Category: General

Kalsey’s got a manifesto to combat comment spammers, proclaiming: Posting an email address in a public place is not an invitation for companies to send unsolicited advertisements. Hosting a public Web forum or Usenet server does not give companies permission or the moral right to advertise on it. And soliciting comments from the public on […]

Super-duper web-design site, A List Apart explores How to Write a Better Weblog: Readers crave your anecdotes and stories. They really do. So give ’em the whole megillah. Instead of, “The party was a riot!” or “I’m depressed today,” carefully explain why. Elaborate. Parties and depression are perfectly good writing subjects. The Great Gatsby, for […]

HyperGene MediaBlog explores Ten Things Radical about the Weblog Form in Journalism: The weblog comes out of the gift economy, whereas most (not all) of today’s journalism comes out of the market economy. Journalism had become the domain of professionals, and amateurs were sometimes welcomed into it– as with the op ed page. Whereas the […]

Michael, a contract worker for Microsoft, found it humorous that Microsoft had a whole palette of Apple Macintosh computers delivered to his building (presumably for software testing) and took a picture of it and posted it to his blog. His supervisor told him "[I]t’s your site on your own server, you have the right to […]

Halley asks a great question: Out of the 100 Most Influential Bloggers, how many are women? 3? It’s clear that the top male bloggers are not denying women their blogroll inks, for the most part. Still we are almost invisible and I want to know why. What are we doing wrong? Are we not publishing […]

What’s more appealing to a loathsome spammer than a webpage that they can post anything they want to? That’s how they see blogs and their comments they use to promote themselves and vandalize your website. Bloggers have fought back with tools to fight programs that scan the net looking for blogs they can spam comments […]

Matt tells how he turned his obsession with Tivo into a profitable website: Be passionate and write your ass off Don’t start a blog just to turn a buck, because it’s going to be clear to your audience that you don’t really care about the topic if you don’t offer much beyond press releases from […]

Joe Clark has a great info page on debunking the objections registrars have to weblogs receiving International Standard Serial Numbers. Evidently some registering bodies are rejecting bloggers’ applications for ISSNs. This page is part of Joe’s larger resource on blogs and ISSNs: (via Zeldman) For the first time in history, A.J. Liebling’s maxim that freedom […]

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