Category: Weblog Concepts

You lie about the size of your readership… in a dream.

I think Annalee Newitz is onto a better frame for blogging than the tired old media-pundit sliver in her Techsploitation column in the SF Bay Guardian: reality TV. It seems in many ways as if our entire media culture is devoted to broadcasting ephemera. Blogs, like reality TV, record the minutiae of our everyday lives,…

PressThink: Questions and Answers About PressThink

I have half a mind to turn my well known public email address xian@pobox.com into an entirely open channel, which is to say that anyone who corresponds with that public address will have to be notified that what I write in response is not secret and is in fact subject to my posting it online…

In anticipation of BloggerCon, Dave Winer recently put out a general call for suggestions about the next generation of blogging software, from the user’s perspectives. What features would we like to see? what’s missing? what do we need? what’s next? Shimon Rura and Lisa Williams have taken a first cut at sifting through the suggestions…

Recently, a commenter noted that the links here at RFB are hard to see for some people, meaning they’re less accessible than they should be. (The commenter kindly directed us to Dive into Accessibility.) I value feedback like that and will tackle it if need be, but since we will be rolling out a new…

We never have an open thread here on RFB. I shy away from generic-titled link-remaindering and so I’ve never liked the way “Open Thread” looks in my RSS reader. I realize that this has to do with the weak integration of blog and discussion board ways as discussed recently, but not in an easy way…

One of the more popular (commented-on, linked-to) posts here in the last year or so was my somewhat sketchy Weblog strategies for nonprofits entry. At some point I was talking to CompuMentor about some kind of panel discussion on the subject in SF but I haven’t heard anything about it lately and I’ve been kind…

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Blogfather Glenn Reynolds advises would-be webloggers to pioneer underreported topics, instead of crowding into overpopulated subject-areas, such as war and politics, in The Next Wave at Tech Central Station: There are lots of political/national security blogs (“warblogs” as they’re sometimes called, though most of them spend a lot of times on non-war subjects). There’s always…

Chuck “Blogumentary” Olsen and Lori “Secret Farm” Idontknowherlastname have started a blog together called MetaSecret MicroFarm in which they are blogging about their blogs. I tell you, it’s infinite regresses all the way down.

Kaye Trammell offers some tips on how to keep a secret blog secret. [via Scripting News]

My blogging ebbs and flows, a bunch of photos one month, personal diary agonies another six weeks, geeking out for half a year, private blogs, lots of tinkering with interface and layout and mucking around with the data, then periods with lots of handwritten offline journaling and not much blogging at all. Lately, my life…

Rebecca Blood writes: [>] Blood’s Law of Weblog History: The year you discovered weblogs and/or started your own is ‘The Year Blogs Exploded’. Corollary: the year after you started your blog is the beginning of ‘Weblog Permanent September.’ Anil’s Corollary: The first weblog you read is the one that invented the medium. [anil dash] [ 01/06/04 ]

A bit of administrivia: If you drop by this weblog and leave a random-sounding comment on some old entry, chances are I will simply assume you are spamming us and delete the comment and ban you forthwith. This morning I deleted just such a message. The site linked didn’t seem especially unpleasant (that is, it…

In my blog book (still looking for a publisher, note), I tried to address the whole weblog lifecycle, from setup and launch, through the daily routine of writing the blog and occasionally reorganizing it, down to how to end a blog. Yes, stop blogging. Some blogs die. They are attached to a project that has…

This is a question for Dave Winer but maybe Andrew Grumet or someone else who has insight into Dave’s latest innovations in weblog concepts could take a stab at it too: I assume each of the nodes in the aggregator hierarchy will have RSS feeds (or may already have XML renderings available)? The XML icons…

After dismissing weblogging as just another technology-assisted fad, writer Chris Shipley has reconsidered and started writing a blog herself himself (actually, two blogs, both listed at Shipley’s website). In The Blog Nation, Shipley cites several reasons why she he now believes weblogs are a publishing medium with innovative potential. Among them, she he says, is…

Adam Kalsey is forming a posse to go after comment spammers. He has written a manifesto declaring comment spammers personae non gratae in the blogosphere and invites us all to sign the manifesto by commenting on his blog or sending a trackback ping, and by writing tutorials teaching each other how to track, identify, and…

Robert Scoble, Longhorn evenagelist and MS-koolaid-blogger says that he’d love to writes Bill Gates’ blog: Christopher Coulter asked me “Scoble, what’s your dream job?” I answered: “next to being Bill Gates, I imagine there wouldn’t be a job I’d love more than being Bill Gates ghost weblogger.” Course, if I +did+ get that job, I…

David Weinberger has some predictions about what will happen as blogs become more popular: While there are a hell of a lot of blogs and blog readers, blogs aren’t even close to being a mainstream phenomenon the way email is. It’ll happen. And here are some guesses (note: guesses) about what they’ll look like when…