I’ve updated to the latest version of Blosxom and there may be some strange things over the next few days as I play with the new plugins, etc. The upgrade was surpisingly painless…well, I guess it isn’t that surprising since Blosxom works pretty simply and painlessly.
It’s time for some updates to the site as I’m approaching my 1 year anniversary with bitdepth… soon I’ll probably update to blosxom 2.0 (maybe the beta, maybe the release) as I like the look of some of the plugins. Even though I’m using Movable Type at work, I like the more hands on approach of writing stuff up in BBEdit and uploading it for my own blog. I just don’t want to get too far from the raw content, but I don’t want to spend a lot of time coding.
Teaching Screen Arts is fun, but it takes up a lot of time during the school year (it is my job)… and it cut into my blogging, but things are easing off a bit now and I have to reestablish the routine of blog first, ask questions later. It reminds me of a video artist friend of mind who was frustrated with me with my film background and shooting style with a video camera…I’d carefully think about the shot and shoot very efficiently, but her aesthetic was to capture the moment. I’ve taken the same approach sometimes with the blog…not a lot of posts, but interesting stuff that I’ve thought about a bit more. But now I’ll try to rebalance it a bit.
Congratulations are in order for Rael Dornfest who has officially released version 1 (and then 1.1) of Blosxom, which efficiently has been powering this ‘blog since I started it. One of the neat features is static rendering which makes for a more logical and efficient archive for me. So now categories and dates will let you go to entries with a logical hierarchy. i.e. http://www.bitdepth.org/archives/2002/ for all entries from 2002 (with http://www.bitdepth.org/archives/2002/12/ for just December of 2002) http://www.bitdepth.org/archives/film/ for all of the entries in the “film” category. Keep up the great work Rael! I’ve updated the site with it and it took only a few minutes. Then I set up the static archive along with a little cron job to generate it automatically…a bit geeky, but it’s nice to have a simple system that works well that is easy to understand and use.
Archives
Something Clicked
It’s neat when something comes into focus all of a sudden. I read “The Death of the ‘Comments’ Section. RIP” by Steve Mallett and I finally figured out why (instead of how) to use Trackback. Until I read the article I didn’t really realize what need more specifically that Trackback filled… now I do. Now since many people have weblogs they aren’t posting comments as much…they’ll just make an entry in their ‘blog that links back to what they’re commenting about. Trackback can assemble those together. Mallett also links it up with community, which is less than or equal to 150 people. Movable Type has Trackback built-in and I can use that where I teach (with a Movable Type ‘blog for my students) and I can also add Trackback support to Blosxom (which runs this ‘blog). Rael also did a comment hack to Trackback to add comments to Blosxom. It’s neat to see how this stuff is all evolving and even better when a bunch of things click into place and suddenly make sense.
February 15, 2003 blog, blosxom, comments, movabletype, raeldornfest, steve mallet, trackback