Recently I’ve discovered CopyURL+, a handy Firefox extension that makes it easy to copy web page URLs and titles for citation in your blog (or elsewhere). I’m using it to capture links in Markdown format (for my blog) as well as Twiki format (at work). I’d really like to merge this with Linky so I can open several web pages in Firefox and with one command have links to all of them ready for my blog post.
Microsoft has published a beta of the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, providing a bunch of functionality helpful for web developers. This looks similar to the Web Developer Extension for Firefox/Mozilla. It might not be as mature or complete, but it’s nice to have this support for IE now as well.
Last night I attended the inaugural “Search SIG” from SDForum, held conveniently at the Yahoo campus. The event was titled “The Audio Search : Selling Picks & Shovels at the Podcast Gold Rush” and included a good list of speakers: * Doug Kaye, ITConversations (the Poderator) * Ev Williams, Founder/CEO, Odeo * Eric Rice, Founder, Audioblog.com * David Marks, Founder/CEO, Loomia.com * Jeff Karnes, Director of Multimedia Search, Yahoo! The event was well-attended; I counted at least 80 folks who stayed for the duration. The format was nice — first half was a roundtable of sorts with Doug leading the…
Last night I attended the monthly BayCHI meeting which featured two guest speakers on podcasting: Podcasting: Media Evolution or Revolution?, Doug Kaye, IT Conversations Podcast Solutions and Podcast Problems, Dan Klass, The Bitterest Pill I had never been to a BayCHI meeting before, but they have an impressive list of speakers. I estimated about 50 people attended last night. It was cool seeing Dan Klass in person after following The Bitterest Pill for a while now. Rather than following prepared comments, Dan gave some intro comments and spent most of the time answering peoples questions (in depth). Dan emphasized the…
After playing with the beta build on a couple of systems, I finally updated this site to the new Movable Type 3.2 release. It was a little more complicated that I had hoped, but I was being extra careful and tried running in a “staging” location first. I started down the path of creating a brand new instance to get the new templates, but it didn’t look simple to copy over all my settings manually. Here’s the sequence I finally used: Backup everything Convert data from Berkeley (DB_File) format to MySQL; I had been meaning to do this for a…