America's War With Blogistan

Wired revisits Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the growing influence of blogging, with a possible free plug to Xian<
Wired> A violent squall sprang up in Blogistan earlier this year over comments made by a wonkish blogger named Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the Daily Kos. He typed something impolitic about four contractors in Falluja, Iraq, whose charred, mutilated corpses made for a perverse photo-op on the front page of The New York Times, as well as leading the news on CNN. The dead men weren't there on orders, Moulitsas, a military vet, pointed out. They weren't there to rebuild Iraq. "They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them." read more>

July 07, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A new social scene

Another teen does blog piece from a publication that should do better. If only they were around when I was younger....
SiliconValley.com>Seventeen-year-old Patrick Ly was so smitten with a certain classmate that he would visit an Internet blogging site to read his crush's musings. Then Patrick began to keep an online journal himself. He chronicled his day, wrote about friends and related how he was feeling. And one day last September, he used the blog to announce to readers that he is gay. read more>

July 06, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Kerry-Edwards official

Rather than continue to read the speculation I'll try to be amongst the first to break it: Its official Edwards is Kerry's running mate, in an email to supporters today:
"In just a few minutes, I will announce that Senator John Edwards will join me as my running-mate on the Democratic ticket as a candidate for vice president of the United States. Teresa and I could not be more excited that John and Elizabeth Edwards will be our partners in our journey to make America stronger at home and respected in the world. "
And as I write this its not even on the Kerry website yet!

July 06, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The blogging cover-up

Interesting commentary asking whether bloggers with political credentials can or will be compromised.
News.com>Web logs have done more to spark opinion-sharing than anything since the creation of the Internet. But is this new vehicle of unconstrained expression fated to come under the thumb of the powers that be? read more>

July 05, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Switch...

"Switch" is coming.... and its not to late to help: email editor@blogherald.com with your MT Switch tale.

June 02, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Wanted: people who have stopped using MT

Duncan Riley> our first wanted ad! I'm putting together a little project yet to be officially named (and I'm not giving away too many hints at this stage) and I’m looking for people who have stopped using MT for blogging and are now using other stand alone blogging platforms, such as WordPress, PMachine and similar.
I'm no Denton or Calacanis, so there's no pot of money for contributing, only the glory of free promotion and seeing your words and face on a new website. I need your story about changing, the positives, and preferably a picture of yourselves, and naturally your blogs details. Your content may be shortened or used in extract when published but your words will not be changed, and each story published will include a link to your blog. So start writing, tentative launch date is 2 weeks so start sending them to editor@blogherald.com. Also anybody wishing to contribute tech guides or review guides on non MT blogging platforms I'd like to here from you!
cheers
Duncan.

May 27, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)

Questions for Gawker Media Publisher Nick Denton

CLickz Q&A; profiles Nick Denton
Clickz> "....Blogs will get their fair share of Internet advertising, and probably more than that, because they attract a particularly influential audience. But the reason I've been skeptical is because blogs are still in their infancy. Drudge Report alone probably gets more traffic than all the top 100 blogs put together. Web properties such as Daily Candy and Flavorpill have done a much better job so far of packaging up an audience for advertisers. So everyone should just cool it, produce great entertainment, and let compound growth work its magic. Marketers are much more impressed by numbers than by hype..."
read full article>

July 07, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sun's Schwartz Ponders Blogging

eWeek> The president of Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking at ways to express his views and thoughts on certain things to the public, quite possibly in a Weblog, he said Monday. Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, said he is seriously considering maintaining his own blog to communicate with the public regarding Java, Sun and other issues. read more>

June 30, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AP to Launch Its First Blogs at Pol Conventions

Editor & Publisher> The Associated Press will launch its first Web log at the political conventions in Boston and New York, utilizing Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Walter R. Mears, AP officials announced Monday. "We like to try new things at the conventions because we have such a large staff in one place," AP's Washington bureau chief, Sandy Johnson, said in a release. read more>

June 29, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

OSX Server to include Blog server

News from Apple that they are serious about serving the blog hosting community with a preview of the OSX Server v10.4 (Tiger) at the Apple site listing the following:
"A new Weblog server in Tiger Server makes it easy to publish, distribute and syndicate web-based content. The Weblog server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable themes, is fully compatible with Safari RSS and enables posting entries using built-in web-based functionality or with weblog clients that support XML-RPC or the ATOM API. The Weblog Server, based on the popular open source project “Blojsom,” works with Open Directory for user accounts and authentication"

June 29, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Lycos Launches free Tripod Moblogging: may start price war

Terra Lycos today launched new enhanced free features to its Blog Builder™ tool taking the Lycos Blog Builder to the next level and potentially making it a threat to some of the more established blog providers.

The new enhancements include free moblogging, new digital media uploading tools to allow the easy addition of photos, video and audio to blogs, all with the release of previously paid features to free members, including spell check, community blogs and advanced customization.

June 29, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

What not to do when switching OS

Never let it be said that as editor of this blog, I am unable to make fun of myself!. Before leaving MT for greener pastures I decided to abandon Winblows and join the Linux world, something Ive been experimenting with and pondering for 2 years. Managed to get my documents saved with all my page templates but Email! Nope: backed up the pst file but forgot to burn it prior to reformatting the hard disk (or HDA as its now referred to) to install Mandrake Linux 10. So if you´ve sent me an email and I haven´t responded my apologies, as the last 7 years of emails where lost in one foul swoop: the moral of the story is not back up your email, it is Windows blows :-)
Postscript: After 5 wasted days and years of lost email Ive gone back to Windows. Have you ever tried installing software under Linux? Still a good few years off becoming a viable alternative.

June 11, 2004 Permalink Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)