Radio Free Blogistan: Blogosphere Archives

We're not quite there after all; blogging has not yet arrived as the political force it is elsewhere in the rest of the country. The first clue should have been the locked door to the caucus room upon arrival this morning....

It's exploded, you know, the size of this event as well as the size of the community. Perhaps they'll finally stop with the bloody stupid question, "Where are the women bloggers?" They're at BlogHer -- and it's HUGE....

No, you’re not the guy who named the blogosphere. Get over yourself. (Oh the things you learn when catch up with Kottke’s blog.)...

It seems like eons ago in internet time that I began blogging at Salon; in 2002, most people had no idea what blogs were, had never heard of them. I started reading a handful of these new blog things after I became unemployed that June. Blogs looked like fun, something constructive...

Uh, fellas? … MIT Weblog Survey...

What up, fellas? MIT Weblog Survey...

What's up with the MIT Weblog Survey?...

Confusingly, the news about Verisign buying weblogs.com from Dave Winer hit the wires at about the same time as the news about AOL buying the WeblogsInc.com blog network (referred to in the Times simply as "Weblogs") from Jason Calacanis. I hope this isn't Bubble 2.0! Congratulations to Dave for finding a...

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...

I have to check my schedule and my budget, but I'm sticking a link to the signup page for blogher here to remind myself to go, if at all possible....

Technorati has unveiled a much more end-user friendly front page. I don't think I see the word "cosmos" anywhere! But the second most popular search is "Sifry"? Maybe they need to give Dave his own sandbox so he doesn't keep skewing the result sets. I'm just keeding. I kid, I kid......

The MIT Media Lab is conducting a weblog survey. You can read more about the survey and its methodology on their Information page. (via the Well)...

TNH at Making Light analyzes One minute's worth of weblogs I found Weblogs.com because I’d gotten exasperated with Technorati and was looking for something more reliable. Which is not to say that I succeeded, because Weblogs.com is a useless site. What it gives you is a single flat unadorned list of...

At least till we know who bought blo.gs, I'm not sure I want to pinging them: Blo.gs has been sold to an unnamed individual and will transfer ownership, including account information and user data, sometime on or around June 13. Blo.gs is a directory of recently updated weblogs. It is "pinged"...

Summarizing from How To Measure A Blogger's Popularity And Reach: The Big Jump - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings: Check her Technorati standing.[F]ind out (not always possible, but you can also ask directly) how many subscribers the online publication has.Check whether the person makes her traffic statistics publicly viewable.Do some basic Google...

What the world needs now is a Pope blog, and gratefully here it is: The Pope Blog: Pope Benedict XVI. As for myself, I have composed a little ditty to celebrate the occasion....

From Danah Boyd at Apophenia: The BlogHer Conference has been announced and registration is currently open. I want to see this conference be as diverse as possible - diverse along every axes imaginable. I need your help in organizing women bloggers from around the world with a million perspectives to attend....

My favorite April Fool's site so far this morning (via Waxy Links)...

Anil Dash: The Blog Cycle First, it's important to note that there is no "blogosphere". There are hundreds of blogospheres. Each sub-community of weblogs has its own social norms, its own traditions and its own thought leaders. And as each community has formed and evolved, you can see it go through...

Go read Shelley Powers hilarious deconstruction of elitism in the blogosphere and fear of Google Autolinks in Burningbird | Guys Don't Link. Sites such as Technorati become the internet version of a locker room, where the guys can hang around, comparing themselves to each other. Those that come up short look...

Part two talks about posting volume and the accompanying graphic (Sifry's Alerts) illustrates some interesting spikes. Be sure to check out the entire series....

Shearer's turn on Talking Points Memo while Josh Marshall is off getting married will be a welcome relief from Dean-hater Chait (the most recent guest)....

Quoting from The Austin Chronicle: Screens: Get Visionary With Me Here, by Bruce Sterling, who is hosting the closing party once again, though not, this year, at his house: You know the way bloggers go ape when they discover a gay prostitute in the White House press corps? It's just like...

c u l t u r e k i t c h e n: Coloring the blogosphere : Join the Brown Bloggers series Color or Content: Does Race Matter When You Blog? Nia (Purpose): To gather, to discuss and to have fun Location: Lava Gin 116 Avenue C between 7th and...

Dan Hartung on posting at metafilter....

These days its hard to keep track of all the blogs on blogging out there. BlogCruiser is a weblog that reviews blogs. They recently checked us out and awarded us nine stars (BlogCruiser: Radio Free Blogistan). Thanks! Glad to hear the design is pleasant though I have some ideas for changing...

