WDVX is providing the background music for my new life in Knoxville... but will be doing so very softly until I get some speakers for this new office PC.

Notes about blogging and journalism: Wired interview with Dan Gillmor about his new book

(This really belongs in my other blog, but I have two minutes of battery time left...)

Blog by mail test #3

The first two trials (below) seem to indicate that the e-mail to blog
approach deletes HTML anchor tags. I'll go back and look for online
documentation when I have a chance. I'll also try posting something
from my Handspring TREO e-mail while I'm out.

blog-by-mail

This is another test of blogging by e-mail, to see if HTML links work
like this: http://stepno.com or like this href="http://stepno.com">this.

I wish other organizations I belonged to were as liberal about membership fees as the American Sociological Association's sliding scale.

This is a trial of posting to a Blogger weblog by
e-mail. The original link didn't work until I went back to Blogger to fix the link code HTML. I'll try again and leave the new post uncorrected.

For a friend who noticed some hint of Jakob Nielsen influence on my home page, I admit there's plenty of room for improvement. Andrei Herasimchuk summarizes it all better than I do here, with seven examples: Design by Fire: Gurus v. Bloggers, Round 1

We all know Nielsen’s faults. He’s put them on display so often in the past there’s no reason to bring them up again. (Ok. Here are some: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.) To add insult to injury, Nielsen can be a bit, shall we say, overbearing. Having said that, can Nielsen’s blinding color system, poor layout and unreadable typography be forgiven for someone who is attempting to convert designers towards better usability practices? Not in this lifetime.

Blogger is now promoting Feedburner as a way to generate RSS feeds for Blogger sites. The actual RSS section of its feed creation page is buried a ways down in the format selections, which appear designed to meet a lot of other purposes.

Here's a test of the two RSS feeds it creates, both based on the Atom feed, which doesn't put full contents into the feed, one of the common attributes of RSS 2.0 feeds from weblogs like Scripting News and Other Journalism.
Atom: atom
RSS 2.0:
RSS 1.0 (RDF)