Category: Weblog Concepts

How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) – Engadget – www.engadget.com ++

Engagdget published a guide to podcasting (time-shifted syndicated online audio/radio type content developed and popularized by Dave Winer and Adam Curry) by Phillip Torrone back in October of this year (pretty fast out of the gate): Quoting from How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) : This week’s How-To is…

November 22, 2004
Does blogging need an ethics committee?

Quoting from Blog Ethics Committee, Blog Publishers Association, and the evil Word of Mouth Marketing folks – The Jason Calacanis Weblog – calacanis.weblogsinc.com : Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog ethics committee…

November 19, 2004
Linkin' logs due for some rethinking

At plasticbag.org Tom Coates has some ideas for how link logs should work in this day and age: So Paul Hammond created webkit2png which is a lovely little command-line script for a Mac that goes and grabs a full screenshot of a web-page – full length on the page. It can also do a variety…

October 7, 2004
You know you're obsessed with blogging when

You lie about the size of your readership… in a dream.

September 30, 2004
Finding a better metaphor

I think Annalee Newitz is onto a better frame for blogging than the tired old media-pundit sliver in her Techsploitation column in the SF Bay Guardian: reality TV. It seems in many ways as if our entire media culture is devoted to broadcasting ephemera. Blogs, like reality TV, record the minutiae of our everyday lives,…

September 28, 2004
Jay Rosen reflects

PressThink: Questions and Answers About PressThink

April 29, 2004