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I’ve sold out!

What can I say—the lure of the mighty dollar proved too much. I’ve just made my first post to my new client-side scripting blog over at SitePoint, as a paid columnist.

I’ll answer the most obvious question straight away: I’m not going to stop writing here. My SitePoint blog is a subject-focused blog covering client-side web development—CSS, Javascript, HTML and their role in modern web site creation. This blog will continue to host my thoughts on other subjects—mainly server-side stuff, but also general programming, web related rants and anything else that strikes my interest. Oh, and bashing Microsoft, naturally ;)

I’m a big fan of strictly subject-driven blogs, so it’s going to be fun working on one right from the start. Lambda the Ultimate (programming languages), Column Two (content and knowledge management), the Daily Python-URL and Adrian Holovaty’s online journalism blog are all great examples of blogs with a topical focus, and I hope to take my SitePoint blog in a similarly focused direction.

Incidentally, the blogging system at SitePoint has only just been launched and evidently there are still some issues to iron out. I know the site doesn’t validate, and I hope to work with SitePoint to resolve some of the other markup and Javascript issues I’ve spotted. I hope to write up some of the problems and solutions on the blog itself in coming weeks.

Posted 4th February 2004 at 5:54 am

This is I’ve sold out! by Simon Willison, posted on 4th February 2004.

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9 comments

  1. I tend to have a hard time finding these so I might be missing it, but is there any RSS feed of your new blog? SitePoint seems to have more global feeds, but no per-blog feeds. I've stopped reading sites without feeds. If SitePoint wants eyes (which they must if they pay), then RSS containing only headlines would probably work for everyone.

    Ian Bicking - 4th February 2004 06:27 - #

  2. There are no RSS feeds just yet, but they're still very much in the launch phase. I've emailed them to ask if and when feeds will be available.

    Simon Willison - 4th February 2004 06:41 - #

  3. OK, good luck. I'll be following your column with interest.

    ppk - 4th February 2004 08:58 - #

  4. I was unable to leave comment at sitepoint so I will place it here: I am reading your simon.incutio.com blog regularly and it is one of my favourites. Your article "Simple trick for more usable forms" on sitepoint was inspiring and nice to read so I am looking forward to your future creatings in the blog.

    Jan Korbel - 4th February 2004 09:16 - #

  5. Good luck Simon. I know I'll see some good content over there :).

    Vinnie - 4th February 2004 17:26 - #

  6. Congrats on the new weblog, and dittos on the rss request. Don't forget to post that info here incase we forget to check Sitepoint on a regular basis.

    Jason Clark - 4th February 2004 18:43 - #

  7. Congratulations on the columnist gig! Another one to add to the blogroll.

    Tim Adamec - 4th February 2004 21:32 - #

  8. After reading this last night in the SitePoint newsletter, I wondered why I hadn't read about it here yet. It just didn't occur to me that it might have been updated since last I read. A bit silly really.

    Anyway, congratulations Simon. Couldn't happen to a more deserving writer.

    Lach - 5th February 2004 00:21 - #

  9. Looks like they added your request for per-blog RSS: http://www.sitepoint.com/blog.rdf?blogid=5

    Chris - 5th February 2004 06:24 - #

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