Pinboard: bookmarks for McChris tagged 'blog'

"Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want."

blog MySQL useful GPL CMS
february 2008 by McChris

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White Whine

This blog lists a new "white person complaint" each day of the week.

blog humor whiteness technology
january 2008 by McChris

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Suck.com Archive

I've been looking for old Suck columns, but suck.com is content-free. Fortunately Aaron Schwartz has a mirror of the old articles.

archive history blog awesome
january 2008 by McChris

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Bike Snob NYC

This blog has made me love blogs again.

blog cycling humor NYC hipsters
december 2007 by McChris

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NPR: Monitor Mix

Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein is now blogging at NPR's new music portal. It strikes me as a little awkward when NPR tries to get hip like this, but I imagine Sleater-Kinney is now sufficiently middlebrow to fit in with the NPR set.

blog indie music NPR indierock
november 2007 by McChris

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Army Reports Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security

A study shows official Army websites are more apt to reveal sensitive information than soldier blogs. One motivation may be that soldiers in the field have their own safety at stake, discouraging them from revealing too much.

blog military Iraq irony UGC war
august 2007 by McChris

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blueprintcss

This CSS framework supposedly makes it easy to create nice grid layouts.

blog webdesign design CSS
august 2007 by McChris

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Twitter is all about Maslovian love

A blogger suggests that most Tweets deal with Maslovian needs; twits tweet about their survival.

navel-gazing psychology blog Twitter
may 2007 by McChris

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MediaShift: What Are You Doing? Doing More Than Just Twittering Our Lives Away

Check out the comments about Twitter farms at the bottom.

blog Web2.0 Twitter
may 2007 by McChris

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Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger

Jason Kottke graphs the number of messages between Blogger and Twitter early in their growth, and concludes that Twitter's growth far surpasses Blogger's. I'm not sure this is an apples-to-apples comparison.

blog Web2.0 Twitter
may 2007 by McChris

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fortuitous

Matt Haughey's new blog has business information for Webby freelancers and entrepreneurs. I dig the fixed-gradient thing at the bottom.

blog business Web2.0
may 2007 by McChris

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City Journal: The Media Cornucopia by Adam D. Thierer

This essay argues that the diversity of media available today negates any worries about media consolidation.

media blog politicaleconomy
april 2007 by McChris

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O'Reilly Radar: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct

Tim O'Reilly calls for a blogger's code in response to the harassment of Kathy Sierra. The problem is that trolls and griefers aren't going to follow the rules.

blog ethics surveillance
april 2007 by McChris

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Cat Holocaust

Neal Pollack offers a very touching account of how his wife's cat Teacake died from eating the tainted pet food now under recall. He goes on to suggest that economics and administration are responsible for these pet deaths.

blog economics publicpolicy
march 2007 by McChris

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Escapable Logic: The People Law trumps the Power Law

From Weblogsky comes this interesting discussion of social media audiences that attempts to erode the importance of the idea of "power laws."

blog longtail audience
march 2007 by McChris

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CJR: How TalkingPointsMemo Beat the Big Boys on the U.S. Attorney Story

Columbia Journalism Review examines how TalkingPointsMemo was able to once again push a story into the mainstream media. I was surprised to hear the US Attorney firings on cable news, after I had been reading it on TPM for so long.

journalism politics blog
march 2007 by McChris

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Wingnut blogging lynch mob strikes again!: Where's the Fire?

After landing a job with the Edwards campaign, Austin blogger Amanda Marcotte was forced out by pressure from religious conservatives.

blog politics austin
february 2007 by McChris

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Blogumentary on Google Video
blog documentary video
february 2007 by McChris

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How to set up reBlog - killer server side feed reader

I used to use reBlog, but I haven't been able to get later versions to work. Maybe Matt Haughey's documentation will help.

rss blog useful
january 2007 by McChris

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Optimal OPML Browser & WordPress Plugin
WordPress blog rss useful
january 2007 by McChris

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Geert Lovink: Blogging, the nihilist impulse

"Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model."

blog philosophy
january 2007 by McChris

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Media Threat

This NY Press story suggests Web 2.0 projects will replace the professional media. I thought blogs were going to do that.

Web2.0 wiki blog
december 2006 by McChris

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“Rebunking” the Lebanese ambulance story

Right-wing bloggers have suggested that the Israeli attack on a Lebanese ambulance was a hoax. While the bloggers stayed home and performed textual analysis on photographs, Human Rights Watch went to Lebanon and concluded there was an Israeli attack.

epistemology blog israel thereal war
december 2006 by McChris

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Gear Factor: Hack Gawker With Your Own Message!

