This is too cool...

The fun starts when someone changes an item after posting it; I do this myself all the time--for some reason, I never seem to see some typos in my weblog application's entry form, but they stand out like a beacon on the main page of LittleThinkTank. When NetNewsWire refreshes a feed subsequent to a change, you get to see the differences.

Thanks to Brent for the link.

Posted by jzawodn at August 27, 2003 02:19 PM

Reader Comments
# Mike Hillyer said:

You mean I now have to avoid slander the first time I write an article instead of having second thoughts?

on August 27, 2003 02:27 PM
# Dan Isaacs said:

Mark Pilgrim was doing this, sorta. Caused a bit of a stir when he started WinerWatch a few months ago.

on August 27, 2003 06:32 PM
# Daniel Farinha said:

Oh dear, I edit my posts dozens of times. First spelling mistakes, then grammatical ones, then just rephrasing stuff in a better way... oops! :)

on August 27, 2003 07:06 PM
# Peter said:

I'm not sure if I'd like someone looking into my editing process...it may reveal some deep-seated psychological problem. :-P~

on August 27, 2003 07:26 PM
# kasia said:

I guess if someone really does want to see my typos that badly.. why not..

on August 27, 2003 07:30 PM
# Dan Isaacs said:

I only fix spelling errors if I see them right away. If the MT edit window is still open, I change the mistakes. But going back an hour or days or weeks afterwards (as some do) is silly. My blog is not a newspaper. It's not homework. it's just ranting. And ranting doesn't require grammatical precision.

Until there is a spellcheck function built into MT, I just won't concern myself more than I ordinarily would about spelling errors.

on August 28, 2003 06:01 AM
# Alex said:

I just let my mistakes stay...yeah right. If you're egomaniacal (SAT word) enough to think someone may actually read your blog, you're gonna correct it, re-write...

on August 28, 2003 06:44 AM
# Justin said:

I bet he is using diffmk or something close.. check out http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/developers/diffmk/ it already has XML support. How much you want to bet that you just changed this to work with RSS?

on August 28, 2003 09:36 AM
# Jeremy Zawodny said:

Testing. Ignore me.

on August 30, 2003 07:25 PM
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