I am curious to discover how the new MT4 update will affect TypePad, if at all. Do we get new features before MT or does the process trickle down in reverse?
WordPress.com is the testbed for standalone WordPress so if you’re blogging on the Dot Com version you get to see and experience new features first in an ongoing basis.
This is my second day on TypePad — I’m here to check out how for-pay TypePad compares with free WordPress.com and free Blogger blog hosting.
TypePad feels more like Blogger than WordPress.
The backend administrative interface for TypePad is feminine and designed to appeal to 13-year-old girls. WordPress’ backend is masculine and meaty. Blogger’s backend is industrial and unfriendly.
I do not like how TypePad and Blogger handle images. I have my own server. I want to store my images offsite and I don’t want to dig into HTML to code my image insertions.
We are pleased to announce we are now accepting Virtual Interns here at David W. Boles’ Urban Semiotic!
If you are in high school or in college and you want to earn some professional writing experience, we invite you to apply to our Internship program!
We are offering Virtual Internships because of the grand success of a similar Intern program at our sister publication, GO INSIDE Magazine.
You can even split your Internship between GO INSIDE and Urban Semiotic if that helps meet your writing needs and your publication desire.
If you are interested in writing with us and in taking advantage of this opportunity to get your work known, get in touch now!
If you are interested in becoming an Urban Semiotic Author today is the day to make contact!
Please read our Writing Tips page first to make sure what we require is something you are interested in providing.
If you’re ready to take the step into writing posts, here’s how it will all work:
1. WordPress 2.0 allows us to assign Roles to registered users. The two roles that interest you are Author and Contributor. There are two differences between those roles: Authors can publish their own work at will and also upload files. Most new writers will start as Contributors where their articles will be reviewed before publication.
2. Express your interest in writing via the Contact page and explain what type of articles you plan to write and what topics you plan to explore.
3. You will then provide a brief bio for our Authors page. You may also provide an 80×80 Avatar to accompany your bio if you wish. You will have to email the Gravatar because the code to call the Gravatar from Gravatar.com won’t work on the Author’s page. If you do not use a Gravatar, the default Gravatar image here will be provided for you. Authors will generally be listed in alphabetical order by last name.
4. We will add your blog to our Blogroll.
If you have any questions, please post a reply to this message.
Kevin Lynch is a magnificent writer who expresses the heart and mind of the city beyond simple infrastructure and services. Lynch presses beyond the ordinary for meaning and memory in cities and he imbues each of the senses in the expectation of what a city must provide for those who live and prosper within the city skin. Consider this quote from his monograph, The Image of the City:
The art of shaping cities for sensuous enjoyment is an art quite separate from architecture or music or literature. It may learn a great deal from these other arts, but it cannot imitate them.
Or ponder this thought from his Good City Form monograph:
Decisions about urban policy, or the allocation of resources, or where to move, or how to build something, must use norms about good and bad. Without some sense of better, any action is perverse. When values lie unexamined, they are dangerous.
Kevin Lynch’s vision and writing are consistently breathtaking. Take a trip through his cities on the page and prepare to catch more than your breath.
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