Check out the blowback about the Wall Street Journal's article regarding the Dean Campaign and payments to bloggers. Yeah. As I was saying a couple of days ago, if any group has been less transparent than necessary, it's mainstream broadcast media (Maybe my parents should have named me Cassandra. I certainly...

According to ZDNet last week, a Wall Street analyst feels "the blogger phenomenon is insignificant..." Apparently he feels this is just a little thing; so few people are involved in blogging that it has no impact. What rock is this guy living under that he missed the impact of Howard Dean's...

It's one big pile on lately, push media of all kinds piling on blogging. It's not journalism, they yell; It is too!, they scream. The Wall Street Journal posts a column on the payment of two bloggers by the Dean for America campaign, based on former campaign team member Zephyr Teachout's...

This is why I love Justin Hall....

Blogosphere News seems to be doing a good job of covering the weblog beat (you know, the way we used to do here?)....

Kevan Davis examines his own entrails and built a little tool to examine those of others. Witness Xian's rather sparse ones (above) compared to Tom Coate's rather messy entrails. Flickr has a pool....

OK, I took a crack at my current subscription list and started off by narrowing it down to 30 or so favorites split among several (sometimes semi-arbitrary) categories: Politics and Media: The Poor Man (feed) James Wolcott (feed) PressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen (feed) Fanatical...

Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself lists the 26 (or 7) best blogs of the year. What are your picks? I'd start with my current OPML reading list and have to whittle it down somehow. Update: Here are Kottke's favorites....

Prove Steve Rubel right: (Forbes.com Blog Poll): Forbes.com is running a poll: What's Your Involvement With Blogs?Have my own and update it dailyCheck somebody else's every dayHave seen one, but don't read regularlyHave never seen one, but have heard of themWhat's a blog?Who wants to bet me that the first option...

Over on her own blog, mitten defends MR against an apparent attack by alleged right-wing blogger Cathy Siepp (a later date: ms. siepp). In so doing, she brings up an interesting matter that relates to the evergreen metablogging question "Why do we blog?": Cathy apparently cares most about the links and...

Jessamyn "the librarian" West tipped me off to this article on Jerome in his local paper: The Blogger: One Vermonter's Internet ax-grinding attracts national attention. (Jessamyn also gets a plug in the article's sidebar.)...

WSJ.com - Folksy No More, Blogger Firm Taps Big Clients: Michael Pusateri, vice president of engineering at Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, a division of Walt Disney Co., used Movable Type for his personal blog. Then he realized that technicians in his group could use a blog to update each other...

Markos is thinking about discussing Furious George's debate performance in his Guardian co,umn, but he's not sure that's the most effective way to help his British readers understand the U.S. presidential election. he's asked the Daily Kos community to give him advice and suggestions about what to write. (His deadline seems...

Evan Williams quits Blogger. Film at 11....

Long time no blog here at RFB due to a taxing schedule, very sorry. Full employment at non-blog-related work has a way of doing that to people, chewing up perfectly good blogging time. But just as my schedule lightens, the New York Times publishes a magazine article today on campaign blogging....

This was first posted at c u l t u r e k i t c h e n: Long live Uppity Negro. =============== My heart is heavy. Aaron Hawkin, editor and writer of Uppity-Negro.com has passed away. The details of how, where, why and when have not been posted yet,...

The WYSIWYG Talent Show Curated by Andy Horwitz with Dan Rhatigan Moderated by Jeff Jarvis (buzzmachine.com) Panelists: John Aravosis (americablog.blogspot.com) John Perry Barlow (barlow.typepad.com) Cam Barrett (camworld.com) Jen Chung (gothamist.com) Douglas Rushkoff (rushkoff.com/blog.php) Julian Sanchez (reason.com/hitandrun) This event is presented as part of the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues &...

A weblog called des femmes is taking writers (usually men) to task for using language, particularly vulgar language related to female body parts, in their blog entries, a practice that she notes tends to discourage some readers (particularly women) from participating in the conversation. In Pleasantly ignorant, she objects to Joshua...

Dave Winer just announced BloggerCon III, which will be held in my new backyard, more or less, at Stanford Law School on November 6th. It's free this time - I wasn't paying attention for BloggerCon II, so I don't know if that was free, too. Anyway - I went to the...

One of the people I met during BlogOn whose blogging I admire is Sean Bonner, but I do remember being puzzled when posted to the irc backchannel something about how "the cameraman is an ass." I posted "Hey, that's Scot Hacker. He's a friend of mine and he's a great guy."...

