Displaying tags on mephisto

The mephisto liquid tags, drops, and filters are not very well documented. You have to look in the source code (specifically drop_filters.rb) to discover what’s available.
I was able to add rendering of tags/keywords by using:
{{article | linked_tag_list}}

in my template.

Hack to get all posts with Textmate/Blogging Fetch

UPDATE (2007.03.20.084041): Don’t do this. It’s an awful hack and will grind your computer to a halt.
I want to hack the textmate blogging bundle to do a full download of all posts in a blog and save those posts to local disk.
First, I just hacked the bundle to allow user to fetch any post [...]

Using textmate as a blog editing tool

Mephisto and ecto do not get along readily… I mean, things work, but they are not fast and feel far from bulletproof.
I just started using the textmate blog editing bundle by Brad Choate to update this blog.
I watched a screencast that convinced me.
I’m liking it quite a lot… Working solely in text with markdown [...]

Sheer number of bloggers dilutes their value

Most bloggers do not follow the same rigor as journalists accountable to a newspaper which has some editorial oversight and liability.
That’s not to say that blogs and bloggers cannot provide valuable, timely and important information. However, FINDING that information in the sea of noise is very difficult.
I know the urge and trend is to [...]

Wild blog counts by Technorati are dangerous and don’t show real value

About a month ago, I spoke on a panel about blogging at the Texas Writer’s League annual conference. I spent some time talking about how people (i.e. David Sifry, uber-smart founder of Technorati) were claiming millions and millions of blogs were being created and talked about the exponential growth of blogging.
Then I put up [...]