I mentioned in my last post that one of my ongoing interests is topic mapping in weblogs. Topic Exchange and K-Collector are two initiatives that I've hyped a lot over

Over the past few days I've been doing some work on a new XSLT-based topic navigation for my weblog. I started it over xmas, but had parked it since the new year because of

Two recent memes from the blogosphere seem to me to be ripe for mixing: Meme 1) The current trend for tech blog re-designs to have a minimalist, lotsa-white-space look that

Couple of bits of feedback from last night's post on weblog ontologies. Bill Seitz points out that his Wikilog does in fact have a hierarchical view, the user has to

I've been jotting down re-design ideas in my trusty paper notebook. On the Web there is an unwritten maxim: learn (steal?) from the best. So I decided to review some

27,563 words. Here's the latest (ch. 34 onwards). I'm hoping to reach the 30,000 mark by end of tomorrow. That will give me a nice round figure to aim for

I read with interest Matt Haughey's essay Blogging for Dollars, where he relates his experiences running Google's Adsense adverts on his TiVo-focused weblog, PVRblog. Matt is making a pretty penny

CSS and XHTML are still dominating my mind's attention.xml file. As you can see in my menu, they're numbers 1 and 2 in my Weekly Topic Top 10. btw the

Tim O'Reilly writes in Dan Gillmor's comments: "Simplicity and extensibility should not be orthogonal. And any technology that sets them up as opposed, instead of complements, has clearly done something wrong." Note: orthogonal

Couple of interesting comments to my last post. Harvey Kirkpatrick from itopik wrote: "I would argue that all the efforts are complementary and can be automated by some and humanified