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BusinessWeek starts blogging

It's exciting to see big businesses take blogging seriously - maybe web standards will hit the front pages of magazines in 2006. Blogs Will Change Your Business will be on the cover of the May 2nd issue of BusinessWeek Magazine. It seems to be a kickoff for their new Blogspotting weblog, authored by Stephen Baker and Heather Green. One of the comments on their first post seems to sum up the cover article the best: The beauty of the blog is that you have interested parties doing investigative research constantly--often turning up info before companies would have it be public knowledge.

Anyone know of any other major magazines with blog in the cover article?

[Via Furrygoat.]

Next goal: friendly URLs

• '05Aug5 update: W3C tip link added.
• '05Jun14 update: Cruft-Free link added.
• '05May16 update: Zvon tool added.

I wish I had the know-how to redesign Zepfanman.com in one big shot, but I've still got a lot to learn before attempting that. The Z: Blog has been around for a little over a year, and I've definitely learned a lot about building accessible websites in that time. It's kind of funny that MT and Gallery, the tools that make blogging and posting pictures easier, are actually what make standardizing my site the hardest (especially Gallery). With all that said, my highest priority now is trying to make my internal links easy to remember and more permanent. Basically, this entails using Apache's mod_rewrite to remove file extensions (php, html, etc.) and create more descriptive URLs. I'll probably be updating this post with other random links related to advanced web design practices.

MT SpamLookup beta

Go figure, a month after I finally get on the ball with my MTB upgrade, I discover that Six Apart's Brad Choate has released SpamLookup. This is apparently the Swiss Army (à la Jay Allen) of MovableType spam tools. Apparently, using this with MT-Moderate (and MT-Blacklist if you want) is the latest and greatest technique for combatting blog spam. Free tools rule.

Baby Got Book video

Pretty creative rap video, but clearly a questionable cover mainly because of the original. Check out Southpaw (aka Dan Smith from Cleveland's Momentum Christian Church). Lyrics are posted on the video page, e.g. I keep those chicks that do devos.. [Link via OPOS.]

Too much for Words

I started to write my April Words: To whom God speaks, but I haven't had a chance to put enough time into it. I keep running across related ideas and I'm trying to figure out how I can fit them all together. So instead of throwing up a draft version of April Words, I'll just skip this month and hopefully have it ready for May! So what is it that's been keeping me so busy these past couple of weeks?