Category: Products

  • What I can say

    Wasted literally over a hour this morning re-reading irritating threads that led in many ways to the nEcho project. When my blood pressure returns to normal, I may point to some of them just to remind people of how we got where we are now. Meanwhile, I was delighted to learn that I’ve been included…

  • My first look at TypePad

    As a way of hammering away at TypePad’s feature set, I’ll try to build a nice list of FOAF links for the sidebar. BTW, so far I have only the slightest quibbles about user-feedback in a few contexts. The design seems really well thought through and reflects obviously many best practices inherited from or learned…

  • MT bookmarklets for Safari

    Dori Smith has posted some Movable Type bookmarklets that work with Safari to Backup Brain, the excellent weblog she publishes with Tom Negrino. Thanks, Dori!

  • AOL gets blogging

    Jeff Jarvis reports on a sneak preview of AOL’s upcoming weblogging entrant, saying “They’ve done a good job.” Jeff was invited along with Meg Hourihan, Nick Denton, Anil Dash, and Clay Shirky to preview the service, called AOL Journals. Discussing the meeting from the AOL perspective, an AOL employee named Kevin writes in his blog,…

  • Did Evan 'disappear' UserLand?

    Dave Winer claims that Evan Williams left UserLand off a list of Blogger’s competitors, calling this chilling. In the post Dave refers to, Blogger API Update, the closest thing I can find to any “list of competitors” is in list item 5: Interoperability. This is a biggie. At least two other major blogging tool and…

  • BloggerThis! on Google toolbar

    The beta version of the Google toolbar (PC only) includes a new BlogThis! button for posting directly to Blogger weblogs. Observes Dave Winer at Scripting News, “They probably could have worked with other tool vendors to provide a tool-agnostic Blog This capability.”

  • Blogger transition

    If you have a blog at Blogger, you may have noticed some instability lately. It appears that the Pyra team at Google is in the process of switching most blogs over to “Dano” the beta of the new version of Blogger. Your interface will change and you’ll need to update your bookmarklets. There’s lots more…

  • TypePad design comps

    TypePad’s newsletter has sent out its first message including answers to some frequently asked questions, such as, “Is TypePad just hosted Movable Type?” (it’s not), and so on. The contents of the newsletter are also posted at the TypePad site along with some tantalizing screen shots that give a fairly good idea of the user-interface…

  • Radio wish: comment-to-email

    Here’s a feature request for Radio. I’d like to have an option to turn on email notification triggered by comments. Any time someone posts a comment to RFB, for example, I’d like to get an email message containing the comment or at least containing a link back to it. I’ve got Second p0st’s comment-to-RSS thing…

  • Frequency, a Mac OS X desktop Blogger client

    Brad Rhine has released Frequency, a neat little desktop Blogger client for Mac users. I had the opportunity to beta test this software and it works like a charm.

  • Enhancement to Radio's 'recently updated' page

    You know, the ol’ Recently Updated page here at Salon Blogs might be even cooler if it included a title or brief excerpt from the most recent post. It would make the page something of a composite blog ezine. How hard would that be? I realize this takes a back seat to getting it stable…

  • Ev confirms Google Blogspot AdWords

    Just noticed today that Ev’s hiatus was remarkably short. A new design for his blog includes a disclaimer that he is not speaking for his employer. Anyway, as we speculated here a few days ago, Google is indeed targeting ads on Blogspot pages. Makes sense.

  • Denton on Blogoogle

    Nick Denton is all over the Bloogle story. I especially like his suggestion that Google should support and open standard for weblog updates and indexing.

  • Which Dem is about to drop out?

    TPM hints that a prospective Democratic presidential candidate is about to drop out of the race for health reasons.

  • Blogger API 2.0 developer preview

    As promised, Steve Jenson of Pyra has uploaded developer-preview documentation of the Blogger API 2.0 to a temporary location at the Yahoo group bloggerDev. He says I’m waiting for a DNS change to propagate before I give it a permanent home. Once that update is finished, I’ll open up access to [an] API Validator [that]…

  • Radio frequently not updating my blog

    I find it very frustrating when I discover, as I do more and more frequently these days, that Radio has either ceased upstreaming my changes or is continually upstreaming an out-of-date version of my weblog home page. Today, for example, I fixed a typo in the Iraq/Iran salonika post and posted another entry about the…

  • Blogger API 2.0 developer preview 'in a few weeks'

    Steve Jenson from Blogger is the new moderator of the BloggerDev mailing list. He says he is implementing Blogger API 2.0 and expects to have a developer preview “in a few weeks.” He told me, “I don’t think I’ll be answering any questions about it until I’m ready to release the preview. Before I do…

  • Why fool MT?

    I meant to link to Scot’s recent O’Reilly blog article about tweaking MT to make it power a news site for the students in the Berkeley J-School IP Weblog class, but like so many interesting articles lately, I let that one escape me as I juggle multiple responsibilities. Today, Dave Winer posts a response to…

  • Open Source Radio Handbook

    Scott of the Fuzzy Group is releasing his Radio documentation as an open source book, since O’Reilly used only a fraction of it in the Radio chapter of the upcoming Essential Blogging: As the author of the O’Reilly Essential Blogging chapters on Radio, I clearly have a commercial interest in Radio. You’d think that I’d…