Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Expelled for blogging

    Metafilter is all over the “blogger expelled from school” story. Quoting Danelope: This is all due to every paranoid school administrator’s fear that their school will be the next Columbine. Harris and Klebold had a Web site where they posted their hate-filled screeds against, well, just about everything, and as a result, any site the…

  • RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type

    (via Scripting News) Dive into Mark has developed an RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type. Besides demonstrating how to implement RSS 2.0 feeds, it also takes some steps towards showing how namespace innovations derived for RSS 1.0 can be utilized in this (other fork) version of the “standard” (can we still call it that?).

  • Blogs a half-baked KM solution?

    In Network Computing’s BuzzCut column, Mike DeMaria talks about blogs as an improvement over e-mail for project updating but as an imperfect solution, at best, for archiving and retrieving links: Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can’t possibly live up to their potential.

  • Journalistic ethics, from J.D.'s transcript of the Panel

    In New Media Musings, J.D. Lasica writes: Hadn’t realized this, but yesterday OJR published my column on weblogs and journalism — or, more accurately, a partial transcript of the panel at UC Berkeley last week… He quotes an excerpt on journalistic ethics and blogging from Rebecca Blood that I want to repeat here because my…

  • Compendium of weblog resources

    The most useful thing in the aforementioned article was a link to Weblogs Compendium, another good central clearinghouse of blog information and resources, today featuring pointers to useful third-party services such as myMediaList (for adding lists of books, music, and other media to your blog or web page) and blogLinker (for managing a modular link…

  • Business blogs in the news again

    Enterpreneur.com publishes a light article called Who Let the Blogs Out?: With a blog, you can answer questions, post business updates, link to similar sites and receive commentary from users. A collaborative company blog could give your employees one place to go to keep up on business happenings, memos and announcements.