Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Blogger getting sued

    A reader, probably looking for news of the blogger being sued by the Scientologists, ran across a September 23rd post to this blog in which I quote Dylan Tweney writing in his blog: “Thought experiment: What will happen to the free-and-easy culture of the blogosphere after the first weblogger (journalist or otherwise) gets sued for…

  • Blogging Iraq (and Iran) at Salon

    Camille Roy’s Ich Bin Ein Iraqi blog at Salon recounts her memories of a childhood in Iraq and takes on the powers-that-be in their drive to war, past and present. By coincidence, topping the Salon rankings these days is Hilary and Kathy’s Tehran <–> Washington, DC 1970–1973 teen girl blog, featuring a series of letters…

  • bIPlog goes live

    The weblog of the Berkeley journalism school Intellectual Property class, bIPlog went live today. It’s a group weblog. The focus of the class is on intellectual property. The weblog is merely one form of expression for the journalistic efforts of the class in covering the “beat” of intellectual property in these changing times.

  • Independent journalist blogging his way back to Iraq

    Former AP and New York Daily News reporter Christopher Allbritton publishes the Back to Iraq blog, through which he is attempting to raise money to send himself back to northern Iraq. Here’s part of his pitch soliciting support for his independent journalistic mission: This summer I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of…

  • Raven Salondotted

    Aha! Salon has stealthily linked to a Salon blogger (besides, or in addition to, Scott Rosenberg) directly on its home page, citing the Raven’s awesome XTREME blogging post. Nice to see a leetle evolution in Salon’s approach to its weird stepchildren.

  • Turning off an RSS feed in Radio

    I posed this question (“How do you turn off your RSS feed in Radio?”) to the radio.userland.com/discuss discussion group and Mark Paschal stepped up to offer a scriptwise method for turning off RSS rendering in Radio and instructions on how to employ it. Thanks, Mark!