Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Semi-hiatus coming up

    The reverse cowgirl has teased me in the past that whenever I announce that blogging will be light for some upcoming period I usually follow up with an unusually dense flurry of blog postings. There are two reasons for this. One is that announcing that I won’t be doing much blogging seems to relieve some…

  • It's a blog! It's a wiki! …

    I’m getting a lot of interesting fodder from the blog conference on the Well. Today there’s a lively discussion of Bloki, a web-based collaborative tool that combines aspects of blogs and wikis. I haven’t explored it much yet, but so far mostly what I’ve seen is the wiki part (the ability to edit pages in…

  • A day without blogging

    Since I started Radio Free Blogistan last July I’d managed to post at least one entry every day, until yesterday. Since I use RFB to aggregate blog posts to a number of different sites, this means that RFB had a continuous calendar running back to its first day. I was kinda proud of this although…

  • Frequency, a Mac OS X desktop Blogger client

    Brad Rhine has released Frequency, a neat little desktop Blogger client for Mac users. I had the opportunity to beta test this software and it works like a charm.

  • Embedding trackbacks alongside comments

    Tom Coates posted a cogent explanation of how he has tweaked his templates so that incoming trackbacked post excerpts appear in the midst of comments on his archive pages.

  • Weblog business strategies conference June 9-10

    JupiterMedia is putting on a conference called Weblog Business Strategies Conference & Expo 2003, “The Premier Business Event for Blogs” in Boston on June 9 and 10. Dave Winer is giving the keynote address. David Weinberger will also be giving a keynote, along with Jason Shellen from Blogger/Pyra/Google, and Tony Perkins from AlwaysOn: This two-day…