Category: Salon Bloggers

Xeni Jardin asks the musical question, “[W]hat do you blog about when you can be as explicit, as extreme, and as graphic as you want to be? How far will you go – at what point will you self-censor? Do you roll your sleeves up and turn up the shock, just because you can? If…

Blogging has gotten pretty big in Iran, which is no surprise given the democratic strivings emerging from the enormous Persian youth culture. Now it appears that one Iranian blogger/journalist has been arrested. He is “accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles both in newspapers and…

In the recent community server crisis I failed to notice that Jan Haugland’s Secular Blasphemy has edged out Pornographer’s Picks for the No. 10 spot in the Salon Blogs rankings, knocking PP out of the top ten for the first time ever. Soon he will pass RFB in the rankings, then the Raven will pass…

The Salon blogs mailing list is abuzz with complaints about the behavior of the community server. Hit counts appear to be down, updated blogs are not registering, and the comment system keeps becoming unavailable. We don’t have a formal process for inquiring about these kinds of maintenance issues, and I’m not sure anyone’s emailed Scott…

Quick informal \”poll\” (since you never know much about your RSS-feed audience). If you subscribe to RFB’s newsfeed and read this blog in an aggregator, please email me at this nonce address: <aggre-readers@freeblogistan.com> with the name of your feedreader as the subject (for example “Subject: Radio\” or “Subject: NetNewsWire Pro\” or \”Subject: AmphetaDesk\,” etc.). Don’t…

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