Category: Weblog Concepts

  • RadioExPop!

    Last week or so I was complaining about the RadioExpress! bookmarklet, how it doesn’t pop up in a new window, which would let me selectively quote from the source page or view its source (since RE! doesn’t grab raw HTML in IE/Mac, as far as I can tell), and how I lack the basic Javascript…

  • Fried Green al-Qaedas

    While Plan B was getting all the Slashdotting and the Scott Rosenberg shout-outs, Mark Hoback was quietly writing his entire novel, Green, at his Salon blog. So what do you do with a blog novel blog when you’ve finished writing the novel? Apparently you change the name of your blog to something more eye catching…

  • Addicted to Books is moving

    Kevin Holtsberry, who runs the popular Addicted to Blooks blogs, has “decided that it is too much of a pain in the butt to have three blogs.” He is combining his several blogs into his main weblog, Ideas, etc. I hear that. As someone who spawns new blogs at the drop of a hat, my…

  • pMachine to offer hosting, to be featured in upcoming book

    In their monthly newsletter, thet pMachine folks announce a new hosting service for pMachine users (naturally, http://pmachinehosting.com/), and has this to say about one of the upcoming blog books: There is a new book on blogging called “Blog On” (McGraw/Hill) that features pMachine extensively. The book was written by our good friend Todd Stauffer (author…

  • The acceptable face of panhandling

    I’m experimenting with the various forms of solicitations available to bloggers to seek support from their readers. I haven’t put anything on the home page yet (except for the Amazon link to my Dreamweaver book that’s been there for months). For now I’m just parking the various badges and come-on’s in a story called Support…

  • I document my failure

    The fact that that metalinker stuff never worked and was causing error messages in IE6/Win browsers like a piece of toilet paper stuck to my shoe, and the fact that I still haven’t been able to get a TrackBack ping-based metablog working, or RSS monkey installed, for that matter. I’m not perfect, and I think…