Archive for the ‘Meta’ Category
Saturday, May 7th, 2005
I've done some minor (but necessary) work on the site today. First I fixed the problem with my spamguard, which was blocking a lot of would-be commenters. Checking out the problem brought the activity log back to my attention - I'll be checking it regularly for possible problems, but would ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
I got a comment from a reader yesterday saying that their attempt to post to the site had been thwarted by my (over-zealous) spam-guard. If you've got similar experiences I apologise and would appreciate an email letting me know of what happened.
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
So I wake up this morning, and check my mail. And there's a lot of it. And then I realise that almost all of it is junk. Except not just spam - which I just filter to my junkmail folder and delete - but trackback spam on the weblog. And ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
For those subscribing to the AMN or Media analysis feeds: I am deprecating those feeds, and intend to remove them in the near future. The content previously available through those feeds will now be available on the general funferal RSS 2.0 feed - please update your subscription. For the moment ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
I've launched the new version of the site, and hope it meets with approval (if there are obvious flaws be sure to let me know). Apart from the new colour scheme - which reflects calls for a cleaner, more minimalist, approach - I've trimmed the site a little, removing some ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
Those of you who read funferal through a browser can't have helped noticing the layout changes. It's actually part of a rewrite that accidentally got released into the wild when I overwrote the existing 'live' stylesheet with the draft I was working on.
I think I've cleaned up most of the ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
It had to happen. I finally got a spam trackback today. I've deleted it, as I did with spam comments before, but I really hope it doesn't become too frequent, because I couldn't cope with the drudgery and annoyance. And unlike comments, where registration system can be introduced, I can't ...
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
Blogs being blogs there has been widespread coverage of the release of MT 3.0. Now Mena Trott has asked for feedback on their proposed packages and pricing plans. Specifically, she has asked people to outline how they are using MT at the moment, with the implication that this will demonstrate ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2004
I've added the 'More of the same from others' tool to the weblog, but fear my current categories may be too broad to be useful - which could lead to me implementing an existing plan to tweak those categories.
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2004
I've put together a new site for the reading group in participatory media that I'll be starting in the Fall semester. There's little on it at the moment, and it's still a bit rough, but it will eventually include a schedule of events, a list of readings (and copies of ...
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