Blogging Policy
Lisa Williams is at Berkman talking about blog policies. She says they're important and useful to have before they become necessary. So here's mine: I write about the Free software I write (frassle,...
View ArticleLong time, no post
I vanished from Boston this blizzardy weekend, and went to Lincoln, NH to learn how to ski at Loon Mountain. I really enjoyed skiing, and although I fell a lot I think I ended up a pretty good skier...
View ArticleHow "Comment without registering" works
link For those who don't know: when you comment on frassle it's the same as a blog post on your own blog, along with a link that references the item you're responding to. To make commenting easy for...
View ArticleHow to do you write Frassle in Chinese/Japanese/Korean?
An almost-user of frassle sent us this email: It seems that Frassle's weblog doesn't support Asian characters. When I post a note with Chinese charactors in the body, it becomes something unreadable....
View ArticleFrassle in Release 1.0
link Yesterday I received my sample copy of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 Newsletter. This issue is about tagging and folksonomies, and was written by David Weinberger; he interviewed me and produced a...
View ArticleFrassle Progress Report
Geez. You'd think that with 1488 registered users, nearly two years of service, dozens of del.icio.us references, and all the hype about weblogs that any decent weblogging service would inspire more...
View ArticleFrassle is Back!
I've cleaned up some data, and frassle is back online. Sorry it took longer than expected, but I think my gardening is enough to allow me to keep running the service. Welcome back!
View ArticleFrassle is back!
Sorry for the extended (and extended, and extended) downtime. Frassle is back, and voo2do is on a different server now so Frassle's overly slow design won't impact that (much more popular) application....
View ArticleWhere Frassle Went Wrong, and How to Make a Zillion Dollars Doing it Right
A few months ago I gave up working on Frassle, the experimental blogging platform that hosts my blog and a few others. Frassle was a fun and rewarding project: it put me in touch with the very vibrant...
View ArticleFrassle Now Closed
Josh and I have shut down Frassle, a blogging system we built in 2003 and 2004. Now at frassle.net there is a static mirror of all blogs having 7 or more posts. (A new frassle blog came with 5 posts...
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