Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Who's blogging BlogOn

    According to this wiki page (BlogOn Eventspace – Blogging BlogOn), here are a few of the people blogging this conference (besides me): Jason McCabe Calacanis Heath Row, for FC Now

  • Social media = blogging + social networks?

    Chris Shipley is introducing Guidewire as a social media company, and she just defined social media as “media as a contact sport.” She says that Guidewire coined the term social media. Is that right? I know Mary Hodder’s been using a lot recently but I haven’t found the earliest online cite.

  • Is the convention just another conference, albeit a big one?

    Dave Winer picked up on something I wrote on the convention bloggers mailing list, talking partly out of m’ass, imagining that I will probably end up blogging the convention the same way I’ll blog the BlogOn conference and the nonprofit conference in San Francisco next month and a Supernova or a Seybold or what have…

  • Threaded blog comments via AIM

    Zacker has married AOL instant messenger to his blog’s comments AIM Comments (using, I assume CivicSpace or perhaps the main Drupal trunk?). I need a category like “interop” or “convergence” or maybe just “features”

  • I'm headed over to BlogOn now

    Maybe someone at BlogOn can help me with my upcoming Boston blog-marathon. I figured out why my conventionology index was showing all recent entries to Telegraph and not just my conventionology categories from various blogs. MT Global Listings doesn’t support categories. Ouch. I love that thing. It makes most of my sites work the way…

  • New Feedster interface coming

    While I’ve had my eye on Technorati and Kinja and Bloglines, Feedster has been hatching big plans: Micro Persuasion: Feedster to Launch New Way to View Blogs

  • BlogOn dinner invitation, Friday 23rd

    I’ve been asked to co-host a blogger dinner next Friday evening, July 23rd, in association with the BlogOn Conference’s blog. Yes, it’s BlogOn’s Blog’s Blogger Dinner by and for Bloggers, with a side of Blogging. I’m actually thrilled. My secret confession is that I like dinner parties better than panel discussions. The cool thing is…

  • Advice for bloggers at the Dem convention

    Anyone blogging the DNC, whether onsite or just watching the show on TV, would do well to read Jay Rosen’s analysis of the first two failed regimes of convention coverage (PressThink: Convention Coverage is a Failed Regime and Bloggers Have Their Credentials): Know your history, especially what happened to the first regime in convention coverage,…

  • to blog the Democratic National Convention

    for Edgewise, a political weblog,

  • and also

    for the weblog for my forthcoming book

  • From blogger to talking head

    Political Wire: Blogger Moves To TV: “That foul-mouthed red-haired vixen known as the Wonkette… has leveraged her popular political gossip site, Wonkette.com, into a gig with MTV News,” the Washington Post reports. “The network will announce today that it has hired Cox, 31, to cover all the incredible tension and excitement that is the Democratic…

  • Analysis of the blog software trends

    Ben Franske is surveying the blog-software landscape. (Note: I’ve been on a bit of a web hiatus for the last week or so, since my book just shipped to the printer and I’ve needed to catch up on rest, exercise, bills, mail, email, and so on. I should be back in the saddle more completely…

  • Liza, let's flip the switch

    Let’s update the modules and flip over to your awesome design and then ask readers to beta test it for us on their browsers? I want to get all the Mediajunkie blogs up to the best possible standards of 2.661 installs, and then think seriously about MT 3.0 vs. WordPress vs. Scoop vs. Drupal. I’m…

  • Insert quip about reverse-engineering USENET here

    Laura Lemay isn’t the first person to point out that the blogosphere seems to be gradually reinventing the USENET netnews feature set (feeds == usenet), but it’s fun to read her make these points: Why am I noting these things? Issues of distributing news in either a one-to-many fashion or peer-to-peer, or of uniquely identifying…

  • I too wish Deborah Tannen had a blog

    Is it hte political season that makes me blog more about journalism in this blog about blogging? Doc Searls has some interesting thoughts and pointers aobut how the press reports and conceal: Say No More.

  • Newspaper publishes entire month of weblogging by Brian Dear

    I was half tempted to call Brian Dear by the name most journalists give him in their haste, Brian Storms, (because his blog is of course named brianstorms as a play on the word brainstorms) but I resisted the urge. That reminded me of when the band Brian Brain was playing somewhere like King Tut’s…

  • Kevin Drum blogs the LA blog panel

    One way to view Kevin Drum’s (still relatively) new gig blogging for The Washington Monthly is that they have turned over their front page to his old CalPundit persona. Another way of looking at it is that they bought up all the ad space around his blogging, becoming in effect his sole sponsor. Maybe we’re…

  • LA Press Club blog panel

    LA Voice has the scoop.

  • Blogger gets the final say

    I mentioned a week or so ago that my partner, Briggs Nisbet, was discovered by the story editor of the New York Times magazine on the basis of the garden-related weblog, True Dirt that she cowrites with Richard Frankel. We were visiting Rich and Martha over the weekend and Briggs flipped through the Sunday Magazine…

  • Getting a word in, edgewise

    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…

  • Sam Ruby calls for RSS/Atom détente

    Sam Ruby suggests that there is no one-size-fits-all syndication format and recommends a spirit of cooperation and mutual support to the extent possible.