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Even major newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle‘s online counterpart SFGate have jumped onto the blog bandwagon: SF Gate: War On Iraq: War Blog: No ethical quagmires for Ollie What’s interesting to me is the use of semantics in this blog. To me, a blog or weblog is the overall thing — the collection of […]

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As I mentioned on Sunday, for the first time in 5 years, I’ve created a new email address under my domain since I got fed up with spam. The transition is complete, as I just deleted the old account and activated blocking for all unrouted mail (including messages to my old address). My Web host […]

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Dave Winer, whose claim to fame is one of the earliest blogs on the Web, soon begins his fellowship at Harvard: `Blog’ expert sets sights on Harvard: Postings could break barriers What a gig: Paid to blog and to research blogging. Gotta love it.

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This seems like a really cool add-on to Movable Type: MTshell (a command line frontend to MovableType) I just may have to install this. I use the shell for everything else (email, database management, etc.), so why not blog there, too?

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I knew I wasn’t the only one thinking, “Is MT next?” following the Google purchase of Blogger. Sure enough, MT developer Mena Trott had this to say: Six Log: Google, Pyra and Weblogs I wonder if she wants her software to be acquired by Google or if that would even make sense for either company.

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Google‘s announcement over the weekend to acquire Blogger is big and exciting news in the world of blogging. I think it’s a good thing and will look forward to what’s to come. Perhaps the next step is an MT acquisition — or deeper integration? I’m sure that MT’s user base is smaller than Blogger’s simply […]

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I usually get some pretty cool or thought-provoking comments in my blog, but one I got this morning having nothing to do with the entry on which it was posted is just weird: gabeanderson.com: life: I Love Solving Problems This girl named Fatima has confessed her love for her cousin and has decided to use […]

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I just did my quick upgrade to MT 2.6, which was just released yesterday. This upgrade was as smooth as my last one back in December. There are a handful of cool new features in this release, but the real fun will begin this summer when MT Pro is available.

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six apart announced the forthcoming release of MT 2.6 with this press release: Six Apart releases announces Movable Type Pro, releases Movable Type 2.6 Yes, the “releases announces” part is the headline. I guess they’re just either super-tired or super-excited about this release. I know I am both of those things right about now: Pretty […]

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While browsing through the recent referrals area of my blog’s site meter, I stumbled across a site called Popdex, which tracks historical references to blogs. It’s good stuff. Here’s the measure of my blog’s popularity, so to speak: life | Popdex Citations Get it? Popdex = “popularity index.” Clever.

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