Category: Weblog Concepts

David Neiwert discusses a blogger’s hiatus and the kinds of things in life that are more important than blogging. He also talks about how blogging fits into his current writer/father life. His blog, Orcinus, is essential reading and I think he should know that it’s not at all maddening for him to be updating the…

Clay Shirky writes in Many-to-Many that the Department of Defense is looking into using weblogs for procurement. It’s not clear to me how this would work, and they offer a strange definition of weblogs, saying that a “BLOG” is similar to a community-of-interest (COI) but with role-based security. Huh?

Anil Dash interview Paul Bausch for Six Log, touching such fundamental weblog concepts as the origin of permalinks nad the implications of a time-centered structure for websites. Anil reminds readers that pb was part of the Pyra team that launched Blogger and is the author of the recent Amazon Hacks, among other good works. His…

I think Michael gets very close to the nut of the thing when he writes “A blog… is an evolving, unfolding story.”

Jim Blizzard asks Why do you blog?. Here’s why Scoble blogs. Here’s how Halley does it.

While one technically savvy core of the blogosphere strives to develop structure and hierarchies and semantic richness, the leading edges of the churning cloud of webloggers is all about flow. One reason why blogging works as well as it does for a growing number of people is that the barriers to entry are low and…

True to his word, William Gibson has taken a hiatus from blogging to focus on his next novel. This interests me because I have ongoing fiction and other narrative projects of my own and I can’t figure out if I’m in the Cory Doctorow school of composting ideas in a blog or the William Gibson…

Dropping by Uppity-Negro, I learned of an ongoing discussion of black identity in the blogosphere that gets into a fairly sophisticated analysis of how A-List bloggers suck up memeshare in their perceived demographic. As with gay bloggers, as a formal outsider I generally don’t feel like it’s my place to discuss postulated subgrouping of bloggers…

Richard Soderberg picks up on something Joi Ito posted that posited the idea of Amazon blogs, writing: Amazon blogs would be a wonderful thing to watch, in the form of “25 most recent posts”; each post is a book review, with in-built Amazon linkage for easy wishlist access. As a side benefit, I’d be exposed…

This Pirate Kills Fascists: feed: URL Scheme Specification

Well, I realize that my tutorial from 1 PM to 4:30 PM today may be only for the diehards to stay at conferences through the final afternoon of the final day and risk their weekends to squeeze out some extra drops o’ learning. I’m hoping to put on a good show. I realized from Bill…

I came late Missed Sam’s presentation (damn) and some amount of Tim Bray note to self: get PPTs (make index of all blog-related presentations at Seybold) good overview of weblogging as way of staying up on trends from leaders interesting people: dave into mark micropop culture niches (queer knitters) Bill Humphries his history read Scripting…

A lot of smart people have been thinking about the data model of a weblog entry (going back to the weblog profile for RSS initiative that stalled out and partly led to the Pie process), and particularly what are the likely meanings of the link element, which can be (as originally invisioned) a link from…

O lazyweb, I have a request. I would like a automated spider to check the outgoing links from my blog on some regular basis and when and if any go dark, to find the most recent archived link at the Internet Wayback Machine and substitute it (thanks). Speaking of the Wayback Machine, they’re beta-testing a…

Mike Masnick of the TechDirt weblog says that PR people have caught on to blogs but that they still, for the most part, don’t get it.

It appears my WOW mini-session on RSS, RDF, syndication, and content dissemination is being rescheduled. The new timeslot is Thursday, September 11, from 2:30 – 3:00 pm. My bad. My session on syndication was not rescheduled. It is still on Tuesday, September 9, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. What was rescheduled was a mini “couch”…

Next week I’ll be attending the Seybold 2003 conference in San Francisco, all week (from Monday, September 8 to Friday, September 12). I’m teaching an intensive three-and-a-half hour tutorial seminar on weblogging on Friday (Designing and Building Weblogs), and I’m helping conduct a one-hour WOW session on syndication on Tuesday (Blogging and Beyond: Content Dissemination…

Ross Mayfield has posted a long, considered rebuttal to the Business 2.0 article on business blogging. In it, he cites Up2Speed‘s take on the same article. The area of general agreement among all parties is that blogging-about-blogging (metablogging) is “inside baseball” and not indicative of the future of the form. So why am I still…

David Weinberger questions an assertion in an (inaccessible) Business 2.0 article that top-tier webloggers write too much about themselves. He counters with the conversational nature of most blogging. As for me… uh, who cares what I think?

Adrian Holovaty says, in a Zlog interview, I believe in my heart that people should come up with their own publishing methods. Frankly, it’s boring to surf the blogosphere and see so many sites using the same, tired weblogging tools. The same basic templates, the same “post a comment” form, the same URL schemes…. It’s…