Blogging With iBlog

I wouldn't exactly say that I've been riding the cutting edge of computer trends, but most of my life I've been a few steps ahead of the general population when it came to emerging technologies. I pride myself on installing a Linux server at work back in 1995. I was involved in the Apache Cocoon project (I wrote some Red Hat package installers.) back when few people heard of XML. But I have to admit this "blog" thing caught me completely by surprise. It crept up on me inconspicuously, and by the time I even bothered to look of the definition of the word, it was already yesterday's news.

For two months now I've adopted the "blogging model" for my own website. I've given a pretty decent shakedown of the iBlog application that Apple offers for free to it's .Mac subscribers. Over these two months my brain has been percolating, trying to figure out where exactly this blogging model fits in modern website design. This article is the culmination of these thoughts and experiments. The first part of the article will focus on the history and theory of the web log (blog), and the second part will give a review of the iBlog application and show how it can be used to start a simple web logging experience.

This article is not really intended as a research piece on the general subject of weblogs. It is specifically geared for the person who is planning his or her own website, considering whether the addition of a weblog is appropriate, and more specifically if iBlog is the best application to use.

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Murray is an actor/filmmaker/writer/computer geek in Los Angeles, CA. He's become a fanatical OS X user since its early prerelease days. Before that he worked hard on "that new-fangled thing called Linux". Perhaps the biggest feather in his "Macintosh cap" is being co-author of the Wrox Press book, "Early Adopter Mac OS X Java".

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