Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Blogger summit

    Heady company last night at Barney’s and Coyote. Marc Canter brought his whole family (check out Chris Pirillo’s video footage). Pirillo and the lovely the talented Gretchen came with the whole Gnometourage. Ev showed up after dinner (and pow-wowed with Dave about the metaweblog API and other matters). Tara Sue, it turns out, is a…

  • Match the panties to the blogger

    Gnome-Girl has all the fun.

  • Experimenting with the Referrer System

    Following my usual scattershot process of trying out multiple methods for doing the same thing and then sometimes randomly stopping when something works well enough, I dropped by Stephen’s Web today and have added the code for his hosted referrer-listing system. I may install the backend code myself, but I don’t mind filtering my referrers…

  • First Evil gets a blog

    Fans of Buffy will probably get a kick out of The First’s Journal. Apparently the First Evil was broken up enough about (SPOILER) the death of her ur-vampire pet Turok-Han that he/she/it created a memorial page for the creature. “Beloved minion. Devoted pet. He raved and grred. A lot.”

  • The East Bay Gawker?

    Peter Merholz speculates about the applicability of the Gawker model to other cities: What would a Berkeley Gawker be? An Austin Gawker? Obviously, they’d take on the regional flava… I don’t think Berkeleyites would be nearly as obsessed with Prada and J. Lo (thankfully). Much as I’d love to help put out an Oakland weblogmagazine…

  • Textism preparing to release Textpattern

    Dean Allen announces that he is almost ready to release Textpattern, his long-promised web writing tool (or, if you prefer, CMS). While I’m afraid it will not enable me to write as well as he does (his predictions for 2003 are microstorytelling at its finest), Textpattern offers a feature set that has me drooling, and…