Blogging

If Yahoo! Pipes were a little easier to use and more intuitive it could easily take the world by storm.  Four years ago I wanted to create an online RSS aggregator that would rank, filter, and sort content from multiple RSS feeds and provide you with the best possible articles on every subject dumped into [...]

Meryl K. Evans recently wrote an interesting article regarding negative blogging and small businesses.  In it she argues that criticism is sometimes merited and that anonymity allows the true lashing some companies deserve. But what if credibility is needed over anonymity?  What happens when your negative review of a company is to help out the [...]

For a few weeks now I’ve been trying to think of an appropriate name for this blog.  It’s tough naming a blog; balancing catchy with branding is very difficult.  Look at the big time brands around today; Google, Xerox, Sony, Intel.  None of those brand names actually have a textbook definition or are someone’s name [...]

This is a friendly reminder from Cpl M of A Soldier’s Perspective and Conservative Thinking:
First, I would like to thank Chris for allowing me to promote A Soldier’s Perspective here on Conservative Thinking. The help he has provided has been invaluable. I owe you big time, Chris.
That said, we need one last big push from [...]

This is from Cpl M of A Soldier’s Perspective and Conservative Thinking:
The VA Mortgage Center is currently holding a MilBlogging contest with cash prizes for the top ten blogs. The number one blog will receive $3,000, and the rest of the top ten will receive $250 each. My home blog of A Soldier’s Perspective is [...]

For years I have used Movable Type. It’s been a very good system to me however, I have some serious issues as of late with them (and by late I mean the past two years). There are really three big issues:

Security (lack of security, need for patches, etc.)
Inability to Upgrade (horrendous documentation on [...]

I’ve decided to stop managing one of the many MovableType blogs that I have had for a few years now, chrisshort.net. It’s been a fairly dead site for a while now given the fact that Six Apart has made upgrading software such a horrendous pain. After the long overdue decision was made to [...]

I’ve been using two new tools to assist in blogging these days. They won’t necessarily make you a more efficient blogger but they sure to make blogging more convenient.
1) Performancing for Firefox is a nifty in browser blogging tool that blows all the others out of the water. It lets you add Technorati [...]

A year ago I started a brief debate regarding trackback etiquette. James McGovern has given me some inspiration and I’d like to rekindle that debate. My thoughts, ideas, and opinions have been posted over at Lockergnome.
Let’s create a standard for blogs and trackbacks; let’s end this debate and move along effectively.

A new version of MovableType (3.16) was released today including a fix to the e-mail notification bug that I discovered as well as a myriad of other things.
I’ll be testing this version out here on chrisshort.net before I upgrade Short Consulting customer blogs.