Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Analysis of the blog software trends

    Ben Franske is surveying the blog-software landscape. (Note: I’ve been on a bit of a web hiatus for the last week or so, since my book just shipped to the printer and I’ve needed to catch up on rest, exercise, bills, mail, email, and so on. I should be back in the saddle more completely…

  • Liza, let's flip the switch

    Let’s update the modules and flip over to your awesome design and then ask readers to beta test it for us on their browsers? I want to get all the Mediajunkie blogs up to the best possible standards of 2.661 installs, and then think seriously about MT 3.0 vs. WordPress vs. Scoop vs. Drupal. I’m…

  • Insert quip about reverse-engineering USENET here

    Laura Lemay isn’t the first person to point out that the blogosphere seems to be gradually reinventing the USENET netnews feature set (feeds == usenet), but it’s fun to read her make these points: Why am I noting these things? Issues of distributing news in either a one-to-many fashion or peer-to-peer, or of uniquely identifying…

  • I too wish Deborah Tannen had a blog

    Is it hte political season that makes me blog more about journalism in this blog about blogging? Doc Searls has some interesting thoughts and pointers aobut how the press reports and conceal: Say No More.

  • Newspaper publishes entire month of weblogging by Brian Dear

    I was half tempted to call Brian Dear by the name most journalists give him in their haste, Brian Storms, (because his blog is of course named brianstorms as a play on the word brainstorms) but I resisted the urge. That reminded me of when the band Brian Brain was playing somewhere like King Tut’s…

  • Kevin Drum blogs the LA blog panel

    One way to view Kevin Drum’s (still relatively) new gig blogging for The Washington Monthly is that they have turned over their front page to his old CalPundit persona. Another way of looking at it is that they bought up all the ad space around his blogging, becoming in effect his sole sponsor. Maybe we’re…