Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Extending blogging with structure

    Catching up with Marc Canter I see that he and his cohorts have unveiled Structured Blogging. Looks interesting. I’ll need to try out the plugin(s) to see if the data-entry overhead makes sense for me. Paul Kedrosky thinks I’m (well, all of us are) too lazy to make it work. He may be right. I…

  • Blogger, can you spare a dime?

    A short story about the posta-blogalyptic future.

  • Farewell to Typepad

    Typepad is cool. I beta-tested it, I’ve been a member since 2003. But I don’t really need it. I host my own MT blogs and there’s WordPress and so on. The blogs I set up on TP to test it suffer from neglect. Recently I was reminded of TP and went to log in only…

  • Beastblog dormant since November

    I know what it’s like trying to get people to contribute to a group blog when it’s not their only bloggish outlet. They tend to forget about it, lose their passwords, stop coming by. It’s hard to establish a foreign-blogging habit. So I’m not entirely surprised that even though I believe a fair number of…

  • Furrygoat's Law

    The Furrygoat Experience: Furrygoat’s Law: [Backup Brain] Thanks to Medley (see post below), I now know what I was looking for was Letts Law: "All programs evolve until they can send email." Or maybe it’s Zawinski’s Law, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." I’m going to take this and put my…

  • MIT blog survey now four months overdue

    Uh, fellas? … MIT Weblog Survey