Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Wanted: Bayesianly faceted weblog

    Categories and the rest of the presentation and grouping issues that come up with heavy microcontent streams are a metacrap problem. It’s (always) too complicated. Let the computer figure out when I’m jotting in my writer’s journal, when I’m commenting on something I experienced, when I’m discussing work or politics or my new book or…

  • Nanopub metaconsciousness

    Jason Calacanis is annoyed with Duncan Riley at Weblog Hype The Blog Herald for stiffing Weblogsinc Network (WIN) in his news coverage, particularly during this recent wave of news about the nanopublishing war between Calacanis’s WIN and Denton’s Gawker Media.

  • Curious about the Well?

    Let me take a cue from Bruce Umbaugh and extend this invitation to our readers here: Friends are invited to join The WELL: The WELL, one of the most cherished and original online social gathering places, has engaged, informed, enraged and transformed people from around the globe since 1985. On April 1 our community –…

  • Need help installing Scoop

    So close, and yet so far. The install.pl script for Scoop is pretty dang amazing. Here’s what apachectl says when I ask it to do configtest: PerlSetVar takes two arguments, Perl config var and value Whuzza? UPDATE: OK, that was dumb. If I’d followed the instructions I could have avoided the above error. Thanks to…

  • Halley Suitt, Worthwhile blogmistress

    I missed this announcement until I saw a link to it from Susan Mernit’s Navigating the Info Jungle (that’s what I get for catching a cold and catching up on most blogs in one- or two-week chunks): Halley Suitt of the marvelous Halley’s Comment blog is involved in starting a new work-positive magazine called Worthwhile…

  • MediaMorphosis conference blog and feedpaper

    The American Press Institute has something called the Media Center and this entity is currently hosting a conference called MediaMorphosis. Susan Mernit is running a conference blog for the conference called morph and the conference’s home page also includes a link to a custom Feedster Mediamorphosis Conference Feedpaper on-the-fly aggregration of any references to the…