After thinking some more about yesterday’s post, I have some more thoughts. Sam Gentile mentioned that weblogs seem to work better for people than more direct interactions; so why not embrace this, and see if we can get more out of weblogs? It might not get Sam all the way to where he wants to [...]

Trackback is now enabled for individual posts. My client-side code appears to be working. If anyone has a trackback-enabled client, can you send me a trackback for this post to ensure everything works the other direction? Thanks!

I thought we could do without, but I’ve noticed it’s pretty hard to know when/where comments are posted without some kind of notification. So there’s now an RSS feed available for the comments on this site.

Cory Doctorow posted Chat as a side-channel for face-to-face meetings. This got me thinking – I’ve used MSN Messenger many times during conference calls, to discuss things real-time with certain attendees but off-line from the call. It’s proved especially useful when having a conference call with one of my clients, and one of their suppliers/customers. [...]

Sam Gentile says: …it seems very difficult to get people to collaborate freely and consistently in a medium where they feel like they have an obligation. [...] But I am still left with this need for collaboration that is more meaningful that web logs and people interact more directly. Thus far, in the absense of [...]

He claims to be pingback enabled, but hasn’t pinged me yet. ;-) [Sam Ruby]Sorry for the test post, all…but this post should generate an automatic pingback on Sam’s post.Update: here’s another ping for him, to help him test his new blogging software!

Individual posts are now pingback-enabled. If you’re using a pingback-enabled client, can you try a pingback for this entry? I’ve tested it with the test blog and all seems to be well, but there’s no substitute for real clients. I borrowed Sam Ruby’s idea and included the pingbacks with the comments. Thanks Sam!

I forgot to mention a couple of things – and since I don’t have anything in yet to edit existing posts, it’s gonna have to be a new one. :-) Many thanks to Brad Wilson, who unknowingly gave me some ideas related to archiving and comments, and whose site provided a basis to learn CSS. [...]

Here’s the rundown on the new weblog. Although it bears a striking resemblance to the old version, it’s been completely redesigned and rewritten. All posts are now stored in SQL Server, and pages are generated on the fly. On the main page, each post now has a title/link, along with links to comments and referrers [...]

After yet another hour of screwing around with Radio trying to get it to upstream my archives, and after yet more crashes when trying to close it, I’ve finally replaced Radio with my own weblog application. I’ll post more details soon…but for now, I just wanted to explain why your news aggregator is probably showing [...]