Andre Venter: Blogs

...and then some

Tripod Blogs better than Blogger - August 28, 2003

PC Mag has rated Tripod Blogs higher than Blogger, Live Journal and Weblogger in a review published today that is bound to attract criticism. Lycos is trumpeting its win with a release to Yahoo! Finance, although the Blog Census figures... The Blog Herald
http://www.blogherald.com/archives/000136.html

Integrating Trackbacks into the whole blog - August 28, 2003

but not just in post comments... Everywhere! MT did a poor job of integrating trackbacks. I've made some changes that push them up the focus a little. They will now appear in the main and archive templates and in the comments sections. I hope everyone finds this useful in one way or another :) Adam Kalsey has done a lot to help out with this with hist fantastice MT Plugin, SimpleComments, which is required for these changes. (It's a simple install of copying 2 files to your...(via Reflective..
http://blog.iloaf.com/archives/000079.html

Update: My.Yahoo RSS Aggregator is live - August 28, 2003

Just tried it myself - works like a charm. You have to add the Blogs section, available here:http:e.my.yahoo.comconfigadd_module.module=xcontent The interface is nice. Summaries of the latest entries, headlines for older entries. Blogdigger Development Blog
http://www.blogdigger.com/blog/2003/08/28.html#a33

Enriching Blog Calendar - August 28, 2003

Someone has to thinks of it first - here's another natural blog feature development in the making: "Most blogs have a calendar for navigation but not for much else. I was thinking how nice it would be to enrich it automatically with other information like birthdays of people on blogroll, anniversaries, schedule of conferences I am planning to attend, etc. Size of the calendar will have to get a little bigger, but mouse-over sensitive date specific details can be displayed in an area...
http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/08/27.html#a844

Blogging Explained to Old UNIX Hacks - August 28, 2003

"The other day I was talking to an old friend of mine that used to be really into UNIX but that ended up choosing a different path. He wanted to know what the heck a weblog was. I had to evoke old UNIX images: back when we were in school, people used to cook up elaborate .plan files and change them occasionally to reflect news in their lives. The .plan files were displayed whenever that user was fingered (always elicited a giggle or two from UNIX newbies), and that was the state of the art in...
http://www.gazitt.com/ohmblog/PermaLink.aspx/d9e179ee-9364-4239-95e1-baf913c8319a

Macworld's Weblog Roundup Falls Short - August 28, 2003

MacWorld magazine's July issue contains an article by Scot Hacker (great name for a computer magazine writer, no) entitled 'Put Weblogs To Work' (sorry, not yet available on their site). In it, he compares seven weblog packages (Blogger Pro, Geeklog, iBlog, LiveJournal, Movable Type, pMachine Pro, and Radio). It's too bad he didn't think to include Free-Conversant (which this blog is built on). It competes extremely well in all categories he looked at, and then some. What's more, it adds...
http://www.romanvenable.net/451