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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

So I’m waiting for my hosting provider to turn on a few things so I can install Movable Type how i want it and I start thinking about how nice it would be to have all the blogs I read on a single web page with their latest headlines. So I’m thinking RSS/XML aggregation but…

I discovered this the other day. The Internet Archive is “building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.” What is does provide is access to music and video material that has been placed…

For all you dedicated (obsessive?) bloggers out there. Available at: ThinkGeek :: I’m blogging this.

Looks like it will be closer to a couple of weeks before everything is up and running smoothly. I’ve got the prototype running sweetly under Mac OS X and Apache on my iBook but my hosting provider won’t have a facility I need for my requirements for another couple of weeks. So I’ll be playing…