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Personal note: catalog Scoble's Web Builder Conference for future reference. I'm looking to change the focus of shows I attend -- go more toward genuine conference/seminars (sort of like my very first Seybold Seminars in Boston around 1989 or so) vs trade show/expos where the conference is often an afterthought. The Web Builder Conference sounds like it fits.

Personal note Numero Dos: I didn't realize Scoble was with Thunder Lizard (or may be is Thunder Lizard.) I used to know some guys there years ago when they first started out doing QuarkXpress seminars -- at least I think it's the same company. The world keeps getting smaller.

Scoble's endorsement may convince me to buy TopStyle. I've used HomeSite for several years and it ships with TopStyle Lite. I got to messing with CSS a couple of weeks ago with some new templates, realized how woefully inadequate my CSS knowledge was, and nearly bought TSPro on the Spot. (No, I can't bring myself to use Dreamweaver or any other snazzy editor that costs $350-$400 to do the simple, basic, occasional HTML pages I do.) I'm really teetering now. One positive comment from the peanut gallery will put me over the edge.

Getting back into Weblogging. Thanks to Chris Pirillo for snapping me out of my blog-free rut that I've been in.
I had dinner with Chris and Gretchen on Saturday night and Chris showed me some stuff that just got me fired up about this industry again.
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What did he show me? Moveable Type for one. I'm pretty impressed. Although I didn't see enough to make me move off of Radio.
And a tool called Top Style which lets you build standards-based Web sites. I've been playing with it the past few days and it's awesome for building CSS and XHTML-based Web sites and templates.
Which brings me to standards and Web sites.
You all might know that I planned the Web Builder conference that happened last week in Las Vegas. What fun. I got to hang out with Jeffrey Zeldman, Molly Holzschlag, Jason Kottke, Meg Hourihan, Dori Smith, Scott Johnson, Marc Canter, and many other geeky Web types. [...more] [ Source: Scobleizer Radio Weblog]