Ah, moved: This blog is now at xian.typepad.com, and it’s just a sandbox right now. If anything comes of it, I’ll point a custom domain this way (xianlandia.com isn’t doing much). Possible uses in mind: Photoblog. Not a Photo album, but a blog of just photos. Each entry one photo, etc. A demo... (Typepad)

Never apologize, dude!: I think no weblogger should ever feel the need to apologize for not posting something to their blog ever day, least of all the big Z.... (Weblog Concepts)

The secret of blogging: While waxing prolix over on my personal journal friends and family deep thoughts and vacation schedules blog about hearing people singing words I wrote just a week or two ago (it's freaky), I stumbled across the secret of blogging: By the way, you know what the secret of blogging is? You... (Weblog Concepts)

Weblog-to-email plug-in?: A friend asked me to recommend a good third-party plug-in for automatically turning weblog posts into mailing-list messages. I've got the Bloglet service plugged into this site but I subscribed myself when I signed up and haven't gotten a post in months, so I don't know if that's just me or... (Products)

And they were singing...: TDavid of Things that ... make you go hmm has recorded another rendition (partial) of Blogistan Pie. If these keeps up I may have to make my first audblog post ever to contribute my own a capella version. You'll wish I hadn't!... (Blogosphere)

Feh. A pox on all their rules: In rules? i don't need no stinkin' rules!, Liz Lane Lawley questions the proliferation of ethical rules, guidelines, and suggestions for weblogging, seeing them as overly declarative and restrictive for a medium that is so self-directed and self-correcting: I don't want a rulebook. I have my own sense of right and... (Weblog Concepts)

The B Word: How ugly the word blog sounds, and despite that there's no denying it's more catchy, somehow more fun to say than weblog. Part of that may be fatigue around the word web along with the pleasure of using a clever neologism, something a little more playful than unconscious language evolution. But... (Memes)

Blogging No Longer Cool: Elizabeth Spiers writes in her Capital Influx blog about the end of cool for bloggers, or the inherent uncoolness of blogging, or how cool it is to be uncool, or something like that: The uncool result of the cross-linking is that something weird or interesting happens and you and fellow blogger... (Memes)

Problem Upstreaming Changed Web Service File: When I created the subs.txt file in my Web Services folder and called the service via SOAP, I discovered that the service expected to find a tiny coffee mug graphic I didn't have, and because the img tag had no width='10' height='10' attributes specified, the long alt text showed up, breaking... (Weblog Concepts)

Schoolhouse Blog: All this talk of Knowledge Logs generally presupposes a corporate (or to be a little more neutral, an enterprise) environment, but educational institutions are the prime focus of knowledge sharing in society, no? John Robb points to Weblogg-ed, a Radio blog, and Lincoln Public Schools, a crisp-looking Manila-managed site.... (Memes)

X-Pollen: Think Halal: Over on my mediajunkie blog: There's More to the Muslim World than Palestine. think halal: the muslim group weblog has a provocative report of the attitude of an Indian Muslim who sees the Palestinian question sucking up all the media attention and aid while gujarat is largely ignored. [mediajunkie: junk mail]... ()

E-commerce (with PayPal and Dreamweaver) on a Budget: Chapter 21 of Dreamweaver Savvy described how to build an e-commerce site. Here's some useful advice from Macromedia for adding PayPal services to such as site: The PayPal eCommerce Toolkit extension for Dreamweaver MX allows web designers and developers to quickly and easily add e-commerce functionality to a website. [Macromedia Designer... (Business)

Can't See the Blogging for the Blogs: John Robb commented on the Times essay comparing bloggers to pamphleteers: Seems ridiculous that the media would continue to confuse a powerful horizontal tool (very much like desktop word processing) with how it is used by a few people. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] I've always found that the Internet is a... (Memes)

Why Not Blog?: A few good reasons not to blog on the weekend. [xian]... (Weblog Concepts)

How to Display Which RSS Feeds You're Subscribed to: Just followed Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian)'s very clear instructions for listing my subscribed aggregator feeds in the navigation column of my home page. Publishing this entry should update my template and show who I'm scanning every day.... (Weblog Concepts)