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Re-linking the discussion

By alex | Published: 7/4/2004
David Brake in comments on the Liz/Elijah conversation below, notes: Aargh. This is why I find weblogs often really frustrating as means of communication or content management. This post and its responses require a lot of background knowledge to understand which is hard to find. Actually, I think weblogs are _normally_ far less context-dependent than […]
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Web Citation Index

By alex | Published: 6/17/2004
Perhaps following up on a distributed conversation on citation indexing among academic blogs (me, David Brake, Seb Paquet), Thomson ISI has announced a new scholarly index of web publications, largely based on the CiteSeer project. I see this as a major positive move, in part because it means that publishing your work to the web […]
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Why not MT?

By alex | Published: 5/20/2004
I read over some blogs tonight to see a broad reaction to MT’s new, still fluid, pricing scheme. Lago notes that he is not surprised that “people are surprised that people are surprised.” I was. This should not have been a surprise to anyone; while making money may not have been the primary intention of […]
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Movable Type Free

By alex | Published: 5/13/2004
Well it was bound to happen, no longer can you do massive blogs on MT for free. This cements my decision to move away from MT for the UB blogs initiative. I’ve been playing with WordPress and it has me worried. I’m doing a moderately complicated page layout, and the use of a single template […]
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