A recent opinion article in Nature may serve as my diving board here. Althoug texts are much better edited by professional journalists, the content isn’t better (driven mainly by press release). And of course, journalists must write about topics outside of their knowledge zone. Funny, they resemble
more that of a priest, taking information from a source of authority and communicating it to the congregation.
Journalists don’t have enough time for the details while bloggers can restrict themselves to their main expertise ;-) raising also a large amount of public awareness.
Wednesday, July 1st
Just recently I came across a site (but can’t rememeber the URL) – basically saying that this is not a blog but just a few notes, how and why I did something to convince me at a later time of its justification. Yea, yea.
Saturday, October 25th
The Wordpress editor window is somewhat odd if you are writing in text mode but need to scroll down to preview your post. From several blog editors that I have tested now – there is now one that made it onto my desktop. Scribe Fire is an advanced Firefox plugin that can be nicely configured as you can see on this screenshot.
The “powered by” can be switched off (Show me more…)
Wednesday, October 3rd
43 folders writes:
Remember that your blog is only incidentally a publishing system or a public website. At its heart, your blog represents the evolving expression of your most passionately held ideas. It’s a conversation you’re holding up with the world and with yourself — a place where you can watch your own thoughts take different shapes and occasionally surprise you with where they end up…
wow – couldn’t say that in a better way.
Thursday, February 22nd
Usually I write emails to my blog server but there are more professional solutions: Sun Weblog Publisher (R) and Microsoft Live Writer (R). Quite nice tools but insert unnecessary tags, yea, yea.
Tuesday, January 23rd
<body oncontextmenu=”return false;”>
Please try a right click now…
If you are fooled by a web author in such a way, what could you do? tech-recipes has the answer: Of course, we can use javascript to turn it back on.
When visiting the offending website, type the following into the URL bar of your browser:
javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)
Happy browsing, yea, yea.
Tuesday, January 16th