Category: Weblog Concepts

  • The business of blogging is business

    Ross Mayfield has posted a long, considered rebuttal to the Business 2.0 article on business blogging. In it, he cites Up2Speed‘s take on the same article. The area of general agreement among all parties is that blogging-about-blogging (metablogging) is “inside baseball” and not indicative of the future of the form. So why am I still…

  • Self-referential? Moi?

    David Weinberger questions an assertion in an (inaccessible) Business 2.0 article that top-tier webloggers write too much about themselves. He counters with the conversational nature of most blogging. As for me… uh, who cares what I think?

  • Weblog tools a crutch?

    Adrian Holovaty says, in a Zlog interview, I believe in my heart that people should come up with their own publishing methods. Frankly, it’s boring to surf the blogosphere and see so many sites using the same, tired weblogging tools. The same basic templates, the same “post a comment” form, the same URL schemes…. It’s…

  • Semantic blogging white paper

    An HP Labs article called Semantic Blogging for Bibliography Management argues for piggybacking semantic metadata on “a very successful paradigm for lightweight publishing.”

  • Retro publishing method

    While the power was off in Ann Arbor, Mitten was doing some analog blogging.

  • RFB down and out in New York

    Radio Free Blogistan and most of my other sites are hosted on a server in New York City that is currently offline because of the blackout, and probably will be till Monday. Hence this site.