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Halleulah!? MT 3.1 As Courseware (July 31, 2004 09:04 AM)
Recently bouncing around a few edublogs are echos of Liz Lawley's MT Courseware 3.1 is coming: The announcement about new features in the upcoming MT3.1 release has gotten me excited about revising my courseware for this fall. In particular, the multi-blog option (“A plugin which allows you to include template... «more»
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Mena Wants to Know How We Use MT (May 21, 2004 01:33 AM)
Mena at SixApart is fishing for trackbacks to share how MovableType is being used. Here's another one for the education realm. My initial foray with this CogDogBlog has been to document our instructional technology projects that support the 10 colleges of the Maricopa Community College systems, as well as commentary... «more»
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Comparison Shopping for Blogware (May 20, 2004 04:52 PM)
Are you tired of your current weblog software? Does MovableType's new pricing make your blood boil? Sick of stomping spam? Hate your side bar? How much would you pay for a new weblog system? If you call before midnight tonight.... Well, there are not really midnight ads hawking blog software,... «more»
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Blog As a Web Publishing Platform: LTA Demo (May 16, 2004 10:15 AM)
A perception is that weblogs are primarily for teen angst diaries, obsessions on favorite pets, or rantings of the extreme lunatic fringe (hey, I think pretty much describes my blog!). I've been tinkering here and there with a demonstration case that the tools and features blog can be harnessed to... «more»
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"Woe is Me" and MT3 (May 16, 2004 09:28 AM)
Oh the wailing and despair that is bleating across the blogscape about MovableType's announcement of the fee$$$$$$$ for MT 3.0. I've not bothered too much as I prefer to wait until the dust settles, but I am reading of mad rushes to rampage, rapid switches to other platforms such as... «more»
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How about some Zempt! for your MovableType Blog Writing (May 5, 2004 06:02 PM)
Maybe people tire of blogging not because of lack of things to write about, but Interface Fatigue?? Back and forth from the MovableType editing screens, wating for those CGIs to pop, makes one s-l-e-e-p-y... Another stumbling along the blog roads came up with a link to a new desktop editor... «more»
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Thanks Elise for Learning MT Tips (March 25, 2004 12:37 PM)
Woo-hoo! Elise's Learning Movable Type blog has a fantastic set of useful tips, template tweaks, etc, a;; cleanly explained and illustrated for the MovableType blog crowd. I just spent an hour fixing up some CogDogBlog issues that escaped notice or care, thanks to Elise. Problems with Default Style Templates took... «more»
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Syllabus onTrackBack: What Train? Wrong Track? (February 19, 2004 08:26 AM)
Just getting bounced around RSS-space is Phil Long's Syllabus Feb 2004 column on TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their Places . Some are saying tat it explains Trackback well, but to be honest, you cannot really understand it until you use it. We are glad that Phil is giving TrackBack some... «more»
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Kicking the XServe (February 5, 2004 09:26 AM)
As the blog turns... Since our MovableType move last month to a new server, a shiny Apple XServe, I'd been noticing that email notifications of trackbacks and comments reported not the IP address of the person who had sent the comment/trackback, but the IP address of the server itself. Hard... «more»
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We Got Blogs - Maricopa Faculty Demos Friday (February 3, 2004 12:00 PM)
On its own, blogging is nicely permeating among some of our faculty. At this Friday's Ocotillo Online Learning Group meeting, we have 4 demos of different ways weblogs are currently in use at Maricopa. A brief preview for those who cannot be at Phoenix College Friday...... «more»
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One of Those Days (January 20, 2004 10:59 PM)
Did you ever have one of those days where every piece of technology you touched went up in screaming flames and thick smoke? That was today for me. It began while trying to test the new 2.661 version of MovableType. Typically what I do is to create a copy of... «more»
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Dog/Blog House Updates Part Q... 4 (January 17, 2004 12:22 AM)
Not that anyone but me cares, but number 4 (my French numbering skills went out the ouvre) in my recent spate of blog tinkering notes (1, 2, 3) was a recasting of the date-based archives, the monthly archives MovableType builds for you. With the out of the box templates, MT... «more»
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Blogging In the Wind (January 16, 2004 11:45 PM)
Ever since I launched this weblog April 2003, I have been talking up blogs quite a bit in my system. The usual heat seekers grab on to the potential and some of the more technology skeptical folks at least do not wrinkle their brows in confusion when I mention "blog".... «more»
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Dog/Blog House Updates Part Trois (January 12, 2004 08:38 PM)
Another squirrely thing about MovableType right out of the box is that the category archive templates it create is more or less a never-ending appending of your posts to a long scrolling archive. It hardly seems useful once you have blogged say 10, 20 entries in a category, much less... «more»
