Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • RSS feeds for Channel Z nodes?

    This is a question for Dave Winer but maybe Andrew Grumet or someone else who has insight into Dave’s latest innovations in weblog concepts could take a stab at it too: I assume each of the nodes in the aggregator hierarchy will have RSS feeds (or may already have XML renderings available)? The XML icons…

  • Tweaking the sidebar here

    I figured the link back to RFB proper should be bigger and easier to click on, so I sort of combined two sidebar-title/sidebar elements from before.

  • Template access

    filchyboy, you now have access to the templates at RFB. Anyone else want in? Please everyone check around before trying out changes. Best to demo them over here first as Liza will be doing. filchy, i didn’t give you config access. Do you need that?

  • Are blogs a new form of virtual community?

    Dr. Anita Blanchard has published a preliminary analysis of a proposition that blogs may be a new form of virtual community, based on a studio of the Julie/Julia Project Salon blog: This research provides an initial look into the complicated topic of blogs as virtual communities. For many readers, the Julie/Julia Project is simply an…

  • Now I have two problems

    I’m trying to get the hang of the mod_rewrite module of my Apache web server. This enables me to trap certain URLs or patterns of URLs and rewrite them to point somewhere different on the back end. This has two practical benefits: It makes migration from an old path or permalink scheme much easier to…

  • Real Live Preacher has a book deal

    Hugely popular pseudonymous Salon blogger Real Live Preacher announced that he has been offered a book deal with Eerdmans (he also had an offer from Jossey-Bass): What does this mean for the blog? Chuck and I agree that the blog must continue. If I didn’t have the blog driving me, I’d just go back to…