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More about Google RSS Reader
New online blog reader from Google
Advice to bloggers by Joi Ito
Todays blog-to-visit: Snapshots
Todays blog-to-visit: Overshadowed
Daily Show on the power of Blogs
Three years of blogging and not giving up
The Register interviews a link spammer
RSS feeds and copyright
Fighting comment spam

More about Google RSS Reader
Can you spot it? The Google Reader actually have a MP3-player built in. Great for checking out Podcasts! And its done in Flash, of course. :-)... (1 comment(s))

New online blog reader from Google
Google continues to crank out new services, and the last one to launch is Google reader I have been a happy user of Bloglines for a good while, and it was nice to discover that it was easy to export... (0 comment(s))

Advice to bloggers by Joi Ito
This is a guy I have great respect for. And his advice seems like good advice for new and old bloggers. Joi Ito's Web: Blogging style [...] You need help thinking - Focus on the parts that you can't figure... (0 comment(s))

Todays blog-to-visit: Snapshots
Snapshots is norwegian blogger Lene Solbakkens personal blog with lots of great pictures and travel stories. Lene is an old friend of mine, and recently she has become quite the photograper. She has been traveling all over Norway and taken... (0 comment(s))

Todays blog-to-visit: Overshadowed
If you, like me, like good photography, then you shouldn't overlook overshadowed Overshadowed is the photoblog of Keith Kin Yan. Many of his recent photo entries in his blog are photos shot with Hasselblad and Yashica medium format cameras. There... (0 comment(s))

Daily Show on the power of Blogs
Funny story on The Daily Show about blogs and their power against the media. (1 comment(s))

Three years of blogging and not giving up
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my English blog. In three years I have been able to post 668 entries. Thats a little more than 1/2 an entry every day. In other words, all in all it hasn't been... (1 comment(s))

The Register interviews a link spammer
If you own a blog, you have probably experienced it: Spammers who fill your comment sections with ads for Viagra, porn and gambling. Its the new nuisance of the web: Link spammers. The Register has gotten a hold of one... (0 comment(s))

RSS feeds and copyright
This dumb ass (also known as Martin Schwimmer of Trademark Blog, has a problem with Bloglines picking up his public RSS-feed and redistributing it. Because they might at some stage serve ads together with the content. For those of you... (0 comment(s))

Fighting comment spam
Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If... (0 comment(s))

More to the Tsunami victims
Anders Jacobsen has pledged to give money for every bloggers that links to the aid organizations or for anyone that gives money to any of these organizations. A good pledge if you ask me, so here is my small contribution... (0 comment(s))

Trouble finding content for your blog? Heres an idea: Make your blog into an answerblog
This is a new "trend" that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you, some of the questions that... (0 comment(s))

Food blogging
If you are into new and exciting food, then Oslo foodie is a blog you should take notice of. Unfortunatly I can't tell who this blog belongs to, but it appears he/she must be a chef. There are some good... (0 comment(s))

Podcasting maturing
For an explanation of what Podcasting is, see the definition at Wikipedia I haven't really mentioned this new technology before. Partly because the content has been lacking - mostly in quality. And the platform used to be only Mac and... (0 comment(s))

MT-Blacklist bug
Today I got this error message when killing yet another spam in my blog: "Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'" Pretty interesting error message. It didn't immediately dawn on me that this was a... (0 comment(s))

Quentin Tarantino blog
A cool new blog has surfaced. Apperantly its Quentin Trantinos own blog (Old url no longer works, instead its a spam blog there - the old url was: http://qtdiary.blogspot.com/ ). If you want to "read all about it", there is... (2 comment(s))

Feel like making a weblog tool?
If you ever find youself contemplating making your own blog tool, take a look at Anne Van Kestern's spesification for a weblog tool: " href="http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/08/weblog-system">The perfect weblog system... (0 comment(s))

Teenage blogs
Interesting research of how blogs are used by teenagers. BBC News: Teenagers reach out via weblogs Teenage boys and girls are using blogs, easily publishable online diaries, in many more similar ways than has been predicted, according to a study.... (1 comment(s))

