Entries tagged with 'blogging'
Blogging and Fatherhood
I've wanted for some time, since the birth of my daughter really, to blog about my experiences as a new father. I think writing in general provides a path to clearer thinking and new ideas. That's been my experience with...
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Copyright Basics
First, this is important: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. I'm currently a law student, in the process of learning to "think like a lawyer" hence this disclaimer; I am learning to cover my ass....
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
Coming off of a blogging conference, I've made a few changes around here. Most are behind the scenes (I've modularized my templates and stylesheets) and you shouldn't notice them unless I've screwed something up. The new features you might actually...
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BlawgThink: I'm so meta, in my blog.
Here's the BlawgThink final wrap up... Then enough navel gazing and back to the regularly scheduled irreverence you've come to expect here. There were too many people I met to name them all, but I was very glad for the...
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BlawgThink: Future of LexThink
For the last "session" of the day, I sat down with, Matt Homann and some others to discuss the future of LexThink and share ideas about the successes and failures of the conference. Evan Schaeffer, Carolyn Elefant, and Henry Copeland...
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BlawgThink: Wikis
Here's one of the real successes of the "Open Space" conference model: I'm interested in wikis. I have some personal/business projects that I would like to collaborate on and wikis seem like they might be a good application. So I...
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BlawgThink: Blogs of Knowledge Management
My first "Open Space" session of the day was one on Knowledge Management and blogs. It was a lively and interesting discussion, with two camps: the "personal voice" camp and the "enterprise blog" camp. In reality, I think both are...
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BlawgThink: Five by Five Live
To start off Day Two of BlawgThink, Matt Homann revived the Five-by-Five feature from his blog, live. It was an interesting panel discussion featuring some heavy-hitting luminaries of the legal blogging world: Dennis Kennedy Ernie Svenson Sabrina I. Pacifici Marty...
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BlawgThink: Day One Wrap-Up
Well, unfortunately, I had to leave BlawgThink a little early to day to pick up my car. It was a damn shame, too, because I missed out on the last open/brainstorming session of the day. The idea beind the last...
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BlawgThink: Advanced Tips and Troubleshooting
The last "formal" session (I use that term with some hesitation--BlawgThink is not formal in any way) I attended was presented by Fred Faulkner on some advanced blogging techniques and tips/troubleshooting. Fred's the webmaster for the ABA and had some...
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BlawgThink: Tag, You're It
Another fantastic session! This one was presented by Dennis Kennedy and Jeff Beard and involved some advanced technologies (many tagging related) for blogging. Many of the technologies/services I already use, such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and Technorati. However, there were a...
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BlawgThink: Search Engines and Blogs
We all know the power of Google. This session was about how you can use search engines to your advantage and how to tailor your blog to get the most out of search engine results. Tim Stanley of Justia.com did...
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BlawgThink: Building Your Reputation
Well, perhaps my reputation precedes me... and that may or may not be a good thing! But I have met several people who have noted, "Oh, you're Dave!" This session was given by Matt Homann and was about building your...
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BlawgThink: Podcasting
It's no secret that I would like to launch a Podcast. I've got everything set up and ready to... so what's stopping me? Time. The "producer" in me just won't let me "just do it". I have to fuss and...
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BlawgThink: Advanced RSS
The first session at BlawgThink 2005 just wrapped. It was "Advanced RSS" with Rick Klau from FeedBurner. Overall, it was a pretty interesting session. Some of the topics we addressed were extending RSS, security issues/providing secure feeds, and touched on...
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BlawgThink 2005
I have been meaning to write about BlawgThink 2005 for weeks now... ah, the joys of law school: copious amounts of spare time. Anyway, I'm super psyched for this event. The speakers and attendees sound fantastic, featuring such blawg luminaries...
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New Blog: Stepfather of Soul
There's a new blog in the blogosphere: Get on Down With The Stepfather of Soul! This new blog comes to you from my friend (and former classmate) Jason Stone. Jason and I were 1Ls together and opponents for our oral...
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Site Updates...
