Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Afghan blogger, read all about it

    Quoting from Buzzmachine: Free speech spreads: The first Afghan blog. [via IraqTheModel and Tim Oren] My name is Waheed. I am a 20 year old male from Afghanistan and I have been working with the US Army in Kabul, Afghanistan as an interpreter for the last 2 years…. During the Taliban we didn’t have internet…

  • Metaspam

    I don’t know how well the Web Spam Squashing Summit went, but Dave Sifry’s blog post announcing it is currently overrun with spam comments.

  • Spammers exploiting Blogspot

    In A Whole Lotta Nothing: Blogspot is hurting America, Matt Haughey points out that Google’s blog hosting service is becoming part of the typical spammer’s infrastructure. Given that the quest for page rank also underlies most of the problems with comment and trackback spam, isn’t it about time Google started closing some of these loopholes?…

  • MT 3 stalling on rebuild

    I upgraded most of the sites I publish or host to Movable Type 3.15 a few weeks ago and for the most part the transition was fairly painless, but for some reason the Edgewise blog gives me trouble when I try to rebuild older pages. That is, new posts go up as they should, but…

  • Odeo is Ev's next big thing

    Looks like Ev is done finding himself and actually has a new business plan in the can: evhead: How Odeo Happened Speaking of podcasting, I’m having trouble getting one working for Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. I installed the MT-enclosure plug-in to make the RSS feeds produce the correct enclosure information, and that part seems to…

  • Blogging as a public relations skill

    B.L. Ochman’s tips on How To Write Killer Blog Posts are geared toward’s PR professionals but are general enough to apply across the board to blogging. In fact, isn’t all blogging a form of public relations? Don’t we all need to write pithy headlines and grabby leads if we want the public to notice and…