07.23.06

Blog Improvements

Posted in General, Blogging at 9:17 pm by mshiltonj

Nobody cares but me, I know, but I feel compelled to note that I’v added a few Wordpress plugins to my blog over the past couple days, adding some bits of functionality:
* There’s a block of “Recent Posts” headlines in the sidebar.
* Entries now have a row of icons at the bottom that allows easy […]

02.19.06

Blogger–; Wordpress++;

Posted in Technology, Blogging at 8:11 pm by mshiltonj

I just switched the blog over to Wordpress from Blogger. Setting up Wordpress was painless, and its import feature brought in all the Blogger posts without effort. I think this means that I’ve tried Drupal, Blogger, and Wordpress now at least two times each. Wordpress seems pretty good this time around.
Most recently, I had switched […]

10.29.05

More metablogging, using Forbes’ “Attack of The Blog”

Posted in Blogging at 10:14 am by mshiltonj

I’m still getting used to this whole blogging thing (again), and I can’t help observing how a subject or a story gets bounced around the blogoshere. A great example is the Forbes hit-piece on blogging as a concept: Attack of the Blogs. I first found this story through Dan Gillmore post on […]

10.27.05

Witness The Blog Rush

Posted in General, Blogging at 8:56 pm by mshiltonj

As everyone knows by now, Harriet Miers has withdrawn herself as a nominee to the Supreme Court. But that’s not what this message is about.
I have to work for a living. I don’t dig ditches, but it is stressful its own way. I have deadlines, I have reports to make. I’ve got a lot […]