Category: Weblog Concepts

  • The Word is 'Blogstreaming'

    I’m drowning in blogs. Each of them are useful for updating a specific website or allowing me to sound off on a specific topic, but I need a one-size-fits-all solution. Currently I’m scattered over a handful of different mechanisms. According to this article, the word for what I’m trying to do is “blogstreaming.” That is,…

  • Geekfun Adds…

    Erik Speckman linked to my comparison and had these comments to add: I’d add that updating Live Journal from any web browser is much more natural than doing the same thing with Radio. With live journal, one web browser is the same as any other because the blog management application is a traditional web application.…

  • Experiment in Exposing the Comments

    Afeard that the discussion buried under my main post of the day won’t see the light of day, I’m going to see what happens when I paste the table HTML here: Comments in response to this post: I think the fear of losing all my content in an LJ server disaster is what worries me…

  • LiveJournal vs. Radio Userland

    Scot Hacker posted a comment to my LiveJournal blog asking me to compare LJ to Radio Userland in 50 words or less. This is an excellent challenge, and I think I’ll take advantage of it by following up with a series of head-to-head comparisons. For additional reference, be sure to see these other excellent comparisons.…

  • Blogito Ergo Sum

    Still thinking about the last post. Sometimes all this blogging sounds tinny to me: like the barely discernable voices in that dust speck shouting “We are here! We are here!”

  • Writing != Typing

    It occurred to me today that the way I write by hand is very different from the way I do it with a keyboard. I’m not just talking about the mechanics here, although that plays in to it. I’m lefthanded. Writing longhand seems to bring out a kind of writing that feels different from what…