The Great Syndication Debacle

Wow, everyone. Let me apologize for what can only be described as a disaster. Apparently, you were all deluged with random articles flying through your RSS feed. I’m sorry, they’re gone now. Lemme ‘splain. So, I grabbed a fully functional and supposedly stable syndication plugin to use as an initial concept proof. I went live with it on Positively Glorious! because, well, it was supposed to be...

What Do You Want From Syndication?

First time trying out a pretty powerful syndication tool that results in the “What I’m Reading” widget in the bottom of the sidebar. Initial impressions are pretty positive, but one thing that I note is that Author and Blog title need to be present and smartly formatted. I’ll have to work on that. Currently, the algorithm is a bit silly- I’d like to maximize at 1 post per link rather...

No Longer Less Than Blog

Yesterday, my wife and I were discussing someone and I mentioned that if I had that much time on my hands, I’d have developed a company by now. Her response was “That’s you, you have lots of crazy ideas and things that you try to make happen, but that’s not true for normal people.” Well, as much as the term “crazy” seems a bit harsh to me,1 I do admit that the number of...

Finding Ways to Help Bloggers Help Bloggers

Those who are ridiculous enough to follow this blog know that I have a category called “Less than Blog” that has it’s own section, and separate RSS feed. It was designed as a way to post quick blog entries that are significantly less than my usual Mitchner-esque essays. When I developed the idea mere weeks ago, I decided to post the Less than Blog entries in the sidebar, so that they have their own...

I Talk Smack, But I’m Really Just a Secret Microsoft Sex Slave

Look, I’ve got to come clean on something. It’s a big something. It’s a something that’s going to require significant historical context to fully appreciate. Knowing how I write, that’s a really big something. In fact, this something is big, so painful, so cathartic and wonderful all at the same time, that I don’t even know if I’m going to be able to get through the process...