Last week I got a chance to talk to a number of people at a Legal Marketing Association event. If you’re not a lawyer, or if you are a Web 2.0 geek, that probably doesn’t sound like a very interesting conversation. There wasn’t a single mention of...

There’s been a lot of interesting writing about the evolution of the newspaper industry lately, especially in the face of the rising popularity of social media. Since it’s a recurring fixation of mine, I am hoping to share it with you. First, Winning...

Okay, you probably don’t need to be told that spam is bad. But you might find it interesting to learn about the economy that’s sprung up around blog spam. Good thing, then, that Charles Mannwrote an extensive piece for Wired detailing this scary new...

We’ve got another chance for the mainsream press to either laud or dismiss blogs, and I’m curious to see how it turns out. The thing to note is that, for these purposes, the blogosphere basically includes not only all blogs, but all the other...

I take it back, people do sometimes leave good comments. I’m thrilled with the comments on “A Malcolm and a Martin”, as well as the conversations on other sites: From Scott Berkun: (Buy his book now!) My position is that you need attention to have...

When I’m not able to be a good blogger myself, I rely on the kindness of others. Let’s see what’s out there! Snarkout, one of the finest blogs on the web, has got some profound musings on technology, permanence, extinction, and language, all things...

Ha, ha, I could have sworn I went away for a week and while I was gone the biggest thing that happened in the tech blogosphere was that people were arguing over lawyers talking about rights to a buzzword that everyone had already agreed was so far...

If you’re looking for information on the distributed denial of service attacks against Six Apart, we’ve got some posts up, along with the LiveJournal and TypePad status sites being updated. I’m travelling a bit so I can’t update as much as I’d like,...

I have this theory about a radical improvement in user experience that could be made for any website that allows comments to be submitted by readers. Especially if any of those readers are male. I’d like to share this idea with you. You see, I know a...

Though Jason demanded asked me to contribute to his site a while ago, I’ve been remiss in actually posting links. However, if you bop on over to Kottke.org you should find a number of his Remaindered Links are supplied by me. (Look for the “ad” after...

I usually don’t do overt plugs for work stuff on my personal blog, but I’m pretty excited about a small event we’re doing here in San Francisco. It’s the first in our series of Business Blogging Seminars, presented as part of our efforts at Six Apart...

Now, if I were a good blogger, I’d write posts about subjects that I know nothing about. But I am a rank amateur, so I will focus on my area of expertise: me. Even better, I won’t show off how great I am at writing about myself, I’ll just link to...

Back when I first joined Six Apart, the main thing that made me really believe in what we did was that I saw that blogs could change people’s lives for the better, and that Ben and Mena measured success by how many new people they were able to help...

I sure do love words. And even better, my friends do too. So they make great websites and books about it. Mark made Neologasm, which I am very partial to because it documents (among other things) the words we regularly make up around the office at...

I was startled by this phenomenally wrong-headed editorial in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond exposes his insecurities by arguing that Craig Newmark’s work in Craigslist doesn’t build communities because it threatens the business models...

Every few days, I get sent a link to someone who’s running a blogging awards contest. Sometimes it’s for all blogs, and other times it’s focused on a specific community. Interestingly, the category titles remain pretty much the same whether it’s for...

What was that about how people are emotional about the social software they use? Today was a pretty rough day, with a long painful downtime for TypePad, and I spent all day talking to people and the press about it. Until this afternoon, the only...

Since I’ve, uh, cornered the market on blogging about blog songs, I’m contractually obligated to link to Gawk At This, the Gawker rap track by The Assimilated Negro. (Full lyrics available.) Not the first blog rap song, but certainly a credible...

I love magazines. Love, love, love. They’re full of short, frequently-updated content and they make good use of layout and pictures: that’s what I love in a medium. I’ve been a magazine junkie since I was old enough to read, and part of the reason...

We’re three (or more) years into the blogosphere’s love for GoogleBombs, and here’s another story on them. I’m glad I at least got to throw in a little quote about how people talk about this stuff on the web because… well, because it’s what they care...

My not-very-secret ulterior motive for being such a big fan of Six Apart’s strong international presence has been the promise that our overseas efforts will result in me getting to take trips to fun parts of the world. And, finally, success! Kind...

