Friday, September 28th, 2007
Rett Martin
1:21
I use bloglines to track my blogs. Before bloglines I used to always visit the individual sites and in doing that you take in the blog’s brand or identity, however when you read stuff through bloglines, you lose that and everything becomes bloglines-branded
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Blogs have become the most popular self-publishing platform available on the web. While the weblog has been in the mainstream for a moderate period of time there are some conflicting user conventions at play between different software.
The real issue here is that the format of a blog is different from that of a conventional website and has generated a new set of user conventions based on its format. These have had a deeper impact on the web than is visible at first glance, many of these conventions have carried over to news websites as well as other areas of the web and mostly are expected of any site where the content changes frequently with a headline with an accompanying article format.
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
What a day. As some of you may have noticed, Astheria.com went offline sometime about two days ago. Figuring it was normal downtime I fired off an email to the host to make sure and checked to see if it was back up on occasion. Problem was, I found the email returned to me with an unable to send message – the DNS servers were down too.
I’ve always been a tad ignorant of the perils of online hosting and the security that your data will always be there. After deciding I wasn’t going to put myself on their timeline I switched the domain’s nameservers over to my Media Temple account (something that should’ve been done long ago) and started putting the pieces back together.
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
From coffee shops, to shopping malls, to schools, to wherever, the new iPod Touch just brought the mobile web to a much larger audience. We all know iPod’s sell like hot cakes and now the drooling sensation we’ve all felt about the iPhone is no longer going to be held in check by the stiff contract and service fees from AT&T. So given the iPhone hype and iPod success rate, my guess is that this just might be a hit and sell like hotcakes.
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