Category: Weblog Concepts

In my blog book (still looking for a publisher, note), I tried to address the whole weblog lifecycle, from setup and launch, through the daily routine of writing the blog and occasionally reorganizing it, down to how to end a blog. Yes, stop blogging. Some blogs die. They are attached to a project that has…

This is a question for Dave Winer but maybe Andrew Grumet or someone else who has insight into Dave’s latest innovations in weblog concepts could take a stab at it too: I assume each of the nodes in the aggregator hierarchy will have RSS feeds (or may already have XML renderings available)? The XML icons…

After dismissing weblogging as just another technology-assisted fad, writer Chris Shipley has reconsidered and started writing a blog herself himself (actually, two blogs, both listed at Shipley’s website). In The Blog Nation, Shipley cites several reasons why she he now believes weblogs are a publishing medium with innovative potential. Among them, she he says, is…

Adam Kalsey is forming a posse to go after comment spammers. He has written a manifesto declaring comment spammers personae non gratae in the blogosphere and invites us all to sign the manifesto by commenting on his blog or sending a trackback ping, and by writing tutorials teaching each other how to track, identify, and…

Robert Scoble, Longhorn evenagelist and MS-koolaid-blogger says that he’d love to writes Bill Gates’ blog: Christopher Coulter asked me “Scoble, what’s your dream job?” I answered: “next to being Bill Gates, I imagine there wouldn’t be a job I’d love more than being Bill Gates ghost weblogger.” Course, if I +did+ get that job, I…

David Weinberger has some predictions about what will happen as blogs become more popular: While there are a hell of a lot of blogs and blog readers, blogs aren’t even close to being a mainstream phenomenon the way email is. It’ll happen. And here are some guesses (note: guesses) about what they’ll look like when…