The Legality of Republishing RSS Feeds

July 20th, 2006

Tobias Schlitt “freaked out” today about PHP Freak’s republishing of his blog feed. He publicly withdraws his implicit permission for PHP Freaks to republish content from his feeds.
This is an interesting area of law. Eric Goldman has an rundown of the issues.
In my mind, there’s no question that a blogger grants an implied [...]

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Harry Fuecks, PHP Patterns and Dynamically Typed

November 4th, 2005

I was reading this post over at Dynamically Typed and I was thinking to myself, this looks like something that Harry Fuecks would write. A glance at the top of the page confirmed my suspicions. Harry has been writing a few new blog posts over there. That and the resurrection of the [...]

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A WordPress bug fix

September 27th, 2005

I upgraded WordPress to 1.5.2 this weekend. This version fixed some bugs that made it necessary to edit WordPress itself in order to get my BBCode plugin to work. That editing is one reason I put off upgrading for so long. I am grateful that my plugin can now exist on its [...]

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Changes to my blog (and feeds)

September 26th, 2005

I’ve made some changes to my blog.
When i started blogging, I didn’t know quite what to expect. Over time, two main topics emerged: PHP and Politics. I’ve decided that the two topics should really be two separate blogs. This blog will continue to focus on PHP, software design, web design, agile methods [...]

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WordPress Search Engine Spam

March 31st, 2005

In light of the reports of WordPress search engine spamming, I have removed my link to the WordPress web site. The default WordPress theme has a “is proudly powered by WordPress” tag line with a link. I thought proudly was overkill in the first place and certainly not true now, so I have [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 1.5

February 19th, 2005

Well, I upgraded to WordPress 1.5 today. Everything seems to have gone well. The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5 was much less error prone than the upgrade from 1.02 to 1.2. The upgrade process is very well done. My BBCode plugin seems to work without modification (so far).
The new features in [...]

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nofollow and comment spam

January 19th, 2005

The rel nofollow thing is getting blogged to death today, but here are my two cents.
This won’t stop comment spam any more than spam filters stop email spam. The economics are still on the spammers side. This may have devalued the pot of gold to a pot of silver, but there will still [...]

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Blog Advertising

September 22nd, 2004

I ran across BlogAds in this article:

Henry Copeland, owner of blogAds.com, said some of the bloggers he represents make $120,000 (U.S.) a year from ads — though he won’t say how many — and that “dozens” make $1,000 a month

So it seems like there is a couple of bucks to be made on advertising [...]

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PHP Blogs

September 21st, 2004

Well, its been a while since I’ve posted, but I’m starting to catch up on things.
I fully understand why John Lim has announced a posting hiatus. I’ll miss reading his blog for a while.
To show how far behind I am, I just added Marcus Baker’s blog to my feed aggregator today: Last Craft blog. [...]

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un-Friendster: fired for blogging

August 31st, 2004

Well I had hoped that more information would come out about Friendsters Java to PHP conversion (1 2 3). Sadly, I don’t think thats going to happen. It seems that Troutgirl has been fired for talking about the conversion in her blog.
This is a lesson in how not to handle public relations. [...]

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