Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • IranFilter: English-language group weblog

    Hossein Derakhshan (better known as ‘hoder’) of Editor: Myself posted an announcement to Blogroots about a new project, iranFilter, writing: iranFilter is a collective weblog in English, focused on news, reports and everything one can find about Iran on the Internet. Although the name can’t be more cliché, honestly, I couldn’t come up with a…

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  • Jarvis posts full text of Denton interview

    At BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis has posted the complete transcript of his interview with the New York Times reporter who wrote the article the other day about Nick Denton’s nanopublishing empire. It’s nice to get the complete context for Jarvis’s comments, not that he was quoted out of context or anything. Here’s a snatch: JARVIS: Weblogs…

  • Making this blog more useful

    OK, I added a direct link to the RFB home page to the top of the sidebar, got rid of the relatively useless calendar, and added a list of the last 17 entries to RFB with direct links to their individual archive pages. I also took the popup code off the home page of this…

  • Getting rid of pop-ups

    Does anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial that walks through converting default MT templates to ones that use no popups for either comments or trackbacks? I always find it easier to follow a trustworthy checklist than reinvent the wheel, however, this isn’t brain surgery, so check this: Make sure the comment form on the…

  • There's also the 'memes' category

    Another place the Onion article could be listed is under Memes, which is a safe place to stow any link that is currently riding the popularity charts in the blogosphere… So, there are some unanswered questions embedded in earlier entries. I’ll try to sift them out soon, but they include deciding if having our editorial…