I read WinerLog from time to time. "Logging Dave Winer. Because Somebody Has to Do It." Sometimes they're beyond outrageous, and seriously offensive. I'm sure what they say bothers Dave Winer. As DW said JLG said, the higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more people can see it's derriere...

Lately, WinerLog has been unable to ping the weblogs.com change notification server, and the evaluation Radio8 site they created was taken down

This really bothers me. For the record, I find it very offensive and suspect that they would block a weblog on weblogs.com, but, to their credit, they continue to host WinerLog for free on editthispage.com (although they have threatened to kill the site before and relented after public opinion suggested that would be a bad idea). UserLand Software, Inc., might (IANAL) be within its rights to do what they're doing (but recent cases suggest this is a slippery slope), but that's besides the point.

If this continues I think the weblogging community should discuss whether or not it is tolerable to rely on weblogs.com when it doesn't allow all weblogs to participate.

Update: I just found out that the MetaFilter community has been discussing this too.

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Today on Backup Brain, Dori Smith said:

Thanks for the high regards Dori. B-)

But Dori... you didn't try very hard. At the bottom of the document on kbase.info.apple.com is a form, "Email this document". I sent myself the document. Right at the top of the document is:

Link to original article: PowerBook and iBook: Resetting Power Manager

Note the URL: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n14449 ... it redirected me to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 . Both are perfectly linkable directly. And it could have been if it was a WO URL too.

something like:

http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/ WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/showDocument?artnum=14449

(I just made that URL up, it doesn't work...)

The problem isn't WebObjects, it's whoever did the design of the support site. There's no reason why a WO site can't have bookmarkable links... none whatsoever. Hopefully Apple will just program their kbase app properly so it exposes a direct link to documents without the email step.

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Well it's almost that time, to shake hands and say farewell. It's been an incredible 5 days. I'll never be the same again. :-)

I'm going to write a review of the course. I'll point you to it once it's online...

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Mark Pilgrim: "Import of existing pictures is a pain; pictures can be tagged with keywords, titles, and comments, but then there are no search features to use these[...]"

Not so.

There is a toggle switch to the left of the keywords box: Assign/Search. When in Assign mode, you assign keywords to photos. When in search mode, you search for photos with those keywords. I don't think there's a way to search the comments field (yet), but it's one-dot-oh so... give it time. And it's supposed to be simple enough for grandma to use... let's not turn this into a UI mess.

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I get knocked down, but I get up again, you ain't ever gonna keep me down!

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