Category: Weblog Concepts

  • You've got blog

    According to CBS MarketWatch.com, AOL is preparing to support some form of blogging: America Online reportedly will furnish subscribers the tools through which they can publish diaries and commentaries on the Web. Known as “Blogs,” or Weblogs, they are easily produced one-page Web sites, popularized by entertainment artists and journalists. They are also used by…

  • Bay Area Salon Bloggers meetup?

    Not to exclude anyone, but it seems that a lot of the people blogging here at Salon are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Maybe in the new year we should try to put together a party or something?

  • Movable Type / LDAP integration

    Leslie Orchard (0xDECAFBAD) says he’s got an early version of a method for integrating MT with LDAP. Cooooooool: This week, at work, I cobbled together a hack for MovableType that hooks it up with an LDAP server for author accounts: MovableTypeLDAPAuthors. This is an early, early, early release of the thing, and is likely to…

  • Blogger gets a column

    Mark Pilgrim: “[T]oday is the first time in my life that I’ve been directly paid for writing.” This is how it’s supposed to work, right? Sweat equity -> personal brand -> pundit status.

  • 'Gawker' hits the streets

    Well, the long-rumored Spiers/Kottke/Denton NY gossip rag e-zine blog thang has burst onto the scene and it looks fabulous. I’m both pleased and envious, which is a good sign (for me). Great concept, great execution. Huge talent. What else do you need? Perfect timing too since I’m sitting here in my parents’ apt. on the…

  • Blogs vs. Lott

    When the major media and the Democratic leadership in the Senate were ready to give Lott a pass on his accidental honesty at Strom’s 100th birthday party, it was the blogosphere that kept the story alive until the beltway consensus gelled and the pile-on began. We always here about the power of right-wing talk radio…