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Interesting development

February 6, 2001 by Michael Boyle

in Michael World. I have a promising interview next week for a job I’ll take if it’s offered to me. It’s still a web-centered job, but it’s on the other side of the table – not for a vendor (a web shop, an interactive agency, a dot-com, etc.) but for a purchaser of web services. It’s an appealing thought in that it will likely be a bit more stable than your average dot-com. And better managed as well, I bet.

Meanwhile, I’ve been furiously working on three sites simultaneously plus a possible redesign of this site to mark its first anniversary, which is on the 13th of February. February also marks the 6th anniversary of the launch of my first ever personal site, which (unfortunately, though it was an abomination) is completely lost now.

Look, look

February 5, 2001 by Michael Boyle

it’s another Montrealer who keeps a site like this one. luke.andrews.net, the weblog of Luke Andrews, who evidently does web work at Concordia, one of the universities I’ve attended. He wrote about the newly-launched Concordia site the other day, lamenting the “grand messy affair of interlinking files that reference each other”. If he only knew! I was tangentially involved with Concordia’s web development back in 95-96, when their grand plan was to give every department – not faculty, department – its own Mac with StarNine’s web server software on it – and each one was to develop its own site. Madness.

Have I welcomed

February 2, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the blork blog to the world yet? Ed is one of my boon friends here in Montreal, and a fantastic writer. Blork blog is his weblog, with features such as the slob index, and coming soon (-er or later), Bent World.

One of the pieces

January 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

on the show last night was about weblogs, by Eddy Piasentin from Victoria. He did a good job!

Last night I listened

January 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

to todradio.com, a CBC radio show that’s really coming along. The show covers the net and new media, each week focusing on a particular topic. Last night was online news, and they did a pretty good job of covering the basics for those not well versed in the subject while also allowing for some discussion of the more subtle points. Of course it’s broadcast on the web as well, and they have a chat room open during the broadcast as well.