Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on May 1st, 2009
I just did a little experiment today (prompted by a clever idea from Erik Rose) to see if I could achieve Plone blogging nirvana by mashing together QuillsEnabled and Scrawl. Not only did it work, it made me cackle with such evil genius glee that I needed to write it up. OK, so you’re probably thinking: [...]
Posted in General on Oct 2nd, 2008
Michael Gilbert has an interesting notion: becoming a knowledge blogger is a good way to practice managing information overload. The experience of “information overload” has many causes, among which are these three important ones: (1) We don’t know what to do with the information we are getting. (2) We don’t know how to filter and select amongst all that [...]
Posted in General on Dec 4th, 2007
Call me crazy, but I just checked out Microsoft’s just-out-of-beta Windows Live Writer offline blogging client, and I gotta tellya, it’s pretty nice. Score one for the kids in Redmond. It’s free and Windows-only (of course). It offers an easy-to-configure, very polished UI for writing and editing blog posts. It handles cut-and-paste from the web and [...]