Holy cow! Movable Type 3.2 is finally released, after tons and tons of hard work by the whole team. I’m always excited when we release new stuff at Six Apart (which we do a lot), but this is our only product that actually goes out the door instead...

Donnie asks, “But why is your blog soooo damn ugly man?” And the answer is, because I am a lousy designer. I’ll probably be updating the site to use the spiffy new templates in Movable Type 3.2 once it’s...

I guess I should have caught this back on the 20th of last month, but I’ve been blogging here for six years. And living in San Francisco for a year now. I don’t think I could ever have imagined how much life could bring me just by me taking the time...

This is a little outside my area of expertise, but that’s why I thought it might be interesting: I’ve just posted over on IntentBlog, a relatively new blog started by Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur. I don’t usually participate in communities that...

Helllllo, PR Peoples. Like a lot of bloggers, I get pitched from time to time by people who want me to talk about their products. It’s been a few years since I’ve covered this topic, so clearly it’s time for a review. It’s especially helpful that I...

Cam Marlow‘s at it again, not content just to give us Blogdex for free for years, but working on the MIT Weblog Survey to collect data about that blogosphere that he’ll weed through and share with all of us. If you’ve got a blog, go fill out the...

Congratulations to Andre for doing something fun and new and slightly risky. I’d already had a good opinion of FMPub based on John Battelle’s reputation, but with Andre on board, I’m convinced it’s going to be a success. I’m happy anytime someone...

While I’m really glad that smart people like Tim O’Reilly and Chris Anderson are enjoying t-shirt media hack, I’m realizing that the really terrifying thing is that everybody in my social circle knows what Goatse is. But Tim’s right, of course. The...

Brad? Seven. Jason? Nine. Jeffrey? Ten. Jakob? Ten. Thanks,...

Last week, I was contributing to Jason Kottke’s Remaindered Links, unleashing some of my now-rusty Daily Links skills on Jason’s unsuspecting audience. As Jason’s chart reveals, my best efforts were only capable of slightly diminishing his number of...

Nick Bradbury makes great apps, but better than that, he’s a thoughful and articulate person. In having a conversation about politics, he’s able to say "I love our constitution more than I love our flag" and summarize his political beliefs...

SFist did a nice interview ith my friend George Kelly that I think is worth reading. George tends to have good ideas a few months before the rest of us figure them...

Sorry, Maciej, but I am unable to assist in your Macropatronage effort. Fortunately, I have a very good...

The basic format of the weblog medium has been pretty much set for more than 5 years now, and it’s enough time that we can probably make some safe observations about bloggers’ behavior. First, it’s important to note that there is no “blogosphere”....

Those of us who care a lot about blogs are having to do a lot of work to get the truth out there about the relationship between blogs and employment. Tim Bray gives us an outstanding look at Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career, and Sam...

I’ts a BLOG revolution! For, uh, a mere...

On Tuesday, Jason Kottke announced that he was devoting himself full-time to working on maintaining his weblog, and asking for his readers to support him financially so he could do so. There was, of course, a lot of attention and a lot of discussion,...

I find it kinda cool that today I was in the New York Times talking about the business potential of weblogs and today the New York Times became the biggest weblog publishing business in the world. I am also glad that crazy political bloggers who like...

Since I didn’t design it and only helped a little bit in building it, I can give the team my unfettered praise: The new Six Apart site looks great. Nice work, team, and thanks for doing such a nice job on the Professional Network that’s near and dear...

"Some quick background research on the CBS Memo scandal, the resignation of The New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines, or the recent resignation of CNN’s Vice President Eason Jordan should convince you that it’s a bad idea to tangle with...

As always, a useful perspective from Rebecca, this time on Eason Jordan: It is a collision of expectations that is at the root of the whole incident. The Davos conference, as I understand it, is explicitly understood to be off the record–a place...

I wasn’t at the conference, so I can’t comment on the specifics that Jack Shafer references, but I’m finding it hard to disagree with anything that’s written in this Slate column. Many of the first bloggers, in addition to being geeks, were trained...

