Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • BlogShares was fun while it lasted

    Seyed Razavi announces that he is closing down BlogShares, since the effort to maintain it became unsustainable. So you can take the “listed on BlogShares” badge off your weblog any time now. [via Buzzmachine]

  • Shelley to the rescue

    Looks like Shelley Powers has addressed the exact trackback-ping-not-rebuilding-the-archive-page and thus not-showing-up-inline-automatically problem I was just noticing: Weblogging for Poets: Adding Trackback entries to individual archive pages BTW, we’d better get password protection going here soon, or make a conscious decision to leave this site visible to random visitors, because Andrew lists it among his…

  • An erudite law blogger

    I stumbled across an incredibly well written and thoughtful weblog lately, called unbillable hours. The author (TPB, Esq.) includes a long and entertaining biography that gives you a good idea of his education, cultural influences, and experiences – all of which inform his writing, which ranges from silly to serious. (His takedown of Kim du…

  • More trackback problems

    I saw that “life – listed chronologically” sent a trackback ping to Rayne’s latest post but it doesn’t show up on the archive page. My theory is that the page is not being rebuilt automatically as it is when comments are posted. To check this, I will rebuild the page manually. If the trackback appears,…

  • Spammers find MT's open relay

    Been busy holidayin’ and doing other stuff lately, so a lot of the basic substrate of blog news and blog gossip is passing unremarked. By now, most MT users probably know that Movable Type is vulnerable as an open spam relay. If you are not using the “mail this entry” feature, it is highly recommended…

  • Dating the next killer app?

    First of all, Happy Thanksgiving everyone, whether here in the U.S. or not. On this day where so many of us convene with our families and talk about or avoid talking about politics, religion, and sex, I find myself thinking about online dating. A lot of us are scratching our heads as we see venture…