Category: Radio Free Blogistan

One of the addictive things about this Radio infrastructure is the referers and rankings pages. I got an endorphin rush yesterday watching my hits rise to second place yesterday as the Scripting News links propogated out across the ‘sphere. Today I seem to have settled back to about No. 5 or 6, with 6 also…

Travelling upstream from my referrer logs I’ve found a lot of disdain for this Salon experiment in the established blogosphere. Some see it as a money grab by a old-school “fuckedcompany” dotcom. Others see it as a condescending evolution of the tired journalists vs. bloggers meme (which Rosenberg has addressed directly in his keystone blog).…

William Grosso writes about the evolution of blogging in his O’Reilly Network Blog today.

Here’s another difference: fee structure. Radio Userland costs money. I assume Salon and UserLand will split the fee for these blogs? Anyone can start a LiveJournal for free as long as they can get a code from an existing LJer. However, it’s also possible to pay for LJ (I’ve done so) to obtain access to…

A lot of lively discussion is going on in the comments. Here are some more that deserve front-page status: Comments in response to this post: hello. i’ve been using radio since february, and i think i can answer some of your questions. i’m sure if i get some of it wrong, somebody will step in,…

V. Kamat sent me these references through the Salon.com community server: FYI: Blog Related Links: Merged Blog (many Blogs each with its own template on one page) AutoBlog (Manufactured Blogs) Anatomy of a Blogging Engine Thanks!