Congratulations to Plan B, a "blog novel." A post to Slashdot has sent its readership through the roof!
The commentary there ranges from cogent to frankly what you'd expect.
categories: salonika
1:29:57 PM 
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OK, many of these aren't funny, but a few of them are. My favorites:
7. Your website's so ugly, I'll bet you used FrontPage.
8. I wouldn't feed that XML syndication to my neighbor's dog.
10. Hey, 1994 is calling... They want their website back!
and
15. Your website's so ugly, Jakob Nielsen likes it.
categories: metablog
12:20:03 PM say what []
long story short: blog meme tipping point metablogI still have some work to do turning on the weblogs pings for my blogs, turning on the RSS feeds, adding the title fields to the template, and replacing the Powered by Blogger ads with Powered by Blogger Pro ads (or removing them entirely, which paying customers are permitted, if not encouraged, to do).
Here's an idea for another Blogger Pro feature: better templates!
categories: metablog
12:02:16 PM say what []
Here are a few of the features you get with the Pro version of Blogger that have analogous Radio features:
- Title fields
- Post via email
- Image posting (but not yet for blogspot blogs)
- Draft (unpublished) posts
- RSS (syndicatable feed) generation
Here are some Blogger Pro features that aren't matched in the basic Radio feature set
- BlogSend, an email broadcasting feature
- Post templates
- Editable time stamps
- Spellchecking
Blogger Pro is under constant development. Buying it now locks in the current $35/year subscription price (compared with a projected $50/year price). Pyra projects these features for future revisions of Pro:
- Secure publishing
- Moderation of team posts
- Blogger search access
Though I've been leaning toward consolidating all of my blogs on MovableType or now, possibly, Radio, I think I'll still pay for Blogger Pro in the mean time, partly in the spirit of supporting the development effort and partly for the reasons that I bought a premium Salon subscription a while back. One immediate benefit of doing so will be that the Blogger-based mirror of this site will start getting the article titles.
categories: metablog
11:35:52 AM say what []
I think the bloggers vs. journalists, or bloggers = journalists, or bloggers keep journalists honest, etc., memes are well distributed and covered in the blogosphere, so I don't know if I have much to add to that conversation right now, but Howard Kurtz at writes about the fact-checking angle in today's WaPo.
categories: memewatch metablog
10:27:54 AM say what []
John Scalzi, in his March 15 'Whatever' column, questions the quality of blog writing:
There are good writers who are working on the Web, either as their primary outlet or as an interesting and intelligent side interest, but I doubt that any of them could be described as influential or important.
categories: metablog
10:01:04 AM say what []
Michael Helfrich of Groove Networks recounts a telling exchange with a client from his days at the Lotus/IBM Knowledge Management project:
"You mean that one of my supply chain people could share our schedule data with a supplier?" he asked. "Sure, but they could do that with email, or the phone too. Heck, they could do a screen shot of their SAP GUI and fax the thing too couldn't they?" I offered.
categories: knowhow
7:15:27 AM say what []
James McNally wrote this brief review of Rebecca Blood's book, The Weblog Handbook:
Ethics, etiquette, the debate over "weblogs as journalism," the self-reflection of the burgeoning weblog "community": all these subjects and more fall under the purview of this surprisingly dense little book.
categories: metablog
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