MySpace: Why We Block Widgets

Sounds straightforward enough. Right…?

Six cool things you can build with OpenID

I think Open ID is conceptually fascinating but it seems incredibly too tech-oriented in the current implementation for it to gain mass adoption. I’ll be heading to SXSW in a few weeks and look forward to engaging with folks on this topic.

The Great Media Industry Schism » Publishing 2.0

With quotes like "content creation is no longer an easily scalable business" and "content creation is asymptotically approaching commodity status", it looks like Scott Karp has a very definite point of view on recent trends.

The movie magic is gone - Los Angeles Times

Reading this a few minutes after the Oscars end, I’m struck by the fact that Jennifer Hudson, arguably a "user generated content" success story like no other (if you consider American Idol as v1.0 of user content) won an Oscar.

Just finished a weekend-long WordPress migration, and boy are my arms tired!

As such, this post will be very short.

But (I think) that everything is working — RSS feeds, old TypePad link structures, search referring links, my own links to myself…

I am still having some DNS rendering issues though…I’m hoping that will resolve itself over the next day or so…

Please let me know if you find ANYTHING broken via by commenting below.

For now, the site’s hanging in there in the default WP Theme. I’ll slowly add some design elements to it. I wanted to send out a note to (1) apologize to anyone who has had difficulty reading my blog this weekend during the migration and (2) let you know that a new design is on its way…but I’ve got to get away from the computer for a little while!

And to my friends and acquaintences at SixApart…please forgive me for the migration. But as I’ve set up a number of WordPress blogs recently for friends and family members, I’ve fallen in love with the interface and ease-of-use of wordpress.

Cheers! And stay tuned for many more updates to come…

-c

I spent part of my day yesterday getting my mom set up with her own blog. It’s still in development a bit — much if it is still pretty out of the box — but she’s up and live with two posts already! Drop by and say hi at Fifty and Femme. You can also add her as a contact on her MyBlogLog page.

Her blog falls on the heels of having set up a business site for my mother-in-law a few months ago at yarn. Looks like I’ve nearly cornered the market on personal mom-blog development (though my step mother hasn’t put her toe in the water yet so I’d better be on the lookout for competition…but 67% marketshare isn’t bad either!)

I normally don’t advertise conferences I’ll be attending…I’m more apt to write a short review afterward.  But since this event is being organized by a friend-of-a-friend (how apropos for a "community" conference!), I thought I’d put out the word about CommunityNext which is this Saturday (February 10) in Palo Alto, CA, on Stanford University campus.

The lineup of presenters looks great.  Let me know if you’ll be there!