October 31, 2002
Movable Type releases version 2.51. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the changelog if you have been experiencing a problem with 2.5 and to determine if it was fixed in 2.51. Ben Trott tells me my problem with using a passphrase to ping a blog was due to a...
I got my copy of We Blog from Amazon today, and I received Jesse James Garrett's The Elements of User Experience, a beautifully designed explication of his seminal model of the same name. For reviewing purposes, though, I'm afraid these go behind my reviews in progress (The Weblog Handbook, We've Got...
sad news: Jam Master Jay, R.I.P.. Jam Master Jay, né Jason Mizell, was shot by two gunmen at a NY recording studio, cops say. He was 37....
via X-POLLEN: I noticed Dave Winer posting about Googlism today and I've seen the reference riding up the meme charts but only... (Note, using Googlism yields a popup ad.) Here's what Google thinks RFB is: radio free blogistan is the second result radio free blogistan is not listed at dmoz radio...
big ol' pumpkin from the yuppie grocery up the hill......
Don't blame me: I voted for Sheen. Martin Sheen just called and left an answering machine message urging me to support prop 52, a voting reform proposition......
October 30, 2002
Dreamweaver Extreme: Five Steps to More Professional Pages with Dreamweaver MX [Macromedia Resource Feed]...
Question: What are the most popular or best endorsed third-party page-view metering services (such as SiteMeter, etc.)? Question: What are the most popular tools for analyzing real server logs when you have access to them? Question: Where are the key sites to register your blog? I would say Eatonweb, Blogdex, Daypop,...
Last week or so I was complaining about the RadioExpress! bookmarklet, how it doesn't pop up in a new window, which would let me selectively quote from the source page or view its source (since RE! doesn't grab raw HTML in IE/Mac, as far as I can tell), and how I...
If a mailing list called "The Richard Brautigan poem of the day" existed, which it doesn't for copyright purposes, today's......
Five years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, I started my first online journal, breathing room. It wasn't a blog... (continued)...
October 29, 2002
'So Far, So Close' (Call for contributors). e-critures.org sez: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT: "SO FAR, SO CLOSE"Due to the speed of today«žs new media, the......
Another attempt to ping the metaxian blog. Hate to do this, but there's no other way. Technicalia, but not interesting. I'll report if anything becomes interesting.......
Beck with Flaming Lips tonight on Conan. My old buddy JG turned me on to Flaming Lips (finally) and when they added a second Beck opened for......
Let's put that 'Leftists have no sense of humor' meme to rest, shall we?. from MZ: Actual slogans seen at the SF peace march on Sunday: Stop Our Crazed Government. Take Back Our USA.PEACE:......
While Plan B was getting all the Slashdotting and the Scott Rosenberg shout-outs, Mark Hoback was quietly writing his entire novel, Green, at his Salon blog. So what do you do with a blog novel blog when you've finished writing the novel? Apparently you change the name of your blog to...
Kevin Holtsberry, who runs the popular Addicted to Blooks blogs, has "decided that it is too much of a pain in the butt to have three blogs." He is combining his several blogs into his main weblog, Ideas, etc. I hear that. As someone who spawns new blogs at the drop...
In their monthly newsletter, thet pMachine folks announce a new hosting service for pMachine users (naturally, http://pmachinehosting.com/), and has this to say about one of the upcoming blog books: There is a new book on blogging called "Blog On" (McGraw/Hill) that features pMachine extensively. The book was written by our good...
October 28, 2002
I'm experimenting with the various forms of solicitations available to bloggers to seek support from their readers. I haven't put anything on the home page yet (except for the Amazon link to my Dreamweaver book that's been there for months). For now I'm just parking the various badges and come-on's in...
Still unpacking blogses. Having ceased posting new content to bodega, I haven't exactly been tearing it up over here at x-pollen yet (which......
Paid LJ users can add my new blog as a friend. markpasc set up a RSS channel at http://livejournal.com/users/xpollen/ that will mirror all my posts to my new blog. Now I just need to add the RSS feed for my friends page (if it exists) to my Radio Userland aggregator and...
