Comments and the Blog Conversation

There was a bitchmeme going around. Scoble, Winer got into the act...

Scoble gets a part of right - we don't really have that much control, but Winer hits on what I think is important: There are already solutions for this (Atom Threading Extensions, RFC 4685, and RSS Comments feature). We can't control what people do with our syndicated content, but we can make it easy for tools to auto-discover the conversation specific to a given blog post.

I've made available a 'whole blog feed' and a 'per thread' feed on each post, but I'm really glad that WordPress 2.5 enabled the Atom Threading Extension 'replies' relation by default.

§451 · April 14, 2008 · Life, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Comments and the Blog Conversation · Tags: , ,

Giving Flash A Chance

After struggling all weekend with CSS, XHTML Yellow Screens of Death, cross-domain JavaScript problems, SVG browser quirks, and PHP errors, I decided to take a break and check in with the HTML5 mailing list. This wasn't a good idea because I then had to wade through the unending arguments around integrating new vocabularies like SVG and MathML into the text/html serialization. At some point, I must have finally reached a boiling point, because when I happened to hear that Adobe will support AIR on Linux, I finally decided to give Flash/Flex a try on Sunday. The next step is to consider whether a move to a Flash-based blog might actually be a good idea. Read the rest of this entry ...

§447 · April 1, 2008 · Life, Technology · 5 comments · Tags:

WordPress Quick Tag: SVG Clip Art

I had heard the advice, but somehow I had not really looked at the actual results. I guess my referenced SVG clip art was causing a bit of a problem in feed readers as the images were only sized via external CSS (which feed readers do not bother picking up). Only after seeing the results of my referenced SVG objects in Planet Mars did I finally get around to doing something about it. Inline styles it is then, until I get around to embedding the images inline when syndicated). I hope this also fixes Opera's handling of my clip art as well. Here is my WordPress quick tag which I use to add clip art to my site:

edButtons[edButtons.length] =
new edButton('ed_clipArt'\
,'clipArt'
,'<object type="image/svg+xml" style="float:right;width:6em;height:6em;clear:both;margin-left:10px" data="'
,'.svgz"><span/></object>'
,'a'
);

Since the majority of my images are right-floated, for now I don't mind the occasional one in which I switch float:left for float:right and margin-right for margin-left...

§442 · March 25, 2008 · Life · 8 comments · Tags: ,

Tesla Roadster Now In Production

A significant achievement today from Tesla Motors, as described over at their Blog:

"With this milestone, the Tesla Roadster is the only zero emission electric vehicle in production today"

If things go as planned, a trickle of Tesla Roadsters will start to make their way to all those celebrities trying to do good things with their wads of cash when they're not using their private jets to get around the world. A few well-placed news pieces and endorsements could kick things into overdrive. Read the rest of this entry ...

§441 · March 17, 2008 · Life · Comments Off on Tesla Roadster Now In Production · Tags: ,

Essential Viewing

I've been following the Tesla Motors story for about a year and a half now. When my wife had some points to burn on her credit card rewards program, she asked me if I wanted a DVD of Who Killed the Electric Car?. I said yes. We watched it tonight. It made me sad, frustrated, angry - but I'm still glad I watched it. Has anyone had a successful electrical conversion of their hybrid car?

§435 · February 29, 2008 · Life, Movies, Technology · Comments Off on Essential Viewing · Tags: ,

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