Happy Holloween- October 31, 2005 I hope everyone has a safe and happy Holloween. Just a note: if you have never been to Kansas City on Holloween. This is a reason to go - besides the good food. Anyone familiar with the West Bottoms area knows that the area is creepy to begin with - now throw in some really amazing haunted houses and you can see why so many people visit.http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/31.html#a543 Issues for Young People and Blogging- October 27, 2005 Some schools are asking students or creating policies requiring students to remove their blogs from the public internet. The article is about a Roman Catholic high school ordering its students to remove personal blogs from the Internet. They are not talking about censorship, they are trying to protect young people from cyberpredators. I've heard similar stories from several educators who are worried that the combination of blogging and student's general greater willingness to provide personal.http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/26.html#a542 Emerging Trend- October 26, 2005 I keep wanting to do more on my blog, but somehow just keep running out of time. I guess I'm going to have to use those wasted hours between 1am and 5am to do something besides sleep. Anyway, I am really noticing an emerging trend among companies and their increasing interest in developing a blogging capability. While it was focused primarily on internal projects for the first half of this year, the focus has definitely grown to include developing a strategies for external blogging. The...http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/25.html#a541 Supporting OPML- October 21, 2005 Jake recently provided some insight on our blog into how UserLand's products can already use OPML to allow you to publish your list of RSS subscriptions. As he mentioned, that's just scratching the surface. There is a much deeper level of support in both our products. You can review the post here to get an idea of how far it can go.http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/21.html#a540 Quick Thoughts on BlogOn 2005- October 19, 2005 It was a significantly different conference than I anticipated. It was an amazing system of contradictions: on one hand, a relatively mature set of traditional A-List bloggers and tools makers confronting a room full of advertising PR and corporate types who were discovering the "blogosphere" for the first time. Listening to the folks from McDonalds, DaimlerChrysler, and Sprint describe the legal complexity, fear, and trepidation they experienced as they created their first external...http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/19.html#a539 See You at BlogOn- October 14, 2005 I will be attending the BlogOn Conference next week. The schedule looks pretty interesting. It will be fun to compare last year's event (held in the Bay Area) with this one (held in New York). My guess is that the venue will help drive the discussion away from technology towards gaining an understanding of the medium's impact on society.http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/14.html#a538 Manila 9.6 Release Getting Closer- October 13, 2005 We are starting to get pretty close to releasing Manila 9.6 and have just a few more features issues we would like to address. One often requested feature is to be able to have site members whose user names are not email addresses. This is particularly important for our K-12 educational users. Often kids in the lower grades don't have email accounts or there are specific reasons why their email address can't be provided. This requires a bit of work to make sure we avoid duplicates and provide..http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/12.html#a537 Mods to the New Theme- October 12, 2005 I'm still working on the new weblog design. There are still some elements that I want to modify. The Blogroll comes from the list of subscriptions in the aggregator. Trying to format them so they are a bit more pleasing to the eye has been tricky. It looks like I will end up pointing to an OPML file that I can format.http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/11.html#a536 New Look- October 7, 2005 In case you didn't notice, I changed my site's theme. It still needs a bit of work, but I'll get there.http://scott.userland.com/2005/10/06.html#a535 |