In a fit of efficiency I’ve moved the blog from running on the Berkley DB over to MySQL. Hopefully this will give me more control over the blog and maybe even some performance improvement. If it all turns to custard in the near future I’ll be rolling back a few days. BTW – Backups were…

Here’s a link to Rachel’s site where she has a posting with a link through to an article about her experiences on building online communties via blogging NZ Idol. See: » Another stint in the media cre8d design – journal. Russell Brown wrote the article in the Listener and I read and listen to his…

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. For simple, clean presentations that you might want to put both on the web and a kiosk it looks like a good starting point. (None of the Powerpoint for Web bloat). Via Tim@SansBlogue

AKMA runs into problems accessing his library’s free WiFi connection from outside the building. Apparently some think that’s a Fedaral felony. See: AKMA’s Random Thoughts: So Weirdly Wrong Nice to see “freedom” at work. 🙁 More here too: AKMA’s Random Thoughts: For Clarity’s Sake

Following up on several of recent Steve’s postings on How do we go deep? here’s a crowd that claim to have recognised the lack of depth in the general media and blogging. Their alternative is to produce detail 5-20 page “manifestoes” to be copied, shared and transmitted across cyberspace with a view to soliciting comments…

Just seeing if I can post nicely from NewNewsWire. If it works out okay I might upgrade from the Lite version to get the web log editing tools.

Couple of recent cartoon strips from UserFriendly on blogging. UserFriendly June 12, 2004 UserFriendly June 13, 2004

Couple of potentially useful MacOS X software apps came across my scanner over the last few days. Firstly ImageWell is an excellent little (free!) app that you drop and image onto and it posts it to the web location (iDisk, FTP, WebDAV) you choose (or the default). And it allows you to perform cropping, scaling,…

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…

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”?