Category: Weblog Concepts

added a new link to my masthead/sidebar area today. It’s called Today’s Referrers and its an ordinary link to the page showing RFB’s referrer stats for the day. A few referrers show up almost every day, sometimes with just one link. I often assume that that one link is the writer of the other blog.…

A combination of burnout and offline deadlines has severely hampered my ability to post interesting links here, let alone cogent ideas or analysis. I don’t think this situation will last too long (although I am heading to southern California for a wedding on Friday and won’t be back in action till Tuesday, so this site…

Though I feel I have no time to learn anything new at the moment, I’ve build up a strong desire to learn more about OPML and start really organizing my links in a more iterative, interactive way. Blogrolling.com is like crack. It’s so easy to get started and it takes so much of the pain…

I should now theoretically be able to build a list of related links by Googling a keyword from each post, no? Is there prior art for this?

In this essay on the political leanings of bloggers, Robert Corr says “I’ve attempted to apply the Herman/Chomsky propaganda model to the blogosphere, and submitted the essay for my Politics and the Media class.” I’m still reading it, but he makes some good points about the economics of cyberspace and the climate of the blogosphere.…

Speaking of bookmarklets, does anyone know how to modify the RadioExpress code so that the resulting post page shows up in another window? I sometimes like to refer to the page I’m linking to while constructing my post. I wonder if the RSS aggregator’s Post button could be modified similarly?

Else how could Nat Torkington have transcribed that Digital ID World DRM panel live? [via Doc]

Tom at Backup Brain posts: Kung-Log is a Mac OS X application that lets you post and manage Movable Type entries. Written with AppleScript Studio, I believe. I downloaded this a while back but haven’t had a chance to test it out yet. I recall that Scot Hacker also told me a while back that…

All About Weblogs has posted the PPT presentation from last weekend’s panel. We want to hear more about the proceedings!

Apparently if an MT blog allows HTML in comments and uses an executable file extension (such as .php or .shtml) this opens up a security risk from code that could be inserted into a comment. Brad Choate has released a plugin called Sanitize that enables MT users to exclude all but a specified list of…

DWS passed along this link to an RSS Tutorial: The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) project of the Utah State Library has a tutorial on RSS that shows examples of its use in a variety different scenarios. They do good work. [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog] [RadioFAQs] I’m going to check it out to see if…

Ben and Mena Trott today released version 2.5 of Movable Type on the one-year anniversary of its initial release. Some of the changes include: An integrated version of Jay Allen’s mt-search plug-in, called public search More accessible default templates that follow Mark Pilgrim’s Dive into Accessbility guidelines A new default stylesheet (it was the date…

In The Death of the Newspaper at Teal Sunglasses, Chuq Von Rospach takes on some recent commentary about the online publishing, editors, and professionalism, responding to my post over the weekend prompted by C.W. Nevius’s Chronicle column (whew! tracking these threads is hard work!). But that argument is like arguing that because McDonalds has automated…

A writer for Pigdog Journal disagrees with most of Rebecca Blood’s advice in her Handbook, lampooning it in an over-the-top way: And then there are all the bits where web writers are cautioned to never insult a blogger. “Even relatively mild criticism of another weblogger or her site design will reflect very unfavorably on you,”…

Hylton at Blogging News continues to do a wonderful job of rounding up interesting commentary from the blog world. In my lazy way I wish to respond to a few of the comments here without bothering to track down the original posts, bookmarklet them, and respond invididually. Richard Poe on why blog-politics may skew to…

A sample chapter from the new O’Reilly book on blogging. [Scripting News] Yes, I am still planning to review this book!

Shades of the nuzee flap of a month or so ago, andersja objects to finding his content repurposed at blogmints. (Blogmints shows the most commented-upon posts from blogs that recently pinged weblogs.com.) Quoth andersja: I will stand by what I said then: feel free to syndicate my RSS feed. I insert the postings’ headers, excerpts…