Category: Weblog Concepts

  • OK, OK, dullest blog

    This one keeps showing up on my screen, so I might as well note it. The Dullest Blog in the world is a deadpan satire of inconsequential web journaling. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Yahoo’s crack crew of editors can hardly contain their mirth: Web logs have reached critical mass and become ubiquitous…

  • Blasphemy supersedes pr0n

    In the recent community server crisis I failed to notice that Jan Haugland’s Secular Blasphemy has edged out Pornographer’s Picks for the No. 10 spot in the Salon Blogs rankings, knocking PP out of the top ten for the first time ever. Soon he will pass RFB in the rankings, then the Raven will pass…

  • CSS layout problem in my personal blog

    I’ve been trying to sort out the design elements at X-POLLEN. Right now I’m trying to track down a CSS (style sheet) error, and it helps me visualize the various design blocks to give them distinct colors and ugly borders. The problem is in the left two-thirds (links) area of the page. The banner (across…

  • Blossier is watching you

    Saw this on the Well’s blog.ind conference today: \”Blossier\” — an online instant-dossier service for those who want to track individual bloggers. Who’s home? Who’s on the road? Who’s pro-war? Who’s anti? Who’s a Mac user? etc. Press release from the Denounce newswire (“a satire website specializing in false press releases that are meant to…

  • Salon's Radio community server on the fritz?

    The Salon blogs mailing list is abuzz with complaints about the behavior of the community server. Hit counts appear to be down, updated blogs are not registering, and the comment system keeps becoming unavailable. We don’t have a formal process for inquiring about these kinds of maintenance issues, and I’m not sure anyone’s emailed Scott…

  • This is getting tiresome

    Looks like my Arab Vieruz hackers have broken in again and attacked my site. This is tedious (and my own fault, or that of my sysadmin, for not plugging whatever security hole is being exploited). It’s easy enough to republish this page, but I have to go and replace pages at my other sites by…