XML Import / Export
‘You can now import and export your entire blog and comments as an XML file that WordPress.com will generate for you. You’ll find the export and import options now under ‘Manage’ in your blog admin area. The XML format is an extended version of RSS 2.0, and it will be built into the next downloadable release of WordPress (2.1).’
Atariboy, aka Fishbitt Designs is yet another blogger saying:
‘I don’t want to blog anymore, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing things, I just don’t like what “Blog” represents now. To me blogs, at least geek/tech blogs have become a commentary on the current tech news on the web, I see the same kind of posts everywhere, Bloggers have become a flock of critics, pouncing on the newest release in an effort to get some hits from it, what’s the point?’
Fishbitt Designs is undergoing redesign and the site may be down, but you can also try TeaBass.
GigaBlast is a fast search engine that compares favorably to Google.
Huh?
No, not us. First, this isn’t a blog. And second, this isn’t a blog. We are still slowly but surely crunching a whole lot of squat (er, data).
Update: 04-06-07 - the domain is for sale.
Kevin K. of Catch.com on ‘Why ‘m quitting blogging on Catch in an easy-to-digest FAQ format’.
What’s hip, what’s new, what is the latest in the blog world. For some long time webloggers, it appears to be ‘giving up blogging’.
Just a sampling, there are many more!
Which of this list is still blogging. Well folks, that is your homework, hence the missing links.
Seth Godin is a smart guy. He recently posted an excellent tongue-in-cheek list of 56 items on how to get traffic for your blog. ‘Make a list, don’t make a list’. ‘Open comments, don’t open comments’, write about your kids, don’t write about your kids, were among some of the contradictions.
Normally commenting is closed on Seth’s blog, but he opened this post to comments. Only a few of the commenters seemed to get it. Of course Ross M. did and adds one to the list:
Mr. Godin’s contradictions are deliberate and enlightening. There are no rules for blogging—we are writing them as we go.
57. Try to let your cluelessness show as little as possible when you comment on Top Ten blogs.
Exactly, he got a lot of clueless commenting. Reading some of the comments, you could tell the commenter did not even bother to read past #7 in the list, and I think they commented only to get a comment on Seth’s blog.
Comments are a pain to moderate, and may be passe. If you need traffic, back away from your computer and go for a drive. Hopefully someday, conversations on the Web will flow in Gnu and interesting ways.
Seth later posts about “Why I don’t have comments”. Point, set, match to Mr Godin. Hee.
Get a free minimalist website with a built in weblog at Infogami
A very, very minimalist search engine, Zippily uses Goolge Ajax API.
Elgg is the creation of Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh. The concept behind the system is to develop a fully customizable learning landscape. To achieve this Elgg is a hybrid of weblogging, e-portfolios and social networking.
TechSoup offers Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging; how to mark sites so you and others can find them.
I don’t pay much attention to tags or tagging. Do you need to? Is it really effective? I do find a lot of mis-tagging though (intentional in many cases). Search tools seem to find/return items here without the use of tags.
Supposedly Clean V1.0 Overview:
2 column clean, simple theme
Support for Sidebar Widgets: No
Header and Color Settings: Yes. 3 images: Blue, red, green
Sidebar position settings: Yes, right or left
Tested in Firefox, IE 6.0+, Opera and Safari
No sidebar widgets for all you wild on widgets fanatics!
Download at AlvinWoon.com
