Life ongoing, and other tragic comedies... says that Marc Weisblott writes about Salon.Blogs under the title of "Inside Blogger Baseball" and...
He makes the point that Salon is basically trying to ride the coattails of blogging to improve its image and make money. If they are, I really don't mind. If it gets more people blogging, and puts more interesting content out there, so be it.[via Blogpopuli]
Weisblott uses Rick Castello's venn diagram illustrating the relationship between journalists and bloggers.
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By switching to the "in-beta" pro2.blogger.com server, I was able to get the RSS feed working for Junk Mail, one of my Blogger Pro blogs. Up to now I was using Voidstar's cool RSSify script to generate a feed, but it didn't seem to recognize titles (it made up titles out of the first x lines of the entry). The new feed does. This is cool. I'm still anticipating moving Junk Mail and some other blogs to Radio or Movable Type or PHP-Nuke eventually, but inertia is a powerful thing, migrating is never easy, and if I can improve things incrementally in the meantime, then that's what I want to do.
The Movable Type article is still in the works, probably now to come early next week (TV jitters and real life cut into my blogging at the end of this week).
Oh, and Radio users can subscribe to Junk Mail by following this link. The Mediajunkie site, by the way, is intended ultimately to permit multiple user postings. Currently this can be done using Blogger's team function, but that's why I'm considering PHP-Nuke (which is essentially a Slash clone that my sysadmin finds easier to work with).
5:45:08 PM say what []
Answer: Sorry, the referers currently is only kept for a 24 hour period and reset at midnight. [Lawrence Lee] [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]
me: OK, but is there some script-y way to grab that info just before midnight and compile one's own stats?
I also wish there was some way to replace URLs with blog titles, especially when the URLs are anonymous serial-number stylee, like mine. I often click on referers and then go oh, right, that's the astrology blog ... or why can't i remember bush impeachment countdown's five digit usernum?.
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5:27:53 PM say what []
With my one-week probation up, I found I had something on my mind I wanted to post to Metafilter.
2:37:52 PM say what []
In a Think Tank sidebar in the Arts section of today's Times entitled "The Ancient Art of Haranguing Has Moved to the Internet" (link requires free signup), Emily Eakin discusses the tradition of independent political discourse from Tom Paine to George Orwell to today's bloggers:
Of course, in today's media-saturated environment, these latest endeavors can hardly expect to sway opinion the way the pamphlet did in its glory days, the 17th and 18th centuries, when master rhetoricians like Milton, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Thomas Paine regularly swamped the public sphere with two-penny treatises on burning social issues. (Published in January 1776, Paine's "Common Sense" sold half a million copies within a few months and is credited with transforming untold numbers of ambivalent colonists into ardent revolutionaries.)
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I didn't even realize Bernie DeKoven had a weblog till I saw a link to it on Doc Searls' blog just now. Bernie is an amazing guy with an incredible sense of play. I still remember a long talk I had with him walking along the beach south of L.A. I've just added him to my blogroll.
Of Bernie's many wonderful ideas, one of my favorites is his meeting meter which graphically demonstrates how much money is a-wasting when meetings get off track. (Think of a taximeter that knows the combined hourly rate of everyone in the room.)
Back on the blogging-about-blogging tip, I notice that Bernie's weblog is run by Blogger Pro and that he has a RSS (XML) subscription link there, but last time I checked Blogger Pro's RSS feature wasn't available. I guess I'll have to check that again now.
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8:02:49 AM say what []
Via Scripting News via Jake's Radio 'Blog:
Jason DeFillippo's Blogrolling.com now supports OPML. If you use Blogrolling.com for your blogroll, you can use Radio's radio.macros.blogroll macro, or Manila's opmlBlogroll macro to add the blogroll to your site. Optional parameters for these macros let you control the appearance of links to recently updated sites.
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