Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Advanced Radio chapter from 'Essential Blogging' posted

    A sample chapter from the new O’Reilly book on blogging. [Scripting News] Yes, I am still planning to review this book!

  • 'Weblog Handbook' slashdotted

    A positive front-page review of Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Handbook at Slashdot generates a range of responses, most of which we’ve seen before from this quarter (weblogs are over, the writing is terrible/self-indulgent, who cares what you think, what’s so hard about updating webpages, etc.). Some choice comments: Why would I care to read your stupid…

  • Curiously strong reaction

    Shades of the nuzee flap of a month or so ago, andersja objects to finding his content repurposed at blogmints. (Blogmints shows the most commented-upon posts from blogs that recently pinged weblogs.com.) Quoth andersja: I will stand by what I said then: feel free to syndicate my RSS feed. I insert the postings’ headers, excerpts…

  • Boing Boing adds Xeni Jardin to main crew

    Many people think of the Boing Boing blog as Cory Doctorow’s personal weblog, and even link to or blogroll it that way, but of course it is a team blog, with Apple switcher Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz also on the masthead. Cory posted on Saturday that Xeni Jardin did “such a fan-freakin-tastic job running…

  • Blogs better or worse for the lack of editors?

    S.F Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius write about two editor-free Internet phenomena this Sunday: Google News and Blogs. He takes the heretical position for a writer that editors do in fact add value to writing. He devotes most of his column inches to Google News but takes on blogs near the end, allowing that blogs “can…

  • Salon blog watch

    Well, I never did manage to surpass the blognovel in time, as Reverse Cowgirl rocketed past me into No. 3 position yesterday and went to No. 2 overall today. Scott has a pretty big lead in his No. 1all-time position but if I were him I’d still be nervous! I think it’s clear, though, that…