Sean Toohey

Another one of the great speakers at Gnomedex 9. Thanks once again to Chris Pirillo and Gnomedex .

After hearing non-stop chatter about locally developed Flock browser, I decided it was time to give it a try. Flock is a "social web browser" build on the Mozilla platform, developed in Victoria, BC and  I was looking for a way to easily integrate Blogger and Twitter postings. Although I've not yet figured a way to make it work, so far it looks promising. I'm using flock for this blog post and although I like the drag and drop interface, my first attempt at dragging a photo to the blog editor has caused some strange re-sizing  issues. I'll continue to use put Flock through its paces for the next week, and re-post my findings.

Today I was watching a video on the first bloggers, and it occurred to me that I was blogging back in the mid 90s and yet the pages I created are long since dead and buried, fading away long ago with my University & Geocites Accounts. Then I recalled that I had built a website while working at the University of Toronto back in 1995/96 and that I had last updated the website with a slick javascript drop-down menu and stylish background some time in mid 1997. So I looked up the site , and behold, they have not changed it from my original 1997 design! WOW 12 years and the site has remained virtual unchanged. They have of course updated and augmented content, but my original structure, headings, logos & navigation have remained and somehow stood the test of webtime! I don't know how or why this has happened. It was a simple site and the original requirements were to keep it lean and image free for quick modem downloads. It seems those simple requirements have sustained the s...