READING OLD BOOKS Because there are so many lousy new books!
If You Read One Post About Blogging This Week, Read This One: I’m generally trying to avoid the subject here, for reasons of claustrophobia & time, but Jeff Jarvis spools some interesting and resonant thoughts about the impact of Web writing on book publishing. Specifically, on book consumption, and creation. [Matt Welch's Warblog]
People are easily disillusioned. There are some who reach a state where they can't find their passion any more. These people would do ANYTHING to find the something they can be passionate about! It's sad, but unfortunately it's also true.
BusinessWeek weighs in, favoring 802.11a over Wi-Fi and 802.11g: some impeccable logic in why 802.11a is a better bet than 802.11g in the short-term and long-term. It doesn't incorporate technical and financial data, however, which we should start seeing real-world analyses of as 802.11a is deployed. It's great to say use 802.11a, but if you need a 2x or 3x denser installation for the same services, then it may be better to simply use RAID - redundant antennas with inexpensive devices. [80211b News]
another legalistic, rules-based group prescribing right and wrong for everyone else. When "The Christian Right" finds itself aligned with any extreme faction of Islamic believers, it's time for them to assess their motives, their teachings and the source of their beliefs. More importantly, what are they really attempting to achieve?
Day 9: Providing additional navigation aids. You may be familiar with the tag in relation to RSS auto-discovery. But did you know you can also use a similar syntax to point to your home page, and to previous and next pages in a series? For instance, on daily archive pages, you could point to the previous day's posts, and the next day's (if any). If you have individual pages for each entry, you could point to the previous and next entry.
Don't fret, Radioheads; tomorrow's tip will be just for you. [dive into mark]
I've always thought of myself as a conservative Republican. A few years ago, I began to feel that some career Republicans were just as responsible for intractible problems in this country as career Democrats. I began to read the Federalist Papers and the USA's other founding documents. Maybe I'm becoming a Libertarian, but I'm not sure.
I'd rather be a critical thinker who is capable of arriving at considered decisions without checking their consistency with a popular political group!
Consistency. Libertarians are the only ideological activists I know of whose actions are consistent with their own principles. [The Trommetter Times]
MAKING MONEY WITH A WEBLOG - PART III See also Part I and Part II
Community Costs [Zeldman] An interesting read that makes intelligent points about tying one's predicament to some larger picture, though it leaves out the fact that apparently, the users of Kuro5hin have been willing to cough up... [jenett.radio]
So far, I've identified the following revenue streams associated with weblogs:
Subscription or membership fees
Advertising revenue
Affiliate fees (e.g. Amazon, long distance service, etc.)
I'm subscribed to 103 news sources using Radio's news aggregator. It's a primary way for me to keep up with weblogs and sites that fit my interests. I had reported that I thought I was seeing intermittent performance. Specifically, sites are getting updated, but they don't show up in my news aggregator.
Here are three sites I know for certain have updated in the last few days, but they never came through my news aggregator:
The coincidence here is that all of these are Movable Type sites. Does anyone have any clues about what could be happening? AP NEWS HEADLINES on the other hand come through my aggregator multiple times with each refresh!
MAKING MONEY WITH A WEBLOG - PART II Is there a business lurking under all this fun?
Yesterday, we saw The Drudge Report's numbers. I asked some questions about making money with a weblog. Things like revenue streams, adverstising as a soul source of revenue and how much traffic one needs to have in order to shift a weblog from hobby to business are important considerations.
Day two wrapup, and a change of plans. Has it only been two days? It feels like a month. Well, we didn't meet my overly ambitious goal for yesterday, but I didn't really expect to. We did, however, have another impressive day, with another 290 new members joining, and nearly $10,000 more raised. I think that today we can easily reach the halfway mark, $35,000. That gives me at least six months (and I'm sure I can make it last longer), to get my ducks in a row, get the paperwork underway, and do the work of making K5 a non-profit. So I think that the goal today will be $35,000 and at that point, we are going to call this fundraiser over so we can go back to doing what we're here to do. [kuro5hin.org]
Book Excerpt: Cascading Style Sheets, Pt. 2. The conclusion of our pair of excerpts from the glasshaus title "Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation" introduces CSS itself; with a brief look at its origins, syntax, and benefits. [WebReference News]
