seanwillson.com

A fun Friday story entitled “The Last Rebel Coders.” Sci-fi or a look at our future? You decide …

I found the ultimate weblog comparison chart called BlogComp. I think they covered just about everything that matters to a true blogger. There’s also the Weblog Compendium if you just want an alphabetical listing of all the current blogging tools. Now I just have to decipher these resources and see if there’s one that satisfies my needs.

Here are some cool new genealogical blogging sites I found recently. Blog Street attempts to analyze the blog-osphere by looking at the collections of similar blogs created by the interlinking among them. Their top 100 is pretty much the who’s who of blogging. Be sure to also check out Blog Tree as well. It’s in the same genre as Blog Street but focuses more on what blogs inspired each other and are interrelated.

Anyone know why Lines and Splines has disappeared? Server problem or something larger?

CityDesk has a new flash demo online that shows off their latest publishing tool. They also made available a Starter Edition of CityDesk that allows you to publish a site with up to 50 pages free of charge. I haven’t yet installed CityDesk but I may knock it around a bit.


I found this info over at Joel on Software when I was reading his link to this tidbit from the CityDesk guys. It agrees with Jacob Nielsen’s recent font size article and goes on to defend it. I really should create a separate entry for this, but I’m choosing not to. I have to disagree with the guys over at CityDesk and their views on the <font> tag. Just because it works doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to use. Why not support standards and facilitate change from the grassroots? When Goliath comes along and makes a broken product does that mean every site should bend to their whim? No, proper use of CSS works just as well as the font tag but also facilitates the separation of content from presentation. Yes so does your proprietary content management system, but then again not everyone wants to be locked into one vendor with no options. Try and be a little more forward thinking would you.

There’s an article in the latest issue of Newsweek entitled “Living in the Blog-osphere”. Will blogging really become another “nonremarkable part of our lives” as Newsweek purports? Read the article and decide for yourself.

Are you a blogger? Are you confused with things called “anchor” tags? Do you manage a links to your buddies on your weblog? If you answered yes to at least one of these question might I suggest checking out blogrolling? It’s simple niche tools like this that make me proud to be a web developer.