“It occurs to me that the tools we have available each do a large variety of things, and that there’s no good reason for these functions to be bound together into one application. For example, Maciej’s recent article on why not to have a public of Wordpress (and more details) shows that serving the website and editing it can be very separate pieces. The original ancient Blogger software also used to push a copy up to your site via FTP.”

via joshua.schachter.org

Great ideas.

“The Internet has been incredibly empowering to creators, and just as destructive to middle men. In the 20th century, every musician needed a record label to get his or her music heard. Every author needed a publishing house to be read. Every journalist needed a newspaper. Anyone who wanted to send a message needed the post office. In the Internet age, the tail no longer wags the dog, and those middle men have become a luxury, not a necessity.  Meanwhile, the software industry is moving in the opposite direction.” (keep reading)

by Joe Hewitt via joehewitt.com

“When Leopard was introduced, backing up became an automatic and effortless operation. Set it and forget it. Unfortunately, Time Machine backups are not off-site and don’t protect you against an on-site disaster. When I previously covered some online off-site backup solutions, Apple’s backup utility was not one of them.”

by Dave Greenbaum via The Apple Blog

“Coda is awesome. Here’s a quick way to make it awesomer: invisible visible invisible characters!” – Justin via justinhileman.info

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