The buttons at the bottom of the weblog screens have been turned into links, so that Firefox and Opera users can open them in new tabs.

More to come …

For the past couple of weeks, people have been complaining about random logouts. This should now be a thing of the past – if anyone is still experiencing these, please let me know. (If you’re online as I’m posting this message, you may need to log out and log back in again.)

There haven’t been any updates for the past couple of days, because I’m getting ready to go to California for seven weeks. Once I’m there I’ll be working on the system as ever, but I just wanted to apologise for the quiet period.

Via a ton of other places (not least MetaFilter and Slashdot) comes the news that Microsoft have broken into the weblogging market with MSN Spaces.

{{cut}}According to the front page, the only feature that breaks out of the very standard weblogging format is the ability to upload pictures straight from a camera phone. I suspect, given how freely available other, better tools are, that this will end up being used as a photoblog if anything at all. But it’s interesting to see them try their hand at what has previously been a largely grassroots web movement.

Nokia, of course, also have Lifeblog, a piece of software that keeps track of multimedia objects you’ve collected on your branded mobile phone and will allow you to publish them to the web via Six Apart’s Typepad software. It seems that mobile phones are big news in blogging.

But the big question is – at least as far as systems like Elgg are concerned – can this sort of technology have a place in education or the workplace?

Meanwhile, some of you will be wondering how I split the text of this post up. Insert “[[cut]]” into the body of your post (replacing the angle brackets [[]] with curly brackets {{}}), and the system will do the rest.

Another note about something you may have missed: the friends box on the sidebar (although not the full friends screen) changes order depending on who last updated their weblog. The person who most recently updated is first, and so on, making it easy to know if your Friends Weblog has changed.

Tomorrow, I hope to have genuine weblog archives + file / folder editing finally operational.