Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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The NZ Herald carried this story a few days ago: New Zealand News – Technology – A cellphone is a girl’s best friend. Increasing numbers of youngsters tucked up in bed with their mobile phones are, in effect, sleeping with a whole bunch of strangers, research from Victoria University shows. The phenomenon is the result…
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Nice summary of how to get a RSS newsfeeds displayed on a Movable Type site at Learning Movable Type: Displaying an RSS Newsfeed on Your Site. I use the zFeeder option which I made the Blog Portal page with a few months back. It stands in a static MT index page but you could get…
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A new report out by the NZ Department of Statistics on The Digital Divide (2004) notes that: The more money you have the more likely you are to be connected to the Internet. The better your formal education the more likely you are to be connected to the Internet. Households with one person, or one…
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Saw this today too. Cyberduck a free OSX FTP client. I currently use another free FTP client (when I’m not using the command line) RBrowserLite for uploading stuff to the web site outside of Movable Type but who can resist an app called “Cyberduck”?
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Monkey Food have a selection of small Mac OSX apps on their web site. The “Tagging Service” looks really useful for adding HTML tags into blog entries.
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Barclay Barrios of Rutgers University, New Brunswick has put together a nice site called The Year of the Blog: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom. It’s got an overview of 2003 with respect to blogging, blogging resources, blogs as writing practice, blogs in the classroom and some other stuff.
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Just switched to HaloScan comments from Enetation to see if that improves the commenting in the interim before I shift to MT or pMachine. For those of you who posted comments on the old system they are still there in the ether but just not visible at the moment. Hopefully this improves things.
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I’ve been reading the local library’s copy of Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs by Todd Stauffer. It’s a book for introducing people to blogging and covers most of the different options that were available when it was published (Oct 2002). It’s pretty good at doing that covering free and commercial systems as…
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If you’re into a bit of constructive tweaking of Blogger you can get it to generate an RSS/XML feed. But you need to be using Blogger to publish to your own site. Here’s the link” hit-or-miss.org: How to manage your site with Blogger, PHP, and XML I see also that Blogger has just announced support…
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But wait there’s more! If you click here you get the new, improved scrolling version – just right to leave running on the desktop. Wait a few seconds (5-10 on my computer) after the window has popped up for it to start scrolling. Move your mouse into the frame to pause scrolling. Clicking on a…