Category: General

OK, I’m a blogging platform junkie – but when I started I thought I would only try one or two! Since discovering the Joys of Blogging back in May 2003, I’ve been on a search for an elegant blogging platform that was suitably friendly to someone who has a smattering of HTML but is not […]

(so behind on my ‘blogs about blogs’ reading!) Time magazine: 10 Things We Learned About Blogs Blogging Can Get You Fired Bloggers Get Scoops Too Bloggers Keep News Alive Bloggers Can Be Titillating Bloggers Can Be Fakers Bloggers Make Money Most Bloggers Are Women Candidates Love Blogs Pets Have Blogs Too Anyone Can Do It

Thnx, guys! Michael Port and Beth Lyons just plugged Easy Bake Weblogs on today’s Think BIG call. Just thought I’d give a shout back!

The latest worries of RSS is that it’s becoming way too popular, way too fast. With aggregators given free reign to grab a site’s feeds pretty much as often as it wants, that can make a super-popular site’s bandwidth costs skyrocket. ‘RSS Doesn’t Scale!’ cry the Chicken Littles. Regular Sucking Schedule is a new blog […]

Reid reports from the field that spammers are flooding MT blogs with so much spam that their webhosts are shutting them down: While I very much hope Six Apart can pull a mean fanged rabbit out of their hat, I wonder if they can do it in time. The problem is rapidly escalating, and users […]

Inching towards that 1.3 release, the WordPress dev team releases 1.2.2. I’m gonna test it out on a new project: WordPress 1.2.2 Update: Downloaded it. Installed it. Found a bug. Posted as such. Fixed within an hour. Thanks y’all!

(from New York Times – stupid free registration req’d) Marrit kept trying to convince a publisher that mothers might be interested in a book beyon “prescriptive or ‘positive’ books about being a parent.” She turned to her blog’s audience – where she’d been writing for 2 years and had a loyal audience of mothers. I […]

Ugh. I hate the term ‘A-List Bloggers’ – it makes me think of high school cliques and a caste system. A democratizing media will have clouds and clusters but ‘power brokers’? Of course I probably wouldn’t hate it if I was one of the A-listers. I didn’t get in on the ground floor – and […]

My brainiac boss Bill‘s skeptical: They are essentially optimized for easily publishing one’s opinions on the web. This is fundamentally a flawed model for education. It promotes narcissism, not dialog. and A blog is the online equivalent to having students take turns reading a paper for 20 minutes and then asking one or two people […]

Lee over at Common Craft takes wikis into the household to manage task lists and other household chores: We’ve been using a wiki to organize travel plans lately and it’s been perfect. We can update it at home or work or anywhere we’re connected. This experience has me thinking about other ways we can use […]