Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Searching subdomains with a Google search box

    Aha! I asked the question about non-root level addresses in the Google search box code in the comments on John Robb’s blog and Brian Buck supplied part of the answer: site:blogs.salon.com inurl:0001111 rss This will do a search on Radio Free Blogistan for the keyword rss. P.S.: The google search operators page — I’ve got…

  • Add a Google search box to any site?

    John Robb posts the code for adding a Google search widget to your blog (or any site, really). However, as I read it, it seems to work with entire domains (for example, jrobb.userland.com). Sites like this whose root address is a subdirectory of a root domain (this site’s address is currently blogs.salon.com/0001111/) may not benefit…

  • Blog watching 'cyberjournalists' and 'j-bloggers'

    Catching up with Spartaneity this morning leads me to the Weblog Blog at CyberJournalist.net. The site is for and about journalist bloggers (referred to there as J-bloggers). Hey, if enough of these blogging about blogging sites appear, I think I can put my feet up and just let everyone else do this work! So, there…

  • Havrilesky on the fate of all fads

    Thanks to RevCow, I procrastinated for ten minutes reading an interview with Heather Havrilesky in the L.A. Weekly. She sounds remarkably sensible and I bet her novel will rock. Here is her take on viewing blogging as a trend: I think the popularity of blogging has grown an incredible amount, so there’ll be articles saying…

  • 'Twas ever thus

    Cracking down on a thing just makes it more desirable. How many readers would have have slogged through Ulysses if it hadn’t have been banned as obscene? It looks like BEACHtechie is getting his day in the sun, following the school suspension re-reported here earlier. (“Yesterday I had more unique visitors to my blog than…

  • Perspective on the Panel

    Glenn Fleishman follows up on J.D.’s partial transcipt of the Berkeley panel: One of the points that I come away with from this discussion is that the real crux of the difference between journalism and personal blogging is a very fine amount of intermediation. Instead of the heavy intermediation that happens between a newspaper journalist…