Some nice candids from the conference. We're in the final session ("Who's investing in social media?") and Anna Zomosa just asserted that craigslist is "making millions." At the lunch break I got into an interesting conversation with Buzz Bruggeman (no relation to Buzznet...) who demoed me his fascinated ActiveWords product for...

Sean Bonner is blogging the BlogOn conference assiduously. The irc backchannel chat seems to prefer today's second panel to the first....

According to this wiki page (BlogOn Eventspace - Blogging BlogOn), here are a few of the people blogging this conference (besides me): Jason McCabe Calacanis Heath Row, for FC Now Ross Mayfield, when not talking too much... Mike Rowehl at bitsplitter Judith Meskill, at The Social Software Weblog and knowledge notes...

ABCNEWS.com : Has Your Blog Led to a Job? ABCNEWS.com is looking for people who have managed to turn their stream-of-consciousness online dairies into a career. Have you made money directly off your blog? Did you start the blog to make money or for some other reason? Do you charge a...

Once again Jason writes about something I've been pondering. It's also occurred to me it would be very interesting and potentially fruitful to have an email whitelist generated by linking. If my email client were to track the links I create and pick up the valid email addresses associated with those...

A few hours ago, Orkut sent out e-mails to its members about a new feature letting community owners specify primary languages. The justifications -- to foster posts and searches in a single language for member ease -- make sense at first hearing. Not for nothing does Google offer language tools and...

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Check out Mark Pilgrim's Pink Numbers [dive into mark]. I'm not quoting it so you guys can enjoy the full impact of the post. Let's just say geeks around the world collectively peed their pants in a metaphorical sort of way. Who said Mark didn't have a sense of humor?...

As the list of sites you notify of your updates grows, you can consolidate it somewhat by pinging the Ping-o-Matic metapinging service at http://rpc.pingomatic.com. It will forward your notification to the following blogometric sites: blo.gs BlogChatter BlogRolling BlogShares BlogStreet GeoURL My Yahoo PubSub Root Blog RubHub Technorati Weblogs.com No doubt the...

Following up on Xian's great catch of Richard MacManus' piece on the fractal nature of weblog audiences you may find value in Cameron Marlow's argument concerning the importance of blogrolls versus permalinks in gauging the authority of various blogs. This is a very good companion piece to the MacManus....

In The Fractal Blogosphere at Read/Write Web, Richard MacManus proposes that bloggers not worry too much about the popular/unpopular dichotomy suggested by most common interpretations of the various power laws that govern linking and traffic among blogs (and frankly in any linked network of any kind at all), but instead pick...

Anil Dash: Moving Forward So, I'm moving to San Francisco to be even more involved in Six Apart. We're doing all this work with developers and partners because there's still another 99.9% of people in the world who haven't heard what weblogs can do for them. I want to be part...

Forgive the raw note dump but I'm on deadline and I figure notes are better than nothing, especially when being Searlsdotted... This page's name is called TechnoratiSalon. TechnoratiSalonIdeas ... (see blog entry for start) Merged two codebases, API calls along with internal functionalities (bug fixes work for both HTML output and...

Drove over the bridge and past the ballpark to Technorati's new digs for thei first Developers Salon I took pictures but forgot my adapter so will post them later. Promise some new infopr0n - some new analytics that hasn't been out yet (Mary's research). Dave is asking for an open discussion...

...but I play one on the net. Well, actually not that either but they say Technorati users are welcome at the Technorati Developers Salon Kickoff in SF tonight, so I'll be there, barking my feature wishlist at anyone willing to listen. Hope to see Ian Kallen and Mary Hodder there, among...

Note : I posted this first at the typepadistas directory Shelly Powers of Burningbird hits it over the head once again with her comment about social class, the MT debacle and social software scientists (and makers). Her post, I believe, sums up the lack of distinctions when speaking of social ...

Eyebeam reBlog: Blogbuzz In today's New York Times James Fallows has an article titled " Business > Your Money > Techno Files: The Twilight of the Information Middlemen" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/business/yourmoney/16tech.html?ex=1400040000&en=5cc6f0f89e819a14&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">The New York Times > Business > Your Money > Techno Files: The Twilight of the Information Middlemen" (Download PDF file) : As...

As in some previous years, I am taking photos and jotting down who I hear and what I eat out at Fest. I haven't had time to write up any notes yet, but when I do the entries will go in my personal blog, and if you drop by now you...

Baseblogs - Obsessive fans track the national pastime on the Web. By Josh Levin (uses the word "baseblogosphere"). On deadline, linklogging......

