Phil tried to explain it. Simon still doesn’t get it and asks the lazyweb to explain itself. Stef slaps the lot of us for trying to baffle his mum.
“I’m an unashamed populist. If my mum can’t use it, if a complete web novice doesn’t get it straight away, I’ve failed.
And the Trotts, and all these people writing more endlessly self-referentially feedback mechanisms for staring up the arse of your referrers, are failing too.
Why do we keep making the web harder instead of easier?”
Petafloptimism 
TrackBack to School
Here’s a short but useful glossary of blogging terms from the man behind Pepys – The Blog. Covers off some
nobody understands trackback…
And weblogging is still too difficult, says Stef “Whitelabel.org/UpMyStreet” Magdalinski. I love using MT but I can only do so
nobody understands trackback…
Weblogs are indeed too complex but they are only a small part of the self-publishing puzzle anyway. The world needs better, more easy to use Internet content management and virtual community tools for making things like local online magazines.