Category: Radio Free Blogistan
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Bloggers as freelance ombudspeople
Mark Glazer reports on the surprising responsiveness of some newspapers to corrections and complaints from webloggers in OJR article: To Their Surprise, Bloggers Are Force for Change in Big Media.
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Fractal view of blog power law
In The Fractal Blogosphere at Read/Write Web, Richard MacManus proposes that bloggers not worry too much about the popular/unpopular dichotomy suggested by most common interpretations of the various power laws that govern linking and traffic among blogs (and frankly in any linked network of any kind at all), but instead pick a scale that makes…
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Purple-numberize any site
PurpleSlurple can slurp up any web page and add purple numbers to each paragraph (that is, paragraph-level permalinks). For example, here’s RFB purpleslurplerized: Purpled Blogistan. (via Jonas Luster)
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WordPress 1.2 available
WordPress 1.2 is out. What I wouldn’t give for comment moderation! (via Scripting News)
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Blogs gone wild
Chris Pirillo has launched a bogging network at Lockergnome.net. Looks like a private-label instance of Tucows’ Blogware oroduct. Looks like Chris has moved his personal blog from MT over to Blogware as well (though there’s no credit back-link, so you have to divine that fact by actually reading his entries).
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Comparison of server-side blog tools
If you are deciding whether to upgrade to MT 3.0 or switch to another self-hosted service, the Blog Software Breakdown chart might help you sort out your decision.