the ryan king

January SF WordPress meetup

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Here’s a pic from the unoffical San Francisco WordPress meetup with happened this afternoon.

Over at PressThink, a guest-written article entitled The Importance of Being Permanent is very good.

I think this is one of the biggest failings in many online newspapers- they’re not permanent and as this article says, that makes them less valuable. Just remember cool uris never change.

As a sidenote, this reminds me of a gripe I have with the otherwise wonderful WordPress. You’ll notice that the URIs for my blog posts contain the date the piece was posted. If I edit the post, the new publish date is used, not the original. This breaks the idea of permalinks.

Maybe I’ll ask the Matt about this this afternoon at the unoffical WordPress meetup.

I haven’t watched it yet, but I’ve been hearing alot about Jim Wallis’ appearance on The Daily Show.

Oh, and by the way, you can download the show here.

[UPDATE: link removed]

From Yahoo! News – Professor’s Saturn Experiment Forgotten:

David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn’s largest moon.

Via Jeremy Zawodny, The Bloggers’ Rights Blog:

We, the inhabitants of the Blogosphere, do hereby proclaim that bloggers everywhere are entitled to the following basic rights:

FREEDOM TO BLOG.

FREEDOM FROM PERSECUTION AND RETALIATION BECAUSE OF OUR BLOGS:

1.) If an employer wishes to discipline an employee because of his/her blog, it must first establish clear-cut blogging policies and distribute these to all of its employees.
2.) Blogging employees shall be given warning before being disciplined because of their blogs.
3.) NO ONE shall be fired because of his/her blog, unless the employer can prove that the blogger did intentional damage to said employer through the blog.

Blogophobic companies, who violate the Bloggers’ Bill of Rights, will be blacklisted by millions of bloggers the world over.

In response the Bill of Blogging sanity

1. Bloggers are not a special breed of people
2. Bloggers must follow the same rules as everyone else

believe these things are self evident, therefore, but feel free to state your agreement.