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Monday, December 30, 2002
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Mark Pilgrim writes: "...there is a way to specify permalinks in HTML, but virtually nobody uses it." Sam Ruby responds: "Ok, I've updated my templates so that the preferred permalink is marked with a rel=bookmark."
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How Useful Are Blogs for Sharing Knowledge -- Comment()
BlogStreet: How Useful Are Blogs and Wikis for Sharing Knowledge: "BlogStreet is hosting Sébastien Paquet's survey on the usefulness of weblogs and wikis for sharing knowledge. Please go here to fill in the short multiple-choice questionnaires." [The FuzzyBlog!]
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Hands on with the 800MHz iBook: "If you don't need the lightning-fast performance of a PowerBook G4, the iBook, at about half the price, is a very attractive alternative." [MacCentral]
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Hands on with the dual 1.25GHz Power Mac. " Overall, the dual 1.25GHz Power Mac is definitely a winner, combining speed and architecture to produce the fastest Macintosh to date. The dual 1.25GHz may find its biggest competitor to be the recently released Titanium PowerBook 1GHz..." [MacCentral]
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Blogs and Bucks: "The indirect rewards of weblogs are substantial. [...] I think that almost everyone underestimates the weblog economy. It's true that few people write their weblogs for a salary. But almost nobody makes real money from writing books, and obviously all sorts of important, busy people write them. Weblogs are an important professional tool..." [Mark Bernstein] [thomas n. burg | randgänge]
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HTML Wow: "I haven't been wow'd by HTML in a long time. A long time. All this talk about the cite tag has gotten me thinking. If you haven't heard, Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby have been doing some interesting things with citations in their weblogs. Mark is doing it in HTML, and Sam is doing it via regular expressions. I've decided to try and start doing the same thing... And in the future write a similar parser (if one is not available by then). You can see when I cite someone because it's in italics." [n3rd.net]
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Blogs Officially 'It' -- Comment()
The Shifted Librarian writes: "Many people have declared blogs officially "mainstream," especially after the whole Trent Lott debacle, however, I have the definitive proof. From the January, 2003, issue of Ladies Home Journal: Teenagers used to file first kisses and missed curfews safely under lock and key in a private diary. But today's tech-savvy teens are keeping a blog (short for Web log) or online journal instead. In essence, a blog is a form of personal publishing that allows willing diarists - sometimes anonymous, usually not - to create a Web page where they can share their stories in cyberspace, and update them frequently (there are now as many as 500,000). At livejournal.com, a blog home base, of sorts, the need to build a Web page or buy software is eliminated (users only have to sign up before letting it all out). And letting it out teens are. Says the site's supervisor and develope Jesse Proulx: 'Some kids even consider blogging a new form of therapy.'(p.88)
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Million dollar markup: "Google applies their algorithms to millions of web pages for a single purpose: keyword search. I want to be able to reuse my own content in millions of ways, to do things nobody has thought of yet. They need million-dollar code; I need million-dollar markup." [dive into mark]
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Lost Radio postings -- Comment()
Major screw up on my part: "I was fiddling with some parts of the root and deleted wholesale portions of scripts. Very bad. I had to replace the root with a month old copy and now have to recreate stuff. Somehow a few of my recent posts seem to have vanished and I don't know why." [Surgical Diversions] I also lost a couple times a few Radio postings. I did find a cure, and since then there has been no lost postings.
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