Comment Authority

23 Aug 2008 – 8:17
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (3)

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 ...

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This is the last time, I swear

7 Aug 2007 – 7:53
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (13)

There's no reason I should still be posting about wordpress.com. I guess I'm just annoyed that I ever thought it was a good place to blog/journal/post. The exclusion of anyone who's not a child or a christian has reached a fever pitch. They've just released the ...

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Buckshot, EP. 2: Social Networking sites

8 Apr 2007 – 11:46
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (2)

There is no 'the next myspace'. there will be other sites that replicate pieces of that experience.

case 1 - virb.com: since signing up, i have been bombarded by friend requests from bands, and have visited their pages to find customized pages and music samples. this is ...

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Trust and the pink ghetto

13 Feb 2007 – 10:27
By adam | Posted in blogging, NSFW | Also tagged | Comments (19)

The Napoleon-Clarke Law:

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
-Paul Ciszek

It's amazing to me how much wordpress.com has grown. what used to be the realm of a few geeks in need of akismet keys has turned into a real competitor to livejournal and typepad. ...

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Theme Repositories Redux

2 Feb 2007 – 4:08
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Disconnected.sf.net is now mostly operational. it even runs wordpress. w00t. now i have an official demo site. there's no outbound traffic, so i can't run akismet, or get the latest wordpress out of SVN, but i can get my own theme out of SVN. actually, ...

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