I added two static pages in MT using Matt Haughey’s method. I started down the path that Brad Choate outlined, but I didn’t have time to fully understand how templating works in MT. The other method works fine, but as mentioned in the text is not as elegant as Choate’s hack. Ongoing changes to this weblog: Changed design through the…
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Movable Type as CMS
Some links to review that cover using Movable Type as CMS: Beyond the Blog – Matt Haughey Doing Your Whole Site with Movable Type – Brad Choate
From Shorts to Snow
March is certainly full of surprises. We went from running yesterday in shorts and t-shirts to finding the yard covered in a light dusting of snow this morning. Gotta love this weather…
Moving weblog from Radio Userland to Movabletype
I imported all of my posts from my Radio Userland site and they are being displayed in the monthly archives, but the latest posts are not on the main index page. I’m adding this post to see if it shows up on the index page. (* I needed to change the number of past days entries to display on the…
More on the RSS Tipping Point
Chad Dickerson at Infoworld says Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld’s Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded the requests for our home page. This has been going on long enough now that we’re certain that it’s permanent. I think it’s a big deal. During the business day, we track hour-to-hour performance (using a combination of shell scripts…
Topix.net Launches
I have been test-driving Topix.net, the new news aggregation site, and I have to say, I am impressed, at least on the functionalities side. For me, the RSS feeds on niche topics is a killer… The site is similar to news aggregators like Google’s, MSN’s or Yahoo!’s, but it takes the concept to the local level…local news on my alma…
RSS at tipping point, InfoWorld’s CTO says
InfoWorld’s Chad Dickerson says InfoWorld is now getting more requests for its RSS feed than for its home page. He thinks that’s significant. I do too. http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/09.html#a6935
Disruptive incremental innovation
http://www.innovationtools.com/weblog/innovationblog-detail.asp?ArticleID=380 The March 2004 issue of MIT’s Technology Review magazine contains a fascinating article by Michael Schrage entitled Disruptive Incrementalism. It explains how incremental changes in products and services can sometimes lead to major successes.
The New Content Syndication
http://rss.lockergnome.com/archives/opinion/009374.phtml InformationToday reports, “RSS is an XML-based technology that revisits the publishing question, “Just what is the value of a new headline or the title of a magazine article?” In some ways this is, of course, an old question, because table-of-contents services have been available for decades. But the new spin is how these small, tasty morsels of information are…