Speaking of We Blog, the website for the book features a community blog called BlogPopuli where anyone can contribute posts about weblogs either using Movable Type's trackback feature or by filling out a form.
The weblog to book to weblog dialectic bears watching.
categories: metablog
11:52:10 PM 
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Since the early days of personal home pages, the readymade shorthand for characterizing a lame website is to refer to the owner's cat pictures. Yet the most popular personal-journal type blogs have always revealed the intimate and the mundane. It's the close observation that sucks people in.
categories: memewatch metablog x-pollen
11:37:58 PM say what []
Thanks to a head's up from Lawrence Lee at Userland, I'm testing out a list of titles of recent posts in the navigation column of this page.
OK, the first try was ugly. I've now put .recentPostTitle and .recentPostWhen into the style sheet in the template with the same characteristics as the .small style. Let's see if that helps....
categories: metablog radioactive
11:07:34 PM say what []
Also from bOing bOing, the blogosphere braces itself for the much heralded release of We Blog by megnut and matt-a-filter.
categories: memewatch metablog
9:30:58 PM say what []
I've been working with Dreamweaver to adapt my blog templates, preparing for my next tutorial. So far I've fiddled with the color scheme at uncle john's blog. Both still need work. The colors are garish, some of the links are broken, and so on. But I'm getting more fluent in working with these templates and I'm pleased to be able to pull off the CSS layout. As promised, I will explain how I'm doing these things in this space, probably next week.
I'm also still working on the Radio vs. Movable Type comparison and will ideally have that posted here by tomorrow. We'll see.
I also prepped those two Blogger-based blogs for a Voidstar-converted RSS feed by adding <span class="rss:item"> ... </span> around the Blogger-item macro tags. Unfortunately, this generates a title based on the first x letters of the the entry, not picking up the actual title, so it's only a half measure, but at least now I can see both of them in my Radio RSS-feed aggregator.
categories: fireweaver metablog x-pollen
9:10:27 PM say what []
A website called knucklerap reported on a collaborative grammatical/editing discussion on Metafilter (although the knucklerap writer mistook one participant in the thread for the owner of the site). Part of the cited discussion:
"The problem is that the conjunction 'as well as' introduces a compound object phrase which is not parallel. Either both verbs [serve and witness] ought to be gerunds, or both ought to be infinitives."The phrase "in turn" attracted scrutiny, and for good reason. "Riviera" pointed out that it causes "temporal confusion, because you begin with the idea of the sequential ('in turn') and go to parallelism ('as well as')."
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