Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • zorca interviews xian

    Suzanne Stefanac is writing a book on blogging called Dispatches from Blogistan (catchy title, eh?) for Peachpit / New Riders. Naturally, she’s been blogging the whole process and posting snippets of work in progress and the texts of interviews she’s conducted for the book. I know Suzanne from The Well, where I host the blog…

  • A new painting every day

    A year and a half ago I posted an entry at Telegraph called Daily Practices, in which I linked to a blog called A Painting a Day and wrote: One of my favorite applications of the weblogging medium is a daily practice. My first bloglike thing was a daily journal called Breathing Room that I…

  • Splog software

    I found one of my recent posts appropriated (plagiarized) at a clickfraud spam blog called Christian-radio, hosted or created by a tool called BlogSolution that appears to be designed to create splogs. Welcome back my friends, to the tragedy of the commons that never ends.

  • Get Real 2.0

    For readers of RFB who don’t follow my Power of Many blog, I just want to point out that I’ve taken the “Get Real” philosophy of 37 Signals and turned it up to 11.

  • How much to disclose?

    The whole idea of living your life partly on the web, partly in public brings to mind new subtleties to the boundary between public and private. There are all kinds of shades of gray, nuances between what’s utterly private and what we are comfortable sharing with everyone on the planet. Meanwhile, the available tools are…

  • Goodbye to all track (backs)

    Phil Gyford has had it up to *here* with trackbacks and has decided to abandon them entirely. Phil (am I the only one who wants to write his name Phyl?) has redesigned his site from the ground up. It’s looking very Bauhaus.