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I was thinking–wouldn’t it be neat to display small pictures (when available) of the persons listed on your blogroll.

We could call it a “mugroll”

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It would be a similar concept to the custom icon displayed for the website and/or bookmark for a website.

Now, there’s always the question of how to standardize and automate such a project. Would you force a specific filename on a website like /robots.txt does for search engines and bots? Maybe a standard-sized (what dimensions?) PNG, GIF, or JPG file called /aboutme.png. I think requiring a specific path could help automate harvesting, but it might be too restrictive for more complex scenarios than a single-author website.

Or maybe we could add an optional <authorpic> element to the various syndication feeds.

And what about a multi-author blog? Could you have an OPML file with authorpic entries, one for each author? Just rambling here.

Would it be OK to reference graphics on the author’s site? Or should we snarf it and host it ourselves to save the author’s bandwidth?

Maybe we could add some kind of new HTML META or LINK tag that points to the picture.

Oh, and by the way, to get the “mug” rolling, here’s my mug (in no standard dimensions):

This is a very simple post here, but I like ’s bit of wisdom in response to ’s , expressed in a :

As near as I can tell, there is no right and wrong here. Everybody approaches the “blogosphere” differently.

I have been part of the blogosphere in some form or another since late in 2002. I have tried many times to keep up with the “A-listers,” but time and life have beaten me many days, so my reading and writing frequency has been less than admirable.

But, as Sam asserts above, that’s OK.

Guess what? will take , but won’t. I don’t get it. Radio usually supports just about every conceivable format.

After some , I revised regarding to include detail so you don’t have to follow the links to determine what the content is. I guess that is the job of a good weblogger–give the reader a taste of the content and maybe some commentary or reaction.

Unfortunately, freshmeat’s RSS feed does not give any description, and often the products/projects featured there have odd names that do not give a clue to their purpose.

Squishdot is a Slashdot-like weblog application based on Zope.

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PHPlist is a mailing list and newsletter manager that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages.

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It’s amazing what a few rogue HTML tags can do when put in the wrong place.  I had attempted to post some of Jon Udell’s description of InfoPath.  In the process of editing his HTML in the Radio UserLand in-browser editor, I missed a few closing table tags.  When Radio put in its two-cents-worth of <P> tags, all semblance of nice formatting went bye-bye. 

Funny Feeds

For a brief moment, I thought this was some quirk related to me changing computers with my Radio installation, but I’m thinking that it wasn’t.  Some of this may be due in part to some folks’ daring use of intra-RSS formatting

.  when he was trying to switch his subscribers to his new RSS feed (some like to call it “social engineering”).  He turned the text of his old RSS feed white to annoy those using it into investigating and switching to the new one.

There’s nothing at all wrong with that.  I just have to be more careful when carving up other people’s stuff, that’s all.

to distribute thumbnail graphics of InfoPath screen shots.  After looking at the original weblog page, I’m positive that the impact on the RSS feed was entirely innocent.  The article was designed for the web page and was just munged into an RSS feed later.

Clicking Your Own Links

With that in mind, it pays to visit your own weblog page on occasion, just to see how it’s fairing.  Radio presents a different view as “Home” to the blog user, so seeing your weblog the way others see it is important.  By checking my public weblog, I’ve caught upstreaming problems as well.

On one occasion, posts weren’t making it to the public web as expected.  I finally traced to an unexpected date change on my computer.  For some strange reason, the date on my computer reset to April 2001.  The reason my posts were not appearing was because I was posting in the past!  Straight to the archives it went!

I also make a practice of clicking the links I post to other people’s sites, just so I might pick up some traffic from those curious about their referrers.  I haven’t yet studied the TrackBack phenomenon that seems to be .

Someday I will catch up with all of the things I would like to know…yeah, right!

. I am worried that the next-gen syndication process rooted in is in danger of going seriously off the rails, because some of the participants have got the idea that it’s about trying to invent new technology or improve RSS…. []

Tim Bray puts in his two cents or two bits or whatever about the recent rumblings about a new format.  Evidently, the A-List tech bloggers have nothing better to do than to innovate on the web faster than any of us can keep up with it.  How about getting RSS a lot more mainstreamed and adopted before we rewrite it?

Shouldn’t we get RSS-using technologies embraced?  And how about some real tools for it?  Is it essential to have a ground-up redesign before it actually gets adopted?  Maybe some *subsets* of a syndication format should be created, that can be used when appropriate for a particular situation.  Or maybe some of the A-Listers should agree to disagree, diverge, innovate, and remerge at some future point.

Change is good; sometimes anyway.

With all of the blogging about war and that cool new ordinance called (officially, Multiple Ordinance Air Blast, and affectionately, the Mother Of All Bombs), has anyone reused obvious blog reference buried in the the MOAB acronym: the Mother Of All Blogs?

Yes, corny, I know, but I was wondering what blog would be worthy of the title?  Seeing as how the mother of all bombs didn’t come until after the baby bombs, maybe the Mother Of All Blogs is yet to arrive.

But just in case you’re into self promotion, is not yet taken according to .

Via Boyink Interactive, this article talks about the quality of publishing that people do.  These days, with weblog applications, or some simple HTML editor, anyone can publish.  But beware: