David Ornstein's Blog: Blogging

Talking about Scott's Place

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:58:53 GMT

I found this nice quick easy toolbar button to blog something you're looking at in IE.

Scott's Place
The Blog It toolbar button is a little tool I wrote that allows you to quickly blog any web page. If you see something you want to blog, select some text, and click the Blog It toolbar button.

Spaces Day One

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 05:43:20 GMT

OK, so it’s been a nice first day with spaces. I love being able to email my blog. I spend so much time in email that maybe this will help me actually blog more.

I like the visuals and that a space is more than just a blog. And I love the Messenger integration. Seeing a gleam over a contact is really nice!

On the downside:

Why doesn’t Spaces recognize me when I come to my own homepage? Even though I’m signed in with Passport, I have to go to some other funny URL to make changes to my space.
I seem to get occasional jscript errors – I guess they’ll fix those
When I post via email, I often get messed up characters (even for some plain, latin characters)
I have to figure out if/how to keep my other blog going -- two, unwieldy…

OK, so what's the plan for my new blog?

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:36:06 GMT

OK, so I’ve got a blog over on ASP.NET for my technical stuff (e.g., mostly my work on FlexWiki at this point). It’s time to try out MSN Spaces. My plan is to use this as my personal weblog for things unrelated to my work.