Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Give up the funk

    There is an interesting discussion in the comment thread for Dave Winer’s Why I said Movable Type’s RSS support is ‘funky’ post. The title for that post is accurate insofar as Dave explains why he accused Six Apart of not respecting the RSS spec, but maddeningly evasive when it comes ot explaining precisely what he…

  • Weee're back

    Well, that took longer than expected. I’m still getting things re-configured and re-set up at ol’ Open Publishing / ezone / x-everything industries, but most of the sites are at least now visible, and I may hope that we’ve cured the hacked-so-easily problem we had going there. In the meantime, off the air, I found…

  • Salam dunk

    Journalist Peter Maass confirms the suspicions of the “Salam is real” camp: Salam Pax Is Real – How do I know Baghdad’s famous blogger exists? He worked for me. Maybe this will help me convince my Kurdish friend Delshad that there’s an audience for more than just one Iraqi blogger?

  • Blog comment moderation controversy

    His playpen his rules, if you ask me (and you didn’t, and it’s too late now): Sam Ruby reserves the right…

  • Open question for Dave Winer

    Dave, please explain to those of us who are not down with every nuance of RSS politics exactly how Six Apart is abusing the RSS spec. Thanks! Reference: When users flame. Movable Type users, predictably flame me for advocating a time-tested way of evolving software, explained by Don Park. In so many ways we’re hitting…

  • Buy, buy!

    Hmm, the valuation of RFB just keeps going up at Blogshares. Looks like Chris Pirillo bought 1000 shares recently. We’re up to $22,000ish overall. I’m sure that’s chump change on the big board, but I do like the shape of those graphs. Does it matter that I don’t have the blogshares logo permanently in my…