Radio Free Blogistan: September 2002 Archives

Would this give blogs street cred?: Marketing Magazine. Jim Carroll. Corporate weblogs. It likely won't be too long before we see an official Harley-Davidson blog that features ongoing commentary, news and updates from an "evangelist" within the Harley organization. Featured within the main Harley-Davidson site, the effort will emerge as a powerful...

Not as cute as my bunny. B sent me this link to Riparian Rabbit Release for the bunny pix but these guys just aren't as cute as Hoppy was....

Google loves blogs. Blogs loves Google. But is there trouble in paradise? When items slip of the front page of most blogs, there is an anecdotal two- to three-week delay before archived items are reindexed. As Dylan Tweney points out this is an artifact of the fact that Google's basic unit...

Blogging News (thanks for the recent links, Hylton) quotes The Weigh In on the limited effectiveness of punditoblogging (compare the Tom Tomorrow cartoon in the back of the most recent New Yorker on "diminishing returns"), writing "Blogging's not enough." Reading the entry, I was struck by the resonance with Rebecca Blood's...

MLK News: Out and Back describes itself as "San Francisco's first student-published newsBlog." (via John Robb)...

Read in the Times today that Yahoo and SBC are teaming up to offer a DSL service and compete with AOL, MSN, and EarthLink. Also saw an ad on TV last night advertising a $29.95 (I think) monthly rate to sign up for SBC/Yahoo DSL. Well, I already have SBC DSL...

The site search feature of Google's free custom search offering works by default only for sites whose addresses are root-level URLs (so, for example, you can use it out-of-the-box to search jrobb.userland.com or blogs.salon.com but not blogs.salon.com/0001111/). With the help of Ian Landsman and a few other readers over the weekend,...

Matrix on TV. When is the sequel to the Matrix coming out? I seem to recall them filming it in Oakland last year. The original was on TV tonight. It was fun seeing it again, though not quite as impressive on our little screen. The Matrix also seems like it was...

Because I like it when things work automagically... I was wishing today for a widget that would make note of whenever I add someone to my blogroll and possibly post a little summary (linktext, hovertext if any, with link of course) that I could annotate. I keep thinking that blogroll links...

Is anyone keeping track of campaign blogs? Everyone knows about Tara Grubb (thanks to Dave and others). Here is an example of a more local-level campaign. I haven't read the site in detail but it appears well organized and thought out (look at the links down the left side....

Have I mentioned lately that I love the Internet? Cast a question on the waters and the answer (or an answer) generally comes back within 24 hours. Ian Landsman sent me a solution in the comments to my previous post. I'd paste the code in here but even when escaped out...

Well, here's the thing: To limit custom Google searches to just content from the root of this specific blog, I need to pass the string inurl:0001111 (that's my Radio usernum) to the form handler on the Google end. I think I need to go back to web forms school, because I'm...

Aha! I asked the question about non-root level addresses in the Google search box code in the comments on John Robb's blog and Brian Buck supplied part of the answer: site:blogs.salon.com inurl:0001111 rss This will do a search on Radio Free Blogistan for the keyword rss. P.S.: The google search operators...

Since Jrobb and dws and others have posted their form code, the strange decoding, unencoding, recoding behaviors of the Radio RSS Aggregator appear to have rendered my Delete button inoperable. Or is this just me?...

John Robb posts the code for adding a Google search widget to your blog (or any site, really). However, as I read it, it seems to work with entire domains (for example, jrobb.userland.com). Sites like this whose root address is a subdirectory of a root domain (this site's address is currently...

Catching up with Zeldman sent me off in six different directions, of course, but I especially enjoyed reading Web architecture | XML zone : The Web's future: XHTML 2.0 at IBM's developerWorks site. The proposed changes to HTML (I mean XHTML) sounds like steps in the right direction (ditching presentational tags,...

Well, after that self-indulgent post about Salon rankings I thought I owed it to myself to dig a little deeper and go look at some more Salon blogs, starting at the recently updated page. I stumbled across a fairly new blog, Standing Room Only, by Hugh Elliott. His topics are Media,...

Well, the race is on. Will I catch up to the (on vacation) Plan B blognovel to become the number two all-time Salon blog after Scott? Or will the Cowgirl lap me before I make it? For all I know I may have plateaued (that can't be the right spelling) already....

Keep them reviews coming! You work long and hard on a project like my last book (and there was a big team of people working on it with me) and then it goes out the door and it all starts to seem a bit like a dream. Oddly, reviews like this...

Inscrotable! The always-hinky MichaelZ sends along this link to the Scrotum Gift Shop down under....

So now people looking for christian nude are finding their way to RFB. Don't worry. Best item on the first page of results: Should a Christian do a nude scene? I also get a lot of e-mail queries from people wanting to publish religious-themed books because they've searched online for a...

Web addresses were never supposed to be human-readable. The fundamental hyperlinking concept of the Web is intended to mask the underlying Internet protocols and commands required to retrieve data. But the reality is that we see, store, type, copy, and paste URLs all the time (or else the "dotcom" meme would...

Dylan Tweney's latest Business 2.0 column advises businesses to steer carefully between the six-figure CMS overkill solutions that thrived during the dotcom boom and the other end of the spectrum, reinventing the CMS wheel yourself in-house. I've been doing content management-related consulting for the last five years and there's a big...

Catching up with Spartaneity this morning leads me to the Weblog Blog at CyberJournalist.net. The site is for and about journalist bloggers (referred to there as J-bloggers). Hey, if enough of these blogging about blogging sites appear, I think I can put my feet up and just let everyone else do...

