Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Blogging as open email

    I have half a mind to turn my well known public email address xian@pobox.com into an entirely open channel, which is to say that anyone who corresponds with that public address will have to be notified that what I write in response is not secret and is in fact subject to my posting it online…

  • Wishlist as manifesto

    In anticipation of BloggerCon, Dave Winer recently put out a general call for suggestions about the next generation of blogging software, from the user’s perspectives. What features would we like to see? what’s missing? what do we need? what’s next? Shimon Rura and Lisa Williams have taken a first cut at sifting through the suggestions…

  • Blogging's cardinal sins

    Recently, a commenter noted that the links here at RFB are hard to see for some people, meaning they’re less accessible than they should be. (The commenter kindly directed us to Dive into Accessibility.) I value feedback like that and will tackle it if need be, but since we will be rolling out a new…

  • Open thread

    We never have an open thread here on RFB. I shy away from generic-titled link-remaindering and so I’ve never liked the way “Open Thread” looks in my RSS reader. I realize that this has to do with the weak integration of blog and discussion board ways as discussed recently, but not in an easy way…

  • Standing on the verge of nonprofit blogging

    One of the more popular (commented-on, linked-to) posts here in the last year or so was my somewhat sketchy Weblog strategies for nonprofits entry. At some point I was talking to CompuMentor about some kind of panel discussion on the subject in SF but I haven’t heard anything about it lately and I’ve been kind…

  • Biblography

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