Is it just my imagination, or is there still conflict about this topic? Ezra at Pandagon, for example, claims that women blog less than men. Not from where I'm sitting in Salon blogs -- and certainly not in the blogrings I've visited. What about you? What do you think is different...

Image courtesy of ELPAIS.es - I've visited several times Madrid and even worked there a summer. Living in New York City and having witnessed 9/11, this latest attack has me rattled. I avoid subways as much as I can but, in truth, it is impossible not to use it New...

Jeneane Sessum and RageBoy are having a little fun at the expense of the second annual BloggerCon (which, full disclosure, I'd love to attend if I could get myself to Boston then, but I've already got one trip to Boston in the works this year - for the Democratic convention -...

Kevin Drum has done it. Matthew Yglesias did it. Jonno's d'Addario has done it. And so did Elizabeth Spiers! Is the blogosphere the new "farm team" for mainstream media? Who's next?...

Lisa Williams at cadence90 came up with a brilliant idea: a round table session at BloggerCon II dedicated to women and blogging. She's drafted a session description: Chick Blogs! A Roundtable on Women and Blogs This session will attempt to be the pajama-party of the blogosphere -- a lively and welcoming...

When you first looked at Google did you say to yourself "Wow this is stupid these fools could never compete against a portal like Go?" When you first used Blogger did you say, "Yea it's cool, I guess, but who's gonna use this silly thing?" When you had that opportunity from your cousin Fran to invest a bit of cash in some weird start up called Netscape which was about to go public you just laughed and said "Yea like I'm gonna waste my money in the stock market?"

The Carter Center's website is publishing journal or weblog-style reports by Jimmy Carter from the field. He is currently in Africa. It's not blogging in the sense that it's not automatica and direct and easy, but their using the terminology themselves, so I think that counts. First ex-Presidential blogger? [via Seb's...

Though it's sure to annoy Stavros, I have to say I had a mighty fine time meeting face-to-face with a bunch of smart webloggers and new media types last Wednesday, February 18. Susan Mernit invited me (and blogged about it in Navigating the Info Jungle). J.D. Lasica co-hosted it (and reported...

Q: Well, you've touched on a really central concern of a lot of people—over the last 10 years, if not longer - particularly among journalists who, I guess you could say, are more traditional, who look ahead and see all these pitfalls that are coming—of people who suddenly start creating content who...

(Some) people who subscribe to Radio Free Blogistan also subscribe to these "similar" feeds....

Jonah Peretti has cooked up a really interesting new way to blog at E Y E B E A M's reBlog. With the help of some friends he created a hack that takes entries from feed on feeds and publishes them to a movabletype blog. The point of the hack is obvious - this is a way...

Why not just buy some Google AdSense AdWords or whatever they're called? Use the same search terms you found my old post with. That's what the ads are for. Then we all get paid, man....

This will make definitely make Belle de Jour, Pansexual Sodomite and our fellow Blogistani filchyboy, if you want to get it online or off, you now have I did a search on "sandwich" and "sandwiches", after the blogdexed ||| Girls Eating Sandwiches!!! At E v e r y th i n...

Not surprisingly, there are currently on the first page of Google results for joe bloggs. One from 2002 and one from 2003. There are a lot of businesses called Joe Bloggs too....

This is completely jacked up, in my opinion, an argument beating all around the subject. Adam Thierer at Cato Institute kicked the ball off with his analysis of candidate Howard Dean's Principles for an Internet Policy. Dave Weinberger, Lawrence Lessig and Howard Rheingold all take issue with some if not all...

Stavros the Wonderchicken is the James Lileks of the metablogosphere....

Mostly the usual suspects were nominatied for the > Features >> Fourth Annual Weblog Awards" href="http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2004">Fourth Annual Weblog Awards, with some notable exceptions and surprising absences....

Over a Joi Ito's new multiauthor We Quit Drinking weblog, Halley Suitt recommends replacing the vice of drinking with a "better habit": masturbation. From a hair of the dog to hairy palms. Sounds like a good trade to me....

Wasn't there a web soap opera called "the Spot" or something like that back around 1996 or '97? It's déjà vu all over again now with The BIG Blog Show! which calls itself The Internet's First Reality Blog. What's a reality blog? Glad you asked. "What happens when you take a...

He's got a damned fine set of pectorals and a classic washboard abdomen. He's got heartwarming pictures of fuzzy, funny pets, a rock climbing habit and a vegan lifestyle. The man writes openly about highly personal habits and his love life in an engaging fashion. But as one commenter said, Jimbo's...