The fact that that metalinker stuff never worked and was causing error messages in IE6/Win browsers like a piece of toilet paper stuck to my shoe, and the fact that I still haven't been able to get a TrackBack ping-based metablog working, or RSS monkey installed, for that matter. I'm not...
Envy: the great motivator. Capital Influx confesses her frustration with the success of Jonathan Safran Foer. When I first started hearing his name (of......
Andrew Bayer pointed out that he was getting this message when trying to load RFB in IE 6 for Windows: Line: 508 Char: 76 Error: Expected ')' Code: 0 URL: http://radiofreeblogistan.com/ It turns out the culprit was my half-assed attempted to install ThinkBlank's metalinker code into this page. In so doing,...
It appears that restarting Radio fixed the problem, whatever it was. Probably some overnight bug thang. Never underestimate the power of power-cycling! Inspirational lyric of the moment: A hypnotist A fancy talker Ruben Remus ain't no doctor –Bob Dylan & the Band...
I was trying to post an entry about a Javascript error on the RFB home page when instead of Radio successfully posting the entry and returning the usual desktop weblog homepage, the ordinary text box was replaced with this error message: [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name ""...
October 27, 2002
Well, I wandered back through a week of Scripting News and found the link Dave posted to how to redirect your RSS feed. The instructions are clear and easy to understand, but I realize now that it requires the ability to upload a file to replace the old rss.xml file at...
Last week one of the two filchyboy blogs rocketed to the top of the Salon daily ranking charts with off-the-scale traffic numbers, even though an examination of the referrer logs showed nothing special going. Andrew Bayer commented on this in his Dreaming of China blog, discerning that filchyboy had placed the...
I'm getting behind in my software download/install lifecycle: kung-log the latest mozilla beta chimera Netnewswire ASCII Movie Player (via BoingBoing) Archipelago Also, I'm looking for some tips on good free discussion-board software for integration into blogs (not this one, just general advice), especially the type that could be integrated so as...
October 26, 2002
S.F office space available. from Watchword Press: Office space: As some of you may know, over the last year we have shared an office......
Broken Esc key?!?. For some reason my Escape key suddenly doesn't seem to work, at least in the context of "vi". It's essential... (more)...
Lost our lease. Here's the message I posted to Bodega today to announce the beginning of another move: I'm afraid LiveJournal friends, that I'll be vacating this little corner bodega sometime soon, having relocated the locus of my personal blogging to a MovableType-powered blog called X-POLLEN.I will try to do a...
Whew! It appears that the move over last night was successful, except in the sense that many people will start missing new posts as they continue to look at or poll the old address. Suddenly I need to learn about the RSS feed redirection stuff Dave was posting about last week....
Well, the non-blog-related categories have now been redirected via FTP to various branded locations, so it's time to start posting new entries to radiofreeblogistan.com. I've just switched the streaming over to FTP, so this post should automatically stream to the new location (and not to the old one). Next, I have...
October 25, 2002
OK, let's try this again: Radio Free Blogistan has moved. The last entries posted to the old address are the ones you see here dated October 25, 2002. For current entries, please go to the new address: http://radiofreeblogistan.com/....
Since fireweaver is squatting on the home page, I got through to radio.userland.com and set up ftp upstreaming to send that category to http://fireweaver.com/blog/. Posting this entry to the home page and fireweaver should get fireweaver pointed where it's supposed to be and will also I hope restore the integrity of...
Well, the first attempt screwed up the upstreaming and one side effect is that "fireweaver" is rendering on the home page instead of in its category folder, which hides most recent posts. (Follow the metablog link at right to see recent blog-related posts.) Meanwhile, this is more or less a dummy...
If my upstreaming changes today work correctly, then this may be the final post to Radio Free Blogistan at the http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/ address, in which case, I want to make it very easy for any future readers directed here by old links (sorry, everybody!) to get to the new home page at...
Ev says that any compromised data has been restored and that if you kept your FTP information at Blogger you may want to change your password now, although it is not clear whether that information was accessed. Anil Dash recommends changing your username as well....
