Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Blogger hacked!

    The BloggerDev mailing list is abuzz this morning with people complaining that their settings have been switched around by someone using the monicker hax0redbyme. The first symptoms showed up when users tried to manipulate their blogs and found their view site link within the Blogger application redirected to http://blogger.com/hax0redbyme/. A list member checked the team…

  • What's Sullivan for Instalanche?

    ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens’s new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon’s best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. (More…)

  • Blogging the conference, part two

    I decided to try to plumb the native talent of clients and other people subscribed to the Waterside “virtual conference” mailing list: I’m trying to arrange wireless access at the 2003 Waterside Conference (in Berkeley), and I wanted to ask the members of this list whether anyone has experience setting up this kind of impromptu…

  • Call for Contributors

    As my (still secret) project continues to take up most of my working time, I’d like to accelerate a plan I had on the backburner for the future of the blog, which is to throw it open to outside contributors. I think coverage of this beat would benefit from the input of collaborators. I see…

  • Making a metablog with TrackBack pings

    In my continuing effort to use my own blogorrhea as a guinea pig, I have some plans in the works for my x-pollen.com domain. For example, I’m planning to move my personal blog from LiveJournal to Movable Type. I’ll document the process as I do it. I’m also trying to set up a TrackBack ping-based…

  • Making a conference bloggable

    So, what does it take to make a conference bloggable? That is, what are the usual arrangements required? Is it a matter of one IP address, a DHCP hub, one or more airport or linksys type wireless base stations, and that’s it? Or am I overlooking a layer of complexity? This is the kind of…