Archive for the 'Blog administration' Category

Boy in the Bands, now under a liberal license

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

After ages of thinking and talking about it, I licensed the content of this blog under one of the Creative Commons liberal licenses: the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States license. The Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license seems to be the best and most popular for bloggers to use a Creative Common license. (Roll call!)

Fewer blog posts this week

Monday, October 1st, 2007

I have a prior commitment that will keep me from blogging for a week.

Well, perhaps I’ll sneak a couple of posts in if I can and I have already written a scant few posts so you won’t miss me too much. But if there’s a blog meltdown or your comment doesn’t get posted, you’ll know […]

Google fun: Blogging using Notebook

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

A word about my process. A couple of weeks ago, a Day Job colleague pointed out a very handy tool that I’ve begun to use: Google Notebook. When installed in your browser — Firefox 1.5 or better for Linux or Windows or IE6 for Windows, but why would you?; sorry Mac users — it allows […]

Blog as district business manager

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I am very interested in August Retreat: Notes for the PSD Board/Staff/Program Council Retreat. The PSD is the Prairie Star District of the Unitarian Universalist Association and looking at the title, this seems to be a short-term blog. It has Phil Lund’s hand (Phil’s Little Blog on the Prairie) all over it; after all, he […]

Slow and steady changes to the blog theme

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

As constant readers may note, I wanted to move away from the current/past theme and used a version of Cutline — the Apple-y black and white one — but there were reader usability complaints so I moved back. Some of those complaints, while valid, were beyond the occasional tweek. Plus, I was seeing that theme […]

I like UUpdates, but what other aggregators do you read from?

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

I like UUpdates, but what other aggregators do you read from?  Not just Unitarian Universalist sites, but generally.

Please note which and say why.

Can you see me now?

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

If you come over to Boyinthebands.com and haven’t been able to see new posts without reloading, please try now. (I’ve reverted themes to rule out theming as a problem.)

Please comment noting your browser and operating system. Thanks.

Best-of writing, worst-of spam

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

I’ve hit one milestone and am approaching another: the Akismet spam filter today has caught its 20,000th piece of spam and I’m approaching 2,000 posts. (This is 1,997.)

Since I’m taking some time to work on other projects, I’ll spend the next few days and refer back to some of the writing for which I’m particularly […]

Is anyone not seeing new posts when they visit?

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

A follow up from a reader’s concern. Is anyone else not seeing new posts when they visit, without having to refresh the browser?

Comment page seems to help

Friday, June 15th, 2007

A word to other bloggers: ever since I added the comment page with an encouraging message on the front page — as opposed to listing an obscured email address — my comments from readers have passed anything I’ve known before.

I use intouch. Not the easiest thing to install but simple to manage; see its documentation […]