Well this is more of a test that anything of broad interest. I’ve been trying to make my blog easier to add to. (Shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition but who’s paying close attention?)
Let me know if you are interested in how I do this.

(edited with WLW to remove line breaks - it appears, the email from thunderbird fixed the line length at 72 characters or there abouts)
Well, the saga of choosing “the perfect blogging client” continues (at least for me). I’ve tried the browser solution, ecto, the Firefox plugin, and blogging from the blackberry. (I’ll try Windows Live [...]

OK, this is getting ridiculous! I can blog from the browser but that’s a PITA. I can blog from my blackberry for simple text stuff. I really want a good tool for the majority of my writing.
In my “thunderbird” attempt, I was trying to include a picture. Here goes again …
Beyond the basics, this [...]

My blog was “born” about three weeks ago. In that time, I have spent more than enough time making it look the way I want. Along the way, I’ve been reading a few other blogs - mostly starting at Carl’s blog and branching out from there. As I encounter a new blog, I read the [...]

Web 2.0 - highlighted by web services, mashups, the explosion of leveraging Google Maps, Wikis & Blogs, RSS/ATOM feeds, REST, etc - presumes that an application is the value-add portion of lots of reusable services. In most cases, the resources are remote and may or may not have had the expected usage.
Moore’s Law assumes compute [...]

I’ve been grappling with what to blog, when to blog, the value of blogs and most importantly, the business value of blogs. I’ve spend more than a few evenings following links between blogs, discovering new authors, new content, and different views. I came across a good POV that fits the niche that I feel blogs [...]

So, I’ve got a bit crazy with some of the Lotusphere notions and my blog. I just implemented a tag cloud. I actually think it may prove interesting from a research POV. I will be curious …

will I keep it up to date ?
will it expose trends in my blogging content that I was not [...]

I’ve been thinking a bit about the blogging community and the IBM Lotus announcement of social software for business, in particular Lotus Connections. (edit: I had originally only mentioned Lotus Quickr which, as Alan L. points out, ‘ is much more about sharing content’. Thanks for the correction!)
I will admit to a bit of nievete [...]

I use a blogging client called Windows Live Writer. It is an XMLRPC client that supports the MetaWeblog API. One thing that has bothered me has been it’s interface for “categories”. From looking at the API, I think it is less of an artifact of the client and more of a limitation in the API. [...]

I’ve been a PC users since the dawn of time (or 1980 depending on what calendar you use). I’ve always known and accepted that the Mac has a great user interface and the tools I would want “if I were a creative guy”. However, now it seems everyone is using a Mac!
I blame it on [...]

I continue to “surf” various blogs, adding them to my feed reader and a few days later deciding whether or not to vote them off the island. Well, “Creating Passionate Users” has made it thru the first council vote and has survived. Kathy Sierra’s post about “writing style” is a good reason to keep reading [...]

I keep wasting hours tweaking and re-writing my blog’s look-n-feel. No sooner do I get it working the way I like, that I go too far and then decide to start over with some other theme.
The most recent activity was to leverage a theme with lots of cool JavaScript. I wanted it to be flexible [...]

Upon reading a commentary from Irwin Lazar, Carl Tyler asks
Is instant messaging the death knell for email?
I think the answer is “no”. What I do believe is that individuals will gravitate to a single interface to whatever content they use most.
Email, IM, Blogs, Web, and applications all have their own user interfaces. When these start [...]

I’ve been under the impression that my blog is flat and slow. I took a look at a few other blogs and found One blog to be 390KB, another was 184KB, and mine was 450KB. (To get these figures I added the web page, the images, and the JavaScript includes. I did not add the [...]

I have a couple of pages on my blog to highlight some of my interests. For example, cooking and more recently, the restoration of a tower clock.
What I wanted to do was to have those pages include a list of posts. I could have solved it by creating “templates” by adding custom PHP files [...]

I’m amazed how different the various browsers interpret stylesheet settings. My development is against FireFox and during test, I get around to checking Internet Explorer 6. (Eventually, I’ll add IE 7 to my tests.) I always find things that don’t work or look as expected. For those who have a long history with web user [...]