A web-based form that allows you to exploit a hole in the Gawker CMS and create your own posts.

hack blog cruel
december 2006 by McChris

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Filosofo Home-Page Control

This WordPress plugin buries the blog features, making it more of a real content-management system.

WordPress CMS blog Web_publishing useful
december 2006 by McChris

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SimpleBits: Styling Nested Lists

Oh, so straightforward, but so non-obvious...

CSS webdesign blog useful
november 2006 by McChris

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BusinessWeek: Don't I Know You from the Internet?

Blog Barbie doll Amanda Congdon has parlayed her Rocketboom fame into a gig "at one of the three major television networks."

TVontheWeb podcasting blog news whatever
october 2006 by McChris

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Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Citizen Journalism

MediaShift has a lightweight overview of what Dan Gillmor calls "citizen media." I'm teaching a class on what media studies folks call alternative media, and this would have been nice to have at the start of the semester.

citizensmedia journalism blog indymedia useful wiki
september 2006 by McChris

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Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Web Archive

Archive.org has cached millions of websites related to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. They're the folks responsible for the Wayback Machine, so they would probably be caching this information anyway, but it's nice they have the Katrina gateway.

archive disaster history blog news
august 2006 by McChris

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Design Observer: The Ovalization of The American Mind

I'm surprised this article never mentions the rounded corners used in many Web 2.0 designs, since it argues that American design has transitioned to smooth curves from the tight boxes of the 20th century.

design blog
august 2006 by McChris

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About the Emergency Blogcasting System

"The Emergency Blogcasting System is an association of Austin-area weblog authors who will respond to a regional disaster with communication and citizen reporting enabled through blogging." hmmm, I presume these are disasters that leave the local internet

blog disaster austin citizensmedia
august 2006 by McChris

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"I Started a Blog Nobody Read" by The Sprites

Via Waxy, this song sounds like a Rentals out-take, but the lyrics pretty much nail it.

mp3 blog music indierock audience
august 2006 by McChris

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Not Coming to a Theater Near You

This blog-like site has features about movies that won't be in wide distribution and capsule reviews of forgotten chestnuts.

film review video distribution blog
august 2006 by McChris

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Rabbit's Eternal Truths of the Workplace

Scroll down for Heather Havrilesky's demystification of office culture. Take that Mary Tyler Moore!

labor humor blog
august 2006 by McChris

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On Massively Multiplayer Propoganda...

Tom Coates calls the application Give Israel Your United Support "a really troubling kind of troll-supporting political malware, representing a technologically-empowered massively-distributed form of propoganda that I've never seen before." Read the whole

blog israel astroturf politics war
august 2006 by McChris

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AlterNet: Blog Menace

Security expert Bob Auger contends that RSS feeds can be used to spread malware, even through Web-based newsreaders like Bloglines.

security rss blog
august 2006 by McChris

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Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism

"So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?" Thanks for articulating this, Mr. Steven Berlin Johnson; now let's move on to wikis and Wikipedia.

blog journalism citizensmedia thereal
august 2006 by McChris

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Can Blogging Derail Your Career?

Siva Vaidhyanathan discusses Juan Cole's role as a blogging academic and the controversies that surround him. It's nice to see The Chronicle run a piece favorable to blogging.

academic blog politics power publicsphere
july 2006 by McChris

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Can Creative Commons and Commercial Aggregators learn to play nice?

Ethan Zuckerman raises some important questions about enforcing Creative Commons licenses, particularly the Share-Alike licenses.

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Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web

Via Kottke, this story suggests that Georgia is back in a big way. I'd suggest its popularity is due to the fact that it and Times New Roman are the two serif fonts you can expect users to have. And Times is kind of ugly.

typography webdesign font blog
july 2006 by McChris

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Mr. Stevens' wild ride, through a "series of tubes"

Nice chronology of the online response to Alaska Senator Ted Steven's speech comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes." If they had only used that Ajax framework used in the JFK timeline, my life would be complete.

history meme publicpolicy networkneutrality blog
july 2006 by McChris

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Rocketboom Drama::Is Amanda Congdon Replaceable?

More analysis of the Rocketboom dustup. Although I only watched the vlog a few times, this is pretty interesting.

