Geekerie

It’s always nice when fledgeling blog gets noticed. Okay, true enough that Wild Keys has been around since 2003, been blogspotted by MSNBC and the likes of Mark Bernstein and Jill Walker, but it’s followed a very interrupted and mult-url-ed path.

The current design is my mod of Chris Pearson’s first “pro” design, Thesis. I chose to use this theme now that I’m using WordPress because Chris’ previous work is so fine and his design and markup goals and philosophy are so similar to my own. Thesis itself bore a striking resemblance to the redesign of Hit Those Keys that I recently deployed, so the framework seemed like an ideal and timely choice as I get comfortable with WordPress as a publishing platform. So, yay. Thanks, PJ, for the kudos.

For the negative 5 people reading this blog, I just want to explain that I switched servers today. I decided that I wouldn’t wait for the WP community to fix IIS support, so I moved everything to my other host, which runs on an Apache server.

There is almost no difference between the two blogs, except that new posts will be added here and not there. The difference in addies is small — the old address is at hitthosekeys.com/wildkeys/ and the new one is hitthosekeys.net/wildkeys/.

Now, back to more important stuff…

I have most of my old posts imported, but need to go back through and change links and image paths… everything is relative to the old locations, so there are broken bits everywhere. So it goes.

Just kicking the tires on the new WordPress install. Special thanks to sff.net for the support.

Via Rachel Cunliffe of crea8d: Publishing’s first “networked book”–PULSE–came out today. Admirable concept and site design by Names@Work.

The book is simultaneously being published in book form and being serialized in its entirety on the site and via RSS.

Hypertext books have been around for a while, but this is the first instance I know of where a mainstream print publisher is taking this kind of plunge.