Hey, cool, Gina‘s post about fixing her mother-in-law’s computer made the BBC website. I was spending those same few days doing some very similar tasks, so I’m glad to see that the unpaid IT department that actually subsidizes the tech industry is...

Right now, eight of the top ten links on blogdex are about Six Apart and LiveJournal. We’re like the Usher and Alicia Keys of the Blogdex Top Ten. Huge! To my new co-workers at Danga who’ll be coming to work with us in San Francisco, I thought I’d...

Six Apart moved into our new offices today, and though he doesn’t blog often, he gets it right when he does: Ben covers my thoughts exactly. I’ll be spending the next week with family and friends, but today I want to say happy holidays to all my...

Jason says my blog is almost as good as his. I agree! Also, check out all the good sites he mentions. It’s quite telling that Jason’s done a best links of 2004 post, while none of the traditional media has been savvy enough to do anything more...

Besides being super cool, the new TypePad wishlist feature generates these beautiful tiled thumbnail versions of your wishlist images that just seem like art to me. Greedy, consumerist art, but art...

Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC. I think they should hire Andy Baio. He’s already been dictating large swaths of their editorial judgement by his consistently...

Continuing coverage of all the Spoilergate controversy: From the Red Herring, [And the question is, ‘Who is a big bully?’](http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=11010&hed=And the question is%2c %e2%80%98Who is a big bully%3f%e2%80%99). And...

Tom Watson’s take on Dan Rather’s resignation seems exactly right to me. Be careful the gloating you do and the negativity you celebrate, because they’ll be visited upon you one day. I wouldn’t expect everyone in the TV industry to celebrate the day...

Five years to the day after he stopped blogging, thus becoming the first person to dramatically exit the blogosphere, Jesse James Garrett has resurrected his blog. Amazing. Let’s hope it lasts longer than 3...

Matt talks about being at the helm of a shitstorm: "I’d hate to see blogs get known for reactionary authors". I think it may be too late. Having been the instigator of a few minor ones and having borne the brunt of some pretty violent...

Neowin, which is probably the most popular site for Windows groupies, leaked screenshots of MSN Desktop Search, as is their wont. What surprises me is that I heard about it on MSN’s Search Blog. Given the tendency for Microsoft’s PR people to...

I’ll be making more changes soon, but at least there’s finally something up and running on my new server. If you’re seeing this, of course, the DNS has already propagated to you. People who aren’t so fortunate can visit me at...

I used to wonder what the least sexy thing in the world was. And then I read transcripts of Bill O’Reilly having phone...

I don’t know if it’s related to the topic of community behavior, but it’s also probably worth noting that the best political posts I’ve seen tend to be from bloggers who generally write about technology. Similarly, the best technology-related posts...

Congrats to Ev on finishing his tenure at Google. Ev’s work, and the talent of the people he’s had working with him over the past decade, have both been big inspirations to me, and I’m glad it’s ended up with him in a position where he can pursue new...

So, starting today, I’ll be on vacation for a week or so. While I’m gone, you might want to check out the Six Apart Professional Network, where I do all of my weblog-related blogging these days. There should be some cool stuff posted there while I’m...

Dan Woods has a poignant lament about the end of life for his application (and labor of love) Watson. The circumstance is unfortunate, but it would be totally understandable if he said “Oh well, I got paid by Sun. So long, suckas!” Instead, he is...

These days, my moblog (called "On the Go") is better than my text blog. You might want to check it out. All the pictures are taken with my Nokia...

I’m still in the process of doing some reworking of my blog here, but if you’re interested in a lot of the blog-tech-related posts I put up on my Daily Links or want to know the latest things people are doing with Movable Type and TypePad, you should...

One of the things I’ve learned of late is that, despite being a wonderful, generous community of truly warm-hearted people, sometimes the blog world likes nothing more than a good old-fashioned pile-on. I thought about this looking at the (totally...

A answer from the morning news, who else does The Shining and Cuckoo’s Nest...

Do links detected in messages sent to Gmail accounts affect PageRank? Should they? Does PageRank even matter...