Thanks to RevCow, I procrastinated for ten minutes reading an interview with Heather Havrilesky in the L.A. Weekly. She sounds remarkably sensible and I bet her novel will rock. Here is her take on viewing blogging as a trend: I think the popularity of blogging has grown an incredible amount, so...

Cracking down on a thing just makes it more desirable. How many readers would have have slogged through Ulysses if it hadn't have been banned as obscene? It looks like BEACHtechie is getting his day in the sun, following the school suspension re-reported here earlier. ("Yesterday I had more unique visitors...

Glenn Fleishman follows up on J.D.'s partial transcipt of the Berkeley panel: One of the points that I come away with from this discussion is that the real crux of the difference between journalism and personal blogging is a very fine amount of intermediation. Instead of the heavy intermediation that happens...

"Blogging will be light". I've started working on a still-under-wraps project this week and for the next month or three I will be a lot busier. I expect therefore to have less time for blogging, here, at RFB, and elsewhere. I imagine I'll still post nearly daily at least somewhere, but...

Metafilter is all over the "blogger expelled from school" story. Quoting Danelope: This is all due to every paranoid school administrator's fear that their school will be the next Columbine. Harris and Klebold had a Web site where they posted their hate-filled screeds against, well, just about everything, and as a...

(via Scripting News) Dive into Mark has developed an RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type. Besides demonstrating how to implement RSS 2.0 feeds, it also takes some steps towards showing how namespace innovations derived for RSS 1.0 can be utilized in this (other fork) version of the "standard" (can we still...

In Network Computing's BuzzCut column, Mike DeMaria talks about blogs as an improvement over e-mail for project updating but as an imperfect solution, at best, for archiving and retrieving links: Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can't possibly live up to their potential....

Technology maddening when it's not liberating. Today Radio, the tool I use to keep Radio Free Blogistan up-to-date is malfunctioning on me, refusing to past the last couple-seven entries. Oddly, you can see them by going to today's archive page but not on the home page....

First time at PacBell Park. Saw the Giants paste the Padres last night with an old friend who happened to be visiting from San Diego. My first time in the new stadium. Pretty cool. It would be even better for a day game, I'm sure. One odd thing is the rule...

In New Media Musings, J.D. Lasica writes: Hadn't realized this, but yesterday OJR published my column on weblogs and journalism — or, more accurately, a partial transcript of the panel at UC Berkeley last week... He quotes an excerpt on journalistic ethics and blogging from Rebecca Blood that I want to...

Pining?. B writes:"The biologists told me that many of these dead fish are very bright and healthy looking, except for the part about them being dead."—Paul Wertz, an information officer with the California Department of [Dead] Fish and Game....

I can't figure out what's wrong, but when I look at the home page all I see is the first-draft-with-typo version of my first entry of the day and nothing since. They Events Log appears to show regular uploads and my local versions of the pages are up-to-date, so I don't...

Towers excised from Sopranos' opening credits. I was wondering about this while racing through the Sopranos' season three on VHS (no cable), the shot of the twin towers in Tony's rearview mirror during the popular opening-credits sequence. I assumed they'd take it out or replace it, and Nick Denton has the...

Man who had sex with underwear-clad dogs forced to flee. It's bad enough the guy dressed up the dogs he molested in bras and panties, but did he have to kill them too?...

The most useful thing in the aforementioned article was a link to Weblogs Compendium, another good central clearinghouse of blog information and resources, today featuring pointers to useful third-party services such as myMediaList (for adding lists of books, music, and other media to your blog or web page) and blogLinker (for...

Enterpreneur.com publishes a light article called Who Let the Blogs Out?: With a blog, you can answer questions, post business updates, link to similar sites and receive commentary from users. A collaborative company blog could give your employees one place to go to keep up on business happenings, memos and announcements....

An odd referrer led me to Dive into Mark's weblog neighborhood deriver (written in Python). My neighborhood is fairly star-spangled. As usual, I'll chalk this up mostly to generous linkage from Scripting News, along with some recent links to and from megnut and Rebecca's Pocket....

Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov's Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information: Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or...

Also on the Driver 8 tip, another entry notes that Phil Pearson has "a new version of his comment monitor ... that will update me on new comments on my blog... through the RSS aggregator."...

Charly Z of Driver 8 tipped me off this morning to a few interesting threads. First is this biting essay called either "Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs!" (according to its top header), "Why I Hate WebLogs" according to its filename, or the punch-pulling "Why I Hate (Personal) Weblogs" used in its...

Upstreaming problems defeated, the two-part transcript of the September 17, 2002, Berkeley J-school weblog panel is now available:Weblog Panel, Part 1Weblog Panel, Part 2...

All About Weblogs announces an upcoming program on October 5, at 2 pm, at the Sulzer Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 4455 N. Lincoln Ave.: I'll explain what a weblog is, what types and genres of weblogs exsist, taking the audience on a short tour to a few of...

Apologies for the bad links to the not-upstreamed-yet stories representing the two parts of the weblog panel (subjective) transcript. Once again I am told that Radio "Can't write stream because the TCP connection was closed unexpectedly."...

Hylton Jolliffe's Corante on Blogging blog, which probably obviates this site with its thorough coverage of metablog commentary, notes that his site was the straw that broke Sscott Heiferman's patience for all this navelgazing: Scott Heiferman, the founder of MEETUP: "Today's the day. I'm officially no longer interested in the world...

A week has passed since the J-school panel and I've just now completed my subjective transcript of the panel (in two parts). [Note: At the moment Radio is unable to upstream my story files for some reason so the above links aren't working. I'll remove this notice when they do work...

