Mark Bernstein: Commentary: “Weblog comments incite duels. Duels are bad for society. We should all forego comments and return to carefully blogging responses — including responses we disagree with, but excluding responses we cannot tolerate.” It’s an interesting viewpoint, that is hard to disagree with on the face. Comments appear out of context with a ...
Napsterization.org: Does Writing Make You More Literate? Do You Learn More? – writing is a process that changes things more radically for me. When I take in some piece of information, I may react, may think about how I feel, what I believe, what the framework and logic surrounding the information are, but initially I’m ...
This post is a test of Ecto for the Mac. Ecto is the desktop blogging client formerly known as Kung-Log. It’s a fairly powerful program for entering and maintaining blog entries, though unfortunately it doesn’t have the MT bookmarklet’s ability to auto-discover trackbacks in webpages. I’ve encountered problems with 1.0.1 of the program with regards ...
p. Why I Love the Adopt-a-Reporter Scheme. Why I Dread It. – A weblog devoted to watching the work of a journalist is democracy in action. It is bound to be educational, for the watcher and perhaps for the journalist who is watched. But there are reasons to worry. [ “(extlink)PressThink”:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ] p. Joy Rosen ...
Fixing the MT bookmarklet for Safari [ “(extlink)The Daily Journey”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/ ] Change: t=d.selection?d.selection.createRange() .text:d.getSelection(); To: t=getSelection(); Much as I’d grown to love Kung-log, with the trackback integration and “(extlink)Omniweb”:http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ or “(extlink)Safari’s”:http://www.apple.com/safari built in spell checking, I’ve found that I actually use the bookmarklet much more when browsing and blogging. The only thing that would be ...
Mark Bernstein: Commentary
Jun
23
2004
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