I just found an older post I’d saved as a draft nearly a year ago, and it seems even more relevant now than it was at the time. I have some additional comments, having more perspective now, but first let me share what I wrote last year: Another one...

I’m moving to San Francisco. That probably bears some explanation. As I’m sure all of you know, I work for Six Apart, which is based in the Bay Area, and they’ve been asking me for some time to make the jump to the west coast. But I love New York...

In answer to Mena’s question regarding Movable Type, asking "How are you using the tool?", I thought I’d explain a little bit about my personal setup. I have six weblogs, one of which is inactive because I used to use it to keep track of my...

Having followed a number of weblogs for half a decade now, it’s an appropriate time for me to reflect on the cultural impact they’ve had outside of our insular corner of the Internet. No, there’s no sitcom about bloggers or any major musicals based...

Since so many people are still out there hunting for jobs in this tough economy, I would like to offer a bit of advice based on an unfortunate situation that I was lucky enough to not participate in firsthand: Do not send your resume out to someone...

[Ed. Note: Today I’m lucky enough to have Danyel Smith as my guest blogger. Danyel’s a former editor at large for Time Inc. and the former editor-in-chief of Vibe, and she’s visiting my site today to promote her book More Like Wrestling. Go pick up a...

Many, perhaps most, of the people who read my site have weblogs of their own. So naturally, everyone thinks they know why people blog. But it’s important to reiterate, though it’s rarely stated, that people have different goals for their weblogs....

I’d like to see a structured web publishing tool that would let me geoencode Wikipedia entries in the same way that many blogs use GeoURL. Then, I’d want to be able to access Wikipedia’s content with a wikipedia.org/latitude/longitude format of URL,...

I spent much of Saturday bumming around with Justin. We ate and walked and took lots of pictures but mostly we talked. And we talked about personal stuff, as friends are wont to do, speaking about dating and careers and money and politics and family...

It wasn’t until well after I graduated high school that I started to understand the point of combing my hair. I had somehow gotten the idea that the purpose of combing was to push the hair on my head into different places so it looked like the hair...

The compulsion to quote and link is too strong…. Being stuck in an airport last night without connectivity, I found myself ripping the pages out of a print magazine so that I could refer to them later and quote from them. Soon I’ll resort to creating...

So, Prince is playing the Fillmore in San Francisco this weekend, two shows, and I need tickets. His online music club is supposed to hook us fans up, but I missed out on the window for buying tickets and now I am sad. Since I can’t be home in New...

There’s a subtle significance to the fact that almost all new forms of identity and communication are tied to individuals. From email to mobile phones to IM to social networking applications, a single person is the most frequent point of contact....

I keep returning to the concept that software provides an environment for creativity, and that these tools create a context for the content we create within them. What we publish is shaped by the way we publish it. The canonical example is Microsoft...

During the month of October, I spent at least two days in each of the following cities: Chicago, Toronto, Barcelona, Nice, and Munich. And in between trips I enjoyed the slow-paced, idyllic respite that is life in New York City. On Tuesday, I move my...

I’d been playing with a redesign concept a few months ago that I never got around to finishing, so I thought I’d put it up for comments from all of you, and perhaps one of you clever folks can figure out why the sidebar links move around in Internet...

Just a quick note to everybody who’s emailed. Thanks for checking in and I’m fine. I wasn’t in Manhattan when the lights went out. Daily links will resume on...

I never cease being amazed at the sheer beauty of some of the Photo Albums TypePad users are creating. Here’s one of the best...

And with that, our little system came to life. Good luck, TypePad. 🙂 (I can’t remember the last time something in my career actually gave me...

I guess it shows how busy I’ve been, but I forgot to mention that last week marked the fourth anniversary of this here website. Not counting the Daily Links on the side, I’ve posted 1,676 entries, which is a little better than one a day. I’ve made...

I’m kind of creeped out by how pervasive the weblog influence is in some circles… I had just hopped on a plane the other morning and was settling in when the guy next to me pulled his book out of his bag and I noticed that it was Google Hacks. I...

Another minor milestone for me is the new TypePad beta badges that are popping up. It’s really exciting to see people connecting with each other through the service already! You can grab the graphic and put it into a links TypeList to put it on your...