According to my Events log, "What happened" (a number of times now) is Can't upstream because "Can't write stream because the TCP connection was closed unexpectedly." So new posts are not appearing (yet). Ironically, by the time you read this they will of course have started appearing again. Probably nothing a...

Reading the latest big media blog blurb (from CNN), the Spartaneity Project loses patience with old-media tunnelvision, quoting the most egregious part of the squib, "When the dot-coms bombed, something shifted in Blogland. Well-known journalists and other self-proclaimed experts began blogging. They used their blogspace to comment on the news of...

According to Infoworld: "Macromedia will extend Flash Remoting MX to .Net and Java application servers, enabling Internet application development for these platforms based on Macromedia's technology."...

(via Corante on Blogging / Blogging News), it appears that Andrew Sullivan is now exhibiting classic blogger behavior, citing an article in the mainstream media and complaining about how it didn't mention him: Andrew Sullivan: "Funny, isn't it, that the New York Times would run a piece about how weblogs can...

Bite Media: [from cjf-forshac-the foreign desk-chris forshay]: the [uk] observer, 2/17/02: Terry Jones To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that I can't think why no one has thought of it before. It's so simple. [more]...

Well, that little thing I blogged over the weekend about being motivated by orgasms, praise, and money (not necessarily in that order) got picked up by Dave Winer on a slow news day and drove a bunch more traffic my way. I fixed some typos but only after the first few...

Last week Jonathan Delacour removed the calendar from his weblog and explained why in Say goodbye to useless calendars: it occurs to me that I never use the monthly calendar to access previous posts on my own site or any other site I visit. And, a quick check of my blogroll...

I meant to blog this when Moxie first posted it. It cracked me up: Who needs the Men of Enron? These men are hot! Plus, any babe who knows when to use "complementary" instead of "complimentary" warms the cockles of whatever an old copyeditor like myself has that passes for a...

I'm going to denounce Saddam in my blog.. This line cracked me up in today's Tom Tomorrow. Current Music: Elevation::Television::The Blow Up (Disc 1)...

The Poor Man speaks verily. Thanks to Textism, I'm now hooked on the political pontifications of The Poor Man:In revenge, I am hereby starting a movement to counter Front Page founder David Horowitz's "Take Back Our Campuses" movement. Please donate to my project to start departments of, oh, I don't know,...

In an entry called Candid Camera Raven discussed the Irish Traveller background of the caught-on-video daughter-beater named Toogood. This entry of his shows up on the first page of results of a Google search for Irish Travellers and the like. Hits ensue. Quoth the Raven: The coverage over at ABC news...

So Essential Blogging has cats on the cover, eh? Is this that the cat meme again? I've been trying to note when I see that meme in use these days. In print it's hard to capture, but I have snagged these arbitrary online appearances of the cat meme: The Blog Phenomenon...

Next in the stack of noneasy stuff to do for this blog, after finishing the panel write-up, comes writing more considered reviews of The Weblog Handbook and We've Got Blog, which I bought the night of the panel and read (somewhere between devoured and skimmed) that night. I posted some initial...

Internet Time Blog has a section devoted to blogging and recently ran a summary of a lot of the questions and choice quotations from last week's Berkeley J-school panel. (The one about each blog being a single neuron in the global brain was me talking from the audience, I believe.)...

A tip of the cap to Michel Vuijlsteke for spotting this line in Tom Tomorrow's latest cartoon. Tomorrow is himself a webblogger, of course, blogging at This Modern World....

In the business section of today's New York Times there's an article about journalistic weblogs and issues of independence, editorial oversight, and legal liability. They talk to many of the usual suspects, such as Eric Alterman, whose pro blog is one of seven at MSNBC: "I can't imagine a nicer way...

Collateral damage from the Nigerian scam: The FBI said Poet, a bookkeeper for a small Berkley law firm, embezzled $2.1 million from the firm's accounts between February and August, after scam organizers persuaded her to wire huge amounts of money to bank accounts in South Africa and Taiwan to expedite the...

Orgasms, praise, and money (not necessarily in that order). These are the incentives that truly motivate me. Is there something I told you I'd do several weeks ago that remains still undone? Did I promise you a considered reply to some thoughtful communique of months ago? Was there a list of...

According to Friday's Yahoo What's New – Social Science, Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment and this site, ">Radio Free Blogistan, have followed the Reverse Cowgirl's Blog (aka RCB... hey! same initials as Rebecca Blood) in being added to Yahoo's weblog directory. Strange generic description for RFB, so I don't know if...

In tweneyblog, Dylan Tweney runs with Peterme's distinction between media and forms: Just to clarify the terms: A practice is something you do, probably requiring some training, a standard of professionalism, and code of ethics (journalism, medicine, or construction). A medium is a vehicle through which information is transmitted and displayed...

Quasistoic posted a long review of the panel from his perspective in the audience. He leaps to some subjective conclusions but he is up-front about that and strives for balance. He also reminds me that is old-hat for the people who WERE THERE when the word blog was coined or whatever...

My second-grade French is letting me down, but my note about some unknown RSS referrers hosted at UserLand got this response from Michel Dumais. Heyyyy!!! It's a real pleasure to read you each day. A lot of good comments and suggestions. BTW, open to suggestions from your readers? How about a...

Scot Hacker posts at the birdhouse that he's "just finished titling and encoding Weblogs — Challenging Mass Media and Society in QuickTime format for our Darwin Streaming Server. Posted both Sorenson3 and MPEG-4 versions (but no modem-friendly version, sorry)."...

