web More on Subscriber Stats I've just hit a century, 100 Bloglines subscribers. I was on 79 only 4 days ago, when I posted my article about Bloglines subscriber stats. Mind you it helps when the creator of Bloglines links to you :-) To put this into perspective, I also noticed today that Boing Boing has 8,025 Bloglines subscribers! Wow! I'd previously not seen anyone with… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging We're all on the same page In yesterday's post I mentioned The 3 C's: Create, Communicate and Collaborate. The 2nd one could just as easily be 'Converse', as in conversations. All of these C's are things I strive to achieve in my weblog. In an effort to strengthen the 'Communicate/Converse' prong, I've finally gotten around to converting my Comments system (hey, another… Richard MacManus View comments
web Analysing Bloglines Subscriber Stats I love Bloglines. It's a browser-based RSS feeds aggregator that almost singlehandedly proves the case that web applications can be better than desktop-based ones. I say this in the context of Joel Spolsky's already classic essay on why web browser apps are winning the war against so-called rich or smart clients. "The new API is HTML" quoth… Richard MacManus View comments
web Sylvian and The System This is a Short Story by Richard MacManus. It takes a speculative look at what the blogosphere might be like in 20-30 years time. I My name is sylvian and this is my story of The System. Twenty years ago it was called the Web. Back then people were making it up as they went along. Some of them attained a degree of popularity on the Web, with… Richard MacManus View comments
web Winter Reading There's an interesting meme doing the rounds: what webloggers are reading this summer. This, of course, is right up my street. So here's what I'm reading currently... although it's actually the middle of winter here in New Zealand. I'm an eclectic reader, so I usually have a number of different books on the go at the same time. I'm also a fussy… Richard MacManus View comments