TVontheWeb business blog hype
july 2006 by McChris

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Digging Deeper::Your Guide to RSS

This is a decent overview of RSS for newcomers. I wish they didn't use the word "syndication" so much, since the value to most end-uses is monitoring blogs, not re-using content.

blog metadata rss
july 2006 by McChris

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Guidelines for Austin Bloggers Metablog Postings

Props to Chip for formallizing the norms of the site. I'm a little tired of reading conspiracy theories about what gets pulled from the metablog. Hopefully this will make things a little more clear.

austin blog localism
july 2006 by McChris

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Public radio and reciprocity

Ethan Zuckerman says "citizen’s media isn’t fairy dust that you can sprinkle on an existing program and make it magically interactive, bloggy and web2.0 compliant. "

NPR radio Web2.0 blog citizensmedia
july 2006 by McChris

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Defending Markos And the Discourse Revolution

Juan Cole's take on the political establishment's increasingly strident criticism of blogs like Daily Kos. There's not that much new here, but it's worth reading nonetheless.

blog politics power media
june 2006 by McChris

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Madison, Not London

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats' take on the new Dr. Octagon album. I've been listening to the old one a lot lately, and I had no idea a new one was coming out!

music hip-hop blog weird
june 2006 by McChris

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Unpacking My Library: The Perils of the Blogging Academic?

Chris Anderson of NY IMC and Columbia University has a thoughtful post responding to Yale's decision not to hire power-blogging professor Juan Cole after Zionist and right-wing pressure groups fought the departments' decision to hire Cole.

academic blog power politics
june 2006 by McChris

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LiveJournal tells lactating mums to put 'em away | The Register

Lactivists are in an uproar over LJ's banning of breastfeeding icons.

feminism blog stupid
june 2006 by McChris

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IndieKarma. Micropayments that work?

Kottke discusses a new micropayment system that requires very little end-user intervention. If some of my favorite Web comics used this, I'd probably sign up.

blog comics citizensmedia micropayment
may 2006 by McChris

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My Talk at Startup School

Tim O'Reilly describes his process for anticipating technological trends.

blog Web2.0
april 2006 by McChris

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WRT: Wordpress Plugin for Academic Citations

This plugin spits out nearly every conceivable citation format for each blog entry. What I really need, however, is a bookmarklet that generates citations of pages I dig up.

useful blog semantic_web academic
april 2006 by McChris

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MySpace Ruins Lives :: Dot Com

forum for complaining about MySpace.

yasns blog myspace
april 2006 by McChris

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Rip It Up & Start Again: PostPunk 1978-1984

Online, in-process footnotes for the Simon Reynolds book. It should have an RSS feed.

music blog DIY history punk
april 2006 by McChris

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CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs

CIA now uses blogs to get public opinion data.

politics power blog surveillance
april 2006 by McChris

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Greater Democracy: A post for Daily Kos

An account of the intersection of social software and mainstream politics during the 2004 elections.

Web2.0 blog politics
april 2006 by McChris

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Web2.0 List, Web 2.0 Site

Via, O'Reilly Radar, an index of Web 2.0 companies and projects

ajax blog media business opensource Web2.0
april 2006 by McChris

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Userscripts.org: Bloglines - Post to Del.icio.us

Greasemonkey script that adds a "post to del.icio.us" button to entries viewed in Bloglines. Works pretty well.

del.icio.us greasemonkey blog useful
april 2006 by McChris

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Unpacking My Library: Lexis Nexis to Add Blogs

The venerable database service is adding blogs to the content it hosts, adding a whole new level to blog metrification.

blog news journalism archive
april 2006 by McChris

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Web 2.0 and the web serf

A Tripod co-founder makes some insightful comments about the business models of Web 2.0 companies that rely on user-generated content, saying "The community, not the data, provides the lock-in."

Web2.0 blog commodification production business
april 2006 by McChris

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The State of Web 2.0

Realistic assessment of the Web 2.0 responding to critics of the Web 2.0 hype. It includes a nice diagram explaining how peer production fits with the technology.

Web2.0 business myspace blog
april 2006 by McChris

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Clooney Takes Aim at 'Gawker Stalker' Site

George Clooney plans to crapflood Gawker to make it's celebrity sightings useless. Interesting instance of a breakdown of trust on the semantic Web. :)

blog surveillance media celebrity
april 2006 by McChris

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OhGizmo! » Airing Dirty Laundry: Engadget’s Exclusionist Tactics Are NOT An Isolated Incident

Interesting blog post alleging the AOL-owned gadget blog Engadget has a "blacklist." If a blacklisted blog breaks a gadget story, Engadget editors will hold off on publishing until a non-blacklisted site reports the same story.

power blog ethics business co-optation news
march 2006 by McChris

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The Best Worst Movie of the Year

Background on _Snakes on a Plane_.

film camp cheese blog meme
march 2006 by McChris

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blah - i hate web 2.0

Somewhat sexist blog post attempting to deflate all of the Web 2.0 hype.

Web2.0 gender ajax blog
march 2006 by McChris

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The Lyceum Project

WordPress derivative that can scale up to thousands of blogs