Category: User Experience

  • Does blogging need an ethics committee?

    Quoting from Blog Ethics Committee, Blog Publishers Association, and the evil Word of Mouth Marketing folks – The Jason Calacanis Weblog – calacanis.weblogsinc.com :  Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog ethics committee…

  • Cadenhead revamps Buzzword hosting

    In Weblog Hosting Priced to Move, Rogers Cadenhead explains that hosting the Weblogs.com refugees has turned out not to be as cost-intensive as he anticipated and that with some sponsored links he will be able to continue to host all active migrated blogs at Buzzword.com for free.

  • The biter bit

    Warner Bros. dabbles in the MP3-blogging space as a p.r. strategy (paging Steve Rubel) and gets a bit burned by the experience, according to this New York Times article: Warner’s Tryst With Bloggers Hits Sour Note. I’ll have to check out J.D.’s coverage of this story. (nonrotting link courtesy of the userland-partnership feature, generated automatically…

  • Movable Type's professional logging play

    Farhad Manjoo chronicles Movable Type’s rise from a opular nearly free weblogging tool to a product positioning itself for the corporate market (Salon.com Technology | Blogging grows up).

  • Any way to restore hastily deleted comments?

    Bastards put my own URL in one of their spam comments and in my haste I deleted some legitimate comments (posted by myself). Feelin’s stupid. If I go to backups of my mysql database should I be able to resurrect the killed comments? I did manage to preserve the post IDs for the comments, which…

  • Will no one rid me of this troublesome spam?

    I wasn’t kidding about wanting a intern to volunteer for spam-destruction. As a perk I will offer posting privileges to the front page of this blog to anyone (who is already a blogger) who volunteers for this all-important spam squelching mode. This requires both deleting spam and banning URLs daily but also noticing the patterns…