Officially, of course, I can’t condone people being TypePad snobs. But off the record, well… I can’t blame ’em....

I love the design and colors on this garden...

You know, back when AltaVista was a big deal for DEC, I figured it was going to kill Yahoo, since Yahoo only had a directory and AV had full-text indexes of huge numbers of pages. Sure, AV hasn’t kept its former glory, but it’s still a damned good...

Okay, seriously folks, you know I love you, but I do not have an in for getting you on the TypePad beta. It’s out of my hands. What I will tell you is that you have to sign up if you want to be considered. And you’ll have to fill out a survey. No...

Another one of our milestones whizzes by. As of today, TypePad websites are visible to the public. I can’t wait to see what everyone...

I’m very fortunate to get the chance to go around and talk to people who helped create the tools that have shaped the weblog medium, and so I tend to notice trends in the way we’re all talking about weblogs. One of the recurring ideas that I’ve seen...

One of the small pleasures of having one’s own weblog is that it’s easy to add context or background information when you’re quoted in a press story that you feel is incomplete. I think last week when InternetNews ran the story "Google Toolbar...

It seems, as in yearspast, an annual summer tradition has returned to Manhattan. No better way to celebrate the end of the Month of Rain than with this sartorial tribute to our sweltering...

A couple of years ago, I was musing about how miserable an experience it is to trudge around in giant warehouse-style retail outlets with their concrete floors and gloomy aisles: Large, warehouse retail environments are damned unfriendly… nearly all...

James has some great thoughts on weblogging as his first post on...

boy, i sure don’t understand trackback. what is it with that stupid protocol? you guys should all be fired. when are you going to release a PHP...

If you’re in New York City and you’ve got time tonight, please do come by and check out the Ecommerce SIG‘s panel discussion on "Intro to Business Blogs". We’ve got a great roster of speakers, it’s easy to get to at IBM’s midtown offices,...

Ladies and gentlemen, Scott Andrew must be...

At the weblog business conference that I’m at, Liz just said that she and Nick are frequently pitched by media companies that want permanent links on the sidebar of Gawker. She explained that they haven’t changed those links very often because of the...

One of the best things about my job is that I get to go to conferences, meet interesting people, and then watch all their wifi-enabled laptops’ screens turn blue-and-gray as they all log into their Movable Type screens so they can blog the...

I am off to the weblogs in business conference. I will have to tear some shit up! TypePad gonna whoop ass! Woo! Then, afterwards, I will do my best to undermine...

I’m headed off to the Big Apple Blogger Bash. If you’re in New York City, c’mon by and I’ll see you...

I noticed this sign in front of a camera shop here in Manhattan a few weeks ago and remembered to take a picture of it the last time I walked by. "Digital Cameras Can Cause Blindness". It’s of course a not-very-funny joke from a shop that...

Even though I’ve got a great job now, not everything is perfect about the gig. For example, I’ve been insisting to anyone who’d listen for the past few months that our company’s esteemed co-founders aren’t actually husband and wife, but are siblings....

A few weeks ago, I had started an entry with the phrase, "Though I work in the weblog industry…" and I had done so mainly as a tongue-in-cheek joke about how seriously the blogosphere takes itself. I was talking to Matt a few days later and...

I’m off to SF for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on Tuesday. I’m going against the grain this year by taking my laptop along, “blogging” in “realtime”, and taking digital photos of people. If there’s a box, I am out of it. If you’re...

About two weeks ago, I did a panel at SXSW with a coupleoffriends, and the topic was the future of personal publishing. There were a handful of points that I keep coming back to in regard to the future of weblogs, and they’re all based around the...

After noticing that both David and Doc were having trouble understanding TrackBack, I tried to write up a brief explanation, as I understand it, of how the protocol works. Since it was of use to them, I thought I’d repost it for any others who remain...

My, you’re all a sensitive bunch! I wrote a little ha-ha peevish thing yesterday and now everyone thinks I’m mad. This is what I do for fun, kids. Since everyone’s having trouble reading my feelings, I am going to have to resort to emoticons. They’re...

Well, if it’s time for me to be away at SXSW again, then that must mean I make up for my lack of updates by reposting the Panda Joke for the fourth (!) year in a row: A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the...