MP3 blogs
Forget file sharing, MP3 blogs are all the rage [...]we have unashamed folks who are not afraid to provide you with a daily song that has been gracing their ears. Good stuff, big bands, and totally the definition of fair... (0 comment(s))

A wicked way to read newsgroups
Do you remember Usenet? Have you taken a fancy to Google Groups 2? (It really kicks ass. Fusing Usenet newsgroups, several corporate newsgroups and newsnets, mailinglists etc). Then you'll love to hear that Google Groups 2 Beta now also features... (2 comment(s))

Bloglines - very cool blog reader
For those of us that are blessed with always-on-broadband: Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator is the bomb. I started using it a couple of days ago. Right away I could import my subscriptions in OPML format (from Amphetadesk, Radio... (0 comment(s))

Windows client for MovableType and more
Ecto is a pretty cool new tool for MovableType, Blogger, Typepad and Windows users (Uses XML-RPC so it should be possible to use it with any blog system utilizing XML-RPC), at the moment it is in pre 1.0 beta, and... (4 comment(s))

RSS = Really Simple Syndication?
Arve writes about how the RSS format has disintegrated into a mess of incompatible formats: 11 ways to valid RSS I think its apparent that there is a need for a standardised format to do what RSS is trying to... (0 comment(s))

Nikken replies?
I am not sure if this reply was supposed to be an official reply from Nikken. But I thought it was so funny I should share it with you all. Its a comment to my first entry about the whole... (8 comment(s))

Nikken Update
The Nikken story continues, in this episode the threats are narrowed down to a couple of comments, and additional threats are generously distributed to the Nikken distributors. (4 comment(s))

Nikken bullies
Nikken is threatening me with their lawyers, obviously claming copyright to any mention of their company and trying to get me to remove a short posting on my norwegian blog. (21 comment(s))

Ddos'ed by comment spammer
Now I have experienced being taken off the net by a comment spammer. Some lame ass trying to advertise his prono-site attacked my server with comments. Handeling MySQL inserts, page rebuilds etc. just got to much when MT was told... (6 comment(s))

Being a Macromedia affiliate = being a sell out?
While nothing new to the Flash / MM community, the addition of the Macromedia Affiliate program has raised some eyebrows. Todd Dominey write in his blog What Do I Know about the affiliate program, referring to it as kickback Imidiatly... (0 comment(s))

Wired about aggregators
Couldn't resist linking to this article: Wired News: Aggregators Attack Info Overload [Via JD on MX]... (0 comment(s))

Counter Googeling
Good article at Trendwatching.com: Companies 'googling' their customers to offer them personalized services. I'll come right out and say it: I am using Google in that way already, and have been for a while. Mostly because I am a curious... (0 comment(s))

Is RSS working?
It might seem it isn't, based on my own experience and that of others, many times it can be a pain in the ass to deal with the many different implementations of RSS, it doesn't make it any easier that... (0 comment(s))

Google AdSense makes sense
Googles new advertisment service Google AdSense was launched this week, and I have had the chance to test it for a couple of days, and I must say I am very impressed.... (4 comment(s))

So, you want to be read?
This is a very nice writeup by Arve Bersvendsen on how to be read, and how to make a good weblog. What he writes I happen to agree with, but don't feel like it has to become THE absolute rules... (0 comment(s))

Fix to get Amphetadesk RFC compliant
My favorite RSS aggregator is AmphetaDesk, its available for a whole range of platforms (including easy installs for Windows, Mac OS 7-9, Mac OS X etc). Its a really nice piece of software, but in making it they implemented the... (0 comment(s))

Dear Raed is back
If you are interested in how it is to be living in Iraq right now, then Where is Raed ? / Dear Raed is a blog that you should read. Its been quiet for a while, but now he is... (8 comment(s))

SharpMT - Offline windows editor for MT
This looks like a very interesting project. Randy Rants's SharpMT is a Windows offline editor for MovableType. It is using XML-RPC to post to MovableType, and is quite handy if you aren't always online, but still want the ability to... (0 comment(s))

MovableType creators create Blogger competitor
This is news that has had many a blogger buzzing the last few days. Six Apart (Ben Trott and Mena Trott), the creators of MovableType, announced TypePad - a service that are likely to rival Google owned Blogger. The promises... (1 comment(s))

