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?
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