blogging is a special type of geekery, it’s where i go totally meta and blog about the blog i’m blogging in
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The guys at Six Apart have released Sandbox for Movable Type. They’ve included the winning themes from the Sandbox Designs Competition. The first step is to install Sandbox as a plugin. After that, you’ll be able to install Promised Land as a one click install1 . You can also manually install any Sandbox Child Theme, [...]
apophenia: knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation.
Knol is something like a communal blog, it’s closest competitor is about.com, not wikipedia. Actually, with author-based archives, shared categories/tags, and embedded adsense, it’s a lot like wordpress.com. Given google’s attrocious splog record with blogspot, i doubt they’ll be doing as much competing as they think they [...]
Torrent Freak: The Pirate Bay launches an Uncensored Blogging Service. This is great news. after the many altercations whereby wordpress.com has broken and muted both the voices of those it finds distasteful, and those who disagree with their policies, it’s great to see someone stepping up. Well, I’d be remiss not [...]
When you develop a site on a test server, it’s tricky to make sure that none of the old links get carried over to the live site. This tutorial also works if you’re moving to a new domain. While using a WordPress export is easier, this method catches everything, which can be important [...]
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(top) All graphics © Adam Freetly. I work for Blueprint design studio, Chicago web design studio.
WordPress 2.9.2 
Sandbox
Comment Authority
Every few months, a new service comes out with their own WordPress plugin, to add their centralized service to the standard wordpress comments. Dutifully, I try them all out, and inevitably decide that there’s no value add for me. A lot of this has to do with my relatively complex comment layout. Most of these [...]