The list of new features is pretty exciting, especially this:

What’s New in Plone 4 — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management: “Plone 4′s user interface has been polished and refined so it’s even more intuitive. Plone 4 includes a new graphical HTML editor (TinyMCE), improved default configuration settings and more.”

This TinyMCE editor, married to jQuery, enables Plone to deliver on the promise of “Elegant Minimalism” in a powerful way. Plus it’s 50% faster, reportedly (?!)… Anyway, i gotta check it out -using it to build my personal Python (and related tech) learning environment.

(good thing i visited VersionTracker today: thanx, VT leaderboard!)

So i am (despite the heat, which is dreadful here in Algarve on this particular day) turning my attention in earnest to this long-neglected blog,  just to see what i can do with it.

Specifically: i aim to nail up a post on most working days, usually about problems & solutions that i know i’ll want to remember, that might also be of interest to others. Onward!

Received exception:wrong datetime.iso8601 format
No posts are available!

Still, maybe it will work in the other direction, let’s see…

Here’s the rest of the post. How does it look?

PS: Hmm… My last entry (also posted via MarsEdit) was truncated at line 1, i see… So i’m still struggling with that one too – attesting yet again to wisdom of Douglas Adams’ famous maxim that “the definition of technology is: stuff that doesn’t work right yet.”

“To describe the various projections of ourselves into cyberspace, I use the following metaphor: we’re cells, and we’re growing the surface area of our cellular membranes. Every time I write a blog item, or post a Flickr photo, or tag a resource in del.icio.us, I enlarge the surface area of that membrane. I do it for two reasons. First, because I want influence to flow from me to the world. Second, because I want influence to flow the other way too. I’m soliciting feedback and interaction…”

Jon goes on to explain how, once your virtual surface area is enlarged to a certain point, you really *can’t* be aware of it all without some feedback – easy enough to achieve in your public realm, but regarding those parts of your membrane that are private (or visible to only some special set of individuals), including even those parts that you have forgotten about (that might come back to bite you later), getting the feedback you need can be a knotty problem indeed. I like your image of the personal cyber surface-area viewer, Jon, with the fine-grained control for drilling-down thru privilege-space… This reminds me (sans screw-knob, keyboard works well enough for me to navigate such trees) of the tag browser feature in WebnoteHappy -if you swap out the notion of semantic tags, and swap in for it the notion of privileged users/ groups (any number of which can be assigned to a content item, as with semantic tags).

(Via Jon Udell.)

a good analysis of today’s big news item, including a link to the actual report (i.e. a 21-page .pdf, executive summary-type thing, with lots of colorful graphs and links the hardcore scientific data).