Blog envy: Hollowcube
Sorry for the delay, a lot of things going on and no time to blog. But Michael Gunn has done a really cool job on his redesign of Hollowcube. Very classy Michael. hollowcube.com - all your hollowcube are belong to... (1 comment(s))

Current events weighted by blogs
A very nice new resource from David Sifry, is the Technorati: Current Events, with context. Its basically an analasys of what blogs are linking to. 150.000 blogs are monitored every hour for links to established news sites, thereby making it... (0 comment(s))

Buzz of the day: Flogspot
This is fun. Josh Dura and his brother Daniel has been working on a project/site/app they call Flogspot It looks like a lot of fun. Right now its a Flog like application with a flogspot forum attached to it. A... (2 comment(s))

What life would be like without Google
Duncan's blog:For a little while this morning, I've experienced what life without Google would be like. For some reason, it's down (or at least the closest cluster to me is down) this morning. Worse, I'm doing a whole bunch of... (0 comment(s))

RSS Search engine
Cool new search engine: Roogle, it searches through RSS feeds - and also allows you to add your own feed into the search engine. Could become very useful as it grows. [Via SwfNews]... (3 comment(s))

Market share of Internet Explorer inflated?
It certainly looks that way from the small tests that Arve Bersvendsen has done: When is MSIE not MSIE? It seems a lot of browsers are misrepresenting themselves as Internet Explorer. Probably because a lot of clueless javascripting on the... (1 comment(s))

So whats so cool about Trackback?
I am sorry for not taking the time to explain about Trackback in my previous posting. Fernando has already raised the question - "explain to me a good use of the trackback feature?" TrackBack (manual) enables weblogs to ping each-other,... (8 comment(s))

Having fun with MovableType
Having lots of fun with MovableType today, I have updated to the latest version (2.63) and moved my entries into MySQL - Should allow me to have some fun with statistics (expect some charts), and with extracting information easier than... (2 comment(s))

Nice visualization of the blog-sphere
Welcome to my neighborhood: BlogStreet Visual Neighborhood [Via Doc Searls]... (1 comment(s))

Kevin Lynch invites to a brainstorm about Blogging and Macromedia
This could get interesting, Kevin Lynch has posted an invitation to brainstorm around how Macromedia can help make blogging easier, better, etc. Go voice your opinion now:Kevin Lynch: Blog brainstorming [Via JD on MX]... (0 comment(s))

New Macromedian weblogger: Mike Williams
Mike Williams, the Flash product manager for Macromedia, has set up his own weblog. I am sure there will be a lot of interesting posts and discussions on his blog about Flash. Flashback MW Nice to see Mike Williams also... (0 comment(s))

Mike Chambers upgrades his blog
Very nice to see Mike Chambers, the Macromedia Flash community manager upgrade his weblog and layout - and moving it to his own server: mesh on mx The redesign is very classy, and done by Josh Dura. Mike is now... (3 comment(s))

Corporate Weblog Policies
This might be interesting for those of you writing corporate/company related blogs - such as the Macromedians. Ray Ozzie writes about Groove's corporate weblog policy. Seems like they have thought things through in regards to the troubles the company might... (0 comment(s))

More from Wired about Blogs
Lia Steakley's article Is This One Nation, Under Blog? is about the spur of weblogs, and the bloggers that throw their blogs away, to start up new. I am glad I didn't purchase a special domain name for my weblog.... (0 comment(s))

Interesting discussion about Flash blogs
Mike Chambers followed up a posting on SwfNews about professional bloggers. While the though about people blogging as a profession is interesting, the discussion that it spawned on Mike Chambers weblog is even more interesting to me. Personally I think... (0 comment(s))

Flog Flash
This is a cool RSS reader: flog - the last 72 hours in flash development As it says, it displays the postings (in chronological order) of the various Flash blogs. And as you can see, I am messing up the... (3 comment(s))

Mike Chambers has a posse
I think the posse was inspired by the "Flash Enabled Posse", and its gaining ground. I'll admit it, I am a Mike fan too! ;-) BTW: Sean of Eat Orange got me to write this little posting, with his posting... (1 comment(s))

