Category Archives: Weblogs

Jason Kottke just announced he is going to run kottke.org full-time supported — he hopes — by user donations. “This is me taking online personal publishing seriously because I feel it deserves as much.”

The mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown, has started a weblog on TypePad to discuss the issues of interest to Oakland and to provide a direct voice. His first post currently has 54 comments.

I just started playing around with Picasa 2 and I noticed they have a “Read the Picasa Blog” option in their help menu linking to a new Blogger weblog. Picasa is the first product that I have seen link to a weblog within the application and it is especially interesting to see the link appear in the help section and not in a more generic about section….

I just came across RSS Submit, a $25 piece of software that will ping RSS search engines with your feed URL. (via Danny Sullivan) Hilarious! It’s like Ping-o-Matic but for $25!…

Dan Gillmor has a new TypePad weblog. Grab your RDF feed or Atom feed if you would like to keep track of Dan’s new citizen journalism projects and other technology insights….

I tried to leave a comment on Marc Canter’s weblog in response to his post reacting to requests for reasonably priced geek dinners, but his weblog is not setup correctly. If you want to use TypeKey you have to edit your Movable Type weblog preferences and add your TypeKey token. You’re not enabling a conversation! I was motivated enough to post here since Marc unfairly targeted some people trying to make the event work for everyone. Tantek’s idea was to try somewhere new and to make the event as inclusionary as possible. He’s been to geek dinners all around the…

FeedBurner announced new features today FeedCount, an image displaying the total number of readers of a FeedCount enabled FeedBurner feed. You can choose your own background and foreground color and choose an animated version. FeedBurner also claims 1 in 5 podcasts listed on audio.weblogs.com is provided by a FeedBurner feed….

As an economics nerd I have a lot of thoughts about weblogs and theories of incentive. Weblogs share some social and economic motivations with the world of open source software yet I struggle to quantify the economic effects on an individual publisher level. The key overlooked metric of the blogosphere is the society of the underemployed. People with full-time jobs and a paycheck who rather be doing something else on a full or part-time basis utilize weblog tools in an attempt to gain notoriety or possibly a new job. Weblogs are the karaoke night of online journalism where many participants…

Jason Kottke’s recent experience with Sony has him reconsidering his role as a publisher. Is the hassle worth it? Only big publishers have the budgets to deal with any hint of legal issues. I raised this issue at Lawrence Lessig’s Law & Blogging session at BloggerCon. Regardless of fair use, being on the right side of the law, it is difficult to gather the resources to respond to legal harassment. Lessig differentiated between a “nastygram” and an actual legal filing. Jason has demonstrated good judgment and community building in the past. I received an e-mail from Jason before he pointed…