Blogger, can you spare a dime?: A short story about the posta-blogalyptic future.... (Storytelling)

update: Radio Free Blogistan image fixed roll over fine tuned with suggested sections sides added body (through the magic of backgrounds) sooooooo?... (design)

Burgers and ho's: As promised, I'm going to post my photos from the Scoble-rific burger dinner and drinks event from Saturday night. I've discarded the worst shots but IANAP, so the remaining ones still kinda suck, at least some of them do. Apologies in advance for people caught blinded by the flash or otherwise... (Weblog Concepts)

Another fine meme-tracking site: One day I'll need to come up with a big list of sites that track memes, especially those that do so automatically or semiautomatically (as opposed to sites like Metafilter and half the weblogs in the universe that track memes all the time by virtue of their infectious passing of memes... (Memes)

So it's tuff-tee, eh?: I always wondered how to pronounce Tufte. (Thanks to plasticbag.org for the pointer.)... (Miscellany)

Stealth PBS program on blogging: Doc has the skinny on the upcoming PBS Mediamatters show on weblogging: PBS says it will run a feature on blogging in mediamatters on Thursday. Glenn sez he can't get it in Knoxville. Hmm... I'll betcha he could find something if he has an outdoor antenna (and doesn't depend only on... (Weblog Concepts)

When did 'demagogue' become a verb?: Just asking.... (Memes)

An XML format for small-business info feeds: One of the "latest things" that Chris Pirillo was excited about the other night was Dan Bricklin's SMBmeta Initiative. According to Ross Mayfield This metadata scheme allows small and medium size businesses to express their identity in XML. Ross summarizes David Weinberger on some of the strengths of this approach: Dan... (Syndication)

Sushi, cognac, and coke: Elizabeth Spiers does some original reporting for the Gawker, getting to the bottom of how the cocaine business really should be run. Maybe what these dealers need is a good CRM implementation. The article, long for the Gawker, runs in the form of a taped interview with a ditzy-but-funny Wall Streeter:... (Memes)

Kevin Marks explains blogs to Cringely: Reading Cringely's prediction that "with the continued (and to me totally inexplicable) rise of web logs, someone — maybe Google &8212; will come up with an effective blog search engine to read all that junk for us and extract what we really care about," Kevin Marks explains it all very succinctly:... (Weblog Concepts)

Help with RPC?: I'm trying out the beta version of NetNewsWire Pro, specifically it's Post to Weblog feature (cool idea). It seems to want a password, though, to post to this blog, and I don't recall there being a password here, at least not one I've had to enter since I first set things... (Weblog Concepts)

filchyboy's full-court press: Well, it looks like RFB will be dropping down to number seven in the Salon blogs all-time rankings today as both of filchyboy's blogs have been racking up (nearly identical) hit counts in the thousands since yesterday. Has he put the web bug back on his ultra-popular safersex.org pages? I noticed... (Salon Bloggers)