Are there plans in the works to ever give MT the ability to publish content via FTP (that is, not on the local site where MT is installed)? Or is it already possible, by defining the local site in the blog configuration using an ftp:// URL? Inquiring minds want to know...
The BloggerDev mailing list is abuzz this morning with people complaining that their settings have been switched around by someone using the monicker hax0redbyme. The first symptoms showed up when users tried to manipulate their blogs and found their view site link within the Blogger application redirected to http://blogger.com/hax0redbyme/. A list...
October 24, 2002
ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens's new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon's best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. (More...)...
I decided to try to plumb the native talent of clients and other people subscribed to the Waterside "virtual conference" mailing list: I'm trying to arrange wireless access at the 2003 Waterside Conference (in Berkeley), and I wanted to ask the members of this list whether anyone has experience setting up...
It's Otis! He looooves us!. White liberal guilt has never been so deliciously skewered.(via MZ)...
As my (still secret) project continues to take up most of my working time, I'd like to accelerate a plan I had on the backburner for the future of the blog, which is to throw it open to outside contributors. I think coverage of this beat would benefit from the input...
October 23, 2002
In my continuing effort to use my own blogorrhea as a guinea pig, I have some plans in the works for my x-pollen.com domain. For example, I'm planning to move my personal blog from LiveJournal to Movable Type. I'll document the process as I do it. I'm also trying to set...
October 22, 2002
We are the alien overlords. I am reading in the New York Times our detailed plans for laying seige of cities in Iraq. We will attempt to control the minds of the inhabitants (demoralizing the fighters, calming the civilians), and systematically in our now infinitely superior ways conquer each city....
So, what does it take to make a conference bloggable? That is, what are the usual arrangements required? Is it a matter of one IP address, a DHCP hub, one or more airport or linksys type wireless base stations, and that's it? Or am I overlooking a layer of complexity? This...
veriSign / netsol evil. this new two-tiered password scheme of netsol's, surely it is designed primarily to once again entangle passive Internet domain holders into staying with verisign out of inertia or, short of that, stuck like flypaper to the new authentication scheme until the inevitable renewal deadline passes.what is the...
October 21, 2002
Geez, you go away for a long weekend and the pornographer blog knocks you back down to fourth place in the all-time rankings.... John McCain was surprisingly funny on Saturday Night Live. Got to watch the Sopranos in my hotel room last night. (Without cable I usually have to wait a...
October 18, 2002
Eh, I'll be out of town til Monday night, at my cousin's wedding in So.Cal. Be good. Read my blogroll for me while I'm away. Catch you on the flip side. Oh, and remind me next week to post about my minor revelation about personal filing. Hint: it's all about journaling....
October 17, 2002
Favorite new Salon blog: SEMI TRUTHS: The Radio Active Salon. Best feature: True news stories followed by semitrue embellishments. Bonus: Mentions Michael Jackson and pr0n....
I remember in that strange Terry Gilliam film The Fisher King that the two homeless guys eventually get pitched to participate in an upbeat sitcom (or was it reality show? that's what it would be today) about homelessness to be called "Home Free!" Homeless people have had homepages for a long...
October 16, 2002
We found the source of the error(s) and so now instead of pointing to the mirror site at http://fireweaver.com/, please feel to re-commerce linking directly to http://dreamweaversavvy.com/ (or any of its variants, including http://www.dreamweaversavvy.com/ http://dreamweaverfireworkssavvy.com/ and http://www.dreamweaverfireworkssavvy.com/). Phew!...
Question I just overheard me ask myself. "Where is my not-bag not-going?"...
New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS This just in. Robert Kendall announces two new works at the Word Circuits Gallery: * About Time by Rob Swigart * The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh by Millie Niss (www.wordcircuits.com) [artsflow {category: hypertext literature}]...
added a new link to my masthead/sidebar area today. It's called Today's Referrers and its an ordinary link to the page showing RFB's referrer stats for the day. A few referrers show up almost every day, sometimes with just one link. I often assume that that one link is the writer...
Right fringe notices that Republicans are not conservative. Kevin Tuma hates FDR and Lincoln, favoring Goldwater and Reagan. What's interesting about this article is that he voices the "dirty little secret" of the Republican party. It is not now and has never been a conservative party, especially not in the sense...