Optimaze review
My friend and fellow Flash'er Jens over at Flashmagazine.com has written an indepth Review of Optimaze! Well worth a read if you want to know Optimaze'es strengths and weaknesses.... (0 comment(s))

Blog genealogy with Blogtree
Very cool site for registering and checking out the pedigree of your favorite weblog: BlogTree.com If you have a weblog you should take the time to register yours with information about your "parent" weblog. That is, the weblog that got... (0 comment(s))

Blog ecosystem
Interesting to check out the blogging ecosystem. It seems I am better at linking to people than getting them to link to me ;-) (Here is a direct link to my stats)... (3 comment(s))

Flash blog discussions taking off
This week has seen some interesting discussions on some of the Flash blogs. David Emberton started a discussion with his Opinion: "rich internet applications," hooey article at ActionScript.com (which spanned to a discussion at Flazoom.com), and FlashGuru really stirred the... (3 comment(s))

Flash Blogs: Flash Distracted
New Flash related blog - Flash Distracted by Jason Key with a developers look on Flash and associated technologies, including a review of the first hosted Flash Communication Server services from Media Temple. [Via David Burrows]... (0 comment(s))

Hot or Not blogs
Hot or Not have been running their voting system on peoples pictures for a long time, now they are at it with blogs as well. According to James Hong (one of the creators of Hot or Not) its not really... (0 comment(s))

FlashForward blogging
Mike Chambers have done a commendable job updating everyone of us that couldn't go to the FlashForward conference in NYC this summer (and documenting the great speeches and sessions for everyone that was lucky enough to be able to attend... (1 comment(s))

RSS Readers: Full As A Goog: Chock Full Of Macromedia Goodness
I am sorry, I have to admit that of the online web based RSS readers, this has to be one of the best I have seen so far: Full As A Goog: Chock Full Of Macromedia Goodness Its made by... (3 comment(s))

Why to not _blank
Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil. In all dominant browsers, using the <a target="_blank"> tag to force a link to open in a new window... (11 comment(s))

Quasimondo Flash Google API search
Mario keeps proving that he knows how to use the new cool features of Flash MX, and the equally cool features of the Google API with his Google API Flash banner He is using it on all the stories on... (1 comment(s))

30 days to a more accessible weblog
Mark Pilgrim (dive into mark) is writing up a whole month of good tips on how to make your weblog more accessible. Its really a usability exercise - and most of what he is talking about can easily apply to... (1 comment(s))

New tech-word: Warchalking
The picture above is an example of how warchalking might look like. Maybe not something that you understand instantly, but if you go over to Everything Burns and look at the proposal there, you might get a better idea... (0 comment(s))

Yet another RSS Flash viewer
Nicolas S.-Roy has released his Flash RSS reader. It supports RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.9x, lets you view RSS feeds that is not on the list. And also allows you to view several feeds on the same page. There are... (1 comment(s))

Blogs: Another Macromedian blogger
Sean Corfield, director of Architecture at Macromedia has joined the Macromedian bloggers with his An Architect's View. According to Branden Hall "This man is smart - and I mean really smart - he's the director of architecture at Macromedia! He's... (0 comment(s))

Feasible Impossibilities speak up
I am having serious blog envy! Robert Hall has been showcasing speech synthesis hooked to Flash for a while on his Flash site, but now he has put together a nice little application for his regular weblog. You can now... (2 comment(s))

Blogs: Google blog
This is mighty cool, a Google Weblog. Found it at "Everything burns". On the Google blog I found some interesting information: The Google DanceOnce a month Google calculates the pagerank of each page and changes the serp (search enigne result... (3 comment(s))

Flash RSS Reader 1.5
Version 1.5 of the Flash RSS Reader has been released today. The reader now sports categories as well as a favorites category where you can add the Flash newsfeeds that you want to read. The real news in version 1.5... (8 comment(s))

Phil Chung is looking for Flash feeds for his Flash RSS reader
Just a heads up, if you have a Flash blog, and would like to be included in the channel list of the Flash RSS Reader soon to be released in a new and improved version, then you should go over... (2 comment(s))

