Serving you better: In my continuing quest to improve Radio Free Blogistan, invite greater contribution, collaborate with others, syndicate wisely, aggregate elegantly, and leverage the reams of free content being spewed out in RSS form all over the Intersphere by applying my own filters to it, I've added some new sidebar sections, using Tima's... (People Power)

PLATO People: A History Book Research Project: I was checking the look of an earlier day's page and saw that someone had responded to my link to Rebecca's essay Weblog History. One thing I realized is that I'll need to go through old posts and assign categories to them in some cases. (This one needs to get the... (Weblog Concepts)

Bruce Sterling's Contrarian View of Open Source: More required reading here for keeping up with the ongoing dialogue in blogspace. It doesn't surprise me that science fiction writers like Sterling and Cory are playing such a big role in shaping the emerging philosophy of this internetworked world we're building. I've always felt that my hypergeek years of reading... (Memes)

Speaking of Actual Radios: Had an odd thought today, probably half-prompted by Oliver Willis's American Times, a kind of Utne Reader of the blogosphere. The thought: wouldn't "Radio Free Blogistan" make a good name for an actual radio show? Say, one hour a week each featuring a different blogger as a guest to talk about... (Weblog Concepts)

Still Working on Pure CSS Design Templates: I took the generic 3-panel CSS file I derived from a modified version of this site's new design and set to work converting it to a Blogger template, which is mostly a matter of replacing Radio macros and tags with Blogger-specific tags. A version of that Blogger template is now being... (Information design)

Fear of an Internet Planet: Suladog, a Livejournal friend of mine who's a film writer, told a little story about the mixed feelings some of her peers have about embracing the potential of community through the Internet: ... two very close friends...one is the creator of a couple of hit TV series .. the other is... (Weblog Concepts)

Caveat Lector: XHTML2: Caveat Lector posts some preliminary musings about XHTML2. The old typographer in me is most thrilled by the concept of continued paragraphs. Believe me, it's almost as exciting as discovering a working em-dash character.... (Best Practices)

CSS Makes Things Easier: The proof is in the pudding. This (scaled-down, I'm afraid) snapshot of my terminal window shows the Radio Free Blogistan home page in lynx. Coooool: The navigation comes after all the entries, and it even reads fairly well, aside from things like my RSS-feed blogroll, which repeats the final names for... (Information design)