Category: Radio Free Blogistan
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Afghan blogger, read all about it
Quoting from Buzzmachine: Free speech spreads: The first Afghan blog. [via IraqTheModel and Tim Oren] My name is Waheed. I am a 20 year old male from Afghanistan and I have been working with the US Army in Kabul, Afghanistan as an interpreter for the last 2 years…. During the Taliban we didn’t have internet…
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Metaspam
I don’t know how well the Web Spam Squashing Summit went, but Dave Sifry’s blog post announcing it is currently overrun with spam comments.
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Spammers exploiting Blogspot
In A Whole Lotta Nothing: Blogspot is hurting America, Matt Haughey points out that Google’s blog hosting service is becoming part of the typical spammer’s infrastructure. Given that the quest for page rank also underlies most of the problems with comment and trackback spam, isn’t it about time Google started closing some of these loopholes?…
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MT 3 stalling on rebuild
I upgraded most of the sites I publish or host to Movable Type 3.15 a few weeks ago and for the most part the transition was fairly painless, but for some reason the Edgewise blog gives me trouble when I try to rebuild older pages. That is, new posts go up as they should, but…
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Odeo is Ev's next big thing
Looks like Ev is done finding himself and actually has a new business plan in the can: evhead: How Odeo Happened Speaking of podcasting, I’m having trouble getting one working for Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. I installed the MT-enclosure plug-in to make the RSS feeds produce the correct enclosure information, and that part seems to…
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Blogging as a public relations skill
B.L. Ochman’s tips on How To Write Killer Blog Posts are geared toward’s PR professionals but are general enough to apply across the board to blogging. In fact, isn’t all blogging a form of public relations? Don’t we all need to write pithy headlines and grabby leads if we want the public to notice and…
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Kottke at the mercy of his readers
Jason Kottke, one of the best-loved personal bloggers, has quit his job and is soliciting donations from readers so he can pursue his dream, Doing kottke.org as a full-time job. It should be interesting to see whether his very large audience contains enough supporters to enable him to make a go of it. I’m not…
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Migrating from Movable Type to TypePad
Quoting from Migration to TypePad, in which Brad De Long notes that Chuq Von Rospach is moving Teal Sunglasses and his other weblogs to TypePad: Old Internet Mountain Man Chuq Van Rospach is moving his weblogs to Typepad: Teal Sunglasses: blogquake! (ch-ch-ch-changes….): I’ve finally decided on what I want to do. Really — no, honest,…
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Easy as 1-2-3 … 49-50-51
How To Start Your Very Own Blog In Fifty-One Easy Steps! (kuro5hin.org)
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WikiNews to chat with bloggers
Jimmy Wales is inviting bloggers to
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Welcome, BlogCruiser readers
These days its hard to keep track of all the blogs on blogging out there. BlogCruiser is a weblog that reviews blogs. They recently checked us out and awarded us nine stars (BlogCruiser: Radio Free Blogistan). Thanks! Glad to hear the design is pleasant though I have some ideas for changing it. We have managed…
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Alternatives to Bloglet
I’ve long thought that blogs/RSS and email need to interoperate more smoothly. The problems generally revolve around text formatting issues, but there’s no good reason why one shouldn’t be able to get RSS via email easily, post to blogs via email easily, etc. In fact, Blogger offers both email input and output as a basic…
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Post early and often
Duncan Riley from the Blog Herald has it write. Some the best ways to drive up blog traffic are to post in (or before) the morning (for your main audience) and post frequently.
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Annotating the Winer/Trippi podcast
Over at Civilities, Jon Garfunkel has done provided us all a useful service by partly transcribing and commenting on the recent Dave Winer interview of Joe Trippi that deals with Zephyr Teachout’s take on the Dean campaign’s hiring of Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas as consultants (Dissecting the Most Important Podcast Interview to Date). Disclosure:…
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Ten important ideas about blogging (and legacy media)
How to Save the World delivers another trenchant run-down on the state of blogging and the media as a whole.
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Move Over, Blog Herald
Blogosphere News seems to be doing a good job of covering the weblog beat (you know, the way we used to do here?).
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More details on 6A's acquisition of LJ
Livejournal confirms the rumored sale to Six Apart (via Waxy.org Links): Mena discusses the purchase, and Six Apart’s Livejournal FAQ and press release
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Six Apart to buy Livejournal!?
Six Apart to buy Livejournal!? “holy crap!,” says Andy Baio [via] Holy consolidation, batman, says I.