Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Getting rid of pop-ups

    Does anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial that walks through converting default MT templates to ones that use no popups for either comments or trackbacks? I always find it easier to follow a trustworthy checklist than reinvent the wheel, however, this isn’t brain surgery, so check this: Make sure the comment form on the…

  • There's also the 'memes' category

    Another place the Onion article could be listed is under Memes, which is a safe place to stow any link that is currently riding the popularity charts in the blogosphere… So, there are some unanswered questions embedded in earlier entries. I’ll try to sift them out soon, but they include deciding if having our editorial…

  • Tech writer changes her mind about blogs

    After dismissing weblogging as just another technology-assisted fad, writer Chris Shipley has reconsidered and started writing a blog herself himself (actually, two blogs, both listed at Shipley’s website). In The Blog Nation, Shipley cites several reasons why she he now believes weblogs are a publishing medium with innovative potential. Among them, she he says, is…

  • Dealing with duplicate pings

    Weblogs often generate multiple trackback pings to the same entry. This is usually because a timeout in the initial ping caused the process to fail to acknowledge, so the sending weblog tries again next time the user updates the entry. To avoid sending out duplicate pings, if you get an error after posting, go to…

  • Help with comment permalinks

    OK, I wanted the comments block on the home page to link to recent comments “filchyboy on Is linking like sex” etc. The problem is that the comment links just go to the entry and don’t scroll down automatically to the specific comment’s permalink. I was poking around the templates documentation and I saw that…

  • Extreme customization

    Anyone who’s worked with UserTalk, Frontier, Manila, or Radio knows that there’s a lot of impressive power packed into these tools and also a lot of idiosyncrasies. The software is ideological in the sense that it reflects the choices and preferences and decisions of mainly one programmer and software architect, Dave Winer: In software your…

  • Photos from Joi's dinner

    I just put up a gallery of photos from Joi Ito’s November 11, 2003, dinner in San Francisco. I also blogged about the dinner at Radio Free Blogistan, which is now a group weblog.

  • Incoming!

    As Rayne noted to me in email this morning, we were hit with comment spam this morning. The only new thing about this is that it’s now hitting on articles I didn’t author, so I don’t necessarily see the email notification. We have Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist installed, so all comment notification comes with a link…

  • What social software is Joi?

    Had big fun at Joi Ito’s dinner in San Francisco last night. The restaurant, LuLu, printed up special menus for the occasion. Of course I stupidly forgot to grab myself one. I did take a bunch of digiphotos and maybe some of them even came out. I’ll post them sometime today. Too bad Zack Rosen…

  • RFB InfoArch

    Information architecture (IA) is just a fancy term for organizational structure. Here are some things on my RFB IA to do list: soonly 1. Reorg home page 2. Tweak categories eventually 3. full site inventory 4. sitemap 5. review navigation 6. review nomenclature 7. search templates 8. external connections TO ADD author pages monthly calendar…

  • Logos, drafts, syndication, and privacy

    filch, I’d love to see your futurismistic logo ideas and see if Liza and you can get any synergy going. I noticed that draft. Are you still going to flesh it out? By QuickPost, you guys are talking about the TypePad bookmarklet? I didn’t realize it could post to MT blogs as well? I have…

  • Posting drafts

    Re Blogistan Editorial: ARGGH!: i usually use quickposts to create drafts that i then work out into full posts. is there any reason why i cannot keep a draft in RFB? No, there is nothing preventing you except that by default new posts are set to Publish unless you override and specify Draft. You should…

  • Catching up

    First of all, I think I will turn on comments by default after all, since there’s no reason not to use that system for followups in the future Re Liza’s questions (Blogistan Editorial: When it rains it pours): 1. When I make new sites I always start anew with logos. It just sets the tone,…

  • Diego Doval's introduction to weblogs

    Diego Doval has come up with one of the better (succinct, insightful) primers on weblogging and syndication in his d2r: an introduction to weblogs in two parts (so far). They’re canonical!

  • Comment spam

    Andrew, no worries. Just a reminder. Hey, everyone should know that comments generate email notification sent only to the author of the given post, so we won’t know about each other’s comments unless we happen to click the comment links on the blog and read them ourselves. I’ve got MT-blacklist installed on this server, so…

  • Don't forget categories!

    Andrew, your Clark post should be filed under Politics…

  • Kalsey declares war on comment spammers

    Adam Kalsey is forming a posse to go after comment spammers. He has written a manifesto declaring comment spammers personae non gratae in the blogosphere and invites us all to sign the manifesto by commenting on his blog or sending a trackback ping, and by writing tutorials teaching each other how to track, identify, and…

  • Adding BlogThis! to the Google Deskbar

    Jason Shellen’s got a hack that will add a Blogger bookmarklet-type button to the new Google Deskbar. Now, who will do the same for MovableType, Radio, pMachine, LiveJournal, AOL Journals, Lycos blogs, etc.? (phew!) [via BuzzMachine]

  • The RFB logo

    Well, first of all the name Radio Free Blogistan was meant to conjure up images of the US broadcasting Radio Free Europe and other propaganda stations into the Soviet-dominated region during the cold war. I think at first I was going to make RFB a political blog, and I thought the idea was like sending…

  • Job of the future: ghostblogger

    Robert Scoble, Longhorn evenagelist and MS-koolaid-blogger says that he’d love to writes Bill Gates’ blog: Christopher Coulter asked me “Scoble, what’s your dream job?” I answered: “next to being Bill Gates, I imagine there wouldn’t be a job I’d love more than being Bill Gates ghost weblogger.” Course, if I +did+ get that job, I…

  • Comment spam daily

    Does any one have any idea why someone would post a random comment on this blog featuring a link to fda.gov? Who would that benefit? It makes no sense to me. Once again, though, I feel compelled to acknowledge that Jay Allen’s MT-blacklist rocks.