I [heart] Lynda Barry. Went to Diesel Books in Oakland last night to hear Lynda Barry talk before a book signing. She is amazing! I've always loved her comics (comeeks?) but I didn't realize what an amazing writing teacher she is! She was funny, honest, and incredibly inspirational.She sings when she's...

a place to write, nothing fancy has two long thoughful entries about the panel dates Wednesday and Thursday of this week. I couldn't find permalinks, by the way, which are something the author discusses, on the issue of whether they are essential to the definition of a blog. Rebecca said on...

After I posted about blog regionalism, several commenters pointed out the international blogs right under my nose here at Salon, some of whom of course I've already been reading (linking to me is a sure way of getting my attention): The Devil's excrement (on Salon) posts from Venezuela. That's a start....

Apparently joueb is beating out blogue, with webillard used for a filter-type weblog? Follow the discussion at Blogroots....

The whole panel: From left to right: Scott Rosenberg, Rebecca Blood, Dan Gillmor, J.D. Lasica, Meg Hourihan, Paul Grabowicz The leftmore photo above links to a much higher-quality image. Most of the photos came out blurry. All the ones of the informal schmoozing afterward are. One or two were so blurry...

Saving McDonald's. Motley Fool has 10 Tips to Save McDonald's:7. You want to milk that Disney relationship and introduce a new revenue stream? When Spy Kids 2 and Lilo & Stitch get released into the home-video market, enter into a revenue-sharing deal with Mickey Mouse and rent the videos and DVDs...

Referrer rankings for RSS referrers hosted at radio.xmlstoragesystem.com/rcsPublic: 1.The Shifted Librarian4 2.The AboutBox - A Little Bit of Nothing4 3.Rodent Regatta4 4.dws.4 5.Servant's Quarters4 6.Ernie the Attorney4 7.Binary by Accident4 8.Jeff's Radio Weblog4 9.Matt Croydon::postneo4 10.The Wireless Data Conundrum3 11.TechnoMagician's Weblog3 12.Blogfish3 13.michael britten's Loftware3 14.Pushing rectangles...3 15.bLOGical3 16.James Lynch III's...

In petermemes, Peter Merholz captures his impressions of the panel and dinner afterward, finding much of the discussion old hat and the journalists jaded about their own profession, except for Rosenberg: He was possibly the first "journalist" to write about weblogs, and definitely the first to do so intelligently. Scott "gets"...

"Your brother is a good dancer.". A got my notebook back. Left it on Geo's roof. Perfect balmy weather, like today, after dusk with few stars but a spectacular view of the Williamsburg bridge. I was warned that the sound system could bring the cops. I imagined dj'ing the whole lower-east...

My referrer log today shows about 20 hits from variations on people searching for Véronique de Cock, a spillover from my metacommentary on Michel's rise in the Salon rankings. Michel is now posting occasionally in English, something I selfishly am glad to see. Of course I'm not completely monolingual. Everyone speaks...

It was only the other night, at the weblog panel, than I finally learned how to pronounce Kuro5hin. By the way, I'd love to run some comparisons of Slash, Scoop, and Nuke sometime but I don't have the expertise or experience to do it myself. I've worked with a PHP-Nuke installation,...

At the panel the other night I bought the two Perseus books about weblogging, Rebecca's Handbook, and the anthology for which Rebecca wrote the introduction. I read most of the handbook that night. It's brief but packed with information and advice. I will write up a formal review after I'm done...

Shame on all of us.. Hear Bush the younger follow in his father's tonguesteps with his version of "Fool me once...." [via Bite Media]...

J.D. Lasica has posted first impressions from the J-school panel: Last night Dan, Rebecca, Meg, Scott and I participated in a 90-minute panel before Paul Grabowicz's and John Battelle's students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. About 75 folks showed up. (At one point I asked how many people...

The well moderated panel last night brought out a wide range of issues both about weblogs as they have evolved so far as the web's most popular self-publishing format yet and about journalism on the cusp of a new interface between mass media and the reading and writing public. Process update:...

All quots. guaranteed inexact: "A blogger found the class description" on the web, "blogged it," a few days later Wired news picked it up, and "all hell broke loose." Paul Grabowicz "Blogger got the response 'Why does anyone need a tool for this?' " Meg Hourihan "Clearly journalists should never do...

Thank goodness tweneyblog ran it down. Scot Hacker alerted me to the LJ threads where the (now familiar) anti-weblog "what's the big deal?" backlash debate was taking place, in the blog context. I mentioned it the other day, something that made me want to start cataloguing frequent utterances about blogs (blogFU's)...

Stuck doing real journalism, I am jonesing for the golden yummie of blogging. Here's my process: during the panel last night I took notes on my powerbook straight through, not pure verbatim, but gettting the gist (I hope, and they'll tell me if I got them wrong) of what each person...

(via Rebecca's Pocket) I can't wait to hear reverse cowgirl's analysis of this map....

The panel went splendidly. Trenchant questions from the moderator, a lot of great discussion, penetrating follow-ups from the audience. I got to meet Meg and Rebecca and Scott and J.D. (missed a chance to talk to Dan Gillmor, who was very impressive). They had both Perseus books available at the merch...

Scot suggested biking or BARTing and walking but I've gone so left coast I'm just leaving early and driving, figuring I'll find a parking place and then eat some Thai or Korean food before the panel starts, or a Top Dog in a pinch. As soon as I can connected again...

As Dori know, timing is tough in the tech-book racket. She rounds up the best known blog books in the works: I pitched a book on weblogs in late 1999 or early 2000. It was probably a good thing that it didn't happen, as it was way too early in the...

