Comments on: Help us fix the blog II

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:05:04 +0000

You got caught in the spaminator, Ambigulous. If your comments don’t appear, it’s preferable to email us and let us know, as making repeated comments will unfortunately persuade the spaminator further that you’re spam! I’ve fished the comments out.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:01:30 +0000

Posted comments this morning (Wed 26th) to
* traffic congestion thread
* terrorist thread

they appeared on my screen in the threads, some hours ago, now aren’t there.

Moderated into oblivion?
Lost in cyberspace?

BTW, the “preview” window thingy wasn’t showing when I posted …

cheerio

By: Nick Caldwell

Nick Caldwell — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:20:34 +0000

Actually, it’s usually a mark of a very poorly constructed website if it doesn’t render content acceptably in Lynx. Semantic markup makes content usable in a wide range of viewing conditions.

By: helloworld

helloworld — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:16:06 +0000

>> “The real challenge would be to get Lynx to work”…
Now that’s funny.

By: Andrew Reynolds

Andrew Reynolds — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:49:51 +0000

Nabs,
The real challenge would be to get Lynx to work.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:05:44 +0000

Can you at least set up something I can access with Mosaic?

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:47:03 +0000

With your own blog you don’t get to piggyback on an established, real popular already blog.

Sort of. What the diary feature includes as a concept is the ability to promote diaries to the high-traffic front page. Part blogging platform, part social network. Automattic — the cashed-up startup whose business is Wordpress — have recently bought some mob who will bring these features into Wordpress Mu.

Hooray. Web 2.0 catches up with Web 98.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:39:29 +0000

Liam, swio, gandhi;

DailyKos is built on Scoop, which I have elsewhere categorised as a second-generation platform. Diaries are built into that approach.

These days I would suggest that a better starting point would be to build from Wordpress Mu. I bought a few domain names with that approach in mind.

But to keep things in context, it’s all about numbers. The potential membership for a US site is, what, 15 times larger than Australia? To get to DailyKos numbers you’d need pretty much every regular internet user in Australia. If you believe that’s possible I have a DailyBridge to sell you.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:35:55 +0000

With your own blog you don’t get to piggyback on an established, real popular already blog. Duh.

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:30:57 +0000

Gandhi, you and Jacques Chester are thinking along similar lines. But yeah, if all you want is a diary, GYOB.

By: darin

darin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:47:49 +0000

But blogs are so Web 1.9… I think the new codeword is mashup..

eg. the microsoft popfly beta, and numerous other projects..

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:36:52 +0000

If you wanted an online diary, why wouldn’t you just get a blog?

By: mick

mick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:33:48 +0000

Didn’t whatever the Webdiary turned to have a user article section?

Still haven’t had my whisky yet and it’s pushing 11:30 AM. I yet may not be drinking until a so-called reasonable hour today. That is unless someone volunteers to write a set of notes for a discussion on stabilizer quantum error-correction codes for me? Anyone? Please? Pretty please?

By: gandhi

gandhi — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:29:21 +0000

Sorry, I should perhaps have mentioned Blogitariat too, as a worthy example of Oz blog amalgamation where you CAN create content, but I've never gotten into it for some reason, even though my old blog is listed. Err... who runs it again?

By: mick

mick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:39:28 +0000

It’s 9:30 AM here in England, is that too early for a glass of Laphroaig?

I mean, it is a Friday which generally means that after work drinkies are shifted about 2-3 hours earlier. So if I start drinking now that would make it lunchtime drinks would it not?

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:44:36 +0000

Well, having just run out of good single malt last night, today I purchased some Isle of Jura and a bottle of The Macallan, because I am a woman of Moods. I’ll probably get myself some Ardbeg in a few months (I have a slight preference for it over either Laphraoig or Lagavulin amongst the Islay malts, and I never say no to a Bruichladdich).

By: Andrew Reynolds

Andrew Reynolds — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:40:53 +0000

Need lots of Google ads to get to the 40 year old Laphroaig. Target the 10 year old and work from there.

By: Katz

Katz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:31:51 +0000

Wot Japerz sez.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:28:00 +0000

It’s about the fact that Mark needs to combine blogging with earning dosh to keep him in scotch. When you think about it – there are synergies!

By: Andrew Reynolds

Andrew Reynolds — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:20:41 +0000

Conceded. Now, what was this thread about again?