Blog clear up (2)
Comments added. Note on tools. Update
forecasts.
So I've just added the ability for anyone to add
comments to the blog. I hope that some of you who have visited some of our
destinations or just feel like saying something might give it a go. Really I've
no idea if/how this will be used but it's nice to put the facilty up there and
see what happens with it over the
year.
I use iBlog, which is a mac-targetted product, to produce the blog. I'm not sure how it compares with other blogging programmes but it does what I need and has a nice interface (for me to use). iBlog doesn't have native support for Comments and recommends a couple of freeware add-ins. As you can see in the credit, I used Haloscan.
We can write blog entries any time we can fire up my Powerbook, and it's coming with us. To publish the entries I'll obviously need some form of connectivity onto the internet. I don't know how frequently any of us will write entries - it will be somewhere between daily and weekly, I guess. I certainly don't yet know how often we'll get to post entries so that they can be read. In Africa it will be infrequent. I heard on the radio this week that the entire continent of Africa has less phone cabling than Manhattan, and this isn't (nice idea, Ross) because Africa skipped a stop and went all wifi. So while we're in Botswana and Namibia it's very unlikely that we'll be able to publish anything that we write or photograph. However, my wifi directory reports a couple of spots in Cape Town so we can splurge an update then. In Morocco one of the phone networks supports GPRS so there is the possibility of more frequent updates, cost and performance permitting. By the time we hit North America I'm hoping that we will be able to publish updates virtually as frequently as we write them.
Anyone who has an interest in the blog but doesn't want to be running futile checks for weeks on end when there are no updates can use an RSS newsreader and subscribe to the site. As with any other source, this will poll for you, along with any other sites that you're checking.
I use iBlog, which is a mac-targetted product, to produce the blog. I'm not sure how it compares with other blogging programmes but it does what I need and has a nice interface (for me to use). iBlog doesn't have native support for Comments and recommends a couple of freeware add-ins. As you can see in the credit, I used Haloscan.
We can write blog entries any time we can fire up my Powerbook, and it's coming with us. To publish the entries I'll obviously need some form of connectivity onto the internet. I don't know how frequently any of us will write entries - it will be somewhere between daily and weekly, I guess. I certainly don't yet know how often we'll get to post entries so that they can be read. In Africa it will be infrequent. I heard on the radio this week that the entire continent of Africa has less phone cabling than Manhattan, and this isn't (nice idea, Ross) because Africa skipped a stop and went all wifi. So while we're in Botswana and Namibia it's very unlikely that we'll be able to publish anything that we write or photograph. However, my wifi directory reports a couple of spots in Cape Town so we can splurge an update then. In Morocco one of the phone networks supports GPRS so there is the possibility of more frequent updates, cost and performance permitting. By the time we hit North America I'm hoping that we will be able to publish updates virtually as frequently as we write them.
Anyone who has an interest in the blog but doesn't want to be running futile checks for weeks on end when there are no updates can use an RSS newsreader and subscribe to the site. As with any other source, this will poll for you, along with any other sites that you're checking.
Posted: Thu - March 24, 2005 at 11:05 PM
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