Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Blogiversary

    Six years ago today I started a project of writing something live on the web every day. Back then we called that keeping an online journal or diary. Over time, what I was doing evolved, influenced by the software that started appearing, into something more closely resembling blogging. In fact, Breathing Room was preceded (by…

  • If you don't have a feed, you're not in my blogroll

    I’ve been having a devil of a time getting Radio to update the relevant include, so I finally did it manually, and now my blogroll is synchronized with my actual current syndicated-feed subscription list (at least within a few days). I’m using NetNewsWire as my newsfeed client (and for manually posting links and quotations to…

  • Song for Ben and Mena

    Shannon Campbell wrote a song called Your Own Dot Org for Ben and Mena Trott (the founders of Six Apart) at the behest of Joi Ito. You can download it from Shannon’s site, Pet Rock Star. Here’s the chorus: you’re unbelievably adorably cute benevolent, witty, and brilliant to boot you’re a stupid fool with your…

  • Bitchy sells

    Susan Mernit has an interesting theory about why there are so many more men than women in the lists of most linked-to blogs. Men are more willing, she says, to be opinionated and controversial: Guys rant on about politics, a topic the news junkies love. Women strive to be smart and insightful, but except for…

  • That's right, the women are smarter

    David Weinberger echoes Halley Suitt in asking why there are only three women among the top 100 blogs listed at Blogstreet: Halley wonders why maybe 3 of the top 100 bloggers are women: It’s clear that the top male bloggers are not denying women their blogroll inks, for the most part. It’s clear that the…

  • Sociotechnical problems to come

    Shelley Powers has resurfaced with a photo essay at Burningbird called I Feel Good. She covers a lot of ground, but this prediction jumped out at me: Next year is going to be a very bad year for the Net, and every weblogger, no matter who you’re hosted with, had better be ready to have…