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Meanwhile, out on the inter-webs…
Blogs and baked goods – A few days ago there was a worm that trashed a number of self-hosted WordPress blogs. There's been a whole host of opinions on the matter bandied about in the inter-tubes. This is the shortest and most concise example of those. Via DF.
Daniel of Arabica
Write for your audience. In other words, if your site’s about puppies you probably shouldn’t be writing about your latest trip to the dentist. The puppy lovers that came to your blog didn’t come to your blog to hear about your tooth decay issues and they are probably not going to stick around to read about it.
In London
The excellent photo blog–Rion.nu–is back and relocated, from Paris, to London.
Coltrane
I’m not often one to tout the tools I use but WordPress is my publishing platform of choice and the next major version of it — v2.7 aka “Coltrane” — is now out, in the wild and awaiting your download. Nice improvements abound.
Update: I failed to say that, for those looking for a hosted blogging [...]
How to Blog
How to Blog (on flickr)
Some people have those insipid inspirational posters …
… I have slide #13 of Merlin Mann’s presentation, “How to Blog”. It’s been web-clipped to my MacBook’s Dashboard for easy access and serendipitous evocation.
Chyrp v2.0b2
The blogging system with which I had a short-lived and tawdry affair, now has a new version out (finally!). It’s a great system (“system” is as a good a word as any, I guess … I never know what to call these things). Simple and easy to use as it was, I never did get [...]
MONOTONE
Introduced by Matt Mullenweg (created by?) at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, the new WordPress theme, MONOTONE, is designed specifically for photoblogging.
The theme creates a unique page for each image, creating the color scheme for each page by sampling the photo’s colors and assigning a color scheme based on that sample. Amazing.
Shift_Wordpress
Heather Powazek Champ andDerek Powazek (via geeksugar)
Two of my web heroes have moved to Wordpress!
Derek Powazek returned to the blogging world in March of 2007, shying away from Moveable Type and embracing Wordpress. He even devised his own theme and, in the true spirit of open-source, released it to the public.
Now my o-riginal web hero [...]
Going West as a Young Man
Can one create an internet company, today, outside of “The Valley”? Evan Williams (creator of Twitter and, Blogger, no less) says?… (via, yeah you guessed it: D.F.)
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