Category: Weblog Concepts

  • MT client for Mac Classic?

    A friend has started blogging with MT and she is still running OS 9 on her iBook. We were discussing the problems with the web interface, particularly the form-based text box, where there is a high risk of accidentally munging your own work. I showed her how to select all, copy, and paste into a…

  • Blog gender gap?

    Lisa Guernsey has recently started a weblog about search engines. She writes in today’s Circuits section of the New York Times about the relative prominence of men in the blogosphere as compared with women. Many have pointed out, however, that blogs are a fairly egalitarian format, with women, people of color, and other groups who…

  • David F. Gallagher's remarks at 'Revenge of the Blog'

    Gallagher has posted a version of his remarks from the Blog conference at Yale. He says, “I’m more of a reporter than a pundit” and offers three anecdotes along with some follow up comments. Don’t miss his photolog (managed with Blogger). I can’t decide, for myself, whether to manage a separate photoblog, or stick with…

  • Tom Coates on the rightward tilt in the punditic blogosphere

    Over at plasticbag.org, Tom wonders about the popularity of right-wing views among political bloggers, and offers a few theories: [T]he sheer number and moral certainty of current right-wing webloggers is intimidating (occasionally terrifying). This in itself would not be a reason to avoid debate, except that (as is often the case with most organisations and…

  • Garden blogs

    Can anyone recommend some good garden or gardening blogs? I have an ulterior motive for asking which I’ll explain after I see what this search turns up.

  • Blogging 'Revenge of the Blogs'

    Bag and Baggage provides some good coverage of last weekend’s ‘Revenge of the Blogs’ conference at Yale.