Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Combatting linkrot

    Every now and then Kevin Drum at Calpundit puts in a little plea to other bloggers to take a few modest steps to avoid linkrot.

  • Slate diary based on Salon blog

    I noticed that Interns’ Diary (“Two medical interns examine their roles as healers while learning to be doctors”) was high on the Salon blog rankings charts last week with a huge traffic spike coming in the form of referrals from a Slate weeklong diary featuring Ingrid Katz and Alexi Wright, the two interns in question.…

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  • Gnomedex 4.0, Tahoe, late Sept.

    Chris Pirillo just sent a notice via orkut pre-announcing Gnomedex 4.0, which may not be the best conference for “we stopped drinking” geeks. I really wanted to go last year and my schedule didn’t permit. I think my late September is wide open, so chances are I will make it this time.

  • Blogging my book

    I can finally talk a little more about my current writing project, by far the most fascinating book I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on. The working title is The Power of Many and it’s about – broadly speaking (my publisher doesn’t want me to be too specific yet) – people networks with digital…

  • This social software stuff is tricky

    Wow, danah boyd took me to school (without naming any names, which was kind of her) and I’m learning a difficult lesson. Over at misbehaving.net, she writes in sexist jokes and Orkut invites about a note I sent to the group of people there marked as my “friends.” What happened was that I saw as…