Blogging

Now on WordPress

I’ve been bloggin’ long before bloggin’ was cool. I’ve used everything from RAW HTML pages, to FrontPage 2000, to Radio Userland, to Movable Type, to pMachine, to ExpressionEngine, and now… WordPress 3.0. This website is really my place to “store” stuff I write, stuff that amuses and inspires me, stuff that irks me, and stuff [...]

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Cervical Surgery for Nick “FeedDemon” Bradbury

Condolences and prayers to Nick Bradbury who looks to be headed for surgery for a herniated disc in his neck. Nick is the author of FeedDemon, the news aggregator I use that saves me hundreds of hours visiting key websites for news and perspectives. Having gone through a lumbar disc surgery myself four years ago, [...]

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Back to Weblogging, Finally!

January 2003, my copy of Radio Userland died. The weblogs (I had several) at http://www.leaders.net stopped at that time. Now they are back, using a new technology platform called ExpressionEngine by http://www.pmachine.com. It is a content management system and weblogging tool based on templates. It uses a PHP/MySQL technology base (the same I use for [...]

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Weblog Functions

“To me, a weblog is: a journal an editorial column a URL favorites manager a messenging application one side of a discussion group tool a news reader a project management assistant a knowledge repository” [ from Seblogging News]

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More on Social Capital

[Jon’s Radio] Re: Robert Putnam’s data on social capital show that social connectedness in America was on the rise through most of the last century, until its precipitous decline beginning in the late 1960s. Why the decline? He blames television, urban redevelopment, single-parent households, two-career families, and other factors. A corollary to the sharp decline [...]

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Social capital, bonding, and bridging

Social capital, bonding, and bridging. I attended a talk tonight by Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, a study of the sharp decline of social capital over the last 30 years. The decline is measured as a loss of connectedness: people less willing to join organizations, to be civically involved, even to entertain friends at [...]

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Preparing for the Coming Era of Participatory News

Preparing for the Coming Era of Participatory News at http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1017170352.php: The Internet means now everyone is a journalist – or can be. Outside the newsrooms and the boardrooms of our news companies, the road ahead looks bumpy: 1. Communication is king, not content. 2. News is a distant fourth – behind entertainment, communication and transactions [...]

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Online Communities and Weblogging

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” —Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892) I am new to weblogging. Yet I have 20 years of experience with online communities (early Arpanet messaging, BBS systems, CompuServe forums, email lists). While some people enjoy flames, I just find them [...]

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