I have no idea what happened but ...: I am trying to rid this blog of the copious, and I mean hundreds of comments spam that MT-Blacklist has been ineffective at killing. I have no idea why MT-Blacklist is just not catching all the spam that's there. What is freaky also is the fact that, in cleaning up some... (errors)

RFB hax0red: Having a nice day mostly off-line, thinking about maybe uploading some more cloud pictures or posting something about David Brooks mentioning Salam Pax's blog on the McLehrer report on Friday, when I check my mail and see that Scott Rosenberg and my cousin, A.P. Crumlish, both tipping me off to... (Salon Bloggers)

Blogging and Writing ELO Chat: Blogging and Writing September 15 featuring Doug Lawson, Mark Bernstein, and Adrian Miles. [artsflow]... (Memes)

Rough Survey of Greater Blogistan: 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... (Memes)

Heady Company (Navelgazing): 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...)... (Memes)

My TSS Segment to Air September 16: 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... (Book News)

Times Daily Blogwatch: 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... (Memes)

When to Stop Editing a Blog Post: 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... (Salon Bloggers)

Two Links from the Virtual Chase: 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... (Salon Bloggers)

Boycotting Best British Blog Bake-off: 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... (Memes)

With Blinders On: 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... (Memes)

Meryl on Blogging Communities: 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... (Memes)

Sullivan/Andersen Revisited: 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 ...... (Salon Bloggers)