Hey, look, it's a picture of me and my similarity network! After finding the Touch Graph Google Browser via WorldChanging.com, I found myself completely engrossed with this tool. It's hypnotic, watching as all the pages similar to yours are mapped out, like watching dendrites grow into each other. My graph...

Meg at Mandarin Design really stirred up the pot recently when she asked all the C-listers to sign in. Meg asked her readers whether the A-List is a secret organization, if they would want to be an A-List blogger and why not. Being the pain in the butt that I am,...

Duncan has a number of predictions for the blogosphere in 2004. I'd wager the term "sexblog" enters the popular parlance in 2004. What are your predictions for the blogosphere in 2004? (That's okay we're not ignoring you Duncan. And RFB will still be around at the end of the year!)...

With the increasing popularity of blogs many of the more popular sites are beginning to draw such huge bandwidth that they are becoming financial drains on their owners. Andrew Sullivan, among others, recently ran a fund raising drive. Advertisements are becoming more and more ubiquitious across the blogosphere. Its darn near...

Alyssa's mom found her blog. Eeewww... I should be more open-minded about this. Maybe it's a good thing, maybe not; who am I to know? It will depend a lot on whether Alyssa's mom sees her as the independent and mature adult woman that she is, or if she still sees...

Radio Free Blogistan missed this back in the summer but Dave Pollard does a stellar job to document what bloggers have learned, without any formal instruction, to do every day and so I add this to the list of pointers we have in our stacks to Dave's consumate job of detailing...

I just finished posting about some comment spammers that seem to be spreading themselves thick throughout the blogosphere. How do I know? I've banned them numerous times from my blogs and I've seen their slimy trail on numerous blogs, even on the blogs of my fellow Blogistanis. This company seems to...

Merry Christmas! Naturally, Santa has a weblog: Santa's Blog....

Grateful Dead lyricist, EFF co-founder and general cyberspace theorist John Perry Barlow (he also calls himself a "cognitive dissident") has, at long last, started a weblog: BarlowFriendz. Now if we can just get Robert Hunter, who's been keeping a great online journal - on and off - since 1996, an RSS...

I've been noticing a new metablog in the referrer logs for RFB lately, Weblog Hype. While our five person staff here is coasting through the end-of-year holiday season with a scant few posts per week, "the Editor" at Hype is doing a great job of covering weblog news left and right....

Bruce Sherin, one of the funniest people I've ever met (and that's saying a lot), has a new weblog with the incredibly original name Bruce Sherin's Weblog. Back in 1995, Bruce created Dr. Kovaks' MicroWeb for Enterzone. I was surprised to see that someone had actually blogged the I Can't Believe...

Have you been curious as to what a Microsoft blogging tool might look like? You can check one out at the theSpoke. Go ahead, register and get a free blog, kick the tires on this puppy. So far this tool and its ring appear to be dedicated to gamers, although there...

There is a new award on town the Wizbang: 2003 Weblog Awards. We did not hear early enough about it to include RFB in best group blog category and, curiously enough, they have not a category for METABLOGS. Where would we include a blog about blogs? In the "Best Media Blog...

Seyed Razavi announces that he is closing down BlogShares, since the effort to maintain it became unsustainable. So you can take the "listed on BlogShares" badge off your weblog any time now. [via Buzzmachine]...

I stumbled across an incredibly well written and thoughtful weblog lately, called unbillable hours. The author (TPB, Esq.) includes a long and entertaining biography that gives you a good idea of his education, cultural influences, and experiences - all of which inform his writing, which ranges from silly to serious. (His...

The blog spam wars have begun to get nasty....

Now, I'm still super-skeptical of the actual impact that blogs will have on the presidential election, or politics in general, but the new blog run by Matt Stoller, Jay Rosen, and Christopher Lydon, The Blogging Of The President: 2004, looks like it'll be worth watching. True, Lydon has drunk deep of...

Sign up at Secret Santa to give and receive....

Not positive yet, but it sure looks like BlogRolling's been hacked overnight by a spammer. I've visited a few blogs this morning which use BlogRolling and they all display a repetitive list of the same blog name and URL. Nope, I didn't visit the site in question, but I'm betting the...

The blogosphere is Zion as the machines pour through the dock. A couple of days ago I received 5 copies of the following note: Hi, I saw your email on your Blog …..cool stuff. I'm just surfing around trying to meet new people, so hi!. Check out more about me at...

Scott Simon on NPR this morning describes blogging as a type of diary; he says while it may be right that an unexamined life is not worth living, an overexamined life is not worth reading. (Granted, he's been reading posts by a blogger extolling the virtues of eating toast...) I disagree...

