Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • "bookmark this" hack for del.ici.ous

    Quoting from bookmark this: I’ve added a little bit of code to add a “Bookmark This” link on every post, next to the Comments link, which allows you to kick the user over to to the del.icio.us posting page. There are two pieces to this little hack. First, you can link to http://del.icio.us/post with a…

  • Time to stop pinging blo.gs?

    At least till we know who bought blo.gs, I’m not sure I want to pinging them: Blo.gs has been sold to an unnamed individual and will transfer ownership, including account information and user data, sometime on or around June 13. Blo.gs is a directory of recently updated weblogs. It is “pinged” by virtually every public…

  • Typo – minimalist blogging engine

    Typo “provides a fast and easy way to start a weblog and manage it with a rich desktop client application like MarsEdit or ecto.”

  • Finally, a replacement for bloglet

    This is what I’ve been waiting for: Rmail – subscribe to any RSS feed by e-mail Reader John Tropea has pointed out a new RSS e-mail subscription service called Rmail. I’ve set it up at right to replace the dysfunctional Bloglet. When you enter your e-mail address in the box and click Subscribe, it will…

  • Assessing blog authority

    Summarizing from How To Measure A Blogger’s Popularity And Reach: The Big Jump – Robin Good’ Sharewood Tidings: Check her Technorati standing. [F]ind out (not always possible, but you can also ask directly) how many subscribers the online publication has. Check whether the person makes her traffic statistics publicly viewable. Do some basic Google searches…

  • Mac OS X "Tiger" to ship with built-in blog system?

    Quoting from Blogging and Ping-O-Matic built into Mac OS X “Tiger” In Ping-O-Matic in Blojsom we learn that Tiger will ship with Blojsom, a Java based mutli-user blogging system. And Blojsom has built in support for Ping-O-Matic. Nice. I wonder how Apple will package it up. Will blogging be one of the sleeper features in…