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01/15/2004 Entry: "Dream Blog"

I got a book recently called The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood. It wasn't very big (144 pages), so I was able to read it cover-to-cover in about 2 hours. I liked it. A lot of it I already knew, but some of it I didn't. The history of blogs, blog communities, and blog style was a bit of a new topic for me, and I compared it to my blog.

There were some nifty ideas, and some ideas I don't want to implement. For instance, I am not much of a fan about side panels. Some blogs have three columns of panels, and are so complex, the site is almost like a news portal. I think too much can go wrong in such an array, but then again, I may not have the right software. Here are some changes I'd like to add to my site:

Technical Journal. I work on a LOT of tech stuff when I am not writing, and I need a place to keep my notes. But if I add it to my main journal ... people snooze. One of the major drawbacks of this is that making it public means I'll have to change some data so I don't give away any company secrets or hackers some insight into my own home LAN. I don't like Slashdot's very much, and as you can see, I don't update it very often.

Link Log. I find a lot of links, and share them with my friends. I should log some of them, because I constantly want to refer to them, but I lose the link. But I don't have enough to make a decent entry like BoingBoing does.

Quote Collector. I have a lot of quotes I collect. Sometimes someone says something I find particularly witty and insightful, and I want to save it. I only get them once a week, so I might have this as a database that refreshes with a new quote when the main blog opens.

Link Referral. I want to link to other people's blogs.

In order for this two happen, I must have two things: a total understanding of CGI/Perl, and a big site redesign. AND update from Greymatter. So ... these might never happen. Any bloggers out there who might have software for all of it?


The Peanut Gallery responds with: 1 Comment


Can you share whatever you've got with me? I'm getting tired of just resting on my "old school cred" and hand-coding pico for everything. For the bulk, yeah, it makes sense and is sorta fun to do those details. But changing any bit of layout, or my top/bottom sections? Yet I don't want to go completely into the land of front-page and WYSIWYG html-editors -- I still believe in the ideals of HTML - marking up things to indicate meaning, not appearance (though appearance does communicate meaning) and being accessible to all browsers. I'm just rambling now. Sorry.

Posted by Geeky Auri @ 01/15/2004 01:06 PM EST

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