mowabb: meta-bloggingWhat is it and why do we do it?Home Improvement- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Testing Radio's Weblog Neighborhood feature -- virtual home improvement.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/06/03.html#a284 Wallace Wallace Everywhere- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Check out Eschaton, a lefty blog named after one of the minor subplots in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Great book, good blog. via Altercationhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/06/03.html#a283 Secrets, Lies, and Speculation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This weblog gets a few hits once in a while, and a few weeks ago it got quite a lot of traffic, mostly focused on the subject of backlinks. However, none of the traffic lasts, and it has never translated into what appear to be "regular" readers (unless people are subscribing to the RSS feed, in which case I wouldn't know they were reading, right). At any rate, I've long suspected that I won't get a lot of readers so long as I continue to express sentiments like "McKinney's Prescience". These...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/06/02.html#a277 Rocking Politics- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Although he's never been hugely popular here in the U.S., I really do think Billy Bragg is one of the greatest songwriters of the last 20 years. Most people know him from his collaboration with Wilco on the Woody Guthrie archive material that comprised the "Mermaid Avenue" volumes, but Bragg put out about a dozen discs on his own before that. The Nation is currently running a terrific interview with Bragg in which he comments on global justice and why the AFL-CIO should sponsor free rock...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/06/02.html#a276 Altercation Launches- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Hard to believe, but Eric Alterman is now blogging for MSNBC.com. Interesting comments on the role of editors for writers. I agree -- we all could benefit from an editor, but is a blog with an editor actually a blog Aren't bloggers their own editors Isn't that part of the point Whatever. Alterman says his page should be at altercation.msnbc.com, but so far, that URL is not really live.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/22.html#a237 |