Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • The blogger lifecycle

    MJ nails the lifecycle of a blogger. It’s almost painfully accurate.

  • Origins of blog software applications

    an interesting discussion in the Textpattern support forum pulls together statements from the creators of Greymatter, Movable Type, and Radio Userland describing the genesis of each application. What’s fascinating is how different they are. Someone should gather analogous statements about Blogger, Textpattern, WordPress, and so on.

  • My new job

    Well, I promised to spill the beans as soon as I could and since I’m here in the office today at Extractable, I guess it’s safe to go public. I’m not sure what my exact title is or will be. It might be senior information architect, or strategist, or content monkey, or whatever, but I’ll…

  • Steve Rubel foresees 'Save as RSS' in Word

    Quoting from Is Microsoft Gearing Up for “Save as RSS?”: Microsoft is switching to XML as the default format for Office files, Reuters reports. Let’s hope this means we’ll get a save as RSS functionality in Word. ‘twould be nice.

  • Spam blogs taking over weblogs.com?

    TNH at Making Light analyzes One minute’s worth of weblogs I found Weblogs.com because I’d gotten exasperated with Technorati and was looking for something more reliable. Which is not to say that I succeeded, because Weblogs.com is a useless site. What it gives you is a single flat unadorned list of weblogs that’ve updated that…

  • Update on my job search

    Well, I haven’t entirely succeeded at playing out this whole job search thing in public. First of all, thanks to everyone who linked to my original entry going public with my search, and everyone who’s given me advice or passed my resume along to their contacts. Not surprisingly, however, I’ve found that it’s been prudent…