Category: Nanopublishing

A bit of shameless self-promotion is called for from time to time. I mean, hell, I didn’t even pimp my last few web-development books on this site much now did I? Plus, for a nanopublisher, I’m remarkably unconcerned with the flow of money beyond the realm of between break even and acceptable losses, so hear…

I publish 21 noncommercial blogs with 19 other authors besides myself, in combinations ranging from a single-author journal to a political weblog with up to 15 contributors.

Hey, I said to filchyboy, I know I haven’t been posting much lately. I got book deadlines. Whine, whine. No, he said, check out the new pricing structure for Movable Type. What is going to happen to your publishing empire? I guess we won’t be upgrading from 2.661 anytime soon if it will cost me…

When we expanded the contributors to this blog to include five of us, we started an editorial weblog where we could discuss structure, redesign, policies, and so on. We made it a password-protected separate blog and frankly it sucked. Most of us didn’t bother to check into enough and I’ve come to realize that secretive…

I was playing around with some of the implementations of Steven Johnson’s “googleshare” concept (What’s xian’s googleshare of ‘blogistan’, ‘mediajunkie’, ‘nanofame’) and I found I had to exclude a word (starts with nanot–) to avoid references to a nanotech research site called NanoFAME and get a more meaningful measurement. The good news is that xian’s…

I spy in my referrer logs with my little eye an incoming link from alpha. kinja. com/ user/ nick. You may recall that Kinja (née Lafayette) is Gawker Media’s “blog of all blogs” projects headed up by Meg Hourihan. They must be getting close to having something useful to decloak. I wonder who they will…

Categories and the rest of the presentation and grouping issues that come up with heavy microcontent streams are a metacrap problem. It’s (always) too complicated. Let the computer figure out when I’m jotting in my writer’s journal, when I’m commenting on something I experienced, when I’m discussing work or politics or my new book or…

Jason Calacanis is annoyed with Duncan Riley at Weblog Hype The Blog Herald for stiffing Weblogsinc Network (WIN) in his news coverage, particularly during this recent wave of news about the nanopublishing war between Calacanis’s WIN and Denton’s Gawker Media.

This has been a fallow period at RFB, even with the new contributors (we’re all head’s down these days, working, which is actually a good thing), but there are some things going on under the hood. When I added Rayne and Liza and filchyboy and Andrew to the roster, we started an editorial-discussion blog separate…

Please join me in welcoming four new contributors to Radio Free Blogistan: Andrew Bayer filchyboy Liza Sabater Rayne Today All have written extensively about weblogging on their own blogs and all have graciously consented to join my newly formed writing staff here at RFB. I’ll post brief bios soon and you can expect to see…

Back in September, my news aggregator page, Mediajunkie, picked up a link to a Gawker entry on a sushi memo being faxed and emailed around New York. A real-life (or fake?) parody of lawyerly lingo. Over a month later, the tale has made it into the New York Times, leading who knows how many people…

Hey, remember how Radio Free Blogistan used to include other stuff I had blogged elsewhere that wasn’t about blogging too? Well that’s now monolog. When I switched RFB over to a Movable Type backend, I resolved to turn it into a niche-focused blog. Embrace the metablogging, or at least quarantine it off into this one…

Nick Denton offers a good-natured, if tough, critique of Jason Calcanis’ business plan for Weblogs, Inc., inBlog empires. Denton thinks that the trade-publishing angle might bear fruit, but he doesn’t see revenue sharing as a particularly likely way to compensate authors, he offers some insightful observations about the value of branding to the individual writers,…

A friend of mine asked me if there are any pot blogs. A quick search found a reference to this Slash-style group weblog at Marijuana.Com and a number of topical blog entries, but that’s it. It seems like a natural for a personal blog. Or maybe a drugs blog in general. Maybe I should have…

This column by the Sacramento Bee’s ombudsman (Are Bee’s standards for Web lower than for print?) addresses two incidents, an unedited press release published under a byline, and some controversial assertions (OK, opinions), stated by columnist Daniel Weintraub in his overnight-sensation California Insider political weblog, with its sometimes minute-by-minute coverage of the twists and turn…

Well, first the New York blackout knocked all my sites off the air just in time for Fair and Balanced day, and then when the power came back to my server on Saturday all my domains came up except for radiofreeblogistan.com. Puzzled, I finally realized that by a cosmic coincidence, the domain name registration had…

One nice thing about the LazyWeb is that if you get tired of doing something, don’t worry about it. There are probably other people already out there doing it, possibly better than you were. I’m sort of in a dilemma with Radio Free Blogistan. I’ve put a lot of energy over the last year making…

I’m thinking of setting up a category called Definitions and then occasionally writing posts giving my take one “what is a weblog” and all the other jargon in this field. It’s a huge barrier to entry! Then I can link to them in the sidebar for new visitors too. I also plan to prune the…

Any time I end up back at a site I enjoy or admire but don’t subscribe to (as when searching for info on running perl from the OS X command line I found myself again at Daring Fireball) these days I try to decide on the spot whether to subscribe. I am adding John Gruber’s…

Today is Radio Free Blogistan’s first birthday, or one-year anniversary, or whatever you call a blogday. I started RFB on July 25, 2002. Cheers! I’ve just added Brad Choate’s MTOnThisDay plugin and cranked it up to 11, to list all posts from the previous year on the current day (if any). I’d like to bubble…

John Robb mentions that he’s no longer with UserLand. No real explanation and we may never see one. John’s got great ideas and he leads that K-logs discussion on his Yahoo list, so I’m sure he’ll land on his feet. In fact, I think I’ve come up with a topic I could anchor in his…