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…