Category: Weblog Concepts

  • How to make a category in Radio

    I’ve just posted (in reverse order *phew* so you can read it in the right order) a six-step tutorial explaining to Salon bloggers how to set up a new category in Radio so they can participate in the Salon blogs salon I’m trying to set up. If you change the names of the categories and…

  • Sour grapes from the left wing of the blogosphere

    I wonder if the libertarian-right pundit sector of the blogosphere is to this year’s elections as the dittohead talk-radio shows were to those of 1994? Meanwhile, the gloating and the whining are already running rampant. Tacitus bemoans the sour grapes from the left. As a moderate-leftist who is usually disgusted by the behavior of both…

  • Problem with category not rendering

    I’m having a problem with my fireweaver category not rendering. I’m not sure why this is. When I try to look at the page on the desktop weblog, I get 500 Server Error (“Can

  • My new blogchalking icon

    Finally customized my blogchalking icon. I never liked that spiky haired face as my blogchalking icon. I kind of like the tourist icon and the anarchy one is nice for livejournal users (ducking!). But I wanted to make one that kind of resembles me in my sloppy pixelated way. I just grabbed the gif I…

  • Administrivia equivalent of getting new drapes

    I’m going to take the non-blog-focused categories and put them in new clothes, gradually moving their branding away from RFB’s revolutionary vigor toward more appropriate looks and feels. Salonika should look like a Salon blog (and when I get the upstreaming syntax figured out, it should live at blogs.salon.com, but that’s another matter. Fireweaver will…

  • Best RSS resources?

    This should be an easy one, as I have plenty of bookmarks, but I’d like to throw this question out there: What are the best sources for RSS information online? Here are some dredged quickly out of my browser’s history: WebReference’s Web / Authoring / Languages / XML / RSS page (the best RSS “portal”…