Category: Weblog Concepts

Wi-Fi Networking News is a great example of a journalistic niche blog. Glenn Fleishman rules his beat and proves the concept. He’s the go-to guy for all things wi-fi. If I were writing an article on wi-fi I’d start with his blog and then ask him questions before I went practically anywhere else. But the…

In the comment thread for Burningbird’s entry called Echo Project for Poets , Joe Shelby points out that “Echo is already a name for a product … that just released [a 1.0 version] under the LGPL license.” If the goal is to surmount pass squabbles, the Pie/Echo project should steer very clear of anything that…

The advent of TypePad has prompted renewed scrutiny of the terms in Six Apart’s license for Movable Type, specifically related to commercial uses of the product. A generally pro-MT take on the dispute can be found on MovableBlog, but it includes thorough links to the other sides of the argument.

The collaborative project to design a new vendor-neutral weblog format (edging toward the name Echo instead of the original placeholder, Pie) proceeds at a dizzy pace over at Sam Ruby’s wiki. For those of us unable to keep up with the multiple, distributed debates taking place ‘intertwingled’ all over the wiki, Shelley Powers has posted…