ORBlogs

Man, nothing has fired me up like this for years. I’m riding the crest of the excitement wave for community building and seeing the vision of the possibilities for ORBlogs!

[Roll your sleeves up and] Get Dirty [working]. ORBlogs.org is born.

Can you believe anyone would be so presumptuous as to register ORBlogs.org and just assume that people would accept it? I did. I’m sorry, I’ve been feeling dizzy lately. I must’ve slipped. Barely enough time to eat lunch- but there’s enough time to get a quick and dirty wiki going as a place that people can post desires, specs, thoughts, offers of help, etc. I’m paying for that server,...

Thoughts on ORBlogs 2.0.

I spent all last night trying to sleep and found myself instead thinking about what we can do to save ORBlogs. This sort of thing always makes my wife happy, because it’s just not challenging enough if I don’t toss and turn all night! It was interesting to wake up, and find that Jeff Martens had similar thoughts, and an equally difficult time sleeping. He posted them on The Silicon Florist. This morning...

ORBlogs is gone? No, we can’t let it go!

Every once in a while I’m reminded of the saying “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” That’s certainly the case tonight. Silicon Florist twittered that ORBlogs, the site for blogs about Oregon, is shutting it’s doors. Paul Bausch wrote a statement on the main page that it’s more than a hobby, but doesn’t pay enough for a job. I understand that-...

The Morning After: No Headache

After getting Positively Glorious! up and running, I stumbled on to a new theme- and it’s the stuff of dreams. Not much to write on this, because I need to spend the time to finish the change over. Also because I’m basically using this post as a test of the features anyway. There are a couple of notable things. One is images. Working with images is a bit more difficult than with other themes I’ve...