Jeremy Allaire has joined "the ranks of what Jon Udell calls CXO Blogs" with a mixed personal and professional blog "about media, communications and applications over the Internet."
According to one of his first entries:
Over the past six-months, like many other netizens, I've become addicted to browsing and subscribing to blogs. My company has also started using blogspace as a crucial customer and community engagement mechanism. It's been amazing to see the number of Macromedia MX related blogs spring up.
He also posts a view of a cross-browser WYSIWYG editor widget, which doesn't seem to behave for me, but sounds like a step in the right direction. Even minimal coding of links and HTML remains as a barrier to the next wave of webloggers, and Allaire is looking at the bigger picture: getting beyond the browser-interface bottleneck.
categories: fireweaver knowhow metablog
1:04:30 PM 
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I had a toasted sesame bagel with cream cheese and nova lox in a place run by immigrants of an ethnicity and language I could not place. I would guess Chechnyan or some other Caucusus people.
Dropping off the keys, I sat and had coffee with my friends who had lent me the use of the apartment. We talked about how strange the city felt today. New York always has a palpable feel. So many people pressing in on you with goals and instincts, thoughts and emotions. Somehow the brainwaves or pheromones are aggregated into some kind of gestalt.
Anticipating traffic and security delays at JFK, I thanked my hosts once again and carried my bags down the stairs, trundling over to 7th avenue to catch a cab. As I walked down the picturesque, ironwreathed streets of my youth, I heard singing, a woman's voice, so loud I thought maybe a radio played in some open window overhead.
As I got closer to the avenue, I recognized the song, "We Are the World," and then saw that it was a gospel choir in blue robes singing in front of St. Vincent's hospital (where I was born). There were police barriers along the avenue, and traffic looked light. As I approached the corner, an ambulance started cranking its siren, drowning on the choir in short bursts as the small crowd at the corner passed each other as if in silence.
categories: x-syndicate
11:05:20 AM say what []
My taped appearance is this coming Monday, September 16, but TSS has already put the online tutorial component up at their site.
The tutorial covers a little more ground than we were able to get to in my segment. On the air, I basically just show how to edit colors and fonts in an existing template, but the tutorial also addresses making custom templates, integrating a blog into an existing site design, and building a blog template from scratch.
I'm just back from New York last night, so wading through a bit of a backlog in several arenas.
categories: fireweaver metablog
9:59:34 AM say what []
Just learned that a versio nof Eliza is built into OS X:
In the terminal type emacs and hit Return. When the editor has loaded, hold Shift and hit the Escape key. Then type x, then doctor and hit Return. Answer the first question and proceed from there. When you're done, Ctrl-X Ctrl-C will quit the editor. [via same as it ever was]Tried a little "talking therapy." Eliza is more clueless than I remember. (I seem to recall a version called Eliza2 that ran on the DEC PDP/11 systems we used to have in school.)
categories: x-syndicate
9:55:46 AM say what []
