Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • LA Press Club blog panel

    LA Voice has the scoop.

  • Blogger gets the final say

    I mentioned a week or so ago that my partner, Briggs Nisbet, was discovered by the story editor of the New York Times magazine on the basis of the garden-related weblog, True Dirt that she cowrites with Richard Frankel. We were visiting Rich and Martha over the weekend and Briggs flipped through the Sunday Magazine…

  • Getting a word in, edgewise

    A bit of shameless self-promotion is called for from time to time. I mean, hell, I didn’t even pimp my last few web-development books on this site much now did I? Plus, for a nanopublisher, I’m remarkably unconcerned with the flow of money beyond the realm of between break even and acceptable losses, so hear…

  • Sam Ruby calls for RSS/Atom détente

    Sam Ruby suggests that there is no one-size-fits-all syndication format and recommends a spirit of cooperation and mutual support to the extent possible.

  • Metapinging via ping-o-matic

    As the list of sites you notify of your updates grows, you can consolidate it somewhat by pinging the Ping-o-Matic

  • Paging Rogers Cadenhead

    First of all, I am rewriting this because I drafted it yesterday and then needed to reboot my browser (it was Mozilla at the time) and forgot/failed/missed the chance to copy-and-paste the draft to a safer place. In the past I’d have used kung-log, now ecto, to keep the user experience a little more desktoppy,…