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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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",...

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  Ted Nelson’s two-way links

  Matt Webb blogged the Hypertext03 conference and the resulting notes are a good scan. Thank goodness for people like Matt who blog conferences, because those of us who live on...

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  Rock n roll

  On a less serious note than my previous post, it also occured to me that bloggers are like rock n roll bands. The best bands explore a different theme each...

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  Weblogs are the new Universal Art

  Blogging is a 21st century art form and right now it is the most vibrant creative outlet in society. Ideas flow like water in the blogosphere and Weblogs.com ticks over...

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  New School Blogroll example

  As per my previous post, I've updated my blogroll to include topics and conversations. I just manually updated my blogroll OPML file, but I envisage a web frontend for this...

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  Extending blogrolls

  Don also mentioned auto-population of blogrolls, which is something that Phil Pearson has been experimenting with and I've been commenting on. My view is that the "blogroll" can be extended...

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  Tracking conversations with Wikis

  Don Park has come up with some promising ideas on how to link weblogs with wikis. One of his ideas is for weblog comments to be cross-posted to Wiki pages, via some...

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  May the FOAF be with you

  I've been wondering whether to get myself a FOAF file. FOAF stands for "friend of a friend" and it is a method of publishing personal information about yourself in a...

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  Organic stories

  Dave Winer links to an essay he wrote 4 years ago about decentralized syndication:"In our [UserLand's] system, each story has a *single* location, the site where it originated. We think...

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  Microcontent Wiki

  Weblogs and Wikis are authoring tools that enable everyday people to write to the Web. However one part of the Writeable Web is often overlooked: weblog comments. Often some of the best...

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  Google PageRank navel-gazing

  A few days ago John Robb complained about his Google PageRank being zero after he moved to his new domain. I was in the same situation, but this morning I...

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  Political blogging

  Dave Winer, on political campaign blogging: "The first candidate that helps voters publish their own stories and ideas and drive the campaign is the one who really captures the energy...

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  Ideas swirling around – on Microcontent applications

  Soon I'm going to shut up and do some actual work on my Web of Ideas application. But I have to note a few interesting things that have surfaced recently...

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  Happy birthday Uncle Elvis and me

  Today, August 25, is Elvis Costello's birthday. It's also my birthday :-)Co-incidentally, we also share the same surname. Elvis Costello's real name is Declan MacManus. How cool is that! That's...

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  The Microcontent Revolutions – a sequel to OpenDoc

  Yesterday I wrote about Sparrow Web, a 90's web application developed by Xerox Parc. I discovered that Sparrow Web was like a Microcontent authoring tool. It divvies up information on a webpage into discrete chunks....