Essential Blogging
by Benjamin Trott, Shelley Powers, Rael Dornfest, Cory Doctorow, Mena G. Trott, J. Scott Johnson 

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated October 22, 2002.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{17}  caption on figure 1-20;
Refers to "Doc Searls's Radio blog". The screen shot is from Doc's Manila weblog,
which he might edit from Radio (not sure).


(19)  4th paragraph;
UserLand Spftware should be UserLand Software. News-organs might also need to be
changed to news-organizations (unless Cory has something he's not telling us...).


{27}  3rd paragraph;
While the URL in the dialog is (correctly) /api/RPC2, in the text it is repeatedly
stated as /api/RPC2/ (with trailing slash). This is incorrect, and probably will not
work.


{64}  2nd paragraph;
Text states "Your screen should look like Figure 4-1". Fig. 4-1 has a taskbar
*filled* with icons. I hope my machine won't look like that! None of the other
screenshots contain the task bar. Furthermore, most other screenshots in the book are
from Mac OS X, whereas these are from Windows. Sort of confusing.


(81)  first heading;
Heading is "Blogdex or Navigtion Links". Rest of book refers to "blogroll".


(83)  figure 4-1;
Table is aligned so that it seems that the advantages and disadvantages go together
in a table, but they are really two separate lists. Even where they do go together
(Server farm is managed vs. No control over server farm), the two are not lined up.


{180} more link problems with the Essential Blogging excerpt.
> >In the final section of the chapter, "Online Resources for
> >Advanced Users," the following links are broken:
> >
> >http://backend.userland.com/rss092/

Worked fine for me.

> >http://www.xml-rpc.com

Should be http://www.xmlrpc.com/

> >http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi/

Worked for me without the slash, redirected when the slash was on
there.

> >And the following links are incorrect, neither should have a
> >trailing slash:
> >
> >http://radio.userland.com/directory/6742/developers/
> >http://ruminations.weblogger.com/directory/143/


[246]  last paragraph;
Perl and XML are referred to as technologies. Perl is a language, XML is a format.