Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Accommodating email subscribers with bloglet.com

    At the Berkeley J-school weblog panel* an audience member asked if most blogs used email to send reminders or even as an alternative mode for reading. A discussion ensued about how common, desirable, or easy this might be. My personal view is that I’d like to make anything I publish for free online available in…

  • We're number two

    Dave is obsessing on Google pagerank, trying to get Google to associate his page more rankfully with the search term weblog. He also got me thinking about this thing of being the top Dave or Adam or Jeremy or Jason on Google: Adam Curry is the number three Adam on Google today, ahead of Adam…

  • Spartaneity: Without Permalinks, Is It a Weblog?

    The Spartaneity Project furthers the conversation about whether permalinks are an essential element of weblogs: Much of what makes weblogs different from websites of old is structural. … [W]e’re inclined to believe that those which do not include permalinks through which the rest of us can refer directly to individual posts are not quite fully…

  • Blog for hogs?

    Would this give blogs street cred?: Marketing Magazine. Jim Carroll. Corporate weblogs. It likely won’t be too long before we see an official Harley-Davidson blog that features ongoing commentary, news and updates from an “evangelist” within the Harley organization. Featured within the main Harley-Davidson site, the effort will emerge as a powerful means by which the…

  • Tweney: Google should index blog RSS feeds

    Google loves blogs. Blogs loves Google. But is there trouble in paradise? When items slip of the front page of most blogs, there is an anecdotal two- to three-week delay before archived items are reindexed. As Dylan Tweney points out this is an artifact of the fact that Google’s basic unit of indexing is the…

  • Those people are not reading my blog

    Blogging News (thanks for the recent links, Hylton) quotes The Weigh In on the limited effectiveness of punditoblogging (compare the Tom Tomorrow cartoon in the back of the most recent New Yorker on “diminishing returns”), writing “Blogging’s not enough.” Reading the entry, I was struck by the resonance with Rebecca Blood‘s concern about bloggers writing…