I sometimes wonder if linking isn't like sex. By my actions I touch you. Sometimes very intimately. Is the relative paucity of males linking to females not unlike the early days of puberty with males grabbing each others penises under the covers on spend-the-nights? (What do girls do to each other,...

Had big fun at Joi Ito's dinner in San Francisco last night. The restaurant, LuLu, printed up special menus for the occasion. Of course I stupidly forgot to grab myself one. I did take a bunch of digiphotos and maybe some of them even came out. I'll post them sometime today....

This is brilliant....

When you've just got to blow your whistle....

Harald at Daihatsu Graceland recently suggested discussing blogging's impact on our personal lives. It's pretty easy to see ways in which blogging affects our society at large. The furor over Trent Lott, the success of Howard Dean's presidential campaign to date are just a couple examples of blogging in action. But...

Periodically web sites die, get mis-published to the wrong server, their content simply reconfigured, mis-templated, or placed behind a pay to play barrier. Link rot is a big problem for bloggers. David Raynes has a great little tutorial for preventing internal link rot when managing a blog with Movable Type. Of...

Does any one have any idea why someone would post a random comment on this blog featuring a link to fda.gov? Who would that benefit? It makes no sense to me. Once again, though, I feel compelled to acknowledge that Jay Allen's MT-blacklist rocks....

Over at BuzzMachine, I just noticed, Jeff Jarvis is linking to some blogs from Africa: Africa blogs: Since I'm a blog internationalist, often linking to Iranian, Iraqi, and German blogs, a reporter emailed me this morning asking whether there were blogs from (or about) Africa. I follow a few and I...

Shannon Campbell wrote a song called Your Own Dot Org for Ben and Mena Trott (the founders of Six Apart) at the behest of Joi Ito. You can download it from Shannon's site, Pet Rock Star. Here's the chorus: you're unbelievably adorably cute benevolent, witty, and brilliant to boot you're a...

Susan Mernit has an interesting theory about why there are so many more men than women in the lists of most linked-to blogs. Men are more willing, she says, to be opinionated and controversial: Guys rant on about politics, a topic the news junkies love. Women strive to be smart and...

David Weinberger echoes Halley Suitt in asking why there are only three women among the top 100 blogs listed at Blogstreet: Halley wonders why maybe 3 of the top 100 bloggers are women: It's clear that the top male bloggers are not denying women their blogroll inks, for the most part....

Shelley Powers has resurfaced with a photo essay at Burningbird called I Feel Good. She covers a lot of ground, but this prediction jumped out at me: Next year is going to be a very bad year for the Net, and every weblogger, no matter who you're hosted with, had better...

One of my favorite weblogs is having its first blogiversary today: One year. Four hundred and thirty-nine entries. One thousand, five hundred and forty-six comments. (Thanks for being the first, Joi!) Over fourteen thousand page views per month. An entire world of new friends and colleagues. A changed life.... [mamamusings] Hard...

Janet of out of my mind asks, "Where are the blogs by persons over 50?" In reply, I'd suggest checking out the ageless project. Currently, the first 23 people listed give birthdays over 50 years before today. Janet, if you read this, one that jumps out from the list is wood...

Dave Pollard updates his findings on what blog readers want to see more of what blog writers would like to get back in return. For example, he has learned that blog readers want to see more original research, surveys etc.original, well-crafted fictiongreat finds: resources, blogs, essays, artistic worksnews not found anywhere...

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 -...

Today is, of course Talk Like Bill O'Reilly Day. Don't make me turn off your mic! This Internet is a hotbed of dangerous speech! Even the print media are committing liable against me. There's something wrong in this country when famous people deliberately try to harm a legitimate businessman like myself....

Add The Julie Powell to the list (along with Salam Pax) of bloggers whose weblogs have landed them sweet book deals. Congratulations to Julie for conceiving of her brilliant project and then - most importantly - executing it. So now, is the book going to just be a slightly edited rendition...

Yet another memetracking site keyed into the blogosphere is the still-in-beta BlogPulse, which identifies key phrases (usually of two words or more) - as well as topics, people, and links - that are appearing most often in tracked weblogs each day. I'm not sure how they determine what's a topic and...

Through regular exercise and the downing of a lot of chocolate-covered donuts, Radio Free Blogistan's parent blog, Mediajunkie, has recovered its coveted 10th-place rankings in the list of Salon's all time Rankings by Page-Reads....

reminded me of this, which I meant to point to weeks ago:...

A while back, I thought that instead of waiting for, say, Rumsfeld to start a blog (yeah, right) that anyone could compile any public utterances the Donald makes on the record and publish them at a passive or reportorial weblog on a daily basis. In a sense, the misleader site being...

