JR: Static files vs database-backed blogging systems - March 2014 - Brent Simmons - Imagining a Node Blogging System for Geeks March 2011 - Brent Simmons - A plea for baked weblogs July 2002 - Aaron Swartz - Bake, Dont Fry When I started blogging in the summer of 2001, I used a Perl app called Greymat... more>> 4 min read
- Mar 09, 2014 - #blogging #design #programming #blog_jr

JR: 86 percent of Internet users don't create content - June 25, 2013 - Potluck Is A New Link-Sharing Service For The Internets Lurkers Who Dont Tweet Or Blog If, according to the Internets 1 percent rule, only a small minority will activity participate in content creation (as with Branch), then thin... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #socialmedia #blogging #forums #bookmarking #blog_jr

JR: Another user's view on Medium.com - Certainly different and a bit humorous. Nov 25, 2013 - Im Already Tired of Medium - "I came here to write and think, not to be told what to do." Though the sites tagline is attractive and reassuring (A better place to read and write), its unf... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #medium #blogging #writing #howto #blog_jr

JR: Day One Journaling App Info - https://dayone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200265094-Markdown-Guide https://dayone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200265094-Markdown-Guide #blogging - #writing - #notes - #app - #mobile
- Mar 03, 2014

JR: TT-Chat - Created on Feb 26-27, 2014. On Feb 28, 2014, this code was incorporated into the ToledoTalk.com (TT) message board at: This barebones app could be used for simple chatting or live-blogging by TT users. Related post: Simple chat web app for Toled... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #toledotalk #chat #blogging #javascript #ajax #json #blog_jr

JR: Stories to read later for 2013 - Or read again. #readlater Dec 31 "I am an artist and tech is my medium" https://medium.com/tech-talk/ba02b6d2da4c Dec 20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941384 Dec 18 Bedrock: a modern WordPress stack -- https://github.... more>> 6 min read
- Mar 01, 2014 - #readlater #art #artist #blogging

JR: Proposed Ghost blogging platform - Idea proposed in the fall of 2012. Development began in 2013. First release expected in summer or fall of 2013. A lot of nerd hype. Concept, however, contains interesting ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743245 http... more>> 6 min read
- Feb 13, 2014 - #blogging #writing #design #ghost #blog_jr

JR: Online Communities - (My early 2012 comment at ToledoTalk.com.) I believe Orkut was Google's first attempt at social networking several years ago. It didn't take off here, but it got popular elsewhere, like South America. LiveJournal was/is an early blogging network th... more>> 3 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #socialmedia #forums #blogging #blog_jr

JR: January 2013 articles about commenting systems - (initial content below was copied from my ToledoTalk.com post and then added to in Nov 2013) Stories about: whether to allow comments whether to use Facebook comments or some other system anonymity or real names -- -- -- ol... more>> 13 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #forums #blogging #socialmedia #anonymity #comments #blog_jr

JR: My views on printing digital text to paper - Hand printing and sketching with a pencil or ballpoint pen in a notebook is still acceptable behavior for me, at least for a few more years. This Web app will play a role in reducing and possibly eliminating my use of pocket paper notebooks and a bal... more>> 2 min read
- Jan 12, 2014 - #kms #cms #wiki #blogging #business #email #collaboration #blog_jr

JR: Parallax Web Design - #design - #css - #longform - #media - #writing - #blogging
- Dec 20, 2013

JR: IndieWeb POSSE - POSSE = Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere Tantek.com as of 2010-01-011 (2010-01-26 Twitter syndication started2 and caught up3[4]). Tantek elik implemented POSSE in Falcon on tantek.com. all self-hosted posts (notes, articles, etc.... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 31, 2013 - #indieweb #blogging

JR: Stop using e-mail as a collaboration and knowledge management tool - E-mail still has a place in the work environment. E-mail won't go away. But it's amazing how many employees still rely on e-mail for collaboration and knowledge management tasks that would be better suited for even a simple internal wiki Web app. I'... more>> 11 min read
- Oct 29, 2013 - #kms #cms #wiki #blogging #business #email #collaboration #blog_jr

JR: CMS based upon a file system and not a database - I wouldn't want to write something new. So, what, then? SQLite, LevelDB, Kyoto Cabinet? None of the above -- I'd use the file system. My rough design was something fairly obvious: tables are folders. Objects are files. And each table gets one specia... more>>
- Oct 15, 2013 - #database #blogging #cms

JR: Story ideas and other tips for authors - August 2013 https://medium.com/editors-picks/60ad7174718d "Joshua is also one half of Epic Magazine, a new publishing start-up that is collaborating with Medium. We asked him about his writing." From Joshua: A lot of the distribution platforms ... more>> 1 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #writing #author #gtd #howto #blogging #blog_jr