On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles
So you've decided to start a weblog and have a really clever idea for titling it based on a snippet of code you find particularly novel. Rad!
A Healthy Venus
On launching the Health Benefit News River.
Best Comment Policy Ever
“This ain’t the goddamn Barney show, I'm not a goddamn purple dinosaur, and I don’t give a flying fuck about your feelings. I don’t love you, I don’t want to be your friend, and as far as I'm concerned, caring means not setting your house on fire.” — Phillip Birmingham
blog.txt
A minimalist’s WordPress theme. Focus on typography and simple markup. Various configuration options and a print stylesheet.
Blogger’s Code of Boring Irrelevance
“If I want to publish a picture that shows Ronald McDonald smoking a joint made out of the rain forests, I can.”
Primary sources? You don’t need ‘em. Trust us. [jonudell.net]
I'm surprised to see that any of the news sites linked to the original report.
Baron VC
“Most of the sites that suffer from Digg are blogs that are trying to establish ongoing dialogue with their readers. The authors are more interested at developing ideas and sharing them with people that come across from organic channels.”
Squawkbox: Corporate Use of MSN Spaces-- check out CNBC. Rant alert
Damn, looks like Microsoft is back to their old ways again…
Journalism and weblogs, part 327
Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)
Get Rich Quick With Blogs
The always insightful James Governor’s with a fist full of insight into insightless topics such t-shirts… weeeeeeee!
Business Week predicts corporate takeover of blogs
BusinessWeek has “Blogs” on cover but they don’t get it. Predicting a massive takeover of the blogosphere by major corporations – no one is going to some shitty feed-me-PR blog. We have those today, they’re called “Corporate Websites” and “Magazines”
The spit fight that ended my career at MSNBC
“So, fuck it. I quit.” – David Weinberger on leaving MSNBC because they’re clueless.
Rupert Murdoch should buy Jon Udell.
I wish I could buy Jon Udell; I'd keep him in my cubical to impress my friends.
AMERICA - ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Simon Willison showed me this scan of a Newspaper from April 14, 1865. It looks like a blog.
The on-demand blogosphere
An Udell screencast on the future of the blogosphere. del.icio.us as a shared brain.. all great stuff. watch it.
New York Times Link Generator
Generates non-expiring links to New York Times content. Bookmarklet included.
cluetrain/hughtrain
Cluetrain Manifesto: “This is why we hate you.” Hughtrain Manifesto: “This is how we’re going to fuck you up.”
Open Source Radio
“A space for you to help contribute to a forthcoming CBC radio column about the open-source movement.” This is a great example of blog-as-collaboration-tool.
Fear of Bloggers in Business and Journalism
sigh.. corporate resistence to change never fails amuse me.
Scobleizer: Are you afraid to blog
Surprisingly interesting look at fears of corporate blogging both internally and externally. Scoble thinks most people are afraid to get fired.
The Atom Syndication Format 0.3
I know it says 0.2 in the URL and PRE-DRAFT in the title but this as normative as you can get with the 0.3 feeds in the wild.
QuickTopic - Instant Discussion Space
Thinking about using this for my comment system. They have an XML-RPC API but it isn’t documented on the site.
Blog Interrupted
Some lady that throws away mail for my very own Sen. Mike DeWine got fired because she kept an anonymous X-Rated blog about relations w/ FIVE upper staffers.
First look at MSN blogs
Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!