Blogging
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Applied for Facebook Instant Articles
I applied this morning for Facebook Instant Articles. There’s a plug-in for WordPress that will create FBIA feeds, so fingers crossed that it’s easy to get working. Continue reading
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Ported my Radio UserLand Site
It may take some time for the DNS change to propagate, and there are certainly going to be some broken incoming links, but I just finished the bulk of the work to port my Radio UserLand site here. All of the posts from jake.userland.com are in a new Jake’s Radio ‘Blog category, in addition to… Continue reading
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My EditThisPage.com site is now here
Hi all—here’s an update following my previous post asking for some WordPress advice: I pulled the trigger, and now all of the content from Jake.EditThisPage.com is ported over to JakeSavin.com. Amazingly it worked right the first time! When does that ever happen? Most, if not all of the links into the old site now redirect to the… Continue reading
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Dave Winer: Someone had to go first
Dave Winer: As Walter Isaacson points out innovators need to be both humanitarians and scientists, we have to touch the human spirit, and be masters of the scientific method. In the bootstrap of blogging it was enormously important that I was both a writer and a programmer. We had to learn to write for this new… Continue reading
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WordPress vs. Roll-Your-Own Blog Engine
Alex King posted an interesting rebuttal of Santiago Valdarrama’s missive explaining why he’s building his own blog engine. Taken together, these posts pretty much sum up the reasons why I went with self-hosted WordPress, rather than try to roll my own solution, or continue to lope along indefinitely with Manila. A couple of Alex’s points in particular stuck out… Continue reading
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Thanks, Dave Winer!
Today is Dave Winer’s 20th Anniversary blogging, starting with this DaveNet piece in 1994. Dave wrote a great piece about the occasion here: 20 years of blogging. As I read it, a few things came to mind. Oddly the number 19 seems to be a theme… Another life on another continent Twenty years ago today, I had just… Continue reading
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TheOldReader.com Pivots in Response to Google
From The Old Reader blog: “Paid accounts will have some additional features, but the basic free accounts will still be 100% usable. We are not in this game to make money, but we want to give something special back to the people who are going to be supporting us… “We reworked the plans according to… Continue reading
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More Google Reader, Um… Reading
Dave Winer: Google Reader’s demise, part 2 “I don’t doubt that people will be well-served by a newly revitalized market for RSS products, now that the dominant product, the 800-pound gorilla, is withdrawing.” Om Malik: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects “[It] was Google Crawler that gave the system ability to… Continue reading
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Reader: A Missed Opportunity?
Google Reader has been a quite popular, if geek-centered service, with a social bent… With the announcement that the service will shut down on July 1st, and all the millions of dollars, hours spent, and investment in competing with Twitter and Facebook, I find myself wondering: If Google had invested more in Reader as a… Continue reading
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Reader’s imminent demise: At least there are no zombies!
Syncpocalypse is upon us. It’s time to get our ducks in a row. For your listening pleasure, here’s Jeff Beck’s Because We’ve Ended As Lovers (That’s me playing bass with Revival, but it was a rehearsal so don’t sweat the details, Um’K?) Google’s Tweet: We’re retiring Reader on July 1. We know many of you… Continue reading