Well, I just moved my site to a new host. All in all, it was a prettys smooth and painless transition, once I got some of the database quirks worked out. It was pretty easy to restore the MT db...
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Blawg Review #23
Welcome to Blawg Review #23, hosted by yours truly, Dave! here at Preaching to the Perverted. As the Editor 'n' Chef noted in his gracious introduction, I am a part-time law student in Chicago, who also has a full-time job,...
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Looks Like It Worked...
Well, it only took an hour or so... and it appears to have worked. There were a few glitches, mostly upgrading database drivers. And as usual, the docs sucked. As much as I love MT, SixApart writes some awful documentation--I...
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MT 3.2
I just sat down to upgrade to Movable Type 3.2... and now I have the hiccups. Perhaps this is an omen. Oh, well. Back soon--hopefully!...
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The times, they are a changin'
I'm late in the game with respect to commenting on the changes which are being undertaken over at the Legal Underground. Obviously, I am dismayed that Evan felt these changes were necessary to avoid problems in the perception (certainly not...
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Some tips for better blogging...
Bacon's has an article called "How To Write Killer Blog Posts And More Compelling Comments". It's a very good article, well worth a read... [Via Minor Wisdom]...
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Should bloggers accept free stuff?
Ernie the Attorney asks the burning question on every blogger's mind these days, "Should bloggers accept free stuff?" There's only one answer to that: back up the truck, baby, papa needs some schwag!! :)...
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Changes...
I made a few minor changes to the ol' blog tonight. First, I added my logo to my RSS Feed... let me know if that breaks anything. Second, I added a blogroll, just because I read a number of great...
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Would you like to put your penis on a diet and play some poker?
I'm not sure where I went wrong. Maybe it was my choice of titles for the blog... "Preaching to the Perverted" does sound like some kind of weirdo porn site these days, I guess. It's actually a reference to a...
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The Blawg Buzz
Imagine my surprise when I opened the December edition of Student Lawyer (from the ABA Law Student Division) and saw Todd Chatman's article "Join the Blawg Bandwagon". Todd's better known as mowabb/ambimb over at ambivalent imbroglio and Blawg Wisdom, both...
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A New Look...
Well, you know you're a geek when you're completely stressed out, overworked, and what really calms your nerves is hacking the templates for your blog. So here it is, a new "look and feel" for Preaching to the Perverted. Let...
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Thank God for Comment Filters
Last week I made the jump to MovableType 3.0, and so far I'm very happy with the decision. I host a couple of blogs for friends, and I think the 3.0 interface is really great. Not that operation of MT...
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An Upgrade
Well, I made the jump... I've upgraded the site to MovableType 3.0. I did it for a couple of reasons: 1. I think the folks at Six Apart deserve some hard earned $$$ for building a very nice, robust blogging...
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8,000 New Bloggers a Day, and Still Not Much Worth Reading
Here are some interesting blog stats from Technorati, courtesy The Register... Weblog search engine Technorati says it is now tracking over three million webblogs, with 8,000-17,000 new blogs created every single day. That means that a new weblog is created...
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Bloglines
Well, after taking Kleio's suggestion, I signed up for Bloglines.com, which is a web-based News Aggregator. So far, I do like the service... of course, I have a few suggestions: 1. When in the folder "Tree View" it is really...
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Radio Woes
I would really love someone to build a better news aggregator. If I weren't already up to my eyeballs in projects, I'd do it myself. I no longer use Radio for my blog, because it's a memory leaking, bloated application...
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Blog Advice
Tony Pierce has some excellent blogging advice which is pretty valuable. However, I do take some issues with a few of his points: 8. dont worry very much about the design of your blog. image is a fakeout. Don't worry...
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Design Eye for the Usability Guy
Anyone who works with the web will most likely know the name Jakob Nielsen. He is the defacto usability guru for the web, and on his site useit.com he spouts off advise about making the web more usable. Ironically (apparantly,...
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Blog Spam
Recently, Ernie the Attorney disabled comments from his blog. Fortunately, I don't have a visible enough profile to make comment spam a problem. But I did do some digging for possible solutions. The easiest option (and one that many people...
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