Go take a look at Project Blogger. It’s a service being run by Richards Interactive, designed for marketing products by weblogs and to webloggers. They were apparently involved in the weblogs launched by Nokia, and have since branched out into a new...

Though I work in the weblog industry and preach the gospel all day, I realize that this new medium isn’t really a utopia. Indeed, it’s just new. But there are some parts of having a weblog that really do make writers seem more human, more real. The...

Has anyone created an IMAP view for weblog posts yet? What about an IMAP-to-metaweblogAPI plugin? I want the option of seeing my posts in a standard IMAP client. I’ll just sit here tapping my foot impatiently while you build...

If you’re using a Google API with your weblog system, like the MTGoogleSearch tags for Movable Type or google.macros.box for Radio Userland, you might wish to re-read this section of the Google Web APIs Terms of Service: And you may not use the...

DID YOU KNOW? One of the easiest ways to tell just how bad the Wall Street Journal sucks as a newspaper is because, despite its name, it reads like it was written and created in Washington, D.C. I can offer you no more damning assessment than...

Back in the mid-90s, as those of you who’ve seen "Behind the Music" will recall, M.C. Hammer went through a short phase where he was signed to Death Row Records and marketed as something of a gangsta. Since Hammer couldn’t legitimately...

Well, it’s that time of year again, and late winter can only mean one thing: The impending return of the KICK! kickball game, the unofficial start to the SXSW Interactive Festival’s activities. Last year was the first year for the game, and the...

I should probably clarify some points. I’ve been linked to a lot as the requisite naysayer voice about the Google/Pyra deal, and that wasn’t my intention in my post at all. I unequivocally think that Pyra making this deal is a good idea for them. And...

Prompted by some questions that people have asked me, I thought I’d throw out some statistics about my daily links. I’ve been doing them for about five months, and there are a total of (as I write this) 2078 links. That works out to about 415 a...

It seems like the next big piece of weblog news is going to be about Six Apart buying a fax machine. Though I guess they’re to be commended for their brave step into legacy technology integration, I’m fairly sure that this isn’t a very important...

There’s been an awful lot of talk about power laws and weblogs recently, complete with charts and graphs, and, if I’m not mistaken, some sort of calculus is involved. Well, that’s all well and good. But really the question that motivates everyone to...

This is stupid. A while back, it was discovered that the U.S. government’s registration site for .mil domain names was wide open, making it possible for anyone to register a name that appeared to be controlled by the U.S. military. Now they’ve found...

I don’t think it’s coincidence that most of the people who don’t understand the drive to protect rights of fair use and to limit the absue of copyright aren’t hip hop fans. We’re influenced by the cultures that we participate...

So, we all know that diamonds are intrinsically worthless stones whose popularity and value are a recent creation, the result of a concerted marketing efffort by a monopolist cartel whose control on its market makes Microsoft look like amateurs. And...

Don’t be suckered in by the non-news of the CBS MarketWatch story on AOL providing weblogs to its users. This is a rehash of the weeks-old Rick Robinson interview that Mark Hurst did. Robinson didn’t commit to any weblogging tools being released by...

Hello, CNET Radio listeners. If you’re just learning about weblogs, you might be interested to read some recommendations I made a while back. Otherwise, just poke around here and see how long you can stand reading me talk about...

I have a radical proposal for a ubiqitous content syndication format, applicable for almost any purpose, but extremely well suited for weblogs. It’s extremely simple to implement, either by software or by hand, works already in millions of clients...

Since I work at a newspaper, I try to scan the headlines from time to time to find stories that are newsworthy enough for us to link to. Every once in a while, though, I find a headline that gives me pause. Like this one, from Reuters: Secret Court...

I would think there’s some money for unemployed writers in proofing the text of the Nigerian 419 scams. Given how they’re so incomprehensible right now, better writing would only serve to improve their response...

I’ve been asked a lot, recently, to comment on the value of weblogs and to explain why I evangelize them as a communication tool. I tend to focus on the literal, quantifiable benefits, since weblogs are fast and easy and work better than any other...

