Category: Blogosphere

  • Jerome Armstrong profiled in VT

    Jessamyn “the librarian” West tipped me off to this article on Jerome in his local paper: The Blogger: One Vermonter’s Internet ax-grinding attracts national attention. (Jessamyn also gets a plug in the article’s sidebar.)

  • Ben and Mena in the Wall Street Journal

    WSJ.com – Folksy No More, Blogger Firm Taps Big Clients: Michael Pusateri, vice president of engineering at Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, a division of Walt Disney Co., used Movable Type for his personal blog. Then he realized that technicians in his group could use a blog to update each other daily on the condition…

  • Help Kos write his Guardian column

    Markos is thinking about discussing Furious George‘s debate performance in his Guardian co,umn, but he’s not sure that’s the most effective way to help his British readers understand the U.S. presidential election. he’s asked the Daily Kos community to give him advice and suggestions about what to write. (His deadline seems to be this evening.)

  • Weblog notes exclusionary language in blogs

    A weblog called des femmes is taking writers (usually men) to task for using language, particularly vulgar language related to female body parts, in their blog entries, a practice that she notes tends to discourage some readers (particularly women) from participating in the conversation. In Pleasantly ignorant, she objects to Joshua Micah Marshall’s use of…

  • BlogOn techie backchannel flap aftermath

    One of the people I met during BlogOn whose blogging I admire is Sean Bonner, but I do remember being puzzled when posted to the irc backchannel something about how “the cameraman is an ass.” I posted “Hey, that’s Scot Hacker. He’s a friend of mine and he’s a great guy.” The reply was something…

  • Buzznet's BlogOn moblog

    Some nice candids from the conference. We’re in the final session (“Who’s investing in social media?”) and Anna Zomosa just asserted that craigslist is “making millions.” At the lunch break I got into an interesting conversation with Buzz Bruggeman (no relation to Buzznet…) who demoed me his fascinated ActiveWords product for Windows. Sadly, this meant…