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  Will of its own

  I posted this on my linkblog, but I feel like publishing it here too. I heard some of Rautavaara's Symphony Number 7 (Angel of Light) a few weeks ago, for the first time, and I was quite taken by the music. It reminded me of The Matrix. So anyway tonight...

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  Culture of Celebrity and Weblogs

  I judge the quality of a weblog by its IDEAS, but it seems some people equate quality with popularity. Is the 'culture of celebrity' that afflicts Western movies, television and radio creeping in to weblogs as well?These thoughts were prompted by the recent weblog discussion on power laws and how...

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  On Broadcasting

  The Two-Way Web is a very simple concept. It's all about normal everyday people having a publishing platform on the Web. Sounds reasonable to me, but a thread on Many-to-Many this week has complicated the issue. Here's my summary, based on how I first discovered and then tracked the thread...

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  Select Mode: Publisher

  David Weinberger recently wrote a weblog post entitled When blogs get really popular. In it he states that the line between blogging and email will become blurred. He says:"The word "blog" will expand to cover any linkable posting (a place) where a person gets to speak her mind more than...

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  Massaging the Medium

  Thanks to Peter Lindberg, for pointing me and others to a couple of Marshall McLuhan articles. But before I talk about those, here's an overview of Marshall McLuhan from the Wikipedia:"Famous for coining the phrases "The medium is the message" and "the global village," McLuhan was one of the early...

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  The road to XHTML and tableless CSS designs

  I've been threatening to write an article about XHTML for a while now and so here goes. I'll also talk about CSS and table-less web designs, because in the Web world right now XHTML and CSS are as hot a couple as Ashton and Demi (who may've broken up now,...

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  Is this the beginning of the Age of Topic-focused Blogs?

  I read with interest Matt Haughey's essay Blogging for Dollars, where he relates his experiences running Google's Adsense adverts on his TiVo-focused weblog, PVRblog. Matt is making a pretty penny running the Google ads on his TiVo blog and one of the main reasons why is that it is focused...

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  Homage to Hyperlinks

  I've just finished transferring a bunch of links from Outlook to my linkblog. They are links I've been hoarding over the past few months, as ideas for future weblog articles or just for inspiration. I plan to use my linkblog to store all the ideas I harvest from the Web....

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  Linkblog begun

  I've been playing around with some linkblog solutions. Firstly, on Phil Pearson's advice I tried del.icio.us. Once I negotiated my way around the minimalist design and even more minimalist documentation, I liked del.icio.us. However the problem is that it's a 3rd party hosted service and I want to host my...

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  Using the Mark All Read button

  I've just returned from 4 days holiday. I was disconnected from the Web for the entire time. This was a good thing, as I spent lots of quality time with my family. Now I'm back sitting in front of my PC at home. I've spent the last hour reviewing stuff...

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  The Drowned World of Data

  Too. Much. Information. Data floods my mind and my actions become water-logged. What to do? There's too much to do. Information washes over me, my head is submerged. Metadata fills my nostrils. I'm drowning, help!I'm being melodramatic :-) But actually I do feel this way sometimes. Right now I am...

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  Linkblogs

  I've been thinking about starting a linkblog, like Phil Pearson has just done. Two of my favourite daily reads are Anil Dash's Daily Links and Erik Benson's Morale-o-Meter. Both those guys post a daily list of external links, with a 1-2 line comment on each link, which pretty much align...

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  The will to publish

  2003 has so far been a year of hype for weblogs and k-logs. Blogging is on the cusp of the mainstream. Or is it? A few posts recently have me wondering: why would normal people want to publish to the Web?Mark Pilgrim: "... itís possible that an unfiltered... unedited... personal...

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  Topic of the Pops

  CSS and XHTML are still dominating my mind's attention.xml file. As you can see in my menu, they're numbers 1 and 2 in my Weekly Topic Top 10. btw the Topic Top 10 is going to be a weekly record (pardon the pun) of the most popular topics on my...

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  Tableless CSS project winds up

  I've been totally absorbed in my CSS re-design this past week. I did some final tinkering tonight, trying to find a solution to the "bottom horizontal bar" issue (outlined in my previous post). But CSS positioning is an abstract thing to get ones head around. It's not like good old...

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  XHTML validation and more CSS notes

  I've been fixing up some teething problems with my new CSS design and I'm quite pleased to report that my homepage is now 100% valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional! I checked this at the W3C Validator. A couple of days ago I had about 360 errors on my test page, but...

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  CSS conversion of my Radio weblog

  I've done a re-design of my Radio weblog, using CSS. Look ma, no tables! Yes, it's now a tableless design. I'm doing my bit for the web standards cause, although I haven't yet achieved 100% XHTML validation. For my re-design I used a CSS Zen Garden design by Michael Landis,...

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  Pirates of the Blogosphere – the curse of the protocols

  Andrew Chen wrote a response to my previous post about Syncato. He thinks I want to create something called a "distributed conversation protocol" and then take over the world. Actually creating a protocol would be the difficult part, given what is happening with Atom :-) So no, I'm not advocating...

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  Syncato and Microcontent Wiki

  Jon Udell is getting very excited about a new weblog product called Syncato, which is described here:"Syncato is a weblog system designed to extract the maximum potential from the content of your posts. All posts in Syncato are stored as XML within a native XML database and are searchable using...

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  11 Weblog Pieces

  Forgive me, it's the end of the day and I don't want to write my usual lengthy blog post. So I thought I'd do the blogging equivalent of "piano pieces", which in this case is a collection of various links and quotes that have caught my eye recently:Prelude No. 15...