Looks like we won't see so many repeated items in our news aggregators if RSS 2.0 catches on: Now, for 2.0 feeds, we check if the item has a guid, and use that as the identifier, assuming it won't change even if some of the properties of the item change. This...

Volunteer Marketing/Publicity Position at Nonprofit Press...

Mirror Pix Up. Got the notification yesterday that my Mirror Project submissions were accepted. I think they look even better with the gray background at the site, a subtle framing. They're still not as good as the toasters, eyeshades, and other found reflections, but for what they are, they're OK.The first...

Though my my.yahoo.com referrer was from a bookmark (as Dave Winer pointed out in my comments), reverse cowgirl is getting some action today from her new listing on Yahoo's weblogs page (full name: Yahoo! Social Science > Communications > Writing > Journals and Diaries > Online Journals and Diaries > Web...

A reader writes: Regarding seeing 'my.yahoo.com' in your referrers, that may have been me. The "My Yahoo" portal has a feature to store bookmarks on your homepage, and link directly to them from there. I just added you to my bookmarks today, so every time I fire up my browser and...

A recent Metafilter discussion about that LA Times article brought up the vitality of the Los Angeles blog community, to the extent that any regional collection of bloggers can be called a community. Others countered that NY and SF are very heavily represented among the most popular blogs. Oliver Willis suggested...

I'll be in the audience at the panel tonight at Berkeley (at 6:30). I was going to bring my laptop and try to blog it live, but Scot told me that there was no wireless and no easy way to get me ethernet (the only access is directly under the dais...

Strangest of places department: Megan Morrone's LJ blog talks about her move to Movable Type, and her comments there discuss this move as a trend, recapitulate the "it's hard too install" meme (Megan's last post is that she has MT up and running but hasn't had time to customize the look...

I am using namespace figuratively. I've noticed that the linktext for links to this site usually take one of several forms, roughly (unscientifically) in order of frequency: Radio Free Blogistan Blogistan Radio-Free Blogistan RFB xian Christian Crumlish These are all fine with me, though no hyphen is needed. I realized that...

Thanks to our feedback loop, Michel Vuijlsteke has cleared up the feeding frenzy around Ms. De Cock and her now-famous natural breasts (go directly to his entry to follow the many hyperlinked keywords) Veronique De Cock is a 24 year old model, former Miss Belgium (1995), sometime singer and TV presenter,...

I couldn't help noticing in my referrer logs some incoming links from http://my.yahoo.com/. Since when does that "portal" link to blogs? Just curious....

Matt Welch notes a nice feature of the Myelin Blogging Ecosystem: If you're like me, you don't put much stock in the various blog-ranking schemes, since none of them, I guess, can claim anything approaching scientific usefulness. But this system has the real added bonus of providing a long list of...

Hello, my name is Christian and I'm monolingual. ("Hi, Christian!") Yes, I did note Michel Vuijlsteke's rapid rise on the Salon charts in the last few days, saw that the language of his blog was Dutch (or Flemish?), and even discerned that a lot of his traffic (more than Scott's these...

My Submissions to the Mirror Project. I've always admired online collaborations like the mirror project and I've respected it enough to not just waddle into my bathroom and snap some pictures and send them in.Last week in New York I found myself in a beautiful room festooned with mirrors and I...

xian TV. I'll be on TechTV tonight at 7 pm, on the show "The Screen Savers."I wrote about this just now at RFB.Disturbing referrers: A lot of Google searches for TSS's Megan Morrone nude are showing up in my logs. Current Mood: rushing more than i should Current Music: That's What Love...

Have I mentioned I'm going to be on television today on "The Screen Savers" airing first at 7 pm, on whatever cable channel, digital or otherwise, you get your Tech TV network on. It repeats at 10 pm and then again some time tomorrow. I don't know when I appear on...

(via Unsere Kleine Digitale Welt) InformationWeek warns CIO's about the risks of blogging in the corporate sphere: If you think your staff spends inordinate amounts of time designing PowerPoint presentations now, just imagine what these would-be artists and authors will do to productivity when their creative powers are unleashed on the...

Dave Winer writes today: Adam Curry: "There's only one thing I dislike more than missing a day on my weblog, is when Dave misses a day on his." I love that sentiment, but it's good for me to take a day off every so often. Smell the roses, invent new stuff,...

My referrer logs today show a link from a handout (in-progress) on weblogs from a course called Introducton to Information Design at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan: One of the ongoing assignments for CM 541 is to keep a weblog. As stated on the syllabus, the point of the weblog...

Shacker Moves from LiveJournal to Movable Type. Scot's popular (especially among BeOS and Mac aficianadoes and other groupies and hanger's on to his stylistic majesty, like myself - note to self: start scot hacker fan club) foobar blog has moved (comments and all!) to a movable type hosted blog at http://birdhouse.org/blog/.Looks...

I wrote in bodega today that I feel like a lot of strands of my work, writing, and life are comming together. I got some good news on Friday that I can't talk about yet, but I'm not being coy. I'll post what I can when I can, believe me. Here's...

Excuse the deliberately salacious title. Via blogpopuli.blog (I love the way those pyrate-types make up their own extensions, data-freely), I picked up on a two-week old post about the balance of links among men and women, especially at the famous/influential end of the swimming pool: The current state of affairs can...

Here's the first concrete dividend from Salon's blog initiative: Scott Rosenberg's massively credible blog could serve as a coequal (with Instapundit) staging place for the extensive blogotastic discussion of the Salon article on forbidden thoughts about 9/11 as Glenn's. The feedback loop provided proves to me that Salon has joined the...

