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Quick recording today on the way home on how I get into a new platform, touching on Wordpress, Drupal, Movable Type and more.

Drivetime Debrief - Learning A Platform.

Quick recording today on the way home on how I get into a new platform, touching on Wordpress, Drupal, Movable Type and more.

On my drive home yesterday afternoon I called up BlogTalkRadio's Cinch service and recorded some thoughts on my early experiences with Movable Type, which I'm looking at while researching some stuff for DiSo. Topics covered:

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On my drive home yesterday afternoon I called up BlogTalkRadio's Cinch service and recorded some thoughts on my early experiences with Movable Type, which I'm looking at while researching some stuff for DiSo. Topics covered:

• installing MT on OS X

• general UI

• blog menus v. system menus

• extending Movable Type

Drivetime Debrief - On Movable Type

Sorry for the dearth of content here lately, but life has been a bit overwhelming. One link for you: I've started an Election 2.0 group over on Ma.gnolia (waves at Larry), where I'm bookmarking "Links about new trends and ideas in election law, theory, and practice", as well as links relating to this year's election. It's a public group - feel free to join, contribute, and follow along. Please keep it on-track and respectful!

I'm using the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine to compile a Visual History of Redmonk.net.

The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo.

Just wanted to follow up my post of the other day with a comment I just posted over on The B List.

I was browsing my own archives, and came across this post from Dec. 17th, 2004:

Tim Bray has a ongoing (ha) series of predictions for 2008, generated as a response to this request from Sun.

This started out as a post to the diso mailing list, but drifted. ;-)

I ran across a link to this morning, and while it's a technically interesting application, I can't help but see it, at best, as a complete dilution of what OpenID is supposed to mean, and at worst, an intentional abuse of OpenID and a perfect tool for spammers.

To Jeremy in IM:

Welcome to redmonk.net -- all DiSo, all the time.

>A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? Thats the nerd working on his project in his head.

The action is over here. Next step is to start in on the thornier issue: how to start building the whitelist.

While writing Whitelisting With OpenID and XFN, I started thinking about what kind of work would have to go into implementing these ideas in Wordpress. One of the roadblocks I ran into was that in Wordpress (and Drupal, probably, and most other similar systems) links only support a single URI (not surprisingly). In order to support OpenID whitelisting, we need a unique identifying URI for an XFN contact - which may or may not be the same as the blog/site URI that you'd want to list in a blogroll.

This weekend I ran across a post on Tim Berners Lee's blog (the Giant Global Graph - Groan), but what got my attention was a previous post by Dan Connoly about the social-network-based whitelist they've developed for commenting on the Decentralized Information Group blog.

I setup our pre-lit Christmas tree last night, and discovered to my dismay that four different strands of the pre-installed lights were not lighting.

"Big Cat" references aside, Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" is pretty nice. My favorite feature so far is probably Spaces - though others have pointed out that it's hardly the 1st implementation of "virtual desktops' on Mac OS X, and it's missing some features, it's (understandably) the best integrated of any implementation so far. And it makes my 17" monitor at work actually useful. My only gripe is that I want/need different desktop backgrounds for each Space so that I can remember where I am.