Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Boing Boing publishes hearsay

    Over at Uncle John’s blog we’ve been covering the recent Deadhead controversy in a teapot concerning the removal (or rather, prevention of downloading) of 2300 Grateful Dead shows from the Live Music Archive. There are many theories and suppositions floating out there about what motivated the change in policy, as well as a fair amount…

  • Blogging from New Orleans

    My friends Steve and Elizabeth are blogging the reconstruction of New Orleans from within the city: Inside the Bowl. We stay with them when we go to Jazz Fest (nearly every year), and we were very worried about them when the flood and hurricane hit. They evacuated successfully and their house wasn’t harmed, and they’ve…

  • Subscribe to an email digest of RFB

    Bloglet is dead, long live FeedBlitz. I’m trying out a new email-subscription service on this blog. If it works right I’ll probably add it to all my blogs. It seems pretty straightforward. If you’re interested, scan down the sidebar for the section called “Subscribe to RFB” and submit your email address. Then let me know…

  • MIT blog survey results now two months overdue

    What’s up with the MIT Weblog Survey?

  • Chris Nolan's 'Spot-On'

    I meant to blog about this as soon as I heard, but better late than never. Chris Nolan has rebranded and relaunched her journalistic group weblog (time to update those RSS feeds…). It’s now called Spot-On. The new design is polished and handles the ads much more gracefully. Chris Nolan is the site’s editor (and…

  • Verisign acquires the Weblogs.Com ping server

    Confusingly, the news about Verisign buying weblogs.com from Dave Winer hit the wires at about the same time as the news about AOL buying the WeblogsInc.com blog network (referred to in the Times simply as “Weblogs”) from Jason Calacanis. I hope this isn’t Bubble 2.0! Congratulations to Dave for finding a stable home for an…