Mozilla Firebird empowers you to accomplish things online faster and more efficiently than any other browser, period. Offering the industry’s best implementations of features such as Tab-Browsing and popup blocking, as well as a horde of other seamless innovations, Firebird stands out ahead of every other web browser.
Ben breaks it all down … all the creamy web goodness that is Mozilla Firebird. Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software, also loves Firebird. Read why. Then, go get this fire-breathing browser and say good bye to tired old Internet Explorer.
Checking out my RSS feeds this week, I got a very interesting article off of Sitepoint.com. Apparently, there is yet another CMS system out there, but this one seem to be a bit different and a bit more forward thinking. Check out the interview with the author and then check out the program and let me know what you think. I’ve got the zip on my hard drive and plan on playing with it as soon as I can find some free time!
W00T! More props for Xaraya!
Over the Rhine have been baptizing their followers in the Ohio River for over a decade, and the band returns with OHIO, a special two-disc set that unfolds like the ultimate Midwestern road trip.
“It was an accident,” says Karin Bergquist. “We didn’t set out to make a double album. If that had been the plan, it would have been a disaster.”
Man! What an awesome summer for music. First, a new Liz Phair disc. Now, a new one from Over The Rhine and, it is a double album to boot. Thanks to Drew for the heads up!
What Is TrackBack?
In a nutshell, TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, “This is something you may be interested in.” To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B.
TrackBack ping: a ping in this context means a small message sent from one webserver to another.And why would person B be interested in what person A has to say?
- Person A has written a post on his own weblog that comments on a post in Person B’s weblog. This is a form of remote comments–rather than posting the comment directly on Person B’s weblog, Person A posts it on his own weblog, then sends a TrackBack ping to notify Person B.
- Person A has written a post on a topic that a group of people are interested in. This is a form of content aggregation–by sending a TrackBack ping to a central server, visitors can read all posts about that topic. For example, imagine a site which collects weblog posts about Justin Timberlake. Anyone interested in reading about JT could look at this site to keep updated on what other webloggers were saying about his new album, a photo shoot in a magazine, etc.
Johnny and Marcel are working on bringing MetaWeblog API compliance to Xaraya. As soon as that happens, I am moving this site from Moveable Type to Xaraya. I cannot wait. Xaraya offers such simple extensibility, I am itching to use it. I’ve had several folks ask me why I have not moved yet. The answer is simple, TrackBack. So, I thought I should provide a more detailed answer to why I think that is valuable. Thankfully, the good folks at MT have done that for me.