Flash blogs: JoshDura.com
JoshDura.com is (surprise surprise) Josh Dura's weblog, Josh is know as a moderator at FlashKit.com, co-founder of the Flashcomponent.com website, and involved Flash community member. His blog will probably be filled with good news and projects from the Flash world.... (2 comment(s))

Flash blogs: Quasimondo
Found a new Flash blog today, its called Quasimondo. I haven't gotten this confirmed yet, but the site seems to belong to Collin Croome [Update] The Quasimondo blog is actually run by Mario Klingemann of Coma2.com. Thats how it goes... (2 comment(s))

The future of the RSS/News aggregator
Interesting discussions going on. Dave Winer is writing up a document called "What is a News Aggregator?" A news aggregator is a piece of software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds... (0 comment(s))

1st Movement Flash RSS Reader
Phil's initial work on a Flash RSS reader has spawned another great Flash based RSS reader. Ming Chan has made a Multiblog Flash RSS Reader, it allows you to read three weblogs at a time, save your three favorite weblogs... (0 comment(s))

A rant about linking back
Just thought I would take a minute or two to address the curtesy of link backs. Most of the time I refer to what other people have written or found, and I try my very best to link back to... (4 comment(s))

Cool little script to explore my weblog neighborhood
Exploring Weblog Neighbourhoods with Blogdex. Inspired by Mark, and Dave, I've been doing a bit of neighbourhood exploration hacking of my own. DJ has made a cool little script that gives you the chance to see which neighborhood you belong... (0 comment(s))

MovableType Warning (or what happens when you don't read the manual)
I wasn't sure if I wanted to run this by you all, but if you are a MovableType user, and haven't read the install notes, then shame on you, and please make sure to fix this "security problem". If you... (0 comment(s))

Flash blogs: Philter's Blog and Phil Chung's comments about the RSS/XML reader
Nice to see Phil Chung have his own weblog up and running. He has taken the time to counter some of the comments that has been made about his XML Flash reader and the RSS Flash reader. Seems like both... (0 comment(s))

Cool site: Minnesota Gardener
I am not often blown away anymore by web design. I have been surfing the web since 1993 - been with it since there wasn't a browser with image support, and "seen it all". So, I guess what I am... (3 comment(s))

Follow up: RSS Auto-discovery - Important change to the LINK tag
The RSS Auto-discovery link tag has been changed. This change comes in response to (valid) criticism that the old way was too general, and could cause confusion if, in the future, there were other XML-based formats that pages wanted to... (0 comment(s))

Why aren't UserLand doing RSS Auto-Discovery right?
UserLand has announced support for RSS Auto-Discovery for Radio. This is great, but what is not so great is that they have implemented an extremely simple parser for the RSS link tag. Here's an example of a link element that... (0 comment(s))

Autodiscover RSS feeds with Amphetadesk and Radio
This is worth spreading the word about: Autodiscovered RSS feeds By adding one line of HTML code in your weblog, you will enable users of Amphetadesk and Radio to subscribe to your RSS feed with the help of a bookmarklet.... (0 comment(s))

Personal RSS Aggregators
Jon Udell writes about Personal RSS Aggregators for Byte.com Has RSS run out of steam? Quite the opposite. There's more action than ever, but it's shifted into a decentralized mode. That's just what the RSS network needed to do in... (0 comment(s))

Should the Macromedian bloggers better label themselfs?
Paul Andrews article in The Seattle Times titled Web logging can serve many roles raises the question about the integrity of the Macromedian bloggers, while trying to take the issue a step further, he focuses on the lack of labeling... (0 comment(s))

Ideas for the evolution of RSS - The X-Document
Ideas for the evolution of RSS - The X-Document Interesting article about the proposed extentions of the RSS format for the next version. Things are moving again in the RSS development field. In the past two weeks we've had both... (0 comment(s))

The Snewp - a cool new news search engine
Snewp indexes about 6000 news sources every day, gathering news headlines from around the world. (To quote Snewp). They are really updated, and have a lot of news available, the coolest part is that you can get results from news... (5 comment(s))

jdb cyberspace to go - The pda version of this blog
This was fun, it took me a couple of minutes to add a PDA version of jdb cyberspace, and then make an AvantGo channel of it. Good advice and Moveable Type template provided by Meryl.net I will probably tinker with... (0 comment(s))