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Dog/Blog House Updates Part Deux (January 12, 2004 08:12 PM)
More changes I forgot in the MovableType structure of CDB. Previously, when I had a poor grasp on MT templates, I had separate index templates for each of my category RSS feeds, thinking there was not a way to generalize that. This was sloppy, requiring new templates for every category... «more»
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Coming Soon: "ecto", son of Kung-Log (January 6, 2004 09:05 PM)
I've raved before about Kung-Log, Adriaan Tijsseling's amazingly sleek Mac OXS application for doing just about all the MovableType composing and editing. Change is on the way and it is good- Adriaan is at work on a new version, re-named "ecto". In fact, I am "ecto"-ing this entry now in... «more»
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Ari's Big List of Blog Search Engines (January 6, 2004 06:46 AM)
Ari Paparo assembled a longer than you might expected list of web search tools for specifically searching weblogs and/or RSS feeds. My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can't find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What's the point of all... «more»
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MT Wiki (December 11, 2003 05:28 PM)
Here is a nice resource for MovableType-rs, The MovableType Knowledge Base is a wiki chock full of tips and suggestions. This Wiki is dedicated to helping users of MovableType, a content management system. This is a place to add tips, tricks, instructions, and definitions. Topics are editable so everyone can... «more»
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The XServe Files: (Almost) Back in Business (December 11, 2003 05:22 PM)
If I had any doubt that my geek IQ was not so high... I think I have proved it in the last few days trying to get our new XServe into business with MovableType. Let's say that getting it running under Panther OSX Server is a delicate operation for those... «more»
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Kung-Log: Neo Says "Whoah" (December 10, 2003 03:55 PM)
Ok. I am trying some way out there, It is a Mac OSX app called Kung-Log that allows me (I think) to post and edit my MovableType blog directly from a friendly Mac OSX interface. We will see what happens as I am "Kung-Log" blogging this one right now. Woah.... «more»
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X Marks the (Jade) Spot (December 8, 2003 02:53 PM)
It is in the building... not only that, it is on my desk. "It" is a brand new Apple XServe, and soon will be home to all of our MT blogs as well as hosting some experimental eportfolio services as well. "It" is a 1.3 GHz screamer replacing an... «more»
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Cutting Off Goofballs (Maybe SpamRoaches)- Expiring MT Comments (November 18, 2003 12:40 PM)
I'd rather be blogging about something else, but after a raft of stupid "Neat Blog", "I agree", "Cool Blog I'll be back" comments, often from the same IP with faked emails, appearing on very old posts (ones that pop up on Google), I have taken another level of blog protection.... «more»
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BlogShop del Norte (UBC) (November 17, 2003 02:27 PM)
Recently Brian Lamb and Jim Sibley conducted a Canadian Blogshop at the University of British Columbia, and plentifully acknowledged the materials in our BlogShop from down here in the far south Canadian hinterland province of Arizona ;-) Actually the UBC version takes it a notch further by posting the workshop... «more»
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Melbourne Digital Arts Conference: Papers, and Weblog Site (November 13, 2003 11:02 AM)
I found it interesting that the May 2003 Melbourne Digital Arts and Culture Conference (melbourneDAC) created a web site for the conference using MovableType (some links seem to go to non MT pages)- an interesting use of weblogs beyond "cat diaries". But beyond that, as was noted at Kairosnews was... «more»
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Blogging in the Margins- Comment Blogging (November 8, 2003 11:32 AM)
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, English professor at University of Maryland, blogs about comment blogging a different mode of effective participation in the blog world simply by using the comment space of other weblog. Kirschenbaum cites how François Lachance effectively is part of the world of blogging without his having his own... «more»
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Print Styles for MovableType Blogs (November 6, 2003 08:55 AM)
One of my main reasons for using MovableType (MT) for blogging is that most of the blogs I read that seemed well designed, structurally and graphically, had MT under the hood. And the pages produced are clean HTML, even XHTML validat-able, and the templates use CSS sensibly too (as opposed... «more»
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BlogShop 2.0 (November 5, 2003 05:48 PM)
Maybe a bit ambitous to call this a complete revision, but today I ran the second iteration of our weblogging workshop, or BlogShop 2.0 for a group of 20 faculty and staff at Phoenix College. Pretty much the sections for using MovableType are the same, but I spent some more... «more»
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RSS Feeds for MovableType Trackback and Comments (November 3, 2003 08:36 AM)
Wow, the sound of my own hand slapping my forehead with a loud, "duh!". The TweezerMan (not sure if I want to know the story behind that name) has provided easy to copy templates for creating RSS Feeds for Trackbacks and RSS Feeds for Comments from MovableTyple weblogs, all using... «more»
