Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Blogging

Consolation Prizes.

Courtesy of James McNally’s newly-relaunched Consolation Champs (and c’mon, James, make with the redesign already – standard templates are teh suck) comes this somewhat depressing new look at blogebrity. Kineda used Technorati to reach its new definitions for what makes an “A-list” weblog, a “B-List” weblog, and so on. These new criteria are as follows: […]

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Twittering.

On my morning run around the blogosphere, I stumbled across Twitter, which is, for lack of a better word, a ‘microblogging’ service. Basically you send text messages from your phone to the Twitter service and it pops them up on a sort of miniblog. To see mine, swing by http://twitter.com/geoffreylong, and ping me if you […]

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Grant McCracken, eBay’s MeCommerce, and Me

So no sooner do I post my first-ever shill for Threadless than C3 advisor Grant McCracken posts to his own blog with his thoughts on eBay’s new MeCommerce initiative. Naturally, I feel inclined to comment. I don’t really have a problem with what eBay’s trying to do – in fact, a lot of would-be prospectors have […]

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A good project for yet another rainy day.

Since it’s raining – again – here in Boston, I’ve elected to stay in this morning/afternoon and continue to hammer on the TOTQ integration here at geoffreylong.com. This morning I imported all my old entries from Inkblots, cleaned up the comments (removing something like 7000+ spam comments and putting some new antispam measures into effect) […]

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Holy catfish.

Warren Ellis reads our C3 blog. Whoa.

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Well, yeah, but…

I might get into trouble for this, but this kind of thing bugs me. Steve Garfield is a videoblogger (or ‘vlogger’) who’s another member of the Blogging at Berkman group over at Harvard. A couple of weeks ago, Steve was interviewed by E-Media, “Austria’s leading magazine about internet, high-tech and multimedia”, and the interview went […]

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New design tech support.

OK, the new design is just about ready for prime time. I know there are some issues with the top nav not showing up in IE for the PC and there’s a little space in the subpage nav there in the top left on the PC as well – both of which are issues with […]

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Gravatar!

OK, my gentle readers, I’m most of the way to where I want to be with these upgrades, but I’m not all the way there yet. The concept here is that I’m using Tip of the Quill as a guinea pig for the expansions before I roll them out to Ken’s weblog, the 3+ new […]

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Grrr.

Have had this design for less than a week and I’m already tempted to chuck it out the window. Someday when I have time again (ha!).

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Argh.

So I finally bite the bullet and install Google AdSense on this page (the new “From Our Sponsors” bit in the upper right there) and now Google thinks I’m a teenage girl. Great. What, guys can’t focus on their weight? Hmm. I wonder if I can game the system here. Baseball basketball soccer football weightlifting […]

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