Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Travels with Amit

    Amit Kothari tells me he’s set up a weblog as a travelogue (a travelblog? travel(bl)og? travelog?) for his upcoming trip called Welcome to Europe 2003. This seems like a natural use for a short-lived or one-off weblog. I remember Philip Greenspun’s Travels with Samantha as one of the first proofs-of-concept for a creative interweb. Amit…

  • Beta testers speak out?

    I wish there was some easy way to see if a bunch of TypePad users are commenting on the template builder since that’s the feature we’re allowed to discuss today? Has anyone built a bunch of links to such entries? I’d like to read other people’s opinions. I guess I’ll be messing with my design…

  • Comment spam

    Scot Hacker’s getting the comment spam (such as a link to a zip-code lookup service) at his Birdhous blog and he thinks he knows why: So essentially someone is hijacking my comments system (and probably lots of other blogs’ comments systems) to abuse Google’s algorithms.

  • Memewatch: Robb's Law

    Chasing Daisy is propagating Robb’s Law: Quote of the day.

  • Robb's Law

    NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control. – John Robb I hereby christen the above quotation Robb’s Law or Robb’s Law of Weblog Hosting in full. I suppose it could be broadeneed to web publishing in general. I certainly think owning your own domains and when possible running…

  • Comment policies

    Sam Ruby has a policy for his blog’s comment section. He edits comments he considers flames with strikethrough and coloring and makes them link to his policy page. Mark Pilgrim uses a similar policy at his weblog. Danny Ayers’ policies sort of do the opposite. He boldfaces flames and obscenities because, “[t]hey’re likely to be…