2 month ago
deusx : Dreamwidth Studios - "Dreamwidth Studios is an Open Source social networking, content management, and personal publishing platform. Our mission in life is to make it easy for you to share the things you make, and easy to find the people who are making the things you want
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deusx : How the Web Made Me a Better Copywriter — AIGA | the professional association for design - "In 1999, when I left a staff job at a newspaper to start my own copywriting business, I never even thought about writing for the web. A decade later, most of my work consists of web projects. It struck me recently that this medium has led me to deve
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deusx : Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb - "This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks -
Simon Willison : Building sites around social objects - Building sites around social objects. Jyri Engeström’s concept of “social objects” is a genuinely useful new way to talk about social web sites.
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deusx : Harvard Weblogs: What makes a weblog a weblog? - "At Berkman we're studying weblogs, how they're used, and what they are. Rather than saying "I know it when I see it" I wanted to list all the known features of weblog software, but more important, get to the heart of what a weblo
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deusx : HowTo: The BlogWriter tool - "The first release of the OPML Editor in 2005 came with a built-in weblog editor. It communicated with a server at blogs.opml.org, which is still running. It communicated with a server at blogs.opml.org, which is still running. This is the same edi
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deusx : Where's your data? (Scripting News) - "Pay attention to what Craig says, and don't store anything on anyone else's server unless you know how you're going to get it off when you need to. Even better, don't store the original on someone else's server, keep that in
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deusx : WordPress › Oulipo « WordPress Themes - "A grid-based, black and white WordPress theme"
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deusx : Archbishop of the Land of Me - Rest In Peace - "I always joked about it, but I never actually wanted it to happen... Janine was laid off today, along with a number of other employees in the SF office of LJ, Inc. She has the rest of the week to work and then she's done. They are giving her n
# copy8 month ago
deusx : mitcho > code > Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - "Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site."
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8 month ago
deusx : Epeus' epigone: Not consumers or users, but amateurs - "We already have a word for people who create for the love of it, rather than being paid to, and it is 'amateurs'. As with many other pleasures, when we seek out opinions, we prefer those that flow from passion rather than from payment. No
# copy8 month ago
deusx : Full text in RSS? (Scripting News) - "However I don't think full text makes sense in all circumstances. Permalink to this paragraph I prefer the River of News approach, as exemplified by nytimesriver.com and bbcriver.com, and full text feeds wouldn't work very well there. If
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org: very cool work by Andy and Joshua
deusx : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - "While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without clicking through to every article. With the help
nelson : Political link colouring - Interesting hack: categorize blogs by conservative / liberal, then colour links accordingly
joshua : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - I did the heavy lifting on the math side
wearehugh : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org
Greg Storey : Visualizing political bias with Greasemonkey. - Waxy is the Bill Nye of the Internet.
Andy Baio : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Like the rest of the world, I've been completely obsessed with the presidential election and nonstop news coverage. My drug of choice? Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum, the political sister site of Techmeme, which constantly surfaces the most controversial stori
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9 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: I'll be Over Here, Thanks - "Larry Hosken: Someone made a comment in response to my website. Specifically, they commented that I was a dickhead. I left that comment up on my site. And thus, for a while, I was the top Google hit for [dickhead]. I felt honored, like the whole int
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Set this TypePad free or I will kill it. - Set this TypePad free or I will kill it.: Adam wants free TypePad for all!
deusx : Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled: Set this TypePad free or I will kill it. - "I killed one TypePad today. I'm ready and willing to do it again if I need to. Six Apart, set this TypePad free." Umm... so he wants Six Apart to give him a free TypePad ride because he hardly ever posts to it? This ain't the meanin
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9 month ago
deusx : Redo The Web » Designing a CMS Architecture - "Start changing one single line of code in an application build on top of Drupal or ezPublish, to name only the two major ones, and you are in trouble. The moment you need something that is not natively supported, you enter the Dark Zone of CMS hell.
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10 month ago
deusx : Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content — WPCandy — WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tips, and Tricks - "Developing a theme for public release isn’t an easy task. When you’re the only one using your theme you don’t have to worry about expanding it, but put it into the hands of other users and it better be ready for any content they throw at it. B
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10 month ago
deusx : 5 Reasons why you don't need to write a book » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk - "People ask me all the time how they can get a book deal. So I had my agent write a post on how to get a book deal. But really, I'm telling you, you probably don't need to write a book. Every time I ask someone why they want to write a book
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10 month ago
deusx : Pistachio - HOME - "Pistachio Consulting delivers microsharing and social media strategies to improve both your company’s operations and customer engagement. We provide the insight and know-how into the latest tools and technologies that are applicable to your busine
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10 month ago
deusx : Matthias Georgi - Commenting system with lightweight JSON store - "As I wrote this blog engine, the need for a commenting system arose and I reflected about a small and simple commenting system with just a flat file JSON store. This is my solution, which can be used on any static page on a server with PHP support.&
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11 month ago
deusx : mitten muses, rants and raves about life, the internet, web design and art » link posts - I've had thoughts similar to this: "I’ve avoided having an automated bookmark posting plugin here, but now that Delicious allows 1000 character comments, it makes a good micro-blogging tool. So some Delicious posts should appear here and I’m
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11 month ago
deusx : Terrell Russell: This Old Network : WordCamp SF 2008 - DiSo and more - "There is a growing awareness of the need for self-hosted data - the individual should own and control their own stuff."
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11 month ago
deusx : Offer Personal Content Recommendations for Free with New MyBlogLog Plug-in - ReadWriteWeb - Hey, Delicious should finally do something like this: "When a MyBlogLog visitor visits a site with the plug-in running, the system looks at the tags that user provided for their interests when they created their MyBlogLog account. It then finds blog
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11 month ago
deusx : Universal Edit Button - Universal Edit Button - "The Universal Edit Button is a green pencil icon wiki.png in the address bar that indicates a web page is editable. It is similar to the orange "broadcast" RSS icon ExampleRSS.png that indicates there is an RSS feed available." Here&
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11 month ago
deusx : Wiki Providers Come Together to Offer Universal Edit Button - ReadWriteWeb - "Leave it to people in the wiki market to know how to collaborate. Nearly 20 different wiki providers have teamed up to offer a new Firefox extension that will notify users whenever they are on a page that is publicly editable, using a standard icon
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