Category Archives: Wordpress and Blogs

journals.aol.com closure botched

2009-01-05 by mjr

America OnLine (AOL) killed their blogging service – actually, all their Hometown sites – last September and I only just noticed. AOL didn’t kill it cleanly. They could have offered 301 Moved Permanently redirects to users’ new hosting (good – … Continue reading →

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Looking Back: 2008 Part 3

2008-12-29 by mjr

This is the final part of my review of popular articles on my news websites during 2008. It follows part 1 and part 2, but it can be enjoyed on its own, like an nice ripe cheese. Unlike one friend, … Continue reading →

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Looking Back: 2008 Part 2

2008-12-27 by mjr

This is a continuation from part 1 but can be enjoyed on its own too, like a good red wine. It’s a bit early for me for red wine, though. May BBC TV: Click: Free=beer and facebook-flaming – my letter … Continue reading →

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Looking Back: 2008 Part 1

2008-12-25 by mjr

Over the next few days, I’m looking at the most popular articles from this site and my previous news website during 2008. I’ll be doing it in three parts. Popularity is measured by page views from local access logs, but … Continue reading →

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Supporting World AIDS Day

2008-12-01 by mjr

“HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic for more than 27 years. Most of today’s youth have never known a world without it. … The time is now. Together, we can prevent the spread of this pandemic – through awareness, care, … Continue reading →

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Bloggers Unite to Reunite Refugees

2008-11-10 by mjr

We celebrate Software Cooperative News being reunited with its .coop domain by celebrating this Bloggers Unite event. If you’re not aware of it already, please find out more about the problem of refugee separation from Refugees United. Thank you.

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Library Open Source Webinars (FYI/RFC)

2008-11-04 by mjr

Today is the first of the Library Open Source Webinars run by WiLS. It takes place in a few hours (2pm CST, which I think is 14:00:00-0600, or 20:00:00Z) and costs USD25 per session or USD100 for all six. Future … Continue reading →

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Tasty New Microblog Flavour

2008-11-04 by mjr

I’ve flirted with it in the past and resisted it for a while, but you can now follow me on Identi.ca and Twitter if you are so inclined. Seems like I might have picked a good time to try this … Continue reading →

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We Need Social Network Networks

2008-10-27 by mjr

A recent project was to install a WordPress plugin that will announce new articles to Twitter. As you might guess, I’m not a big fan of Twitter, or any other closed-source Web 2.0 thing. I use a few social network … Continue reading →

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What topics do you want to read here?

2008-10-17 by mjr

I’ve just set up a poll on my site asking: what topics do you want to read here? Since this July, when cycling and most local and political themes were split off into other blogs, this site has been mostly … Continue reading →

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