Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Willis relaunches 'American Times'

    Oliver Willis has relaunched The American Times as a Trackback-ping metablog: Once again, I’ve re-re-relaunched The American Times, this time as an “automated” newspaper—built by bloggers, aka “the web”. To participate, all you have to do is send a TrackBack ping to http://oliverwillis.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/69. Voila! Instant newspaper. No details on recommended submission guidelines.

  • Kowgirl no. 1 with a bullet

    A tip of the hat to the Reverse Cowgirl who’s blog passed Scott Rosenberg’s to become tops in Salon’s all-time rankings today.

  • Blogs covering the shuttle disaster

    Jim Flowers has started a metablog called ‘Shuttle Lost’ to track coverage of the disaster in the blogosphere. [via InstaPundit]

  • Redirecting my old RSS feed

    There’s no way to force people who have blogrolled my old address update their links. I can only assume that they haven’t checked back much since their initial burst of inclusion, or if they have that they think I stopped blogging sometime last October. Then there are those who subscribed to my old RSS feed…

  • Deadline today

    Blogging will be light…

  • Blogging as writing practice

    Rayne Today: “I never thought of myself as a writer. Now I am, and it’s not a title one has bestowed upon them by others, but one I earn every day through my efforts here.”

  • Playing catchup

    I think I stole at least half of these links from Anil: freegorifero: Always-on weblogs Plasticbag: How has Blogger changed your life? Movable Type: Features planned for version 2.6 Plasticbag: Countering Joe Clarke’s screed Fishbowl: I no longer want to know where my files are stored Kottke: RSS readers misusing the refer[r]er field?

  • Salon bloggin'

    Give me The Raven on the State of the Union over The Bleat on the same any day.. A few new Salon blogs have caught my busy eye lately: Fiona, for instance, and Hyperbole. Both are well written and have built up a nice head of steam. Fiona’s also now posting great cartoons (Salon, hire…

  • Bloggies: Tempest in a teapot?

    Looking for Tampa Bay triumphalism over at Ain’t Too Proud to Blog I got up-to-date on the Bloggie “scandal.” I think awards are a fine idea and they should be run fairly and they’re not very important but like all forms of popularity and attention they do matter, of course. They have real-world consequences. On…

  • Never explain a joke

    The usually impeccable attitude on display at The Gawker shows a slight crack today when editor/writer Elizabeth Spiers responds to an illiterate slam from some Tim Goodman groupie. The main response on the Gawker home page is just perfect, but the extended entry tries too hard: I was merely challenging his assumption that American audiences…

  • Who's blogging the Super Bowl ads?

    It might be fun to sit there with my ‘puter during the Super Bowl and snap digital pix of the ads as they debut and log little posts about each one or about anything that’s noteworthy, mightn’t it?

  • Wishlist: autoblogged history breadcrumbs

    How hard would it be to automatically post every URL I hit in one browser to a specific category? I could go back and expand on anything that deserved comment and promote it to the mainpage, but I’d also have a running log of positively everywhere I’d been. One for the lazyweb? Something with scripting…

  • I use an aggregator and I vote

    Yesterday, JD Lasica published an introduction to news aggregators (“News That Comes to You”) at the Online Journalism Review. He discusses the article in his New Media Musings blog, and—as an experiment in transparent journalism—has posted the full responses of all his interviewees on two story pages also at his blog. (I am one of…

  • And then we were 9…

    Brava to the Julie/Julia Project foodie blog, which passed me yesterday in the rankings, moving me to number 8. Sometime today, the Devil’s Excrement (damn! I forgot to post the 1/23 Venezuela blog-day badge in time!) will pass me as well, leaving me in 9th place. There I will probably rest for a while, waiting…

  • Bloggers 'control' poetry?

    Ron Silliman writes on the curious interaction between the blogosphere and the poetry world.

  • Some personal guidelines for web writing

    Paul Ford publishes a list of exhortations to himself about writing for the web (at his incredible Ftrain site): This list takes the form of a set of personal, first-person statements (“I do this,” “I do that”) rather than a set of injunctions (“Do this!”, “Do that!”) because these are my guidelines, a set of…

  • What's the opposite of a bullet?

    I know Hugh had advised me to avert my eyes from the Salon blogs rankings, and he’s right. Any kind of RankingWatch is just bad for the soul, but I still feel inclined to note that RFB has now officially dropped to number 7 all time (and is likely to drop a few more in…

  • You Googled me?

    I get all sorts of strange search terms landing at my page, especially lately since a few of my posts on Pete Townsend’s land on Google’s first page of results when people search for him by name. Here’s an odd one, today, coming from Google’s Belgian server: Dick Cheney pedophile I assume this is just…

  • Home page frozen? Sheesh!

    Hmm, well it seems my foray into #upstreaming may have somehow resulted in my home page not updating properly. I’m not sure why that would be, but posts to the home page today that can be accessed via category and date index pages (such as Deadline City and Test of Archipelago) are not showing up…

  • Test of Archipelago

    This XML-RPC stuff is pretty cool. It looks like I could use Archipelago for Radio, MovableType, and Blogger blogs (though I’m planning to migrate the Blogger blogs to either Radio or MT or pMachine or whatever the moment I overcome inertia). This would render kung-log obsolete for me, I suppose. Recently I made a chart…

  • Fixing up the abandoned storefront

    A large amount of my traffic still comes to my old address (http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/) due to bookmarks, blogrolls, and the like. I don’t mind links directly to old posts, since they are maintained at both locations, but links to the old home page take someone to a page that hasn’t been updated since October. Not cool!…