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MT-Blacklist 1.5 Out: Stop Blog Spam Cold (October 27, 2003 05:34 PM)
Now out to improve your MovableType blog sanity, is Jay Allen's miraculous MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin version 1.5. This is a large update and offers one click, de-spammiing of both comments and trackbacks, adding to blacklist file, and rebuilding of offended files. It is like magic. I... «more»
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Syndicating "Best of Show" (October 25, 2003 04:47 AM)
I've took a little twist on RSS to deploy it in another fashion here at CDB. This was partly to response to a post by James Farmer as he tried to find an alternative approach to blogrolling. Maybe not understanding Radio as much as I should, I commented that it... «more»
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Testing MT-Blacklist Alpha (October 23, 2003 11:15 AM)
I have been testing an alpha version of the next update to Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin. The changes coming are impressive and make it easier to filter and easily de-spam weblog crud. You can check and protect both comments and/or trackbacks, and it makes it a one clikc operation. Lots... «more»
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Just When I thought it was safe to dump IE... (October 22, 2003 10:11 AM)
Darn! I was that close to being able to complete use Safari for my Mac browsing (love the tabs, the rendering, the bookmark menus on the toolbar..) but alas, another hitch appears. This morning trying to post my latest entry, I kept getting timeout errors on MovableType Rebuild. I tried... «more»
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Jay Allen for Saint: MT-Blacklist Plugin (October 14, 2003 01:43 PM)
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to Jay Allen, for those 40 hours of blogged sleepless programming that produced MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin. The war againt spammers has been ratched-up considerably with this new valuable tool (it is beta, but works sweet so far). It allows easy... «more»
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Hosting Multiple MovableType Blogs (October 2, 2003 11:47 AM)
The blog concept is continuing to spread in our system. I know two of our colleges are looking at setting up a MovableType environment for both faculty use as well as committee communication. I am looking for examples of sites hosting more than ahandful of MT blog sites to identify... «more»
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MovableType Search: Seeking, Finding and Editing Old Posts (September 25, 2003 01:20 PM)
I enjoy accidental discoveries (the title for this entry, Scott, is no metaphor reference to fences). The search form on a weblog is very handy service for site visitors to find content you may have written. But it has an extra hidden value for MovableType (MT) authors. Once you have... «more»
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OtherBlog MovableType Plugin (September 15, 2003 06:37 AM)
Just came across the nifty MT Plugin: OtherBlog. This allows MovableTyple blogs to be able to include content on the same server. Plugin based way of including posts/info from other blogs on the same installation. I've yet to even try it, but I can already think about our BlogShop a... «more»
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Way Cool Tool for Getting out of the Blog Style Box (September 11, 2003 01:29 PM)
This looks rather useful for weblogers who are still mired in the out of the box templates: Firdamatic: the Design Tool for the Uninspired Webloggers "is an online tableless HTML layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your... «more»
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Some Changes around the CDB dog house (September 7, 2003 09:44 AM)
I've been tinkering a bit with the site here- getting into adding new MovableType templates and moving commonly used code pieces into modules, but more or less, this is mild hacking away until it works. The additions include some new categories: * MLX - about the Maricopa Learning eXchange) *... «more»
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#$!@ Blog Spammers (August 20, 2003 10:07 AM)
It's been bad enough delting the email crud generated by the latest virus, but today I got my first porn content inserted into a comment on this weblog, with links to just about everything possible you could imagine being enlarged, shrunk, photographed, made money on, etc. So if you exercise... «more»
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Bonus Feature for MT Bookmarklet (July 16, 2003 02:42 PM)
Scott Leslie recently posted some well deserved praise for Bookmarklets (little Javascripts to perform tasks), citing them as vastly under-used but powerful tools in your web browser. The MovableType Bookmarklet makes blogging any website a snap, see our Blogging with the MT Bookmarklet summary. But by pure accident, I discovered... «more»
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Splitting Up MT Category Archives (July 15, 2003 05:19 PM)
I absolutely love MovableType for publishing this weblog, and know there is quite a bit more to dig into. One thing that has bothered me is in creating my category archives, they potentially have no end in sight for how long they will get to be. They just grow and... «more»
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MT Plugins (April 20, 2003 09:41 AM)
MT Plugins is very useful collection of addition tools for Movable Type for those that are setting up an MT site, all free. I've added two so far and plan to go back for more...... «more»
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