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Season 23 State of the Blog Address
With my 23rd year of writing this website just starting, I’m at loss about what direction I should take the website in. In the past, I’ve mainly discussed three main topics and one sub-topic. The main topics were school violence, social media crimes, and online classifieds crimes. The sub-topic was child abuse but I’ve since…
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New Home With Broken Windows
So after years of dealing with various webhosts and obsessing over every last minute detail of my website’s WordPress installation, I finally decided to move my site to WordPress.com. However, whenever I move the site something inevitably goes wrong. This time most of the images on my posts are broken. This was my fault for…
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15 years of fame
It was 15 years ago today that I put forth my very first website and man, was it a load of crap. It was hosted by crappy hosts like Tripod and Geocities. It had long ugly URLs and even the dreaded dripping blood animated gif. Little did I know where that mess of HTML banged…
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Charlotte Wordcamp
I had the opportunity and pleasure yesterday to attend Charlotte Wordcamp. Basically it was a meeting of bloggers to discuss ideas and network. You can read an article about it here. If you’re a blogger and you have a chance to attend a Wordcamp do it. If you do go I strongly urge you to…
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An open letter to blog developers
Can we please get a standard export format for blogs. If I want to export from WordPress to Serendipity or vice versa I should be able to without having to chew off my arm in frustration. Keeping bloggers trapped to your format doesn’t help anyone.
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On page 42 of the Rolling Stone
Yes, it’s true. If you haven’t heard by now yours truly was interviewed by Sean Woods of Rolling Stone magazine and the interview is in the current issue with Borat on the cover. It tells the story of how I got started doing this and of my brush with Kimveer Gill. It really is an…
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Blogging, students, and the First Amendment
Can Schools Punish Students for Posting Offensive Content on MySpace and Similar Sites? Often, the Answer Is No, Unless The Posting Materially Disrupts School Activities: This is a great article from FindLaw about blogging, students, and the First Amendment and whether or not schools can punish students for blog posts they make at home. And…
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Calling all blog developers
Since it’s Friday and hardly anyone reads this between Friday and Sunday I’m doing this for my own benefit. This is a call to all blog software developers. You may think that your blog software is the greatest but it’s not. What we need is some standards across all blog software platforms. Importing and Exporting:…
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Movable Type meets the Resistable Price
In case you haven’t heard Movable Type has released version 3.0. The problem is there are some catches. First of all they’re now charging some steep prices. There is a free version but it only allows one author on 3 weblogs. This sucks for some of the group blogs I read that are on MT.…
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