Category: Weblog Concepts

  • RFB hax0red

    Having a nice day mostly off-line, thinking about maybe uploading some more cloud pictures or posting something about David Brooks mentioning Salam Pax’s blog on the McLehrer report on Friday, when I check my mail and see that Scott Rosenberg and my cousin, A.P. Crumlish, both tipping me off to the fact that Radio Free…

  • Weblogs.com ping-response messages

    So, as I mentioned a while back, Textpattern reports on what happens when you ping Weblogs.com. Ordinarily, you see this message: Article posted Weblogs.com says: Thanks for the ping. We checked and found that the “x-ism” weblog has changed, so it will appear in changes.xml next time it is updated. (The link, though, is rendered…

  • Server back up

    Well, I don’t know what was wrong with my DNS or Apache configuration, but whatever it was it seems to be working correctly now, thank Murphy. I’ve been getting some poignant messages from a friend in Iraqi Kurdistan. He and his family are headed from Erbil into the countryside to avoid, if possible, the ravages…

  • Here's a job for the x-ism blog

    RFB’s focus has been drifting and to give it coherence, besides just becoming an RSS aggregator of my other feeds, I think I’ll go back to trying to document my PEP (personal expression platform) project there, including some organizational stuff, some IA ideas, but first, mostly a bunch of scans of sketches I’ve done over…

  • Hell hath no fury

    I’ve finally coaxed my partner in crime, Briggs Nisbet, to set down her occasional rants about the news in a new Mediajunkie column called Hellmouth. Her first item deals with the kidnapped Salt Lake City rendered invisible by a veil.

  • Ping blogrolling.com directly

    Jason DeFillippo is beta testing a ping service for blogrolling.com at this address: The address to add to the Remote Interfaces text box is http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ The beta is just for MT users at this time, but Jason invites anyone to try it: If you are running any other blog tool that lets you specify sites…