Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

This is old but I’m blogging it here for safekeeping. WPBlacklist 2.01 Released. If I get one more comment spam about Texas Holdem Poker I might just lose my mind. Update: Fahim sent a more permanent permalink: http://sm.farook.org/WPBlacklist.htm

Steve Rubel knows one rule – never underestimate any group’s self-perceived self-importance: For 2004, I cannot think of a single person or persons that had a greater influence on society than the bloggers. Let’s remind them by making our voice heard. If you think about American politics, media, business – no one, no one had […]

Espen Andersen wants feedback on research paper, Using Wikis in a Corporate Context (pdf): (via Fredrik) [T]he phenomenon of Wikis should be understood as not one, but two concepts: A simple and intuitive technology which allows its users to generate documentation and support knowledge-based processes easily and deeply; and a management philosophy that manages knowledge […]

(non-geeks types feel free to skip!) FrenchFragFactory compares two competing RSS parsers: If you can afford it, there are no real reason you shouldn’t use MagpieRSS. For the average user’s needs, Magpie does a lot more than you really need, but it does all that you do need. This said, there are situations you could […]

Now that TypePad and Blogger have raised the bar – I thought I’d check out ways to add WYSIWYG/Word-style formatting. For MovableType: HTMLArea hack for MovableType For WordPress: WP-HTMLArea

Writing for the Web in Technicolor (via Business Blog Consulting via Nevon)

IT Conversations has archived, streamable recordings of BloggerCon III’s sessions. I’m gonna listen to them this afternoon.

The original graphics behind the look of the blog you’re reading right now (and many others) were made in Photoshop – and I’m a Fireworks-head. Here’s a tutorial and supporting files to tweak your Kubrick templates in Fireworks. The internet astounds me. I left a question over on a discussion for the Michael’s Kubrick templates […]

Just got done tinkering with redirecting my WordPress feeds to my new FeedBurner feeds (the bonus now is that I get stats tracking of my feeds, plus click-through stats). Here’s the basic tutorial: Pointing an existing feed URL at your new FeedBurner URL If you use redirects with WordPress for the cleaner URLs, this worked […]

CBS rips on blogs (though if I remember correctly blogs are the ones that ripped them first – Dan Rather, that’s your credibility flushing down the toilet): [S]ome of the internet’s politics-oriented blogs, no doubt high on the perfume of many “hits” and their own developing sense of community, envisioned a future when they would […]