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This morning I had an idea for what I thought was a novel use of Flickr — documenting my thoughts on wines that I purchase. I’m not a wine connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination, but I do head out to the wine store sometimes. Unfortunately, it’s hard for me to remember the differences [...]

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Now that I’ve got Movable Type up and running, and have things more or less under control, it’s time to think about the next steps for this site. Obviously the biggest task is redesigning my templates to add some content that got dropped and generally make things work like I want them to. I’m feeling [...]

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The comment feed I created yesterday looks like it should work correctly, but doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with Bloglines. It does validate, so it seems like it should work. The feed does appear to work in another aggregator, so I’m a bit stuck. (Bloglines help doesn’t have anything to offer publishers.)

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Tonight I did a bit of work on creating a comment feed for the site. It was my first foray into Movable Type templates, and I give Six Apart huge credit here — hacking on Movable Type templates is dirt simple. Unfortunately, I’ve run into a bit of a problem.

When I created my comment feed [...]

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I hate to criticize TextDrive since we hardly know each other, but given that I’m giving them money to host my content, I feel like I can speak freely. The server that I’m assigned to has issues. From what I’ve read in the past, TextDrive’s servers were built from spare parts by the notoriously incompetent [...]

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If you read Jim Kunstler’s Web site, you’ll probably find his comment on Harry Shearer as humorous as I do:

So Shearer was on the radio and I’m not crazy about his show because he puts across a self-congratulatory air of moral superiority that, after a while, gets on my nerves.

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Tim O’Reilly has published excerpts of a debate he and Lauren Weinstein have been having over whether it’s ethical for Google to scan copyrighted works and let people search the contents without compensating the owners of the copyright.

There’s one angle that is not brought up in the debate. Google already scans billions of copyrighted works [...]

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Anybody know where I can download a Movable Type template that provides an RSS 2.0 feed of the comments that are posted to a weblog?

I was planning on creating such a template myself, but hopefully someone else has already done so.

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Mark Schmitt has a post explaining why factcheck.org is unreliable. I’ve referred to that site on a number of occasions, and will probably stop doing so in the future. The site promotes itself as in impartial arbiter of the truth of various political claims, and seems to fail in that role. I’m glad someone is [...]

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Derek Powazek has advance notice of some really cool features coming down the pike from Flickr.

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