Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Welcome, BlogCruiser readers

    These days its hard to keep track of all the blogs on blogging out there. BlogCruiser is a weblog that reviews blogs. They recently checked us out and awarded us nine stars (BlogCruiser: Radio Free Blogistan). Thanks! Glad to hear the design is pleasant though I have some ideas for changing it. We have managed…

  • Alternatives to Bloglet

    I’ve long thought that blogs/RSS and email need to interoperate more smoothly. The problems generally revolve around text formatting issues, but there’s no good reason why one shouldn’t be able to get RSS via email easily, post to blogs via email easily, etc. In fact, Blogger offers both email input and output as a basic…

  • Post early and often

    Duncan Riley from the Blog Herald has it write. Some the best ways to drive up blog traffic are to post in (or before) the morning (for your main audience) and post frequently.

  • Technorati tags plug-in for MarsEdit

    The divine Laura Lemay has given us MarsEdit users a great shortcut for adding technorati tags as keywords. I’m going to add some as I post this (from a bookmarklet) and then reopen the post in MarsEdit to activate the key words. If and when it works, they will apear at the bottom of this…

  • Annotating the Winer/Trippi podcast

    Over at Civilities, Jon Garfunkel has done provided us all a useful service by partly transcribing and commenting on the recent Dave Winer interview of Joe Trippi that deals with Zephyr Teachout’s take on the Dean campaign’s hiring of Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas as consultants (Dissecting the Most Important Podcast Interview to Date). Disclosure:…

  • Ten important ideas about blogging (and legacy media)

    How to Save the World delivers another trenchant run-down on the state of blogging and the media as a whole.