Someone’s been spamming comment forms on weblogs with an Amazon affiliate link to Meg, Matt and Paul’s book, "We Blog". You can see examples here, here, here and here. I noticed a lot of these links posted in response to posts about the...

Just in time for a Halloween scare, a new piece in magazine, Microsoft’s Weblog Software. Your feedback is...

Post-Hack Update Blogger’s completely back up, including bStats and the API. It seems (again, I don’t work for Pyra, but I’ve had information confirmed by Ev) that the vulnerability was was really only severe during the hour or so that Blogger was...

Hey, everyone, it’s my last post on all this foolishness. I’d like to get back to the fun stuff. First, a tremendous thank you to everyone who’s emailed, linked or IMed me in the last few days. I’ve learned a lot and am quite pleased overall with the...

There’s a unique character to kids who live in Manhattan, something that distinguishes them, beyond the obvious images of necks craned upwards at impossibly tall buildings, or splay-limbed sprints down endless miles of sidewalk. I think it’s that...

A scant three months later than I intended, today I launch my newest project: magazine. It’s an idea that I’ve been refining for almost a year, but I didn’t really make the big push until the last few weeks to launch the site. What it’s designed to...

There’s a few things we’ve been too polite to point out to you, but it’s time to set a few things straight. I would like you to know that idiotarian is not a word. Yes, I recognize that English is a living, evolving language, where additions are made...

Naturally, I’ve got a couple of blank CD-RWs lying around, but I only like to use CD-Rs. So let’s make it interesting: everybody post the cheapest price (you can post rebate or non-rebate prices, but I’m partial to not having to send things in) for...

Congratulations to Ben and Mena on Movable Type‘s one year anniversary and the release of MT 2.5. Amazing that they’ve gone in one year from launching a product to having more features than any of their competitors, all from just two people’s...

We get the best random emails to the webmaster account at work. Today’s: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:49 PM To: Webmaster Subject: comment I plan to visit NYC in the next two-three weeks.(havent been there in 3 years). Are women wearing black...

I thought it might be nice to take some time to commend some personal websites that I enjoy. I put categories on them for the sake of simplicity. This is just an off-the-top-of-my-head list, and I omitted, either deliberately or unintentionally, a...

One wouldn’t think it possible, but today, someone we know discovered CSS’s a:hover class, which lets you change the color of a link, or worse, its background, when you point at it. We eagerly anticipate the upcoming discovery and usage of the...

Given what we know about the criminality of many of those involved in the worldwide diamond market, can we start throwing red paint on people wearing diamonds? I think that’d be even more fun than painting the fur-wearers with fake...

Headlines we’d see, if the world were fair: Post-Mortem: The Dirt on Neal...

Nick‘s finally announced Gizmodo, a geek-toy weblog written by Peter Rojas. And, yeah, Pete’s getting paid to do it. I’ve been watching the content evolve and the links pour in for a few weeks now, and I think that the site is interesting. Will it be...

A Network World story entitled Blogs finding fans in business world alleges that Phillip Windley, Utah’s state CIO, is testing weblogs in a business environment. I’m a little skeptical of that claim, given the significant differences between state...

Amazon’s Gold Box seems to have a new splash screen explaining the concept. Might be time to start a Gold Box blog. Is there a weblog for Amazon developments, like the API and...

The wily folks at Traction have positioned their new enterprise content management system as weblog software. I’m a strong believer that weblogs are a natural format for knowledge management, especially within the firewall, but this just seems to be...

Dan Bricklin weighs in on Small Business...

Meg makes the arugment in Blogging for Dollars that the weblog world needs professionally paid webloggers in order to advance past the labor-of-love ghetto: "The idea here is to find an enthusiast, empower them, and fund them." She’s...

I’m redoing my about page, and I’ll be adding a reference to some of the sites where I’ve helped people with standards compliance or style sheets. I haven’t kept track of names, though, so please do me a favor and leave a comment with the name of...

Ben and Mena are doing a survey of Movable Type users to get information about how they use the system and how many there...

Trellix’s deal with Pyra has finally borne fruit. I posted a summary and analysis over on BlogRoots, and I’ll follow up with some opinion...