Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Linkin' logs due for some rethinking

    At plasticbag.org Tom Coates has some ideas for how link logs should work in this day and age: So Paul Hammond created webkit2png which is a lovely little command-line script for a Mac that goes and grabs a full screenshot of a web-page – full length on the page. It can also do a variety…

  • The Invisible Cowgirl rides again

    Susannah Breslin, whose now-defunct Reverse Cowgirl blog still hovers near the all-time top list here among Salon Bloggers has got a new website up at The Invisible Cowgirl. Looks like her novel is about to come out. Congratulations, Susannah! (Via Xeni at BoingBoing.)

  • Ev resigns from Google's Blogger team

    In evhead: Next?, Evan Williams explains that he’s been on the startup dotcom treadmill for six years now and needs to work on some other aspects of his life. Sounds like a healthy move. He answers all of the inevitable questions in his post, debunking in advance any potential rumor of a shakeup or forceout.…

  • Blog pundits in the mix

    The Wall Street Journal quoted liberally (no pun intended) from a range of prominent political weblogs in its roundup of debate reactions culled equally from television and the print press (Shaping Opinions: Early Reactions From TV, Bloggers, Newspapers). Some examples from the newly influential Powerline and the always pithy Pandagon: Power Line: John H. Hinderaker…

  • Aggregator watch

    Clearing out an old TypePad test blog, I’m porting over some relevant comments from the beta, such as this one from when I noticed that there was no built-in aggregrator (I misplaced the date, but it was sometime in 2003 and I’m though filing a few others around their original datestamps in the RFB chronolog,…

  • You know you're obsessed with blogging when

    You lie about the size of your readership… in a dream.