Category: Best Practices

  • Back up your blog!

    I’ve been asleep at the wheel lately, but the recent Typepad outage should remind everyone to keep current backups of your site, both the data and the output if possible, whether you are self-hosting or relying on a service. Related: *michael parekh on IT*: ON TYPEPAD OUTAGES AND WEB 2.0 MORTALITY, More than a common…

  • Generation theft

    J.D. Lasica posts about a conversation with BlogHer co-organizer

  • Is trackback dead? Are comments on life support?

    Quoting from Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org) I think it’s time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front – the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that there is a very real need to find mechanisms to knit together the world…

  • Tim Bray counters the 'fired for blogging' hype

    In It’s Not Dangerous, Tim Bray extols the career benefits of blogging, primarily as a way to stay informed, establish expertise, and get noticed. p.s.: His curly quotes that are being rendered as (a-with-circumflex, Euro symbol, trademark TM)? in my browser? Whose fault is that?

  • Hugh Macleod calls for the end of metablogging

    In gapingvoid: the death of metablogging, makes the usual points against navelgazing, rendering this weblog obsolete. I gather that metametablogging is still cool, though?

  • Surrender to the Flow

    Frank Paynter writes: I’m sure Adam Rifkin speaks for many of us when he says: Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST, sending the bits over the 802.11, out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the…