Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Playing catchup

    I think I stole at least half of these links from Anil: freegorifero: Always-on weblogs Plasticbag: How has Blogger changed your life? Movable Type: Features planned for version 2.6 Plasticbag: Countering Joe Clarke’s screed Fishbowl: I no longer want to know where my files are stored Kottke: RSS readers misusing the refer[r]er field?

  • Salon bloggin'

    Give me The Raven on the State of the Union over The Bleat on the same any day.. A few new Salon blogs have caught my busy eye lately: Fiona, for instance, and Hyperbole. Both are well written and have built up a nice head of steam. Fiona’s also now posting great cartoons (Salon, hire…

  • Bloggies: Tempest in a teapot?

    Looking for Tampa Bay triumphalism over at Ain’t Too Proud to Blog I got up-to-date on the Bloggie “scandal.” I think awards are a fine idea and they should be run fairly and they’re not very important but like all forms of popularity and attention they do matter, of course. They have real-world consequences. On…

  • Never explain a joke

    The usually impeccable attitude on display at The Gawker shows a slight crack today when editor/writer Elizabeth Spiers responds to an illiterate slam from some Tim Goodman groupie. The main response on the Gawker home page is just perfect, but the extended entry tries too hard: I was merely challenging his assumption that American audiences…

  • Who's blogging the Super Bowl ads?

    It might be fun to sit there with my ‘puter during the Super Bowl and snap digital pix of the ads as they debut and log little posts about each one or about anything that’s noteworthy, mightn’t it?

  • Wishlist: autoblogged history breadcrumbs

    How hard would it be to automatically post every URL I hit in one browser to a specific category? I could go back and expand on anything that deserved comment and promote it to the mainpage, but I’d also have a running log of positively everywhere I’d been. One for the lazyweb? Something with scripting…