Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

The latest worries of RSS is that it’s becoming way too popular, way too fast. With aggregators given free reign to grab a site’s feeds pretty much as often as it wants, that can make a super-popular site’s bandwidth costs skyrocket. ‘RSS Doesn’t Scale!’ cry the Chicken Littles. Regular Sucking Schedule is a new blog […]

Reid reports from the field that spammers are flooding MT blogs with so much spam that their webhosts are shutting them down: While I very much hope Six Apart can pull a mean fanged rabbit out of their hat, I wonder if they can do it in time. The problem is rapidly escalating, and users […]

Inching towards that 1.3 release, the WordPress dev team releases 1.2.2. I’m gonna test it out on a new project: WordPress 1.2.2 Update: Downloaded it. Installed it. Found a bug. Posted as such. Fixed within an hour. Thanks y’all!

(from New York Times – stupid free registration req’d) Marrit kept trying to convince a publisher that mothers might be interested in a book beyon “prescriptive or ‘positive’ books about being a parent.” She turned to her blog’s audience – where she’d been writing for 2 years and had a loyal audience of mothers. I […]

Ugh. I hate the term ‘A-List Bloggers’ – it makes me think of high school cliques and a caste system. A democratizing media will have clouds and clusters but ‘power brokers’? Of course I probably wouldn’t hate it if I was one of the A-listers. I didn’t get in on the ground floor – and […]

My brainiac boss Bill‘s skeptical: They are essentially optimized for easily publishing one’s opinions on the web. This is fundamentally a flawed model for education. It promotes narcissism, not dialog. and A blog is the online equivalent to having students take turns reading a paper for 20 minutes and then asking one or two people […]

Lee over at Common Craft takes wikis into the household to manage task lists and other household chores: We’ve been using a wiki to organize travel plans lately and it’s been perfect. We can update it at home or work or anywhere we’re connected. This experience has me thinking about other ways we can use […]

New York Times on blogs and advertising: From a marketing perspective, blogs make perfect sense. They are cheap to produce, immersive and interactive. It’s easy to measure their readership and response rates. For small companies, blogs are a quick and dirty promotional tool that cuts out the middleman; for big companies, blogs are a tool […]

As a former administrator of a terrible, piece-of-shit, pain-in-the-ass LMS system deployed to a global organization – which shall remain nameless. I totally dig where Parkin is coming from: Given the marketing muscle behind the major LMS developers and their complete dominance of the e-learning space, it’s hardly surprising that many people see an LMS […]

After some particularly destable comment spam on my personal blog I took Kitten’s Spaminator for a test drive. It’s awesome! It’s caught all the spam comments thrown at my blog so far. Installation was a piece of cake – just upload the plugin and then switch it on from the admin control panel. Good show!