Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • You lose 300 tons and what do you get?

    Please allow me to aggrandize myself, but my Monkey Vortex cohorts have scripted and produced a two-minute playlet called Sympathy for the W. I was given a cowriting credit but that overstates the case. That is me on lead vocals, though. I know, I know. Don’t quit your day job. Cruel of you to say…

  • Jerome Armstrong profiled in VT

    Jessamyn “the librarian” West tipped me off to this article on Jerome in his local paper: The Blogger: One Vermonter’s Internet ax-grinding attracts national attention. (Jessamyn also gets a plug in the article’s sidebar.)

  • Ben and Mena in the Wall Street Journal

    WSJ.com – Folksy No More, Blogger Firm Taps Big Clients: Michael Pusateri, vice president of engineering at Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, a division of Walt Disney Co., used Movable Type for his personal blog. Then he realized that technicians in his group could use a blog to update each other daily on the condition…

  • Deep thinking on folksonomies and a stream of photos from Iraq

    Geodog has summed up a lot Late night thoughts on browsing the Iraq tag on Flickr One of the most striking developments in the web over the last year has been the sudden popularity of sites like Furl, Flickr and Del.icio.us, where users can categorize the data or photos they save with keywords, more colloquially…

  • Help Kos write his Guardian column

    Markos is thinking about discussing Furious George‘s debate performance in his Guardian co,umn, but he’s not sure that’s the most effective way to help his British readers understand the U.S. presidential election. he’s asked the Daily Kos community to give him advice and suggestions about what to write. (His deadline seems to be this evening.)

  • MarsEdit UI notes

    At inessential.com Brent Simmons explains some of the user-interface design decisions that went into his new MarsEdit weblog-posting product for Mac OS X. (It is in beta currently and is free for paid-up users of NetNewsWire.) It’s a pretty good tool although being in beta it still has a few flakey behaviors. My recent flurry…