Another classic for that online blog library (even though its name gives away its paleoblog origins) is why web journals suck.
categories: memewatch metablog
11:31:11 PM 
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Dave Roos, a self-described "blogging failure" wrote this amusing take on blogging for the website of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers":
Bloggers don't appreciate press from ignorant, neophyte blog failures like myself, because blog failures like myself are prone to sweeping philosophical generalizations concerning the nature of blogging.
I'll be appearing on TSS this coming week, btw, to demonstrate how to make a quick and dirty digital photo album with Dreamweaver and Fireworks MX. I've also suggested to them that I do the blog-template tutorial on their show (once I write it up, of course).
categories: memewatch metablog
11:23:55 PM say what []
Matt Croydon's postneo blog contains a pointer to w.bloggar. I'm not sure what the right term for this is, an interface for blogging? middleware? It posts to Blogger and MovableType as well as a few other tools, pings weblogs.com and offers other management services.
I suppose one way of aggregating blogs on multiple systems would be to use such a tool as a front-end, but I'd be worried about adding more complexity to the process. As I get up to speed with Movable Type (experimental MT blog at Meme List), I notice that despite MT's famous "trickiness" it has many of the hallmarks of a second-generation tool. Among them, detailed explanation of how to import your blog from other tools, such as Blogger.
I'll be running a comparison of Radio and MT this coming week.
categories: metablog
11:09:53 PM say what []
A method for annotating and archiving my Events log would, I think, shed light on my iterative editorial process and acknowledge the effort (in the sense of crossing out items on a to-do list). Otherwise, I just cringe at old posts with typos and sentence fragments, shrug, and then move on.
I know I could remember to copy and text-massage the log every night, but knowing myself as I do, that won't work.
categories: metablog radioactive
5:33:59 PM say what []
Thanks to Scott Rosenberg's clarification I realize that I leapt to conclusions without reading closely enough. If MSNBC will simply be listing their journalist's blogs (Alterman, Kaus, et al.?), then I suppose what replaces their messag boards will be the comments function? I suppose that would tend to focus conversation on the personalities instead of the articles. Will that lead to more civilized, on-topic discussion?
Also, apologies for implying any analogous closing of TableTalk!
5:25:05 PM say what []
Eric Scheid on the BloggerDev mailing list answered my question about why subject titles aren't showing up on the Blogger-API-mirrored version of this site. The answer is disappointingly simple:
the API doesn't support any of the PRO features, such as titles.
Oh, well.
categories: metablog radioactive
12:33:28 PM say what []
Sifry's Alerts features a cool implementation of the Google API for MovableType bloggers. From the post about the first version of the hack:
With a 3-line hack to Movable Type's source code (gosh, I love having the source code to my software) I added a new function to its Google search capability - I can now do dynamic google searches on each and every one of the titles of my blog posts.
(via Google Weblog)
categories: metablog
9:06:00 AM say what []
My friend syrup used to get (and post) some strange search requests. This site is a community blog (very Metafilter-y design) where you can post any disturing search requests you find in your referer logs.
Since I don't post much personal stuff here (see bodega for the excruciating details of my life), I can't say I've seen to many disturbing search terms yet, though it was strange to see four or five referers yesterday from people searching Google for the "Ex-Dictator Broke, Living with Mom" story.
categories: metablog x-syndicate
8:24:12 AM say what []
In a column (Blogs are HUGE) at the Macromedia site, Ed Krimen discussed the way they are using blogs to promote their products:
While most of the feedback about the blogs has been positive, there has been some concerned feedback, especially from the blogging community. Companies like Macromedia don't normally use blogs to communicate with customers.
Most the discussion of corporate (or enterprise) blogging has been about internal knowledge sharing, but this idea of using the blog medium as a corporate communications vehicle bears some thought. Does it coopt the blog channel? Are there trust issues? Do you feel like you're reading an advertisement? What if a corporate blogger writes something that contradicts the company's messaging? Will we start having to check affiliations when reading a new blog?
Meanwhile, I think I'd better start reading Matt Brown's Dreamweaver Blog.
categories: fireweaver knowhow metablog
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