Conason: Ralph Reed, unpatriotic coward. Joe Conason calls an ad against Senator Max Cleland (D, Georgia) "[a]nti-American, unpatriotic and cowardly":Speaking of Osama and Saddam, their images provide the backdrop for what may be the single most nauseating, cynical and un-American political advertisement of the midterm campaign. [more at Bite Media]...
A combination of burnout and offline deadlines has severely hampered my ability to post interesting links here, let alone cogent ideas or analysis. I don't think this situation will last too long (although I am heading to southern California for a wedding on Friday and won't be back in action till...
October 15, 2002
Things that won't get done today:review tapers addendum for dead letters magazinefinish installing pmachineinstall and test rss monkeyset up godetia and wildflowertrips domains for bset up virtuser mail forwarding for antiweb.netsend book promised to friendmake household budgetplan/prepare for moving site root to radiofreeblogistan.com*set up rss monkey*learn opmlfinal notes on j-school paneljump...
October 14, 2002
Though I feel I have no time to learn anything new at the moment, I've build up a strong desire to learn more about OPML and start really organizing my links in a more iterative, interactive way. Blogrolling.com is like crack. It's so easy to get started and it takes so...
Hey, my triumvirate of motivations meme is getting legs. I noticed a visitor today referred from a post called [Python-Dev] Missing symbol in sre.py (Python 2.2.2b1) on what I gather is a list for Python developers)....
From my literary agency comes this announcement: The 13th Annual Waterside Publishing Conference will be held April 10, 11, & 12, 2003 in Berkeley, CA. For more information or to register please log onto: http://www.waterside.com/conference.html. We hope to see you there!...
Due to some DNS misconfiguration, dreamweaversavvy.com right now points to my host's site instead of to the correct location. To get to the website for my book Dreamweaver MX / Fireworks MX Savvy at this time, therefore, please point your browser at http://fireweaver.com instead. I am trying to determine right now...
October 13, 2002
Dylan @ the Greek 2002.10.11 notes. first impression of the band: a little more detail: the moon was going down the greek without the people ...and some raw notesscribbled during the show:...
I should now theoretically be able to build a list of related links by Googling a keyword from each post, no? Is there prior art for this?...
October 12, 2002
Dylan rocked the Greek, yea verily. ...and mightily he smote them. the rumored covers (Zevon's "Accidentally Like a Martyr," "Brown Sugar," Neil Young's "Old Man"), the reinterps of classics (just like a woMan, i ain't ME babe), the recent material rousing the audience (Summer Days with its Charlie Christian, Django, old-timey...
October 11, 2002
Accuracy.org fisks Bush. Find here a point-by-point refutation of Bush's big speech....[Bite Media]...
The (other) mouse that roared. From Court News and Monster Weirdo come this report by DeVon Nolt of a lawsuit against Pixar and Disney on the part of Stanley "Mouse" Miller:The lead characters of the movie Monsters, Inc. were illegally copied from characters drawn by cartoonist Stanley Miller in the early...
In this essay on the political leanings of bloggers, Robert Corr says "I've attempted to apply the Herman/Chomsky propaganda model to the blogosphere, and submitted the essay for my Politics and the Media class." I'm still reading it, but he makes some good points about the economics of cyberspace and the...
Saw New Orleans piano genius Henry Butler last night with Amy DeNaio at the tiny 21 Grand performance space in Oakland.... Wow! [more at Bodega]...
Speaking of bookmarklets, does anyone know how to modify the RadioExpress code so that the resulting post page shows up in another window? I sometimes like to refer to the page I'm linking to while constructing my post. I wonder if the RSS aggregator's Post button could be modified similarly?...
Scot Hacker passes this along, saying: "Very cool bookmarklet for web developers—open this as a URL, then drag the bookmark icon to your toolbar": javascript:i=0;if(document.styleSheets.length>0){cs=!document.styleSheets[0].disabled;for(i=0;i<document.styleSheets.length;i++)document.styleSheets[i].disabled=cs;};void(cs=true);. Now you can toggle CSS on and off for any page (with any browser)....
