Strand3: Greg Hewett

I have used NetNewsWire for many years. It does most everything that I want; However, I am going to try and use google reader for a while. Check out my Shared Items, and let me know if you find any value in the blog posts that I find interesting. I was motived to move because of the Google Gears announcement. I might even swith to using Firefox on my mac. I like safari so much, it is going to be hard to leave. Why do I like safari? I am not quite sure. hmmm

I just updated my blog software to wordpress 2.2. I have never really played much with plugins, but I just installed two plugins that I am rather excited about.

1. wp-gatekeeper: this plugin will ask dumb, easy questions if you want to comment on my blog. Sometimes captcha is hard for the user to interpret. This plugin is a simple question that everyone should know the answer to, but a computer will not. If I think there could be more than one answer, then I provide a hint. Another neat thing about this plugin is that it will allow me to control the questions that are asked.

2. markdown: I have been using wordpress for a long time, and I have always wanted to use markdown Wordpress has a WYSIWYG editor, which is OK, however, it does not support Safari. This leaves me with editing html is a plain text input area. Markdown is much more convenient than html. I can also use my textmate editor to post and preview.

Bear with me as I update some of the posts that are really messed up. I hope that you do not have to go back and read all of my old, boring posts.

h1. Blogging Bundle

h2. Summary

This is a test of the textmate blogging bundle. This bundle add blogging functionality to a text editor. You are able fetch posts that you might want to update or you are able post new entries. Four formatting modes are available.

• Text
• HTML
• Markdown
• Textile

h2. My Experience

I am still experimenting with the way that wordpress will respond to each of the formatting modes.

h3. My Wish List

I with that I was able to cache all of my entries locally instead of fetching one post at a time.

Update:
I need to update my wordpress to allow textile formatting. Of course, that would screw up everything. What to do?

$1,000,000,000 is a lot of money. Are these communities worth it? I would love to be a fly in the negotiation room. I actually thing they are. The name of the game is audience. Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube all have a huge audience.