Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Macromedia Firefly plus RSS

    Using Macromedia FireFly Components to Work with RSS Feeds by Aral Balkan; re: Macromedia Flash. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center] …and I’m off to NOLA…

  • Towards participatory online democracy

    Paul Ford thinks the Senate should have an RSS feed, and the House, and the Supreme Court, and the White House. I think he’s right, and I like his approach to raising the subject.

  • Mr. Kott-air?

    Jeff Green wonders what we were laughing at, when we were laughing at the Sweat Hogs. All I know is that there was a time “sport shirt on the iceburg” chanted to the beat of a conga line could crack up me and my sibs without fail. Around this time we were equally susceptible to…

  • Xeni is the cowgirl's stunt double this week

    Xeni Jardin asks the musical question, “[W]hat do you blog about when you can be as explicit, as extreme, and as graphic as you want to be? How far will you go – at what point will you self-censor? Do you roll your sleeves up and turn up the shock, just because you can? If…

  • What up with BlogShares?

    For some reason RFB’s market cap and incoming/outgoing link tallies are frozen at March 20 levels over at BlogShares. On the other hand the share price is updated dynamically (and, gratifyingly, I suppose, has been on a pleasing upward curve lately). One interesting thing is that the people who’ve acquired shares of RFB frequently belong…

  • Iranian blogger arrested

    Blogging has gotten pretty big in Iran, which is no surprise given the democratic strivings emerging from the enormous Persian youth culture. Now it appears that one Iranian blogger/journalist has been arrested. He is “accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles both in newspapers and…

  • Semi-hiatus coming up

    The reverse cowgirl has teased me in the past that whenever I announce that blogging will be light for some upcoming period I usually follow up with an unusually dense flurry of blog postings. There are two reasons for this. One is that announcing that I won’t be doing much blogging seems to relieve some…

  • It's a blog! It's a wiki! …

    I’m getting a lot of interesting fodder from the blog conference on the Well. Today there’s a lively discussion of Bloki, a web-based collaborative tool that combines aspects of blogs and wikis. I haven’t explored it much yet, but so far mostly what I’ve seen is the wiki part (the ability to edit pages in…

  • A day without blogging

    Since I started Radio Free Blogistan last July I’d managed to post at least one entry every day, until yesterday. Since I use RFB to aggregate blog posts to a number of different sites, this means that RFB had a continuous calendar running back to its first day. I was kinda proud of this although…

  • Frequency, a Mac OS X desktop Blogger client

    Brad Rhine has released Frequency, a neat little desktop Blogger client for Mac users. I had the opportunity to beta test this software and it works like a charm.

  • Embedding trackbacks alongside comments

    Tom Coates posted a cogent explanation of how he has tweaked his templates so that incoming trackbacked post excerpts appear in the midst of comments on his archive pages.

  • Weblog business strategies conference June 9-10

    JupiterMedia is putting on a conference called Weblog Business Strategies Conference & Expo 2003, “The Premier Business Event for Blogs” in Boston on June 9 and 10. Dave Winer is giving the keynote address. David Weinberger will also be giving a keynote, along with Jason Shellen from Blogger/Pyra/Google, and Tony Perkins from AlwaysOn: This two-day…

  • Dave: The web needs OPML directories

    Is that a revolution in your pocket or are you just sporting an OPML directory renderer?

  • The Independent on RSS (and blogs)

    The Independent has an article discussing the concept of RSS today, in the context of “electronic newspapers.” [via The Well‘s blog.ind conference]

  • YA Weblog panel at Berkeley

    shacker sez: Weblogs, Information, and Society. I know, the J-School should be all paneled out by now, not to mention weblogged out, but lo, another good webcast tonight: Weblogs are mainstream, and they are changing the way we manage knowledge, work and communicate. On Thursday, April 10, join panelists Dan Gillmor, Scott Rosenberg, Donna Wentworth…

  • Pirillo in the hizzouse

    Chris Pirillo is blogging the conference.

  • War as career opportunity

    While it is no longer acceptable to say so, there was a time when military men (and they were all men, then) would welcome war as a chance for distinction and advancement. In Patrick O’Brien’s Aubrey/Maturin novels, Jack Aubrey will always disclaim the death and horror of war but it honest about the fact that…

  • Weblogs at Seybold

    Running out the door right now, late for a meeting, but I just heard that my proposal for a weblogs seminar at this September’s Seybold conference in S.F. was accepted. Coooool. Thanks to Scott R. and Dave for the tip and the lead. I’ll post more info about schedule, agenda, etc., when I get a…

  • OK, OK, dullest blog

    This one keeps showing up on my screen, so I might as well note it. The Dullest Blog in the world is a deadpan satire of inconsequential web journaling. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Yahoo’s crack crew of editors can hardly contain their mirth: Web logs have reached critical mass and become ubiquitous…

  • Blasphemy supersedes pr0n

    In the recent community server crisis I failed to notice that Jan Haugland’s Secular Blasphemy has edged out Pornographer’s Picks for the No. 10 spot in the Salon Blogs rankings, knocking PP out of the top ten for the first time ever. Soon he will pass RFB in the rankings, then the Raven will pass…

  • CSS layout problem in my personal blog

    I’ve been trying to sort out the design elements at X-POLLEN. Right now I’m trying to track down a CSS (style sheet) error, and it helps me visualize the various design blocks to give them distinct colors and ugly borders. The problem is in the left two-thirds (links) area of the page. The banner (across…