I was doing a little a.m. egosurfing and noticed that the links to RFB noted at Technorati were last updated over a day ago, plus there's nothing listed under Breaking News or What's New. What gives?...

So is anyone else, like, blogging Seybold? UPDATE: If you are blogging Seybold, feel free to send a trackback ping to this entry....

Craig Newmark's Blog, aka "craig blog," is up and running. Instant A-List? Don't know who Craig is? See his well trafficked craigslist, which recently got RSS feeds. Speaking of which, Craig appears to have rolled his own blog software and it doesn't look like he's added a feed yet, at least...

The Merry Pranksters had a slogan, or actually, they had several slogans, but the one I'm thinking of right now is "Nothing lasts." I'm a great believer in lifecycles. Just about everything on this planet - even phenomena - gets born, lives, and then dies. Blogs are no excepts. Some weblogs...

Much ado has been made recently about AOL blocking LiveJournal referrers. Some think it is a misguided attempt to deep linking or bandwidth-stealing (linknig to hosted images). Other see it as a preemptive strike against the most likely competitor to AOL Journals. Ross Mayfield ponders both interpretations and more, gathering a...

After talking to filchyboy today I think I understand how to notify the Salon community server that I've updated this blog. Even though I'm not using Radio anymore, since my Radio license is still current and I still feel like a member of the community, I assume this is kosher. Let's...

Last week I went to SF and finally met the honest-to-god Amazonian bitch-queen of the blogosphere, the Reverse Cowgirl her ownself, squiring her aptly named boyfriend, Christian Ristow around the grungy tearoom teabagging and teaspoon-heating' Tenderloin Rx Gallery, where three diabolectronicoes were showing off their kinetic art. A daily self-portrait for...

Niel Palleck is posting hilarious excerpts from the Democratic candidates campaign blogs: JOHN KERRY, August 8--I took the bus to Springfield today because my best friend got tickets to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who were supposed to open for the White Stripes until Jack hurt his finger. I was pretty pissed,...

Found in my referrer logs over the weekend was a site called BreakingBlogs.com A beta apparently (with some annoying banner ads), it purports to list the top 300 deleted links in the last 24 hours. An interesting statistic, although I'm not sure of the ultimate purpose. BreakingBlogs.com appears to be a...

David Weinberger is travelling with the Dean campaign on its Sleepless Summer tour and posting reports to the campaign's Blog for America. (He is also posting them to Joho the Blog, his own weblog.) Some people think Dean should be doing his own blog, or that it's not really a blog...

This Moxie vs. Spiers dust-up is exactly the kind of thing that motivates me to get my quick links sideblog up and running and pronto....

The copy is the same as at Chris Pirillo's regular home page, but the design, at least right now, is a tad racier over at Chris Pirillo's Secret Hideaway. But don't pass this link around. It's a secret....

TDavid of Things that ... make you go hmm has recorded another rendition (partial) of Blogistan Pie. If these keeps up I may have to make my first audblog post ever to contribute my own a capella version. You'll wish I hadn't!...

Yes, I would call it an obsession. I have added a series of clarifying (or obfuscating, as the case may be) hyperlinks to the worst song parody to come along since Being for the Benefit of Mr. Tim, Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, or even We Didn't Start the Weblogs....

The "On this date" feature in my sidebar (effectively a "one year ago today" listing) has been really fun since I put it in place on this weblog's one-year anniversary. For one thing, I can't believe how much blogging I was doing a year ago. Some of those days have eight...

Jonathon Delacour has concluded his blogging hiatus and is back blogging up a storm. He leads off with a nuanced take on the topic of weblog ethics....

Why didn't anyone tell me? From Off the Streets of Cleveland... Comes Harvey Pekar's Official Blog....

Well, what do you know. I finished my painfully ridiculous parody of Don McLean's American Pie, going all Bob Dylan on the rhythm sometimes to squeeze in max nerd humor....

Ready or not, I've posted a fifth verse of Blogistan Pie. One to go....

OK, I'm on a roll here (I guess, in a lame sort of way). I've posted third and fourth verses for what I'm now calling Blogistan Pie since The Day the Blogging Died just really doesn't trip off the tongue. The Day the Weblogs Died may have been a better choice...

Equal time positive balance song-fragment.

A terrible parody of American Pie (the song, not the movie), now with hyperlinks!

Sam Ruby is planning dinner on thursday somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Should be an interesting crew. Besides your humble reporter, it looks like RSVPs already include Joe Gregorio, Simon Fell, Marc Canter, Kevin Burton, and possibly David Galbraith....

