Archive for the 'blogging' Category

The alpha ver­sion of the West Coast Blog­gers t-shirt prin­ted for me by Pis­tol Cloth­ing.

I should of been wear­ing in Aus­tin for SXSWi but it is not to be, this year.

or why the Jebediah pho­tob­log image is so small

One of the reas­ons I star­ted the pho­tob­log, was to exper­i­ment with the vari­ous web based photo applic­a­tions, to find one I was going to use for the next couple of years. I had to start play­ing with one app, so I star­ted with zooomr. Why because I had to start some­where and zooomr are offer­ing a free upgrade to a pro account to blog­gers, who dis­play their images hos­ted on zooomr with the tag line hos­ted on zooomr.

I just went and cre­ated myself a pho­tob­log, I did it for a num­ber of reasons: …

Jeremy Keith has a pet peeve ads on blogs, and he calls those blog­gers blog whores. I use to believe that ads did not belong on blogs, until I read Why People Want to Know What’s In It For *You*. As most my read­ers tend to visit via google, I will put ads on the next ver­sion of this site, just to increase the con­fid­ence of cas­ual visitors.

I have star­ted work on a redesign of this blog, this post is to cla­rify my thoughts and elict your opin­ions on what is good, mem­or­able or just damn ugly about this blog.

If you ever read my old copy­right state­ment you found that I was very relaxed about the reuse of my con­tent and released it under a Cre­at­ive Com­mons Attri­bu­tion 2.5 License.

How­ever, after see­ing some of my con­tent has turned up on splogs and I think splogs are evil and the bane of blog­gers, I thought I should take the first step and change my copy­right to Cre­at­ive Com­mons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

If you can find a com­mer­cial use for my con­tent, let me know and I will give you per­mis­sion, unless you are intend to use it to just gen­er­ate advert­ising rev­enue or for search engine manipulation.

Robert Nyman has pub­lished People who visit this web site (some stat­ist­ics) on his blog, so I thought I would do a quick com­par­ison with mine. In the­ory we write for the same audi­ence, so here are my stats for the past nine months.

The under­signed are car­ry­ing out a blog­ging sur­vey. I will be inter­ested in the res­ults, so I thought I bet­ter contribute.

When did you start blogging?…

RSS Read­ing Habits — Sur­vey by Microsoft Research Asia, Cen­ter for Inter­ac­tion Design via Kevin Hale on of the people behind Wufoo.com. Microsoft Asia are look­ing car­ry­ing out an anonym­ous sur­vey of RSS read­ing habits. Sure it is Microsoft, but they are will­ing to share, they will pub­lish the res­ult so every­body can see. So why not take the sur­vey it is only eight ques­tion, plus the option to upload your OPML file.

Now fixed

I just changed hosts and the rewrit­ing of URLs for Word­Press stopped work­ing. I assumed a .htac­cess or mod_rewrite where prob­lem, but I have not had any prob­lems with the other five blogs that I have set up on via Reseller Zoom account. So after scratch­ing my head this morn­ing. I got home, upgraded my ver­sion of Word­Press to the latest ver­sion and that fixed the problem.