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  Day 4

  8,120 words. I'm wondering whether to post excerpts online. Hmmm.

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  Day 3

  6,086 words. Had to struggle to reach this. Started at 8.30pm and finished about 11.10pm. Man this is hard work and I'm only 3 days in. 27 more days to...

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  Day 2

  4,062 words, so I'm keeping pace with the 2000 words per day goal I've set myself. I notice I'm currently first amongst the 15 or so Wellington writers :-)Enough writing...

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  Nanowrimo Day 1

  It's just after 7pm on Saturday 1 November and I've finished my first day's writing in the NaNoWriMo challenge. I managed 2,108 words today, which I'm really pleased with. It...

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  Richard’s 30-day Feat of Endurance

  I've now officially entered NaNoWriMo, which is an annual challenge to write a 50,000 word novel over 30 days. It kicks off on 1 November, which is one day away...

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  Writing a novel in 30 days

  I'm one of those people that regularly says: "One day, I'm going to write a novel." Well now may be my chance. NaNoWriMo is a an annual challenge to write...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...