Travels with Amit: Amit Kothari tells me he's set up a weblog as a travelogue (a travelblog? travel(bl)og? travelog?) for his upcoming trip called Welcome to Europe 2003. This seems like a natural use for a short-lived or one-off weblog. I remember Philip Greenspun's Travels with Samantha as one of the first proofs-of-concept for... (Weblog Concepts)

Definitions category?: I'm thinking of setting up a category called Definitions and then occasionally writing posts giving my take one "what is a weblog" and all the other jargon in this field. It's a huge barrier to entry! Then I can link to them in the sidebar for new visitors too. I also... (Nanopublishing)

MSNBC to Host a Blogspace: I suppose Salon Blogs are to TableTalk as this new MSNBC blogspace will be to their bulletin boards (doubt they're really "chat rooms" as that distinction is lost on most journalists): Blog's the word at MSNBC.com. The news site will introduce a new Web logs section by the end of August,... (Salon Bloggers)

iTunes Ate My CD Collection: x-posted from bodega: Hey, I've finally gotten with the program and started feeding CDs into my 'puter. I think what prompted it is that I went through my roughly 600 non-bootleg CDs and chose about 50 to sell back to record stores. Bill and Jeff were polite when we talked about... (Miscellany)

Where's My 'Do Not Call' List?: I have been plagued by a telemarketing firm called Heritage Publishing. Their schtick is progressive and bleeding-heart (missing-children type) charities. It was only for a while when B and I had Pacbell's "Privacy Manager" on our phone that I caught on to the fact that so many of these calls on... (Miscellany)

Earliest Usenet Cite for 'Blogrolling': It's hard to track earliest citation on the Web, at least using Google. I suppose the blog indexes, with all the date stamping, might do a better job. I'll see if Blogdex is searchable again, and Daypop. Meanwhile, ">the earliest Usenet cite I could find by its very nature testifies to... (Weblog Concepts)

Blogrolling: Bastard stepchild of the buddy list and the old link-exchange, with intimations of what I'm reading and who I think you should be reading, blogrolls are usually lists of recommended or favorite blogs, sometime in multiple categories, usually listed in the navigation panel of a blog, when it has one. Blogrolling.com... (Weblog Concepts)

When Life Gives You Brown Bananas: new at bodega: brown bananas, rageboy flowcharts, and iTunes. [xian] [Ugh, I hate the way LiveJournal renders my URLs in its RSS feed. It defaults to a hit on their database with their look-and-feel instead of the direct day link I manually substituted above that gets my fonts and colors, and... (Miscellany)

What Kind of a Sick Weirdo Are You?: Finding what looks like a PyRad .jsp URL in my referer log, I assume I've used one of my 8000 impressions. It's too late to welcome that ad follower but welcome! to thet next. Trying to catch my add on the blogger page, I found this one instead. I love the... (Weblog Concepts)

Great Googly Moogly!: It's interesting to look at who's been googlin' at my door. My referer logs each day list about 5-7 hits from google searches. They've included so far today: blogistan salon blogistan blogistan salon livejournal templates templates livejournal php mysql how to bloggers where to find lj livejournal templates Anyway, I've started... (Salon Bloggers)

Third-Party Help with Blog Templates: If you want edit or tweak the various templates that most blog programs use to render web pages from the content stored in their databases, consider using a third-party web design tool. Even if you prefer to work directly with code, an editor such as BB Edit or HomeSite (or TextEdit... (Weblog Concepts)

Corporate Weblog Pros and Cons: Blunt Force Trauma cites this Seattle Times article on corporate blogging.... (Best Practices)

KM Blogging Hurdle: Sharing?: Rick Klau links to thedownsideofknowledgemanagement.com, regarding the hurdles involved in using blogs for KM (or "knowledge sharing"), adding: In any event, I like the recognition that there's more to KM than just software - that unless someone is committed, responsible and incented to make the thing work, it will be hard... (Best Practices)