Flazoom celebrates 2 years of duty for the Flash community
I hope Chris will be celebrating with some sparklies today, even if its only some sparkly water. Flazoom is Chris MacGregors baby in many ways. And over two years it has accumulated a lot of knowledge about Flash and Usability.... (2 comment(s))

Macromedia's XML feed translated to RSS
This is cool, Jon Udell used the W3C's XSLT transformation service to convert the XML newsfeed from Macromedia to an RSS feed with the help of an XSLT stylesheet In my opinion, Macromedia should make their feeds available as RSS... (4 comment(s))

Nice Movable Type hacks
Scott Andrew is a guy that always has lots of interesting knowledge to share about Flash, XML, JavaScript, DHTML etc. And he is also using Movable Type for his weblog. I just discovered that he has put together a few... (0 comment(s))

Macromedia: Blogs are HUGE
Macromedia - Designer & Developer : Logged In : Blogs are HUGE Ed Krimer, Vice President of Developer Community writes about the Macromedia weblog experiment : Almost immediately, other bloggers started referring to our blogs in their daily entries. Most... (0 comment(s))

Waldo Smeets changing blogtool?
Nice to see Waldo linking back to my blog. He is contemplating moving to Moveable Type, which would make his blog available with RSS. Good luck with the installation Waldo, its a chore to install - but when its up... (1 comment(s))

Blogger RSS?
Boy am I ever looking forward to Blogger adding RSS output. According to their web pages RSS generation is going to be added soon. Why is it such a big deal for me? Well, to be able to cover as... (0 comment(s))

webmonkey on weblogs
Webmonkey Joshua Allen has made The Weblog Tool Roundup - its a nice article going through the benifits of using weblog tools, and looking at which tool would be good for you, if you are thinking about setting up a... (0 comment(s))

Macromedian bloggers
This is plenty neat. Just discovered that there are a number of Macromedia employees with weblogs. The ones I have found so far are: John Dowdell (support / community guy) Mike Chambers (Flash/ColdFusion/community/etc) Vernon Viehe (ColdFusion) Matt Brown (Dreamweaver/MX) Bob... (0 comment(s))

Weblogs galore
In addition to Radio that I purchased for its outliner, but that also includes all the workings of a weblog publishing system, and news aggregator, I have found a new piece of software that makes my days keeping updated on... (0 comment(s))

I've become an outliner
Dave is probably gonna be happy if he reads this, another convert to the Outliner crew. I was structuring my day today, and found myself structuring the items on my list just like one would with an outliner (like the... (0 comment(s))

More about blogging
Interesting article in Wired: The Blogging Revolution... (0 comment(s))

More Google API
I hope you get to check out the Google Box I have added, using Sebastian Bergmann's excellent Google API PHP class together with PEAR's SOAP client (soon to get a homepage). Ohh, BTW: I can't wait till someone connects Moveable... (0 comment(s))

Scott Andrew is Google API'ing away..
Scott is covering and taking part in the wiring of the Google API to the web. Latest news is hot wiring Mozilla with its SOAP client to the Google API via JavaScript. Cool stuff.... (0 comment(s))

Google API implementations
A few implementations of the Google API has surfaced: SoapWare.Org : Services > Google API > Implementations And Dave Winer has some thoughts about «What's next after the Google API?»... (0 comment(s))

Finally updated Moveable type
Finnaly gotten around to update Moveable type today, so now we are at version 2.0 :-) I did it in part to be able to include searches from Google directly in my weblog, through the Google API - Josh Cooper... (0 comment(s))

Blogging: An Economist's View
James D. Miller writes about weblogs and their future. In many ways he talks in the same way about weblogging and indepentent writers as other have before him about free and/or open source software, claming there is no economics in... (0 comment(s))

Wired list some top webloggers
Wired has put together a list of top 5 bloggs based on the MIT's Blogdex Power Bloggers... (0 comment(s))

Weblogs go mainstream
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