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Charles Montgomery Burns Blogging Award

Almost a year ago, the excellent India Ink was tagged for excellence in blogging, an award she rebranded as the Charles Montgomery Burns Award. Mr. Burns is the…

Tips for writers who blog

The resourceful C.M. Mayo — a Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction winner, the author or editor of several books, and founding editor of the bilingual chapbook series…

Mr. and Mrs. Right Reading at home

Just hanging out on President’s Day. from the New Yorker, February 11th & 18th, 2008 .

An e-book from blog archives

Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce a free e-book, called Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance. He explains: Whenever I…

Policy statement

It has become necessary for me to articulate policies that will be posted on my blogs. Outright spam is straightforward to deal with, but here and elsewhere I…

Extended Live Archives and WordPress 2.3

The Extended Live Archives plug-in for WordPress that I mentioned in a previous post is not compatible with WP 2.3, because the WP file structure was changed to…

Controlled chaos and blog journalism

El Blogador at Inner Diablog (whose interesting posts I often consult in the context of my Buried Mirror research) cites Samuel Pepys and Jean Baudrillard as models for…

Extended Live Archives | One year ago

ELA seems to be a pretty good WordPress plugin. I’ve never had an archives link on my blogs, because I don’t think it’s of much interest to most…

Blog tours for book marketing

If I was still doing trade book publishing I would recommend to my authors that they try blog touring. Conventional book tours have their place, especially for developing…

Labor Day

My sites are closed today for Labor Day (and besides, all except Frisco Vista are moving to a new server. Nothing should change for visitors, but it means…

End of month companion sites round-up

I’ve been a little under the weather, and I haven’t been able to keep up very well with e-mails and comments. I hope to rebound and get caught…

Companion Sites Roundup

Another end-of-month roundup of what’s going down at the sister sites. FRISCO VISTA Virgin Airlines Tu Lan Wildlife uprising, part 3 Secret List of Buildings You Can’t Photograph…

Splinters Revisited

Previously I wrote about how I had segmented off my Northern Californiana and Mesoamerica material into separate blogs (Frisco Vista and Buried Mirror respectively). This blog is focusing…

Book Reviews in Blogs and Newspapers

Joe Wilkert makes some good points about book reviewing on his Publishing 2020 blog. Why do so many people like reading the reviews of books on Amazon.com? I…

Strange Maps

Swiss Miss called my attention to this excellent blog called “Strange Maps.” Many of the maps aren’t really strange, but almost all are interesting. Shown is Jack Kerouac’s…

Nofollow

Since getting back from the Yucatan I’ve been trying to catch up on my feeds. While I was gone a lot of SEO types were posting about nofollow…

How to Disable Snap Link Previews

You’ve seen them — the annoying little bits of bling, as Nick Wilson aptly characterized them — that pop up a little thumbnail of the page a link…

Testing Goodwidgets Photo Stack

I coughed up my two bucks for the pro version of GoodWidget (Stack), and it works great, except I think you need to pay per stack (you can…

NoFollow revisited

Wikipedia announced recently that it is going back to adding the “nofollow” attribute to its outbound links in an attempt to keep people from gaming the system to…

MyBlogLog, yes or no?

Yahoo recently purchased MyBlogLog for $10 million. Some blogs I read have been touting the service. The idea, I guess, is to put a face to the sometimes…

Eight New Blog Features

Some readers might have noticed that I’ve added a few new features to the blog. Specifically (starting with left sidebar and proceeding to right sidebar): Flickr badge. The…

Packaged Goods Media versus Conversational Media

That’s the distinction John Battelle makes in an interesting piece. The “pillars” of PGM, he says, are Ownership or control of Intellectual Property by the corporation. Ownership or…

Famous Last Words

I should finish up the press check I’m on tomorrow and have Thursday free, or maybe I’ll just proof the cover on Thursday morning. God, I hope so….

Rightreading feeds have changed

Well, somewhat. I’m now using this blog feed (http://www.rightreading.com/feed/) as the main feed for the entire site, since any most new features are announced here. There’s a feedburner…