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Beyond Blogs

A weblog’s most characteristic feature — the prominence of the most recent entry — has consequences for long-term discussions. But those archives are linkable; a really good blog entry exists in a network of other related posts. Constantly linking to your own ideas can be a form of narcissism, but judicious back-linking can overcome the [...]

Current_Events | Design | Personal | Technology | Usability | Weblogs

Jerz’s Literacy Weblog is now powered by WordPress

I’ve been blogging in a shadow location for a month, while trying to get the kinks out of the system. This site now uses the WPTouchPro plugin to deliver iPad and mobile-friendly versions. What do you think of the design? What do you think of the WordPress features?

Cyberculture | Government | Media | Rhetoric | Social_Software | Weblogs

App for Army Stories

When the platform opened to everybody, Army Accessions Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley told the Belvoir Eagle, “Soldiers should join Army Strong Stories for a number of reasons. … Online and in the media, the negative stories are always given a platform. Soldiers, every one of us, have some of the best stories to tell.”

The [...]

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PCWorld Farewell, Blogs! Your Days Are Numbered

Somebody controls Facebook, and makes decisions about what Facebook will be like, and how Facebook will make money. Same goes for Twitter. Blogs are different, because no single company decides what blogs will be. Now that people who want to express themselves online have many different choices, and blogs are just the more writerly of [...]

Cyberculture | Ethics | Media | Weblogs | Writing

Think Before You Tweet or Blog or Update a Status

Even if you think it’s “not fair” that someone in power can (and will) judge you based on your behavior in a social space, it’s a fact. Be liberal and tolerant when it comes to interpreting and responding to the behavior of others online, but be conservative and restrained about what you do.

I write [...]

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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post – NYTimes.com

Thoughtful analysis of the economics of the Huffington Post sale. The indie bloggers (which were a prominent part of the original mission of the site, and were responsible, through their inbound links, for giving the site its initial buzz, contribute only in a small way to the site’s income.

One reason that The Huffington Post [...]

Design | Modding | Technology | Weblogs

Hacking the WordPress Calendar Widget

I’m fine-tuning my WordPress multisite blog installation.

A blog is designed to look into the past, not the future. While it was a simple matter to turn MovableType into a rudimentary course management system by simply post-dating blog entries, WordPress goes out of its way to hide future content.

I use the plugin “No Future [...]

Academia | Weblogs

Liveblogging Injury

I threw a muscle in my shoulder while furiously blogging a record of a committee meeting.

Technology | Weblogs

Oh, by the way… I just installed WordPress on this site.

It wasn’t quite the five-minute installation process that WordPress promises, but within a couple hours I had created a new database in MySQL, linked it to WordPress, twiddled my thumbs while uploading a lot of files, and before long, it was working.

It took another hour to convert my installation of WordPress from a single-blog [...]

Modding | Technology | Weblogs

Testing WP iPhone App

How did it go?