October 10, 2002
Else how could Nat Torkington have transcribed that Digital ID World DRM panel live? [via Doc]...
Tom at Backup Brain posts: Kung-Log is a Mac OS X application that lets you post and manage Movable Type entries. Written with AppleScript Studio, I believe. I downloaded this a while back but haven't had a chance to test it out yet. I recall that Scot Hacker also told me...
The Buffalo Beast names the 50 most loathsome people in America, 2002. Pretty over-the-top (fairly vulgar too), but funny and much of it is hard to argue with.A sampling:13. SEAN HANNITYMisdeeds: Without question one of the most smarmy, vile, hypocritical talking heads on television. Has the uncanny ability to vilify and...
Beaver covers Borges covers Burton: 'a tree falls...'. Check out William Beaver's a tree falls amidst a forest of eyes, a branching hypertext we believe will be of... [artsflow] Playing with MT today, also catching up on some deadlines. Expect sporadic blogging with a chance of showers....
artsflow is moving...
Could they possibly cram any more ads into The Onion?...
October 9, 2002
Sébastien Paquet has written an article about the rise of personal knowledge publishing....
All About Weblogs has posted the PPT presentation from last weekend's panel. We want to hear more about the proceedings!...
I blame Ev....
This article, Everything Can Be a Link with Mozilla... describes a method for targetting any subsection of webpage without requiring preexisting name anchor tags. (via Ev)...
Apparently if an MT blog allows HTML in comments and uses an executable file extension (such as .php or .shtml) this opens up a security risk from code that could be inserted into a comment. Brad Choate has released a plugin called Sanitize that enables MT users to exclude all but...
DWS passed along this link to an RSS Tutorial: The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) project of the Utah State Library has a tutorial on RSS that shows examples of its use in a variety different scenarios. They do good work. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] [RadioFAQs] I'm going to check it...
Fog's in. After two three days of blazing heat peaking in the midafternoon, it started to cool off yesterday and this morning the sky is totally socked in cloudy from the window of my breakfast nook. It's a relief. The ultrahot weather has its charms, especially in the evening when its...
October 8, 2002
Ben and Mena Trott today released version 2.5 of Movable Type on the one-year anniversary of its initial release. Some of the changes include: An integrated version of Jay Allen's mt-search plug-in, called public search More accessible default templates that follow Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Accessbility guidelines A new default stylesheet...
Seems like today is all about followups and conversations among blogs. (For example, Mark Byron noticed my unfisking yesterday and wrote about it in his blog. My response to his response to my response to his original post can be found in his comments.) So I wanted to elevate an interesting...
In The Death of the Newspaper at Teal Sunglasses, Chuq Von Rospach takes on some recent commentary about the online publishing, editors, and professionalism, responding to my post over the weekend prompted by C.W. Nevius's Chronicle column (whew! tracking these threads is hard work!). But that argument is like arguing that...
A writer for Pigdog Journal disagrees with most of Rebecca Blood's advice in her Handbook, lampooning it in an over-the-top way: And then there are all the bits where web writers are cautioned to never insult a blogger. "Even relatively mild criticism of another weblogger or her site design will reflect...
Hylton at Blogging News continues to do a wonderful job of rounding up interesting commentary from the blog world. In my lazy way I wish to respond to a few of the comments here without bothering to track down the original posts, bookmarklet them, and respond invididually. Richard Poe on why...
A sample chapter from the new O'Reilly book on blogging. [Scripting News] Yes, I am still planning to review this book!...
A positive front-page review of Rebecca Blood's Weblog Handbook at Slashdot generates a range of responses, most of which we've seen before from this quarter (weblogs are over, the writing is terrible/self-indulgent, who cares what you think, what's so hard about updating webpages, etc.). Some choice comments: Why would I care...
October 7, 2002
Groan from Uncle TJ. Please don't kill the messenger!Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.This made him...
Shades of the nuzee flap of a month or so ago, andersja objects to finding his content repurposed at blogmints. (Blogmints shows the most commented-upon posts from blogs that recently pinged weblogs.com.) Quoth andersja: I will stand by what I said then: feel free to syndicate my RSS feed. I insert...
