Category: Weblog Concepts

  • pMachine to offer hosting, to be featured in upcoming book

    In their monthly newsletter, thet pMachine folks announce a new hosting service for pMachine users (naturally, http://pmachinehosting.com/), and has this to say about one of the upcoming blog books: There is a new book on blogging called “Blog On” (McGraw/Hill) that features pMachine extensively. The book was written by our good friend Todd Stauffer (author…

  • The acceptable face of panhandling

    I’m experimenting with the various forms of solicitations available to bloggers to seek support from their readers. I haven’t put anything on the home page yet (except for the Amazon link to my Dreamweaver book that’s been there for months). For now I’m just parking the various badges and come-on’s in a story called Support…

  • I document my failure

    The fact that that metalinker stuff never worked and was causing error messages in IE6/Win browsers like a piece of toilet paper stuck to my shoe, and the fact that I still haven’t been able to get a TrackBack ping-based metablog working, or RSS monkey installed, for that matter. I’m not perfect, and I think…

  • Javascript error on my page

    Andrew Bayer pointed out that he was getting this message when trying to load RFB in IE 6 for Windows: Line: 508 Char: 76 Error: Expected ‘)’ Code: 0 It turns out the culprit was my half-assed attempted to install ThinkBlank’s metalinker code into this page. In so doing, I apparently included an extra closing…

  • Nevermind…

    It appears that restarting Radio fixed the problem, whatever it was. Probably some overnight bug thang. Never underestimate the power of power-cycling! Inspirational lyric of the moment: A hypnotist A fancy talker Ruben Remus ain’t no doctor –Bob Dylan & the Band

  • Very strange Radio error

    I was trying to post an entry about a Javascript error on the RFB home page when instead of Radio successfully posting the entry and returning the usual desktop weblog homepage, the ordinary text box was replaced with this error message: [Macro error: Can’t evaluate the expression because the name “” hasn’t been defined.] If…

  • Too late to redirect my RSS feed?

    Well, I wandered back through a week of Scripting News and found the link Dave posted to how to redirect your RSS feed. The instructions are clear and easy to understand, but I realize now that it requires the ability to upload a file to replace the old rss.xml file at http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/ (and in the…

  • What does it mean to be part of the Salon blog community?

    Last week one of the two filchyboy blogs rocketed to the top of the Salon daily ranking charts with off-the-scale traffic numbers, even though an examination of the referrer logs showed nothing special going. Andrew Bayer commented on this in his Dreaming of China blog, discerning that filchyboy had placed the Javascript code into the…

  • Stuff I've downloaded but not installed or used yet

    I’m getting behind in my software download/install lifecycle: kung-log the latest mozilla beta chimera Netnewswire ASCII Movie Player (via BoingBoing) Archipelago Also, I’m looking for some tips on good free discussion-board software for integration into blogs (not this one, just general advice), especially the type that could be integrated so as to automatically generate a…

  • Post-move considerations

    Whew! It appears that the move over last night was successful, except in the sense that many people will start missing new posts as they continue to look at or poll the old address. Suddenly I need to learn about the RSS feed redirection stuff Dave was posting about last week. Also, I need to…

  • First p0st at radiofreeblogistan.com

    Well, the non-blog-related categories have now been redirected via FTP to various branded locations, so it’s time to start posting new entries to radiofreeblogistan.com. I’ve just switched the streaming over to FTP, so this post should automatically stream to the new location (and not to the old one). Next, I have to figure out the…

  • A fix attempt

    Since fireweaver is squatting on the home page, I got through to radio.userland.com and set up ftp upstreaming to send that category to http://fireweaver.com/blog/. Posting this entry to the home page and fireweaver should get fireweaver pointed where it’s supposed to be and will also I hope restore the integrity of the home page entries.

  • Still moving…

    Well, the first attempt screwed up the upstreaming and one side effect is that “fireweaver” is rendering on the home page instead of in its category folder, which hides most recent posts. (Follow the metablog link at right to see recent blog-related posts.) Meanwhile, this is more or less a dummy post to see if…

  • Blogger back up

    Ev says that any compromised data has been restored and that if you kept your FTP information at Blogger you may want to change your password now, although it is not clear whether that information was accessed. Anil Dash recommends changing your username as well.

  • Remote (FTP) publishing with MT?

    Are there plans in the works to ever give MT the ability to publish content via FTP (that is, not on the local site where MT is installed)? Or is it already possible, by defining the local site in the blog configuration using an ftp:// URL? Inquiring minds want to know without doing their own…

  • Blogger hacked!

    The BloggerDev mailing list is abuzz this morning with people complaining that their settings have been switched around by someone using the monicker hax0redbyme. The first symptoms showed up when users tried to manipulate their blogs and found their view site link within the Blogger application redirected to http://blogger.com/hax0redbyme/. A list member checked the team…

  • What's Sullivan for Instalanche?

    ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens’s new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon’s best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. (More…)

  • Blogging the conference, part two

    I decided to try to plumb the native talent of clients and other people subscribed to the Waterside “virtual conference” mailing list: I’m trying to arrange wireless access at the 2003 Waterside Conference (in Berkeley), and I wanted to ask the members of this list whether anyone has experience setting up this kind of impromptu…

  • Call for Contributors

    As my (still secret) project continues to take up most of my working time, I’d like to accelerate a plan I had on the backburner for the future of the blog, which is to throw it open to outside contributors. I think coverage of this beat would benefit from the input of collaborators. I see…

  • Making a metablog with TrackBack pings

    In my continuing effort to use my own blogorrhea as a guinea pig, I have some plans in the works for my x-pollen.com domain. For example, I’m planning to move my personal blog from LiveJournal to Movable Type. I’ll document the process as I do it. I’m also trying to set up a TrackBack ping-based…

  • Making a conference bloggable

    So, what does it take to make a conference bloggable? That is, what are the usual arrangements required? Is it a matter of one IP address, a DHCP hub, one or more airport or linksys type wireless base stations, and that’s it? Or am I overlooking a layer of complexity? This is the kind of…