Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • "MSN Spaces is people!"

    Obligatory MSN hosted blogging service post, autoquoting from MSN Spaces = soylent green Xeni Jardin: Updated. Today, Microsoft launches their free hosted blogging platform, spaces.msn.com. What effect the service will have on Blogger, TypePad, Userland, and the like is, predictably, a subject of great debate. The service is free, and seems aimed squarely at home…

  • Microsoft blogging service about to launch

    Quoting from Scripting News: Mary Jo: “Microsoft’s MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week, according to sources close to the company.”

  • MT3 Bible available!

    Rogers Cadenhead’s portable, affordable Movable Type 3 Bible Desktop Edition is now available from Wiley. I’d love to get my greasy little fingers on a copy of this book!

  • Disclosing blog sponsors

    Now that Marc Canter is spearheading a kind of transparent blog-payola system for compensating bloggers, the issue of full disclosure of one’s sponsors and or influences seems all the more important. For example, here is the disclosure about the ZeroDegrees sponsorship of the new Operating Manual for Social Tools weblog: About The Project: ZeroDegrees has…

  • The case of the missing comments

    So this weird thing happened over the weekend. Somehow, Monday morning, none of my bloggers were able to post to any of the blogs I host with Movable Type. And MT was acting strange in other ways. It listed each of my hosted blogs as having no comments at all. Actually, it didn’t list 0…

  • How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) – Engadget – www.engadget.com ++

    Engagdget published a guide to podcasting (time-shifted syndicated online audio/radio type content developed and popularized by Dave Winer and Adam Curry) by Phillip Torrone back in October of this year (pretty fast out of the gate): Quoting from How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) : This week’s How-To is…