Dylan Tweney hails The Death of the $1 Million Software Package in his latest Business 2.0 column: Back in the late 1990s, a software salesman could look you in the eye and say with a straight face that his company's enterprise system would cost you $1 million. Mercifully, those days are...
from Art of the Mix (via MZ):Do you remember a band called Blind Melon? Can you still rattle off the words to "Shoop" by Salt-n-Pepa? Visit this site to test your knowledge of pop and rock lyrics from the 1990s. Hint: look out for appearances from a few hip-hop and country...
Tickets impossible. After spending sixteen frustrating minutes on the phone and on the web a few Sundays back, failing to get Elvis Costello tickets. I asked a friend to deal with getting us all tickets to Beck with Flaming Lips at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. No such luck. He got...
What was it Augustine said?. Please Lord, slashdot me... but not yet!...
I have a temporary need (two, three months) for a PC for a project I'm working on. (There are five Macs in my house and one PC but it's in the basement and runs Windows 98, ugh.) It's an old Pentium Pro, so I don't even know if I should install...
Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well. As I study warblog jargon, I'm fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a...
Keeping in touch with the old gang. If there's one thing the Internet's good for, it's finding your old friend and compadres....
Many people think of the Boing Boing blog as Cory Doctorow's personal weblog, and even link to or blogroll it that way, but of course it is a team blog, with Apple switcher Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz also on the masthead. Cory posted on Saturday that Xeni Jardin did "such...
October 6, 2002
S.F Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius write about two editor-free Internet phenomena this Sunday: Google News and Blogs. He takes the heretical position for a writer that editors do in fact add value to writing. He devotes most of his column inches to Google News but takes on blogs near the end,...
Well, I never did manage to surpass the blognovel in time, as Reverse Cowgirl rocketed past me into No. 3 position yesterday and went to No. 2 overall today. Scott has a pretty big lead in his No. 1all-time position but if I were him I'd still be nervous! I think...
October 5, 2002
Either Al or dws highlighted this About.com guide to weblogs: Web logs, or "Blogs" are a great way to put your opinions up on the Internet. Use programs on your own site, or host your site on a Web log system. This concludes our title-free Saturday afternoon batch o' blogging....
Despite the griping from the blogosphere and from the adult chamber of commerce, Jon Udell say he's "delighted with the recent changes in Google's ranking algorithm." Wired News also puts in its two cents....
Al Macintyre's building a directory of blog software...
John Robb mentioned ThinkBlank today. I followed the instructions and added the MetaLinker code to my home template when I linked to the site a few days ago, but I'm not seeing any metalinks. What am I doing wrong?...
Inflatable Sheep was blogging four years before the term was coined....
WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought...
Best Practices with CSS in Dreamweaver MX: This article discusses best practices when using CSS and highlights specific CSS features in Dreamweaver MX. (Fixed the link.)...
It's too nice outside to sit around writing lots of blog entries, but some interesting stuff did show up in my aggregator this morning, so I'm going to experiment with autoposting a few untitled entries, to see if the bare filtering of the information provides any value to this blog....
Peering into my referrer logs this morning, I saw a reader coming from Syndic8, so I decided to take a look at how this site looks through that syndicator's display. I noticed that RFB is listed as not having the metadata that Syndic8 looks for, so I followed a link to...
October 4, 2002
Blogger: You're in the Army Now. The Army team that came up with a PC game as recruiting tool unveils a weblog with the same thing in mind. Critics say it lacks soul, not to mention blood and guts. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]...
I didn't know Jason Snell was doing something called teevee.org, but correspondent Charly Z assures me they do "snarky comentary about, well, TV." Shamelessly, I copped their title from their weblog announcement, in which they say: Today TeeVee's Station Breaks take on a new form. Yes, we're sort of getting on...
Political Parrhesia: The National Debt Marches Upward. Just passing this Political Parrhesia item along:The federal government's fiscal year ended on Monday, September 30. So, it is appropriate to take a look at how much the national debt rose in the past year. $100 billion? You wish. $200 billion? Sorry. [Bite Media]...
