Monthly Archives: April 2008

Westminster City Council privatises street sign design

A London council suddenly decides that the public needs protection from “counterfeit” souvenir sellers so it buys the copyright to its street sign design that hasn’t been enforced for 40 years and threatens “pirates” with heavy fines. Continue reading

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The fallacies of summary-only RSS feeds

Please don’t tease. Put your full article texts in your RSS feed and make everyone’s life a whole lot easier. Continue reading

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Import file attachments and tags with WXR in WordPress 2.5

The newly-launched WordPress 2.5 (download; release notes; changelog) has got some great improvements to the WXR import feature that lets you pull a file of posts, pages and comments exported from one WordPress installation into another:

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