Category: Weblog Concepts

  • How to use Radio's outliner?

    Last nigth at the Berkeley J-School new media conference keynote address, I took extensive notes in my Radio outliner. I need to fix some typos (especially from a sticky ‘r’ key), but I also need to figure out how to turn the OPML outline into a weblog post. I can’t find any instructions about this…

  • Best new blog name

    Seems to be a salonika Friday for me, when I should be taking screenshots for my long overdue Chapter 9 of (yes, they just told me I can mention it in public, wait for it…) FrontPage Savvy, but more on that another time. Best named new notable Salon blog has to be Why Your Wife…

  • Raven on how to read the news

    The Raven has, by dint of daily effort, accomplish what many bloggers dream of doing but few manage: He publishes a highly literate, well crafted, thoughtful essay every day (sometimes more than one per day), usually on the newsmedia environment we live in. His audience grows steadily. He has earned each daily reader. I’m not…

  • One geek to rule them all

    Starting off with free email newsletters and a curious brand name, Chris Pirillo has emerged as enfantrepreneur terrible on the web scene. After traditional publishing companies and venture driven ghastlies dumped megabucks pursuing the e-book millennium during the dotcom folly, the word among publishers and authors these days is that e-publishing turned out to be…

  • Content architecture for business blogs

    Dave Pollard’s been doing some heavy thinking on how best to use weblogs in the workplace, to enable employees to “publish their filing cabinets.” He’s got some useful diagrams illustrating the content architecture he recommends. Any blogger (or k-loggers) would recognize his scheme as a variation on the familiar weblog format that has emerged in…

  • Berkeley J-School webcast tonight

    Scot Hacker just told me (hey, little head’s up next time?): Join us this evening (March 24) at 7:30 pm PDT for a live webcast featuring J.D. Lasica of the Online Journalism Review and Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin, on the topic of weblogs and journalism.