Since I added the recently titled links to my navigation area I think this home page has been loading too slowly, plus it didn't look great all crammed in there, even with the .realsmall style settings added to the dates, so I've replaced that list with a link to a new freestanding page.
As far as I can tell, I have to use an absolute link to the page, since its address will be different relevant to various pages (such as itself) that use the home page template.
I like having an index of titles (I used an index of first lines in my first online journal). Now I only wish I could group the titles by date.
categories: metablog
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Looking forward to it! I'm going to bring my digital camera into the studio and try to snap some pictures before my segment and if possible use them for the demonstration.
They've also agreed to have me on again on September 3 to show how to use Dreamweaver to edit blog style sheets. If I have time, I'll do both Blogger and Radio. Livejournal splits up its template code into many boxes so I don't think there's an easy way to show that. Movable Type would be cool too, but it would be similar to Blogger and Radio and I may not have time to show even two different blog tools' templates.
I've got a version of tomorrow's tutorial up on the web at my book's site.
categories: fireweaver
6:45:46 PM say what []
So the "eight glasses of water a day" meme turns out to be urban legend and not medical gospel at all, according to David Harris' Science News Salon Blog.
Harris digs up stuff that we wouldn't otherwise see for days (the water story came from today's American Journal of Physiology), so I'm glad to see he's been Slashdotted today.
My favorite part of his summary (given that vendors in New Orleans were repeating this one when I was there for Jazzfest in April) is about another urban myth of water consumption, that
Thirst is too late. The myth claims that if you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated. However, the body's thirst response actually kicks in well before dehydration.
categories: salonika memewatch
6:02:19 PM say what []
Radio Tip: Don't include form elements in entries.
categories: salonika metablog radioactive
4:48:22 PM say what []
Then again I'm spending less time reading Slate, too.
3:23:46 PM say what []
Subject: USA Today Vote
USA Today is taking a vote on whether the words "Under God" should be removed from the pledge of allegiance.
You can vote by going to the following website:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/27/pledge-hold.htm
Thanks and please... keep passing this one along
I like that last bit, the hallmark of any self-respecting meme.
But I wonder, does this guy want everyone to vote for removing "under God" from the pledge or against removing it? Does the fact that he doesn't specify imply that he thinks everyone feels that same way? Is he really just a spambot from USA Today trying to drive up their traffic for some reason or another?
categories: memewatch x-pollen
1:37:49 PM say what []
From links.net:
From the United Airlines Mileage Plus signup web page, a fantastic list of possible "titles" - name prefixes in a pull down menu:
Note: I removed the form element, because it was breaking Radio's aggregator, losing me at least one subscriber! Here are the titles listed in the pull-down menu (which you can still see by following the link from this post:Mr, Ms, Mrs, Miss, Dr, 1sgt, 1st Lt, 2nd Lt, Adm, Baron, Baroness, Bishop, Brig Gen, Brother, Capt, Cardinal, Cmdr, Cmst, Col, Count, Countess, Cpl, Cpo, Dean, Duchess, Duke, Elder, Ens, Father, Fleet Adm, General, Governor, Gysgt, Hon, Imam, Judge, Lady, Lcpl, Lord, Lt, Lt Cmdr, Lt Col, Lt Gen, Lt Jg, Ma, Major, Major Gen, Mcpo, Mgysgt, Minister, Monsignor, Most Rev, Mother, Msgt, Mstr, Pastor, Petty Off, Pfc, Po1, Po2, Po3, President, Prince, Prof, Pvt, Rabbi, Rear Adm, Rev, Right Rev, Scpo, Senator, Sfc, Sgt, Sgtmaj, Sir, Sister, Smn, Smn1, Smst, Sp4, Sp5, Sp6, Sr, Sra, Srta, Ssgt, Swami, Tech Sgt, Very Rev, Vice Adm
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10:09:51 AM say what []
By now most people in the blogosphere know the the Journalism School at U.C. Berkeley is offering a class on blogging. As a project, the class will build a community blog about intellectual property. The teachers have also assembled a list of links to comments about the class. (One of them calls it "the Altamont" of the weblogging movement.)
categories: memewatch metablog
9:54:49 AM say what []
I wanted to add comments to uncle john's blog, so I dropped by YACCS, which seems to be the most popular third-party comment system, especially on Blogger, and discovered that (like Metafilter) they've had to restrict signups to a certain number each day (or, technically, each 6-hour period). I guess that's the price of popularity.
categories: metablog
9:41:09 AM say what []
I'm moving up in the ecosystem. I think I'm number 118 now. (B said: "I thought you were number 4." I said "That's just at Salon. This is the whole world." "The whole blog world you mean," she said. "We call it the blogosphere" I said, "or blogistan.")
Last week there were 15 blogs linking to me. This week there are 40. Thanks, y'all. Then again, many of these links are embedded and will eventually scroll off the home pages of the linkers, so I need to pimp this site to blogrolls. Maybe I need to add that Blogroll Me, Daddy, 8 to the Bar! link to my page template.
categories: metablog
9:35:27 AM say what []
Critiques of Editorials nails William Saletan's hatchet-job on Gore:
But Saletan really undermines his argument by viciously attacking Gore when no such attack is warranted. Gore wrote an Op Ed that said I told you that if Bush was president that the powerful would benefit and the average joe would get stiffed. Saletan ignores completely whether Gore is right. Saletan seems much more interested in calling Gore and his campaign "a failure", "inauthentic and grating", inept, pious and that "his driving imperative is to prove that he's right and his opponents are wrong."
9:28:34 AM say what []
Thanks to Ken Dow for the link. In this article John Foley looks at blogging as a professional tool, especially from the journalist's perspective:
As a journalist with more than 15 years' experience myself, I'm more excited by the prospect of blogging than threatened by it. So, my business is in the midst of transformation brought on by this new technology. Isn't yours?
9:15:14 AM say what []
To warchalking now add seachalking.
categories: memewatch
9:04:29 AM say what []
Per Scriptingnews, here's a discussion of the integration of Blogger with Trellix, a step toward folding the blog model into more full-fledged content management system solutions.
9:03:02 AM say what []
Once upon a time, back before the e-commerce bubble, a few of the people trying to make artwork and literature on the Internet came together, originally through a shared interest in the Beat generation, and started a mailing list to go beyond the continuous ccing of each other in a long three-way conversation. Quickly the list grew as we invited other people we saw doing creative things with the web.
The list was called antiweb, not intended as a slap at the web, but as an homage to Nick Arnett's essay The Internet and the Anti-Net in which he anticipated the commercial future of the net and argued that an underground noncommercial network should parallel the high-profile money-driven one.
Around '96 or 97 a few in the group started an experiment called Posi-Web, intended as a daily (or close to) practice of posting writing and artwork drawn from the participant's daily life. The main page for each Posi-web site was textually the same, giving the name of the project as a clickable link to the participant's latest entry, and then listing the other participants, all over the globe.
Of course we soon figured out that keeping the membership lists in synch was a hassle, and some of us (such as me, for example) had trouble remembering or making time to post new content daily. When I formally stopped doing it, my name was supposed to be taken off the lists but most people never removed me.
It was also supposed to ephemeral and not precious but most participants tended to archive their past posts.
One interesting effect is that if you Google for my name the top link returned is for my old Posi-web page. This, I'm sure, is because of the web of mutual links, giving the impression that this page is the nexus for all things xian online.
The antiweb list still exists. It's low traffic now (like any good categories: metablog
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