RadioExpress! and my back button (checking a quote), just ate my post... rewriting it now... {Here's a Radio wish! Could someone make a version of Radio Express that pops up in its own window, like every other bookmarklet on the planet?}... Face it, naming your blog is the old band-name game...
I'm downloading pMachine today and I'm going to see if it's really as easy to install as they say. It seems clear that pMachine is positioning itself as a competitor to Movable Type (it has import scripts for MT and GreyMatter), angling for those who prefer PHP over perl. The implied...
October 3, 2002
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.)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
October 2, 2002
Was alerted to a listing in MSNBC's Weblog Central blog. Is it just me or is the layout of that page funny? I see three sidebars down the right side of my browser window before you get to the weblog. Could be a Mac thing? Joan, the executive producer writing the...
Mediasavvy says the future of content management is open source (after attending the Open Source Content Management Conference, that is): As the computer industry moves in the direction of selling services, instead of hardware and software, open source begins to look like a great way to improve the value you deliver...
Allow me to acquaint you with this moment's meme: (via plasticbag)...
I was rereading http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/network/2002/03/08/cory_google.html by Cory Doctorow (after following Scott Rosenberg's link to Andrew Googman on the death of metatags. As I mentioned in Scott's comments, it's keyword metatags that have the least efficacy and the most potential for gaming of indexers, although I agree with another commenter who suggested that...
Short notice, and Bay Area-specific, but I still thought this worth passing along, from Scott Rosenberg:Readers in the Bay Area are invited to Cody's Books in Berkeley, where on Thursday evening (Oct. 3) a panel of Salon editors and contributors — inclding David Talbot, Joan Walsh, Jennifer Sweeney and Chris Colin...
Per dive into mark, I just added a link tag indicating this blog's rss feed. The code I added should work for any Radio blog whose RSS feed is named rss.xml: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss xml" title=\"RSS\" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>rss.xml">...
No Nurse is Good Nurse. I'll send a copy of my Dreamweaver book (or something else if that's not needed) to the first person who can identify the source of the subject of this entry....
Yesterday, our own Susannah "Reverse Cowgirl" Breslin passed Pornographer's Picks in Salon Blogs' all-time ranking. The anonymous raincoater had a large head start and still brings in remarkable numbers on the strength of his first month of postings, despite shooting blanks since August. Plan B's return from vacation and a who-shot-JR...
At the Berkeley J-school weblog panel* an audience member asked if most blogs used email to send reminders or even as an alternative mode for reading. A discussion ensued about how common, desirable, or easy this might be. My personal view is that I'd like to make anything I publish for...
October 1, 2002
Salon today went beyond an earlier correction and removed a story originally published on August 29: Oct. 1, 2002 ę|ę After careful review, Salon's editors have decided to take down from our Web site an article titled "Tom White played key role in covering up Enron losses" that we published on...
Dave is obsessing on Google pagerank, trying to get Google to associate his page more rankfully with the search term weblog. He also got me thinking about this thing of being the top Dave or Adam or Jeremy or Jason on Google: Adam Curry is the number three Adam on Google...
An old philosophy buddy of mine sent me this e-mail message this morning, with the subject "Help me before I get hawkish": Despite some fatuous chest-thumping about the greatness of American culture herein, I find this indictment of Arab/Islamist culture hard to argue with, along with the claims about possible Arab...
What makes pornography (let's stick to visual porn for the sake of discussion) work the way it does? That is, how do images of bodies, body parts, or sex arts stimulate sexual arousal in a way that's useful for masturbation? I would suggest that porn deliberates manipulates (pun intended) inherited, evolved,...
Bush's real goal in Iraq. In an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jay Bookman suggests that the Bush administration's ulterior motive in focusing on Iraq is a relentless expansion of American empire:This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged...
The Spartaneity Project furthers the conversation about whether permalinks are an essential element of weblogs: Much of what makes weblogs different from websites of old is structural. ... [W]e're inclined to believe that those which do not include permalinks through which the rest of us can refer directly to individual posts...