Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Ken Layne looking for online column

    If there’s any blogger out there who deserves a decent-paying column gig, it’s Ken Layne. He’s got the writing chops, the journalism dues paid, and the blog cred. What more is required?

  • Are you a blogging addict?

    Take Joi Ito’s simple blog addiction test to see.

  • Blog book update

    Nobody yet has made a killing selling blog yets (as far as I know), but they keep coming. Molly Holzschlag‘s Teach Yourself Blogging in 24 Hours is due out next month, and Wiley’s Hungry Mind’s division (formerly IDG) has decided to go ahead with Blogging for Dummies (to the dismay of Meg, whose We Blog…

  • Ev confirms Google Blogspot AdWords

    Just noticed today that Ev’s hiatus was remarkably short. A new design for his blog includes a disclaimer that he is not speaking for his employer. Anyway, as we speculated here a few days ago, Google is indeed targeting ads on Blogspot pages. Makes sense.

  • Curious juxtaposition No. 1

    On November 22, last year, I wrote: I love J.Ro’s weblog … but sometimes his inside-the-company voice gets distracting. I was picturing him commenting on NASA’s new space planes, by posting something like: “Those bureaucrats are crazy building a new round of smaller space shuttles. What they really need is a Manila server and just…

  • Overview of moving a Radio blog to a new host

    A friend planning a host change (from an address based on usernum to a custom domain name) asked me for advice on making the move. Based on my own experience, I tossed off a list of things to do roughly in order. Warning: I may have left out something crucial! This list is a work…