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Scoble: Talking with Six Apart

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I just caught up with Scoble’s interview with Six Apart over at PodTech.net. It’s a good piece, though if you’ve been involved in blogging in the corporate environment there’s not much new. What was new was the focus the Six Apart gang is putting on getting MT into all of the mashups that are coming into vogue. I think they’re really well positioned to take that a long way.

I just hope that Six Apart doesn’t lose its core constituency first – like me, for instance. Shipping MT4 without an easily extendable library of ready-made templates – and without even providing complete instructions at how to build your own – was a huge mistake.

Feeds and Feedburner

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The only real frustration I’ve had since switching to WordPress has been with feedburner. The disadvantage of not actually writing static files to disk is that it’s very difficult to validate each and every address that will get you to a particular feed. And of course I want feedburner to access one particular spot to slurp my feed and to declare the feedburner location in my headers so that no one else does. The worst part is that although there are at least 3 plugins that are supposed to deal with this and at least 6 detailed pages full of instructions on the web, nothing seems to have worked… but nevertheless, it does in fact seem to work, at least for the moment (it didn’t over the weekend).

So – now that comments are working on this blog again (thanks, WP!), if you (dear reader) could let me know if my feeds seem to be working for you (and at what address) I would very much appreciate it.

I’m a bit late with this,

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I’m a bit late with this,

but I’m going to chime in with my congratulations to Dave Winer for achieving a remarkable benchmark: A decade of Scripting News. With Scripting News (among very few others), we saw the transformation of the “often-updated personal website” become something quite different. “Often” and “every day, several times” are, on the web, radically different things. Congratulations!

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