Communicating with reviewers

Send­ing email to review­ers is more dif­fi­cult than it should be.

I sent the email out to many people ask­ing them to be review­ers for the con­fer­ence; it’s touch­ing how many people are pleased to be asked, and pleased to review, each year. It’s not a lot of work, and gives people a chance to see what’s hap­pen­ing and what oth­ers think is import­ant enough to want to talk about, which is enough for some people, but many do it to help. This sense of com­munity is what makes chair­ing a con­fer­ence like XML 2004 worthwhile.

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Weblog Creation

This is the third time I’ve tried to set up a web­log. Maybe this time I’ll actu­ally feel happy enough with the res­ults that I start pub­licly using it, rather than bog­ging down installing and testing. 

Unlike many people I know, I decided that my main reas­on for blog­ging was to blog, rather than to code a blog­ging sys­tem, and that I had no great desire to do so (using someone else’s work and then tweak­ing to suit my needs has always appealed). So I set out to find what soft­ware there is out there that I like the look of, and could install on the box in the base­ment which is my web server.

This is the third time I’ve tried to set up a web­log. Maybe this time I’ll actu­ally feel happy enough with the res­ults that I start pub­licly using it, rather than bog­ging down installing and testing. 

Unlike many people I know, I decided that my main reas­on for blog­ging was to blog, rather than to code a blog­ging sys­tem, and that I had no great desire to do so (using someone else’s work and then tweak­ing to suit my needs has always appealed). So I set out to find what soft­ware there is out there that I like the look of, and could install on the box in the base­ment which is my web server.

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Why Weblogs?

Web­logs are the nat­ur­al exten­sion to home pages 1994-style. Instead of stat­ic pic­tures of cats, they are today’s pic­ture of the cats (or garden, or sun­set). They’re an online diary, a pro­ject man­age­ment tool, and a place to record pro­gress in whatever you do.

Web­logs are the nat­ur­al exten­sion to home pages 1994-style. Instead of stat­ic pic­tures of cats, they are today’s pic­ture of the cats (or garden, or sun­set). They’re an online diary, a pro­ject man­age­ment tool, and a place to record pro­gress in whatever you do.
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