MIT weblog survey results one month overdue: Come on, guys. I've been checking your site daily since September 1: The survey has officially ended, and we are tabulating the results. They should be posted by September 1, 2005, so please check back soon! Thank you for your support, and we will be posting the results shortly. MIT Weblog... (Blogosphere)

Weblog strategies for nonprofits: One of the students in my weblogs class at Seybold last month was the web administrator of the Community Technology Foundation of California (zerodivide.org). They use a sophisticated CMS to maintain the site but are experimenting with weblogs and wanted to see whether they might be more easily customizable, because -... (Required Reading)

Come, read Uncle John's blog: News for Dead Heads. Three new items (two serious announcements and one forwarded piece of satire) up at Uncle John's Blog. (Archive of today's latest post at Other Ones to Play Oakland 12/5 and 12/6.)... (Miscellany)

I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille: Taking it on the chin. Kitty Bukkake watches a porn flick while listening to NPR and writes a wickedly accurate, down-to-earth blog entry entitled A Bukkake Home Companion(Contains frank descriptions of pornography, bodily fluids, and Garrison Keiller.) This continues a trend of great writing about a formerly unmentionable body fluid, such... (Miscellany)

Salon flip-flopping on handling retractions?: Driver 8 is asking whether Salon's retracting the Tom White story is inconsistent with a past position taken editorially: To quote Scott, "That sounds good, but it gives the magazine a convenient out, a chance to bury the embarrassing incident. There's no reason the magazine couldn't 'continuously publish' the stories with... (Salon Bloggers)

Great minds think alike, and all that: Tom Coates says at plasticbag (four days ago but I swear I just saw it), of this same Shirky piece: There's only one line I don't agree with - "the people who have profited most from weblogs are the people who've written books about weblogging". In fact I suspect these people... (Weblog Concepts)

Publishing rarely lucrative: In the Shirky piece I referred to earlier, he writes "Right now, the people who have profited most from weblogs are the people who've written books about weblogging." I'm not aware of the sales figures for any of the handful of books out now about weblogging, but I sort of doubt... (Weblog Concepts)

Writing computer books has slowly driven me crazy: I overheard myself just now saying "shift-printscreen! shift-printscreen" when actually looking for the Grab application on this Mac. (Shift-printscreen is PC jargon.)Last night while watching Frasier typing up copy for his "Wine Corner" segment on the restaurant reviewer's show on a strangely small chunky looking off-white laptop, as he leapt from... (Miscellany)

Shirky: Weblogs disruptive to commercial publishing: (via Vincent Flanders) Clay Shirky comments on the mass amateurization of publishing; that is, how weblogs undermine the norms of commercial, professional publishing models. A lot of people in the weblog world are asking "How can we make money doing this?" The answer is that most of us can't. His deeper... (Weblog Concepts)

Bloglet down?: Got my first subscription mail this morning from Bloglet and it appeared that I've subscribed to my own x-pollen feed and not to the main thread of this blog. (I always subscribe to my own mailings, to see how they appear to end users.) I don't know if this is because... (Weblog Concepts)