So, Gnomedex is underway. Have there been any good reports yet of the proceedings? The Gnomedex Updates blog is a little behind the times. I went over to Dan Gillmor's eJournal but so far there's just some reminiscences about Iowa and a note that his talk was left out of a...

I'm still in the process of unifying my blogroll and my subscribed news feeds. Just added Gawker (and its excerpts will appear on the Mediajunkie page) for that New York expatriate feel. Now I just have to remember to add plasticbag.org, another one that escapes me for days at a time...

I signed up and uploaded a wrong-shaped photo to the new Technorati feature the other day but still have to add the code to my weblog to confirm. The lazy thing is to post it here, but I should add it to my template if I want to keep it around....

Last time I checked, BlogHog hadn't updated any of its feeds since February 10, 2003. What up with that?...

According to the latest information from BlogShares Radio Free Blogistan is worth somewhat less than half a Zawod. Then again, even Jeremy Zawodny's blog isn't worth one whole Zawod at this moment. That's inflation for you....

After his untimely disappearance, John Robb has resurfaced in the blogosphere at a new location. Of the link breakage from his old UserLand-hosted account, he has this to say: The bad news: a huge number (probably over 30,000, not even counting Google) of inbound links that have been broken, as well...

Via Hylton Joliffe I've clicked through to an AOL Journal called sound & fury. The branding at the top (below the generic AOL nav) reads "AOL Journals: Your Thoughts. Your Blog." I was hoping I could find my way from that blog to other AOL blogs but there doesn't seem to...

Shelley Powers has posted a nuanced exploration of the persistence of presence on the net and in weblogs. Without reducing the issues involved to the bipolarities so common in online discussion and debate, she manages to tease out a lot of important ideas in her entry, On Identity and Edits. Here's...

Just unsubscribed from Scripting News in my aggregator. I was finding myself consistently worked up and upset after reading it. I have no doubt that the enthusiastic fans of the weblog will disseminate any useful information into the parts of the blogosphere I enjoy. I'm not trying to make a big...

It's nice to see a female face (OK a female name) on one of these blog conference panels. Had an egg cream at Veselka on 9th St. and 2nd Ave. in the east village last night, my old stomping grounds. Fun to catch up with Greg Severance (note to self: add...

I like the suggestions Zempt's spellcheckers came up with when puzzling out the word Blogistan:...

Ralph Brandi reminds us (in light of AOL Journals) that here are differences between the blog world of today and USENET of ten years ago: Blogistan is already much larger than any one person or cabal can get their heads around. There are hundreds of thousands of Blogspot weblogs, Radio weblogs,...

In I remember Usenet, Burningbird weighs the pros and cons of the coming deluge of AOL users into the blogosphere, and recalls the USENET analogy that others have brought up recently. On balance she predicts it will be a good thing, helping the blogosphere outgrow the petty bickering and nanocelebrities that...

I am sad that I can't make it to Gnomedex this year. As I told my friends going to the High Sierra Music Festival last weekend, it's bound to be a great time because whenever I skip a year or don't go to some event I was planning to go to,...

Offers textads to finance a domain-name crisis: Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:53:39 -0600...Ok, here is the deal. TWR is having major problems with the registration company. And unfortunatly the issue cannot be resolved quickly without money.Short version is that they are claiming I didn't renew the domain. Now the site...

Note: This CSS problem I'm having around linktext is really annoying. Somehow this entry was appearing as blank on the home page (even though it showed up just fine on the archive page). Go figure. Hmmm... I see it's still happening. Please use the permalink to view this (very brief, aside...

Congressperson Zoe Lofgren has posted an entry to the Howard Dean Blog for America: I was up on the stage with other California Congresspeople so I have a good view of the delegates. I could see that Dean did not use a teleprompter nor did he have written remarks. His inspirational...

Well, it appears that Salam Pax is posting again from Baghdad, which suggests that the Steven den Beste theory that he was a fellow named Raed arrested in New York the day his long hiatus began is probably not true. As Miguel Octavio put it, "I think his absence proves he...

The original concept for memewatch involved a lot more than me just blogging trends, fads, and popular terms of expression. I was hoping to do some analysis of the rise and fall of expressions in various net domains. (The example I always pitched people was tracking the appearance of the phrase...

Gallagher has posted a version of his remarks from the Blog conference at Yale. He says, "I'm more of a reporter than a pundit" and offers three anecdotes along with some follow up comments. Don't miss his photolog (managed with Blogger). I can't decide, for myself, whether to manage a separate...

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...