Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Boing Boing adds Xeni Jardin to main crew

    Many people think of the Boing Boing blog as Cory Doctorow’s personal weblog, and even link to or blogroll it that way, but of course it is a team blog, with Apple switcher Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz also on the masthead. Cory posted on Saturday that Xeni Jardin did “such a fan-freakin-tastic job running…

  • Blogs better or worse for the lack of editors?

    S.F Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius write about two editor-free Internet phenomena this Sunday: Google News and Blogs. He takes the heretical position for a writer that editors do in fact add value to writing. He devotes most of his column inches to Google News but takes on blogs near the end, allowing that blogs “can…

  • Salon blog watch

    Well, I never did manage to surpass the blognovel in time, as Reverse Cowgirl rocketed past me into No. 3 position yesterday and went to No. 2 overall today. Scott has a pretty big lead in his No. 1all-time position but if I were him I’d still be nervous! I think it’s clear, though, that…

  • Weekend linking bookend

    Either Al or dws highlighted this About.com guide to weblogs: Web logs, or “Blogs” are a great way to put your opinions up on the Internet. Use programs on your own site, or host your site on a Web log system. This concludes our title-free Saturday afternoon batch o’ blogging.

  • Despite the griping from the

    Despite the griping from the blogosphere and from the adult chamber of commerce, Jon Udell say he’s “delighted with the recent changes in Google’s ranking algorithm.” Wired News also puts in its two cents.

  • Al Macintyre's building a directory

    Al Macintyre’s building a directory of blog software

  • John Robb mentioned ThinkBlank today.

    John Robb mentioned ThinkBlank today. I followed the instructions and added the MetaLinker code to my home template when I linked to the site a few days ago, but I’m not seeing any metalinks. What am I doing wrong?

  • Inflatable Sheep was blogging four

    Inflatable Sheep was blogging four years before the term was coined.

  • Weekend linkage

    It’s too nice outside to sit around writing lots of blog entries, but some interesting stuff did show up in my aggregator this morning, so I’m going to experiment with autoposting a few untitled entries, to see if the bare filtering of the information provides any value to this blog.

  • Adding metadata to my template (per Syndic8)

    Peering into my referrer logs this morning, I saw a reader coming from Syndic8, so I decided to take a look at how this site looks through that syndicator’s display. I noticed that RFB is listed as not having the metadata that Syndic8 looks for, so I followed a link to some metadata help, followed…

  • An actual warblog, soon?

    Blogger: You’re in the Army Now. The Army team that came up with a PC game as recruiting tool unveils a weblog with the same thing in mind. Critics say it lacks soul, not to mention blood and guts. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]

  • 'Worst weblog ever!'

    I didn’t know Jason Snell was doing something called teevee.org, but correspondent Charly Z assures me they do “snarky comentary about, well, TV.” Shamelessly, I copped their title from their weblog announcement, in which they say: Today TeeVee’s Station Breaks take on a new form. Yes, we’re sort of getting on the Weblog bandwagon. But…

  • Best new Salon blog name: Naked Emperor

    RadioExpress! and my back button (checking a quote), just ate my post… rewriting it now… {Here’s a Radio wish! Could someone make a version of Radio Express that pops up in its own window, like every other bookmarklet on the planet?}… Face it, naming your blog is the old band-name game writ large. There are…

  • Because I'm an insane idiot

    I’m downloading pMachine today and I’m going to see if it’s really as easy to install as they say. It seems clear that pMachine is positioning itself as a competitor to Movable Type (it has import scripts for MT and GreyMatter), angling for those who prefer PHP over perl. The implied architecture is impressive. The…

  • Great minds think alike, and all that

    Tom Coates says at plasticbag (four days ago but I swear I just saw it), of this same Shirky piece: There’s only one line I don’t agree with – “the people who have profited most from weblogs are the people who’ve written books about weblogging”. In fact I suspect these people have made almost no…

  • Publishing rarely lucrative

    In the Shirky piece I referred to earlier, he writes “Right now, the people who have profited most from weblogs are the people who’ve written books about weblogging.” I’m not aware of the sales figures for any of the handful of books out now about weblogging, but I sort of doubt that these authors have…

  • Shirky: Weblogs disruptive to commercial publishing

    (via Vincent Flanders) Clay Shirky comments on the mass amateurization of publishing; that is, how weblogs undermine the norms of commercial, professional publishing models. A lot of people in the weblog world are asking “How can we make money doing this?” The answer is that most of us can’t. His deeper point is that this…

  • Bloglet down?

    Got my first subscription mail this morning from Bloglet and it appeared that I’ve subscribed to my own x-pollen feed and not to the main thread of this blog. (I always subscribe to my own mailings, to see how they appear to end users.) I don’t know if this is because I signed up at…

  • Welcome msnbc.com readers!

    Was alerted to a listing in MSNBC’s Weblog Central blog. Is it just me or is the layout of that page funny? I see three sidebars down the right side of my browser window before you get to the weblog. Could be a Mac thing? Joan, the executive producer writing the blog,Will Femia is off…

  • Meta linking to your RSS feed

    Per dive into mark, I just added a link tag indicating this blog’s rss feed. The code I added should work for any Radio blog whose RSS feed is named rss.xml: <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss xml” title=\”RSS\” href=”<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>rss.xml”>

  • Cowgirl hogties raincoater

    Yesterday, our own Susannah “Reverse Cowgirl” Breslin passed Pornographer’s Picks in Salon Blogs’ all-time ranking. The anonymous raincoater had a large head start and still brings in remarkable numbers on the strength of his first month of postings, despite shooting blanks since August. Plan B’s return from vacation and a who-shot-JR style cliffhanger will likely…