Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Publishing rarely lucrative

    In the Shirky piece I referred to earlier, he writes “Right now, the people who have profited most from weblogs are the people who’ve written books about weblogging.” I’m not aware of the sales figures for any of the handful of books out now about weblogging, but I sort of doubt that these authors have…

  • Shirky: Weblogs disruptive to commercial publishing

    (via Vincent Flanders) Clay Shirky comments on the mass amateurization of publishing; that is, how weblogs undermine the norms of commercial, professional publishing models. A lot of people in the weblog world are asking “How can we make money doing this?” The answer is that most of us can’t. His deeper point is that this…

  • Bloglet down?

    Got my first subscription mail this morning from Bloglet and it appeared that I’ve subscribed to my own x-pollen feed and not to the main thread of this blog. (I always subscribe to my own mailings, to see how they appear to end users.) I don’t know if this is because I signed up at…

  • Welcome msnbc.com readers!

    Was alerted to a listing in MSNBC’s Weblog Central blog. Is it just me or is the layout of that page funny? I see three sidebars down the right side of my browser window before you get to the weblog. Could be a Mac thing? Joan, the executive producer writing the blog,Will Femia is off…

  • Meta linking to your RSS feed

    Per dive into mark, I just added a link tag indicating this blog’s rss feed. The code I added should work for any Radio blog whose RSS feed is named rss.xml: <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss xml” title=\”RSS\” href=”<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>rss.xml”>

  • Cowgirl hogties raincoater

    Yesterday, our own Susannah “Reverse Cowgirl” Breslin passed Pornographer’s Picks in Salon Blogs’ all-time ranking. The anonymous raincoater had a large head start and still brings in remarkable numbers on the strength of his first month of postings, despite shooting blanks since August. Plan B’s return from vacation and a who-shot-JR style cliffhanger will likely…