I know two friends who have never met. They live in different towns. they have different careers. They are on different paths which will likely never intersect - not because they are so different but because they are so much the same. Their paths are meandering along nearly parallel to one another.

I missed the “CSS Naked Day” on April 5th. The idea got me thinking - “what would theSalmonFarm.org blog look like without its CSS ?” Here is the before and after …

I’m glad to see the overall usability of this blog is not lost without the stylesheet. The only unexpected part of the layout [...]

I was reading a blog the other day and it had a lot of personal information. At the same time, the author made some conscious choices in what and how he wrote. It got me thinking again about privacy issues - both of bloggers and those they may include in their blogs.
The blogshere is an [...]

A friendly reader complained about my “spam preventer”. For the historians out there, I started this blog with no “user challenge”. It was good for readers wanting to post comments and great for spammers. In the first month I got 30 or 40 spam comments. By the end of March, I was getting thousands each [...]

The world of corporate information and social networking are not just on a collision path, their already traded paint once or twice.
I think there are some interesting differences - and thus challenged - to social networking and social software in business settings. One of the obvious requirements is often “professionalism”. This takes on two facets [...]

I was very interested in how similar the BBC usage of social software tools maps to the feature-set of Lotus Connections. In the case of the BBC, they were ahead of the curve and so they “rolled there own”.
Euan Semple talked about his experiences implementing wikis and social software at the BBC. The forum is [...]

I’ve gotten some comments (or complaints, depending on how you hear them) regarding the time it takes to load my blog. I’ve tracked it to the external JavaScript includes I have for making the maps of visitors. While I like seeing where in the world visitors reside, I don’t feel that is the purpose of [...]

I am in the midst of packing to move. I have decided *not* to get DirectTV when I move (and there really is no other way to get a TV signal). Thus, I will go without TV. This is not some crazy plan. As a matter of fact, there are a number of bloggers [...]

I was talking to some people over the weekend that are still stricken with the dreaded “dial up”. It got me thinking about the performance of my blog again. I found a very helpful website for determining the bandwidth needed for a given web page - for instance my blog’s home page.
It turns out my [...]

Consider this a “guest blog” post for RTTC as it’s author is taking a deserved sabbatical. And for those who do not follow RTTC, just give me some slack …
On the drive home today, the sun was low and right in my eyes. Back in Boston, the traffic reports would call this a “solar slowdown”. [...]

I was reviewing the link-backs to my bloc and found one to a site called “Loadn Consultancy”. I can’t, for the life of me, figure out what the heck that blog is. My best guess is it is an exercise in software programming and random phase concatenation. At first, I thought it was designed to [...]

I asked an old friend for some helpful ideas on a logo for this site. The logo that has been up for most of the past 10 months was a mashup of some text and clip-art from Microsoft Office so I felt it needed to change. Also, I wanted something simple so it would [...]

I’ve had some less than pleasant experiences over the past week with my web site. First my blog got temporarily trashed by a service error on the MySQL instance on the server. I tried their email support but that didn’t get a response in a reasonable amount of time so I decided to hang on [...]

WOW that was FAST !!!!
It took all of 6 hours for the Internet to catch up with my new Service provider and host. It took me all of 15 minutes to restore my blog ! This is cool - and totally unexpected <sigh>
I had envisioned troubles lots of troubles here in river city … [...]

I again was blog surfing this morning and came across a post about sharing items from your blog reader - at least if that blog reader is Google Reader.
Google Reader has some quirky features but one thing is does well is keep your blog reading in check across multiple machines. I tend to have at [...]

There are times when blogs have no better role than to break you from your daily routine and make you laugh a little. There needs to be no rhyme or reason. The whole purpose is just to release some stress and realize that, no matter how cynical and up tight the world seems, [...]

There are two answers to the question of “what’s the difference between RSS and ATOM ?” First, there is the technical answer. Second there is the end-user answer. I’ll start with the second.
For the vast majority of end-users today there is very little difference between RSS and ATOM. Both are used as means [...]