My referrer log shows a hit from a site renders as http://bulldog.herald.com/ . I'm guessing it's an internal IP. A search at http://www.herald.com (it resolves to the Miami "Real Cities" site) showed no hits for "weblog" or "blog" in any of their published articles so far. And, yes, I am available...

Crash. Yesterday afternoon I realized I had zero energy. The weeklong trip to New York, with its consequent jetlag, late nights, early mornings, family dynamics, and memories of last year's attack, had managed to drain me to empty husk.A little after noon I realized I was passing out so I got...

I don't spend as much time reading warblogs as I do other blogs, and my own political steam-outlet, Bite Media, gets less of my attention these days than this metablog and my own journal, but the anniversary this week sent me off on some unusual rounds and I couldn't help being...

Jeremy Allaire has joined "the ranks of what Jon Udell calls CXO Blogs" with a mixed personal and professional blog "about media, communications and applications over the Internet." According to one of his first entries: Over the past six-months, like many other netizens, I've become addicted to browsing and subscribing to...

Letter to Lileks of One Year Ago. In The Bleat James Lileks tells his younger self how the next year will go:(Get this: the president will be quoted, second hand, as not "giving a shit what the Europeans think." It's come to that.) We realize we're going to have to go...

Yesterday, I had the morning to myself, so I walked around the Village taking digital pictures. All week the city had felt anxious and this day it felt subdued. There seemed to be fewer people on the street. The weather, once again, was beautiful. Clear with wispy clouds, crisp, and cool....

My taped appearance is this coming Monday, September 16, but TSS has already put the online tutorial component up at their site. The tutorial covers a little more ground than we were able to get to in my segment. On the air, I basically just show how to edit colors and...

Just learned that a versio nof Eliza is built into OS X: In the terminal type emacs and hit Return. When the editor has loaded, hold Shift and hit the Escape key. Then type x, then doctor and hit Return. Answer the first question and proceed from there. When you're done,...

Or Going Back to Old Ways I'd Long Ago Abandoned. There might come a time when things between us get just a little bit too weird.We'll move to different cities for a temporary vacation but it's just as you feared Current Mood: packing Current Music: Never Go Back::Camper Van Beethoven::Our Beloved Revolutionary...

I'll ask Scot if it might be possible to equip the J-School panel with a wireless base station. I'm probably not the only person interested in blogging the event live....

When I scheduled this family trip to New York, it was a no-brainer to set up my return for today, September 11. It was about a week after my departure date, the fares were a little better, and it just felt right. I can observe the anniverary of our grief in...

Alexander Moskalyuk reviews the new O'Reilly Essential Blogging, saying it doesn't pass the "who would buy this book" test: The book seems to be just a quick walk-through of the manuals, and if you consider that all of the reviewed products have pretty good help and FAQ sections, the need for...

I've noticed in the Salon blog rankings that filchyboy is listed twice. What's up with that? Is John the Maiden broadcasting now to two different usernums? It tends to lower his rank. I notice I am posting more about Salon blogs while traveling. Probably a neighborhood thing. It's easy for me...

She's Actual Size, Nationwide, Believe refuses to take criticism from our Blogistan Baedecker lying down: Re: Viva Hate! Usually I don't stoop to this level, but it's been a rough day and I'm in the mood: This Self-Righteous Prat has decided that my little corner of blogspace is one of his...

In Joe Conason's Journal (that's a link to the day — without permalinks it's not a real blog...) he defends Andrew Sullivan's new column in Salon against readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions: While I don't share some writers' obssesion with exposing Sullivan, I haven't hesitated to expose his errors and...

Can I assume we have Michael Jackson to blame for the insipid rendition of the Beatles' song "All Together Now" I just heard in a Verizon ad? Here in NY the media introspection on the upcoming anniversary beats like a drum....

(via Scot Hacker): The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism invites you to a Sept. 17 panel discussion on: Weblogs: Challenging Mass Media and Society Weblogs have received a lot of press lately, and journalism Weblogs are proliferating. Are Weblogs rejuvenating public discussion?. Are they an alternative to mass media? Join...

This blog is semi-reviewed in A Geographical Guide to Blogistan, starting from the memewatch category (Ann Coulter does Google?), then to metablog, and finally finding RFB. The reviewer doesn't seem to understand what Radio categories are, which is something to worry about, because you can't expect someone stumbling onto one part...

In Building New Communities: Learning from Weblogs (a PowerPoint file), Tom Coates of plasticbag.org maps out the role of personal weblogs in community-building online. He has even broken down the communities surrounding a blog into three typical categores: online shared interests, geographical commonalities, and "real life" friends and family. Why am...

plasticbag.org wonders why journalists writing articles about weblogging consider webloggers to be unable to comment on our own revolution: Despite their protestations to the contrary, most mainstream publishers who say that weblogs represent a new democratising of the media still lapse into talking to figures with substantial 'authority' in the 'real...

Seb closes the loop on an interesting multi-weblog conversation about why weblogs have not (yet?) been widely adoped by academics as a research tool: Stephen over at Blogging Alone mentions Sébastien Paquet's reasons why blogging has failed to become a widely accepted research tool among academia. I disagree with nearly all...

For some reason I'm really enjoying Girls Are Pretty, whose author dedicates each day to some specific thing that you, the reader, should do that day. Still blogging at a low-level. Still in New York. It's hot this morning. Soon I'll be heading over to Brooklyn to hang in my brother's...

Krzysztof Kowalczyk wonders about how Macromedia differentiates its various product offerings: I got interested in creating flash animations. I went to Macromedia site. I was confused. From their product description I couldn't figure out which product does what. Thanks to mostly prior knowledge, I figured out that Dreamweaver MX is for...

