Category: Radio Free Blogistan
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What's more important than blogging?
David Neiwert discusses a blogger’s hiatus and the kinds of things in life that are more important than blogging. He also talks about how blogging fits into his current writer/father life. His blog, Orcinus, is essential reading and I think he should know that it’s not at all maddening for him to be updating the…
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Traditional weblog values
Jay Rosen of NYU’s J-school follows up his recent post delineating what’s radical about the weblog form (for journalism) with one listing ten ways (I won’t call them commandments) in which the weblog form in journalism is conservative.
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Robert Scoble, human aggregrator
Have you been Scobleized? Tristan Cartony: “I no longer require any news aggregators because I found an all purpose one called Scoble.” Heh, who said I’m not customizable? Want me to watch a feed for you? Let me know. Also, if you don’t see your weblog on the sidebar to the right, let me know…
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Where are the bloggers over 50?
Janet of out of my mind asks, “Where are the blogs by persons over 50?” In reply, I’d suggest checking out the ageless project. Currently, the first 23 people listed give birthdays over 50 years before today. Janet, if you read this, one that jumps out from the list is wood s lot, born only…
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Journalist fired for blog post
It looks like Gregg Easterbrook’s recent blog column (“Tuesday Morning Quarterback”) that singled out the executives behind Kill Bill as Jews, holding them to a higher moral standard than Christian executives has resulted in him losing his job. Atrios is covering the story from the political angle: It appears that Easterbrook’s TMQ column has been…
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Combatting linkrot in MT
Brad DeLong quotes Kevin Drum (“What a mess. A combination of host problems and Movable Type fragility wiped out my site for the entire day. I’d bore you with all the details, but I’m too pissed off right now to write about it. … Also, all my permalinks changed during the reconstruction process, so if…