Here's Chris Lydon with his famous essay about Ralph Waldo Emerson and weblogs.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 7/24/03; 7:26:18 PM - --

# Posted by Dave Winer on 7/24/03; 5:46:39 PM - --

My theory is that one of the pings is taking forever and then timing out.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 7/24/03; 2:15:40 PM - --

I just made a small change to Manila that might make posting a new item much faster. Let's see if it did. It didn't.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 7/24/03; 2:10:44 PM - --

I thought it would make sense to test the new Trackback installation.

I am pointing to another site on this server that has Trackback turned on. So does this site. And I have automatic pinging turned on. So with any luck a pointer to this message should show up "over there."

# Posted by Dave Winer on 7/24/03; 1:51:36 PM - --