Griff Wigley

Article on syndicated web feeds/RSS

Boston.com: Enthusiasts call Web feed next big thing

All our clients’ weblogs include RSS (web feeds).

Weblogs for legislators

Rep. Ray Cox and I did a weblog presentation to freshman members of MN House GOP Caucus yesterday, arranged by Sarah Anderson, Executive Assistant to Speaker of the House, Steve Sviggum. Over two dozen legislators were present.

As far as I know, Cox is still the only state legislator in the US who has an active [...]

Forbes on RSS

Dave Winer’s Scripting News links to this Forbes article titled The Coming RSS Revolution.
Watch a few of your favorite Web sites these days, and you may have noticed some orange-colored icons showing up. Most often they’ll be labeled “XML” or sometimes “RSS.” If you don’t know what they are, you’ll likely start hearing more about [...]

Non-profit weblogs

The Winter 2003 issue of The Non Profit Quarterly has an article titled What’s a Blog, and Why Should Nonprofits Care? by Zafar S. Shah. A client, Wayne Jennings of the International Association for Learning Alternatives (IALA), is one of those profiled in the article.

Also profiled is a blog I’d not heard of: The [...]

Careful Painting website & weblog

The weblog/website for Careful Painting is now up. Posts from Mark Lange should be forthcoming in the next week or so.

Online civility

I’m on a panel tomorrow hosted by the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, titled:

Creating Dialogues: a symposium on civility and civic dialogue
Governing “by the people” is a cherished American value. Communities cannot govern effectively, however, without addressing complex issues. Unfortunately, civic dialogue often ends in conflict, dividing communities. If you want to change this in your [...]

Moving this site

I’m in the process of moving this site from OLM to TigerTech.

What could go wrong?

Knecht’s Nurseries and Landscaping website & weblog

The weblog/website for Knecht’s Nurseries and Landscaping is now up. Posts from Leif Knecht and Deb Knecht should be forthcoming in the next week or so.

Top Software for 2003

Small Business Computing announced their list of Top Software for 2003 back in December (a tip of the hat to Len Witt at Public Journalism Network for the link) and I’ve been using three of the ones on the list for the first time.

OpenOffice, an open source replacement for several of the apps in MS [...]