I know that the list of my RSS feeds is getting a macro error. I haven't had a chance to look into it yet. I know that the headlines page has no updates since 8/21, and I need to figure out a way to put the headlines macro somewhere where it...

'Wilding' Convictions Tainted by Confession. After all these years, a DNA test has confirmed a confession to the Central Park jogger rape that resulted in the addition of "wilding" to the urban lexicon and it appears the unjust conviction of five or six young suspects. This is being discussed at both...

iBush 1.1 Released: iBush: Artificially unintelligent Oval Office Occupant simulator... What's new in this version: even more eloquent, ReadMe explains aim and meaning of the program, now talks about gun control, too User Review: (freeLunch.apps CEO speaking:) I just discovered that iBush was silently removed from the MacUpdate website. They continue...

reverse cowgirl once again has the best critique around of the smarly little "chat" between Sullivan and Andersen at Slate: under the MSN umbrella, Anderson and Sullivan sit muttering about blogging before a pre-packed audience, waiting for a pre-decided upon paycheck, generating prose to be processed by a pre-ordained editor. in...

80 degrees today at Jones Beach, sand bar, some rideable waves....

Dave points out that Macromedia is supporting Radio Themes in Dreamweaver MX: Many thanks to Macromedia for supporting Radio in the latest release of Dreamweaver. "For Dreamweaver MX developers, the kit contains extensions for website building and application development. The extensions help display data in PHP applications, add functions to...

Best Song Title of the Moment. My Human Gets Me Blues...if it's this nice in newyork tomorrow then the beach is going to be great. my sibs and i are (all four of us) are going to jones beach. we may even rent one of those orange and red umbrellas you...

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Staying at a friend's place near west 11th and west 4th. The weather is here. Wish you were beautiful. Current Music: Golddigger::Supreme Beings Of Leisure::Supreme Beings Of Leisure...

Dave points out that Macromedia is supporting Radio Themes in Dreamweaver MX: Many thanks to Macromedia for supporting Radio in the latest release of Dreamweaver. "For Dreamweaver MX developers, the kit contains extensions for website building and application development. The extensions help display data in PHP applications, add functions to...

Not only does Daypop seem to be down (via blogpopuli via Spartaneity), but it also seems as though porno spammers have figured out how to use Blogger to ping weblogs.com....

Dive into Mark today is a great place to start for anyone trying to get up to speed on the weblog-mediated RSS development collaboration....

Briefly, my post about blogging over the modem here generated directions to a nearby cybercafe and an invitation to come over and use someone's wireless/cable access. Pretty friendly town this Internet....

Cool, whatever Phil did to fix the comment monitor for non-IE browsers also fixed it for my IE/Mac browser....

Driver 8's "Blog" Watch: A Selective Reader has accumulated a rich list of media mentions of the word blog....

Arrived JFK last night around 11:20. Cab to the village, a little late night conversation, and then sleep. Now it's just after 10:30 a.m. east coast time, so about 7:30 to my west-coast head. Soon I'll go out in search of coffee and a newspaper. In the meantime, I couldn't resist...

Blogging and Writing September 15 featuring Doug Lawson, Mark Bernstein, and Adrian Miles. [artsflow]...

I am a johnny-come-lately when it comes to using "Blogistan" as part of a web site's monicker so I feel guilty and glad when people like dave winer and dylan tweney add me to their blogrolls as just Blogistan, but it does appear that Google now thinks this site is the...

From blo.gs: related blogs: #1 Scripting News #2Boing Boing Blog Blogroots megnut evhead kottke.org rebecca's pocket CamWorld Theory. It's all reflected glory from that number one association. (Dave is the only one among this A list who has linked to me...)...

Found out today from the producer that my bit with Leo on blog templates will air September 16. The tutorial should go up at their site within a week before the show. I'll link to it then. This is sort of the big push, since we have time to plan for...

As a memewatch project I'd love to see stats on the appearance of the word "blog" in the New York Times. It seems that there is an article with a blog angle just about every day. Today's is about LiveJournal: All kinds of people maintain pages on LiveJournal, but the site's...

My brother the painter told me once about a guy who used to sneak into museums with a teeny brush and palette to touch up his own paintings. It's hard to let go. I fixed a few typos in my entry yesterday that was getting a lot of flow from Scott...

From explodedlibrarian.info (via Research News: The Virtual Chase) come two good blog-related links: On the Net's The Blog Realm about blogs as a source of information for librarians, and as a content-management solution.(Basic stuff for any experienced blogger but good introa and a reminder that this stuff still requires explaining on...

plasticbag offers a javascript tag for British blogs not participating in the Guardian's "Best British Weblog" contest: The "Not the Best" project is really simple. It's a tiny piece of code that post or stick in your template that will add the "Not the Best" box onto your site. The box...

Still not getting it, in the second day of this shortened week of pretend email messages, Andersen responds to some conciliatory comments from Sullivan with a journalist-centric view of blogging pro and con: Proof that blogs are not scalable conceptually: As an informing principle for an entire daily newspaper, fear and...

If I weren't traveling today (jetBlue to NY), I'd probably get beyond covering this one dialogue. Here's a good contribution from Meryl Yourish: And you're right that blogging is mostly an individual sport, but I think I probably should have explained "community" a bit more. Your site is part of what's...

reverse cowgirl has the best summary I've seen yet of the weblog discussion in Slate. Some excerpts: ...then Mr Sullivan says he likes to blog because he hates people. and editors. then he says he would like to have sex with Moby... after that, Sullivan says that people are interesting ......

