What should a weblog be?

December 31st, 2007

I was looking up information on Canadian accounting software (or more particularly looking for a Mac OS X offline tool for Freshbooks, the amazing online accounting system with which I run Foliovision.com.

I couldn't find a Mac OS X tool for Freshbooks but I did run across a great website which typifies to me many of the things which a weblog should be:

• Personal
• Illustrative (very nice and simple photos on most posts)
• Simple (no annoying javascripts or frilly designs that get in the way of reading and enjoying)
• Helpful (the articles may not be all that frequent but they are all have some thought or use to someone, this is not posting for posting's sake)

duomo milan from ruk.ca

 

Here is a sample of Peter Rukavina's writing about the dangers of online social networking - a virtual world where only like will meet like:

(What should a weblog be? continued...)

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Great Handy Tool for Escaping HTML

November 5th, 2007

For this weblog, I am often obliged to escape HTML, i.e. so that you can read my HTML examples like this one:

<h3>WEB AND SEARCH SERVICES</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://google.ca">Canadian Google</a>: http://google.ca</li> <li><a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/">Yahoo siteexplorer</a>: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/</li> <li><a href="http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/">IE Preview</a>: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/</li> <li><a href="http://dan.hersam.com/tools/escape-html.html">Escape HTML brackets</a></li> </ul>

From here it's just a matter of copy and paste.

It's reall pain to do by hand, but Dan Hersam's escape HTML tool makes it a piece of cake. Normally I do it with BBEdit (actually with a plugin called TextSoap, but the function is easily created in BBEdit itself). But this looks simpler and is a lot more portable. Highly recommended. There for all Foliovision staff as well.

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