Blogging Roller

Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and Java

Above: a random selection of photos from my Flickr photo-stream.

Friday Feb 18, 2005

Write about anything

Paul Humphreys: Jonathan wants Sun employees to blog. The title on the blogs.sun.com page says 'Welcome to Blogs.sun.com! This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.' It really is true. I do not get reminder or requests from anyone that I must write wonderful things about Sun, increase my technical content and not to write about random things that no one has any interest in.
People I meet have a hard time believing that "write about anything bit" but it's true. I'd like to see every company, every organization in fact, adopt something like Tim's Policy on Public Discourse.
Dave in Blogging Comments[0]

Tags: Blogging

Notes from the Chapel Hill Blog Together meet-up

Anton posted some notes about the first Chapel Hill Blog Together meet-up. It was held Wednesday at the tiny Caffe Driade, a bunker in the woods off of Franklin Street that has been converted in to a cute little coffee bar.

It was really cool to meet a bunch of very enthusiastic bloggers from my hometown. These folks are revved up about using blogs for important things like community activism, social change, and health care. Yes, health care. I met a new Roller user: Bernard Glassman of the National Cancer Research Institute is using Roller as part of a project to help patients share experiences and educate each about treatment options.

As Justin said, "what an excellent cross-section of the community." Inspirational, even. Chapel Hill is a 35 mile drive for me, but I'll be back.

Dave in Blogging Comments[0]

Tags: Blogging

"there should be no standard [wiki] syntax"

First google result for: standard wiki syntax

Is "no standard syntax" really a good thing? When the wiki itself is the user interface, perhaps it is, but if you want the user interface to be a slick WYSIWYG desktop client that edits any wiki via Atom, then having a different syntax for each wiki really sucks.

Dave in Blogging Comments[5]

Tags: wiki Blogging

Welcome

This is my personal blog where I write about open technologies, social software, web development, Java and generally whatever I want to write about. See the about page for more information. Click the link below to subscribe via your favorite feed reader:

Wayin

The widget below shows my Wayin stream. Hold your mouse over the image for voting options. And if you don't have an account yet, then sign up! It's free.


Follow me

If you know me, follow, connect or friend me on the social network services I use:

Hot tags

Below are the thirty most often used tags in the blog. Hover over a tag to see a count of entries, click a tag to see the most recent posts with the tag.

The latest...

I'm active on other sites too. Below are my latest thirty "tweets" and links and photos from around the web.

  • icon Tweet @ 10:28PM Feb 11, 2012

    RT @nitya: Great @gigaom article on rethinking AdMeter solutions.. How social media is making polling obsolete http://t.co/cNXp5OsR via ...

  • icon Tweet @ 04:44PM Feb 11, 2012

    embedding works for me, @mistersugar. Perhaps your blog software is stripping out some of the JavaScript or HTML code?

  • icon Blog @ 04:42PM Feb 11, 2012

    Title: The meaning on the Facebook like button

  • icon Tweet @ 09:42AM Feb 11, 2012

    RT @TomJessiman: My coworker, matz http://t.co/g575icZu

  • icon Tweet @ 08:13AM Feb 11, 2012

    t @gigaom article on rethinking AdMeter solutions.. How social media is making polling obsolete http://t.co/cNXp5OsR via @zite

  • icon Tweet @ 01:15AM Feb 11, 2012

    atholic Church blasts contraception & ignores its current child sexual abuse scandal | Manhattan Diary | IrishCentral http://t.co/Fn1de6D6

  • icon Tweet @ 07:07PM Feb 10, 2012

    and: Trick question: 'Are all Google employees stupid?' >> http://t.co/zxRrYY5m

  • icon Tweet @ 05:15PM Feb 10, 2012

    pixies!

  • icon Tweet @ 04:44PM Feb 10, 2012

    w Chrome joins the party with some "Harmony": let, collections, weak maps, proxies, and more http://t.co/GDkl8b06

  • icon Tweet @ 01:43PM Feb 10, 2012

    thrilled about a couple of cool new projects that we just kicked off at #Wayin

  • icon Tweet @ 11:33AM Feb 10, 2012

    RT @spericas: The JAX-RS 2.0 draft specification has been updated and it's under review until 3/10. Change log appendix in doc. http://t ...

  • icon Tweet @ 06:39AM Feb 10, 2012

    hy I'm Feeling So Hard-Nosed Over the Contraception Affair http://t.co/m5AG7MfN v @AdamSerwer @Kdrum

  • icon Tweet @ 11:07PM Feb 09, 2012

    ery cool use of collapsing cooling tower footage http://t.co/HF9DOyva good marketing here

  • icon Tweet @ 07:45PM Feb 09, 2012

    RT @JSCarroll: screenwriters check this out: . http://t.co/lCIVVyFC

  • icon Tweet @ 12:00PM Feb 09, 2012

    screenwriters check this out: . http://t.co/lCIVVyFC

  • icon Tweet @ 10:15AM Feb 09, 2012

    simpler, webbier approach to Web Intents (and Activities): http://t.co/mgE7ZMRI #webintents #webactivities

  • icon Tweet @ 08:56AM Feb 09, 2012

    we need to act more like a start-up | http://t.co/Lz0tqHIi

  • icon Tweet @ 08:50AM Feb 09, 2012

    RT @sogrady: in case anyone missed them yesterday, the @redmonk feb programming language rankings: http://t.co/qOYDKoBh

  • icon Blog @ 08:48AM Feb 09, 2012

    Title: HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org

  • icon Tweet @ 05:04PM Feb 08, 2012

    Every time I see pics of Amsterdam, I miss it so hard. This one is via @reddit: http://t.co/akTwHPqc

  • icon Tweet @ 04:46PM Feb 08, 2012

    RT @filmbabble: Upcoming Cinema Overdrive, Cool Classics & James Bond Originals at the Colony Theater - http://t.co/rMzXTU8m

  • icon Tweet @ 03:51PM Feb 07, 2012

    RT @hodgman: Prop 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity..." http://t.co/UWtuqMEa #fb

  • icon Tweet @ 01:38PM Feb 07, 2012

    Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body - http://t.co/vrxIOfyX http://t.co/lludZJkk

  • icon Tweet @ 10:27AM Feb 07, 2012

    RT @ronallo: My article on #microdata and #schemaorg now in the #code4lib Journal. HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org: http://t.co/YcFcprNu

  • icon Tweet @ 09:22PM Feb 05, 2012

    RT @SnootyMonkey: Somebody managed to post his Tweets to Google+, but he landed a man on the moon first as a warmup. Ridiculous! http:// ...

  • icon Tweet @ 06:32PM Feb 05, 2012

    Wayin on your favorite Super Bowl ads in the live event | http://t.co/gij20U1J

  • icon Tweet @ 06:31PM Feb 05, 2012

    watching the Super Bowl and watching the servers

  • icon Tweet @ 12:16PM Feb 05, 2012

    far as I can tell, clicking the Facebook "Like" button means "please spam me endlessly"

  • icon Tweet @ 11:41AM Feb 05, 2012

    Scoble says open web is done... stick a fork in it | http://t.co/Hgjf8lR4

  • icon Tweet @ 11:27AM Feb 05, 2012

    one of the great joys of parenting is relearning basic math and algebra… NOT

Apache feather

Powered by Apache Roller