Plead the First

From now on, if you plan on saying anything annoying online, you’d better do it under your real name: Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. This seems like a ridiculous violation of the first amendment, and it’s […]

MSN Spaces, Microsoft’s blogging service, has been helping the Chinese government suppress dissenting voices by monitoring and censoring Chinese blogs that use the MSN service. According to Rebecca MacKinnon, they’re getting more aggressive and have even shut down one popular, outspoken blogger. I never liked MSN Spaces anyway – they list comments in reverse-chronological order. […]

I was away visiting family for Christmas, but I’m back now. Posts may be sporadic until I get back into the swing of things. Hope I didn’t miss anything too important!

I’ve added a new feature at the top of the sidebar: The “Recently Commented” section will list the three most recently commented upon posts, along with who made the most recent comment and the time that it was made. This should let readers quickly see if anything has changed on a post in which they […]

I seem to be experiencing some server problems. The site’s been inaccessible a few times this morning. I apologize for any inconvenience or annoyance.

An article on cnn.com today takes a look at senior citizens who blog. It’s nice to think that this hobby might provide a little comfort for me when I’m old and creaky. As a sidenote, check out the full text of the cnn link (emphasis added): http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/10/geezers.who.blog.ap/index.html

Wow, I step away for a week or so, and everyone’s reworking their blogs. Well, ok, not everyone, but two people at least. Ed Cone has a shiny new TypePad blog, and Cara Michele has given Chosen Fast a sparkly new look. Nice work on both! Are there any other redesigns I missed?

Jakob Nielsen, venerable pundit of website usability, has published a list of the top ten design mistakes made by blogs (via Pharyngula). Here’s a rundown of the list, with some comments of my own:

Blogging was so much fun, I decided to spruce things up a bit. A little bit of Photoshop, an easy WordPress installation (courtesy of Dreamhost, my existing webhost for a different, non-blog website), and here it is: Plead the First. I still need to tweak and categorize some of my imported blogger posts, and my […]

Roch has some audio from Converge, a collection of brief comments from some of the participants.