weblogs

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 has made available a hack for Moveable Type to make Google’s API work with it. I can get it to work, the only problem is that the building of the pages never stops, and that the process that it starts continues to hug as much cpu as possible from the

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 weblogs. I tend to disagree, still beliving in the economics of attention, best described by Michael H. Goldhaber in Attention Shoppers! in Wired’s decemeber issue 1997. James also makes the mistake of arguing that multimedia will be the killer of weblogs, since the flashier video/sound sites will take the attention

Wired has put together a list of top 5 bloggs based on the MIT’s Blogdex Power Bloggers

I guess its time to say that Weblogs has gone mainstream. Since January Userland and The New York Times have been working on making available the New York Times Newsfeed to the weblog community. DaveNet : New York Times, UserLand and Weblogs

Dan writes about his recent experience with how integrated weblogs have become already: Yesterday at PC Forum, I was part of a key moment in this evolution. I was blogging a session on wireless technology, and wrote something about SkyPilot, one of the presenting companies. Duncan Davidson, SkyPilot’s CEO, finished his presentation and sat on the podium, reading on his laptop, while other people talked. Then, in the Q&A, he corrected something I’d written in the blog. In other words, he’d caught this in near-real time and had better information

Tommy Williams: My Philosophy at Microsoft Tommy works at Microsoft, and has since 1999. I work for Microsoft. I have worked for the company since June 1999. But it gets harder every day. I hope Tommy will be able to keep working for Microsoft, even after speaking his mind about the company.