Category: Salon Bloggers

  • Salon retracts Tom White / Enron story

    Salon today went beyond an earlier correction and removed a story originally published on August 29: Oct. 1, 2002

  • Sample code for focused custom Google search

    The site search feature of Google’s free custom search offering works by default only for sites whose addresses are root-level URLs (so, for example, you can use it out-of-the-box to search jrobb.userland.com or blogs.salon.com but not blogs.salon.com/0001111/). With the help of Ian Landsman and a few other readers over the weekend, I’ve come up with…

  • Add a Google search box to any site?

    John Robb posts the code for adding a Google search widget to your blog (or any site, really). However, as I read it, it seems to work with entire domains (for example, jrobb.userland.com). Sites like this whose root address is a subdirectory of a root domain (this site’s address is currently blogs.salon.com/0001111/) may not benefit…

  • Standing Room Only

    Well, after that self-indulgent post about Salon rankings I thought I owed it to myself to dig a little deeper and go look at some more Salon blogs, starting at the recently updated page. I stumbled across a fairly new blog, Standing Room Only, by Hugh Elliott. His topics are Media, Humor, Television, Gay, Life.…

  • Turning data into information

    Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov’s Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information: Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or anything of the sort…

  • Comment monitor updates via RSS

    Also on the Driver 8 tip, another entry notes that Phil Pearson has “a new version of his comment monitor … that will update me on new comments on my blog… through the RSS aggregator.”