"At Long Last..." Coulter Fired by Centre Daily Editor. In "A letter to Coulter" the editor of Pennsylvania paper Centre Daily explained why he's dropping Coulter's column from his op-ed page on Friday, concluding: "And, Ann, you're not helping. You do nothing to elevate our spirits, to celebrate the great bond...

With the standalone Track Back release it should be incrementally easier to build metablogs like the KMpings page for collecting (aggregating) posts on a specific topic or theme from multiple contributors. I should be doing this already with my cat meme sitings page (and memewatch in general: just thought of what...

Topic: Commentary and Essays on Life and Events, founded 1932. (via Ev's head)...

Kung Fu Grippe has a surefire way of filtering meta-meta-meta-weblog discussions. Replace "blog" with "trampoline" and book with "breakdancing contest": There were a few amusing essays in We've Got Trampoline—Julian Dibbell's "Portrait of the Trampoliner as a Young Man," and Tim Cavanaugh's "Let Slip the Trampolines of War," for example—but both...

This is still sinking in: If we had put the capital we raised into Treasury bills, we'd have had $1.5 million a year in income, with which we could've employed and published our best dozen reporter-commentators forever. Idea for essay: How Writers Blew It During the Dotcom Bubble....

...let's talk about me. Seems they showed a rerun on TSS yesterday and the old basement set is torn down but the new space-age set isn't ready yet, so we did the taping on the borrowed set of Call for Help, after hanging out in a teeny temporary green room with...

Charly Z tipped me off to this diss-cussion of the two Perseus blog books from Andrew Sullivan and Kurt Andersen in Slate today. Sullivan trots out most of the usual criticisms you hear about books that address online technology or trends: It's almost silly to write a dead-tree book about blogs...

What does it mean that I'm no. 16 on this list (per datestamp)? It seems like heady company for shucks ol' me. What is the profile of a BlogHog user? Is there a bias in the data? Does it reward recentness (all my youthful vigor vs. jaded just-you-wait-kid-ism)? Why do I...

When Megan Morrone of the Screen Savers leaves a "stay tuned" note in her LiveJournal hinting at plans to change blog tools, the comments section lights up with posts praising Movable Type (including a "hard to install" "not rocket science" side argument), LiveJournal (but not many) and Radio. I didn't see...

Here are some of the sites or links I may mention or display on today's show (hmm, megan hosting, cool ... no listing for me... hmm) ... or not: Still Blogging After All These Years with generic design Blogger Blogger Pro) Still Blogging After All These Years with new design Radio...

Krzysztof Kowalczyk (I love his motto: "Blog or you'll be blogged.") suggests that a focused, balanced blog (or k-log, or blog category, or RSS feed, etc.) could be used as a dynamic resume, one that will be much more impressive in retrospect than a dry recitation of skills in a tradition...

RFB accessible in China as of this date stamp: Starting testing... Stage one testing complete. Stage two testing complete. Testing complete for http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/. Result: Reported as accessible in China Is your site accessible in China?...

The Raven talks about the impression he gets from a long blogroll: I don't know about you, but when I visit a blog that has 395 navigation links running down the side I get a funny feeling. Is this clown trying to tell me, "Look at all my friends!" Or am...

I almost feel like I have to click on you, just in the hopes you can outscore 'pornographers picks.' My reply: Thanks, although I hope I can attract readers based on my content, too! I see I lost ground to the pornoblog over the weekend. Well, when you're number four you...

The Julie/Julia Project makes my mouth water. (Probably won't blog too much today. Prepping for my TV appearance this afternoon—it's hard to concentrate on much else till it's done.)...

Paid the Rent. The three kids chime in: Yeah me! ... "I love rock 'n' roll!" [A Supposedly Staggering Infinite Work of Heartbreaking Illumination I'll Never Read]...

Doug Kenline: "Jumping on the blogtrain." New meme! [Scripting News] Can the blogwagon be far behind? And "I fell off the wagon" for those dry spells when you have nothing to blog?...

I've completed the web version of the tutorial for my Tuesday appearance on the Screen Savers. It's in very basic HTML because it's really a submission to the Screen Savers website and a companion to the material I'll cover on the air. When I have a chance I'll clean it up...

Hard to Know if This Would be Nice or Icky. I think I saw this Jelly Bath site at Rebecca's Pocket. I especially enjoyed reading the Frequently Asked Questions. Current Music: Hobo Chang Ba::Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band::Trout Mask Replica...

By all rights I should be barbecuing right now and by all means not laboring, but as a mostly self-employed guy who's job right now is mostly promoting his most recent book, not to mention a guy with not enough time to do all the things he wants to do once...

He may be giving Radio's aggregator short shrift, but Jeremy has done a good job of breaking down several approaches to RSS aggregation and providing his own wishlist: I'm on a quest to find the perfect RSS aggregator.... I'm thinking of a server-based process that can gather all the data and...

decafbad follows up on Dylan Tweney's aside ("...LiveJournal.com (which most weblog news stories overlook for some reason) boasts more than 650,000 [users]..."), asking why is LiveJournal largely ignored in coverage of blogging? But 650,000 users... that's a lot. More than Radio and rivalling Blogger.com. Is there a real qualitative difference in...

September 30, 2002

September 29, 2002

September 28, 2002

September 27, 2002

September 26, 2002

September 25, 2002

September 24, 2002

September 23, 2002

September 22, 2002

September 21, 2002

September 20, 2002

September 19, 2002

September 18, 2002

September 17, 2002

September 16, 2002

September 15, 2002

September 14, 2002

September 13, 2002

September 12, 2002

September 11, 2002