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A full set of BLX

April 5, 2004

Wow, I turn my back for one tiny moment and suddenly is everywhere. I am delighted, though, to welcome Ben Hammersley in to the BLX fold. I feel it?s incredibly important for such a luminary as Ben to take up the BLX standard and run with it, which is exactly what he is doing. Although […]

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Moving blogs

April 4, 2004

I dislike moving blogs – it?s like moving house. OK, so you don?t have to pack everything you own in boxes and then spend the next six months unable to find a thing, and you don?t have to take meter readings and then get all your final bills on the same day, but somehow moving […]

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Pocket BLX

April 3, 2004

I am proud to announce that I have been commissioned by O?Reilly to author the definitive guide to the BLX standard in my new book, Pocket BLX – Embedding BLX in Your Blog. This will cover everything from details of the various competing BLX standards and how they affect BLX compliance to programming MyBLX and […]

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Kinja dig it? Er? No.

April 3, 2004

There?s been some chitchat on #joiito over the last day or so about the newly launched ?weblog guide? Kinja.com , so I thought I?d pop over and see what it?s all about. Kinja is basically attempting to gather blog content in one spot and make it easier for blog readers to explore content that they […]

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As the standards war erupts around me

April 2, 2004

Who?d?ve thought that the BLX standards war would hot up in quite the way that it has? GT?s 1.0 schema has, until know, been the accepted standard, but AKMA has recently challenged this position and is fighting back with the newly updated schema. Add to that the fact that Shelley Powers has come out on […]

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BLX 1.0 – the essential new web standard

April 1, 2004

Chocolate and Vodka has been compliant for some considerable time now, but at last night's European Bloggers Convention the new BLX 1.0 schema was proposed, debated and accepted. I strongly advise that you make sure that you are fully BLX 1.0 compliant as soon as possible. – you can't blog without it.

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Spot the new *s in my [other] blogroll

April 1, 2004

I get frustrated sometimes by the way that people characterise the online environment as ?not real? by using the term ?real life? to describe offline life. When non-webbie types find out that I habitually meet online people offline, I often see a characteristic glaze come over their face, as if I?ve just told them that […]

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Sharing wisdom

March 30, 2004

Since I started reading blogs, I have learnt a lot. I've had my horizons widened in ways I wouldn't have thought possible, and usually without even realising it. Blogs are like a hive mind – all the little bits of information synergistically coming together like bees in a virtual meta-hive-brain. And it's in this spirit […]

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Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, Chapter 8: Transformers

March 29, 2004

Ok, my contribution to AKMA's project to convert Lawrence Lessig's new book, Free Culture into an audio form is now done and dusted, and here it is for your delectation – Chapter 8: Transformers. Please don't link to this file directly because it'll kill my hosting. I'll put up a link to the various mirrors […]

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Moving and shaking

March 24, 2004

I'm now a Slithering Reptile in the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, ranking #2446! Whoo hoo! On the other hand, now that Kevin's fixed my blog claim over at Technorati, I find that I'm 12,146th out of 1,950,889 blogs, which looks like a demotion because at one point I was within a hair's breadth being in […]

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Joi's random faceroll

March 24, 2004

Joi has put me on his random faceroll so now you can go to his blog and keep hitting F5 til a blonde bird with a turquoise necklace in a lilac room turns up. You'll know it's me because the alt tag says so.

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New toy!

March 23, 2004

Ok, so Blog-City has finally tried my patience, and now I'm gonna try out this lovely spangly new blog. Ah home, sweet home… Note: All my archives are still on Blog-City and will remain there for the foreseeable future.

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I'll never be clean

May 7, 2003

Ah, you can trust a truly shitty day to drive you back to the comfort and warmth of the internet. I guess once an addict, always an addict. I just stuck ‘why blog’ into Google and it came up with William Gibson’s blog, notable because only today did I see Gibson’s name mentioned in Neil […]

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Organica

May 2, 2003

Here's that Organica page that wasn't working the other day. I notice that neither Organica nor Ecosystems are 100% accurate, though. I actually have four links into this blog, not three. And when you're talking about such small numbers, a difference of one is important!

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I never was good at networking

April 30, 2003

Whilst looking for something completely different the other night, I came across a couple of sites that provide link stats for blogs. Ecosystems gives lists of the links out of and into Choc’n’Vodka, but picks up only the menu links. Organica (which today fails to work, hence no link) on the other hand appears to […]

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