Michael K Pate
June 24, 2004
We've had an internal project for about two weeks to redesign Weblogs.Com and to add a key new feature to the site, the ability to create a weblog on this site, from the home page of the site. - Dave Winer , March 19, 2000
We're going to start the transition to the new backend server for weblogs.com, now, at approx 2PM Pacific. Some things won't work at first. The three-hour queue will get flushed this one time. The changes file may not update for a few minutes. And it may take some time for the DNS change to percolate. But the backend will be faster when all this is done. - Dave Winer , March 17, 2003
In that management change it became clear that there were two sort of branches to userland. There was one which was the commercial products (which radio userland and manilla were the two products), and there was another branch that consisted of formats and protocols and open stuff that was non commercial. So we divided it along those lines, to keep the non-commercial ...
June 16, 2004
Remember when I wrote about the domain name I wanted so badly ? The number in the title reflects the actual date I became interested in it. It actually took a mere 73 days for the registrar to release it.
Either way, it is mine, all mine.
Curious as to what domain it is? Well, go ahead and take a look .
Now, what should I do with it? Launch an anti-war site ? Actually, I have something else in mind.
June 15, 2004
Thanks to the weblog community for embracing the Weblogs.Com site, and for working with UserLand, even though some think we're the Microsoft of this little corner of the Internet. (One weblogger calls me the equivalent of Bill Gates, without the power, money or looks!) - Dave Winer
Many people are in the process of leaving Weblogs.com (whether they like it or not). Of course, unlike most of us who were able to switch away from Movable Type in a few hours, they don't have access to their own data .
Anyway, as I did with Movable Type, I thought it would be worthwhile to investigate how to make a move.
Apparently, you can use this tool to export your site to Radio Userland. Moving is probably the easiest route. Right after finding another Website Hosting Services > Manila" href="http://www.edithere.com/directory/22/websiteHostingServices/manila">Manila Host which Rogers is advocating .
Assuming you are looking for a new tool and you have you...
June 10, 2004
I am a big believer in PageRank. I have performed more than one experiment with it. I have started more than one site with zero pagerank just to see how I could get fast I could make them a success. You can read some of my other writings on the subject.
Third Superpower and PageRank
LibraryPlanet.com and PageRank
In this case , I chose to support Anil because I thought he asked nicely enough. I also chose to do it because I wanted to show that even though I am unhappy with some of the recent business decisions that SixApart has made, there were no personal feelings involved.
I also believe that the blogosphere has the power to make postive change and PageRank helps us do that. This was a good experiment to see what we could do. And it worked out pretty well.
If anyone thinks I did the wrong thing, you have my humble apology. If I had happened across someone else's post first, I might have done things different. But the fact I didn't is significant of somethi...
June 10, 2004
Presenting for your edification:
michaelkpate at gmail.com
Thanks, Avena!
June 07, 2004
When I think of Nigritude Ultramarine , I think of Anil Dash.
Anil is just the coolest guy when it comes to Nigritude Ultramarine . You, too, should support his campaign to promote Nigritude Ultramarine .
One man can make a difference. One man with Nigritude Ultramarine can make an even bigger difference.
June 03, 2004
I have had a vague distant memory running through my brain the last few weeks. It finally occured to me where it came from.
Adam Kalsey thought that Atomz was making bad business decisions . He eventually found out that personal websites were no longer a part of their business .
It all came back to me while I was this . Is Six Apart becoming Atomz? I hope so for their sake .
June 01, 2004
When I created this weblog, I chose TicTac for two reasons: it was extremely nice-looking and it was created by Dan Cederholm, who is one of my personal favorite web designers.
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one to like. It is now available for both Blojsom and b2evolution . It has also been seen in use on a WordPress weblog.
I hope Dan (and the powers that be at Google/Blogger) don’t mind.