Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and dis...

You might have noticed, it’s not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you’re trying to do journalism. The years-long drumbeat of ba...

It has been a full generation since the last time I can remember the definitive, most credible perspectives on a major tech news story happening across multipl...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of this blog. I thought the best way to observe the milestone, and to try to pass along some of the benefits I’ve gained...

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be made out of countless l...

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have...

There’s been precious little documentation of the real cultural impact that the social web has had, particularly in its earliest years. So it’s exciting when p...

This summer marked 15 years since I first started blogging here, and I’m happier than ever that I’ve chosen to live so much of my life in this place, with all...

We don’t do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren’t just guttural, reflexive responses! Th...

First, some disclaimers: I’m writing this as I sit a few feet away from Medium’s NYC team. (I even asked them for tech support while writing this!) Ev Williams...

Seven years ago, my wife Alaina Browne and I were living happily in San Francisco when she went off to NYC to visit with our friends and attend a party. By t...

I lament the end of the personal CMS market; I was happy to back Ghost on Kickstarter today for the same reason that I back pretty much any effort at making...

Congrats to Matt Mullenweg on ten years of blogging . I say it half-jokingly every time someone I know observes the decade anniversary of their blogging, but...

First, a bit of background: Blogger , Google’s venerable and pioneering blogging service was created in 1999 by a small team at Pyra Labs, as an offshoot of t...

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a piece called if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen , about how your thoughts, ideas and conversations need a place...

Hmm, lots of interesting responses to If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault , and even more interesting conversation about the topic of commenti...

A few months ago, I introduced a blogroll on my site , making me probably the first person in more than half a decade to get excited about a blogroll. But my...

By request , a bit of explanation of how and why I favorite things on the internet. (Or favor them. Or like them. Whatever.) First, where do I favorite? On...

It’s really gratifying to get to ruminate on things here on my blog and see echoes of those ideas the great work that other people do. Some recent bits of grat...

Great news for the web today, some of the smartest folks I know are doing what they do best: Making the web better. Take Paul Ford’s thoughts on “ Why Wasn...

Clive Thompson’s newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other...

I love blogs. Nick Denton wrote over on Lifehacker about the pending redesign of Gawker’s blogs, with a lot of great insights into the leading edge of web pu...

Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politi...

As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to...

Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature , Rafe Colburn offers up The cu...

I stopped working at Six Apart over a year ago. At the time, I didn’t blog about it because the departure was completely amicable and I knew I wasn’t sure what...

As I write this, the Twittersphere is going through its annual love/hate paroxysms about TED . Every year, the conference seems even more an event perfect...

I’m going to be offline for a little while (some would say that last rant of mine was a sign I should have gone offline a bit sooner) so I thought I’d leave...

I don’t believe in life insurance. When I die, I want it to be a bad day for everybody. – Brad L. Graham, February 2002 My friend Brad L. Graham died une...

Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some...

Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience,...

While I’m still hard at work at responding to all the requests that have been made, I had to take a moment to mark the tenth anniversary of this blog today....

There have been a lot of great conversations around and about some of my recent posts; Here are some highlights. My post about Google’s Microsoft Moment seem...

In two weeks, I’ll be marking the 10 year anniversary of blogging on dashes.com. I’m celebrating by making a simple request: Tell me what you’d like to see me...

When I saw Malcolm Gladwell doggedly dissecting Chris Anderson’s upcoming “ Free: The Future of a Radical Price ” (see Chris’ response here ) my first rea...

Starting last week, New York Magazine asked me to participate in a roundtable conversation with NYMag’s book critic Sam Anderson, Improv Everywhere...

Jay Smooth, “ Please stop calling everyone and their mother ‘The First Rapper’ “: U-Roy may be one of rap’s predecessors, and among the influences that lai...

FAIL is over. Fail is dead. Because it marks a lack of human empathy, and signifies an absence of intellectual curiosity, it is an unacceptable response to c...

The whole world A small number of super-geeky obsessives is abuzz over the upcoming launch of Facebook Usernames , an exciting new feature that will let you...

Worth noting: Both independent bloggers on the web and the Associated Press are in the news this week for asking for appropriate credit for their work when it’...

If the words I write in these blog posts are my acts of speech, then the trail of actions I leave around the web must be the body language that accompanies the...

As always, I am trying to be everywhere at once. Here’s where I’ve succeeded: Dan Costa at PC Magazine offers a look at the rise of micro social networks...

Right now I am here, but soon I may be somewhere near you! Let’s see where I’ve been lately, and where I’m going to be: Across the internets, Choire asked a...

Last month marked the ninth anniversary of me starting this blog, more or less continuously updating since then. As I begin my tenth year here on dashes.com, I...

One of the most satisfying and fun things I’ve ever seen in my job was the sight of my friend and coworker Michael Sippey onstage with Steve Jobs and the App...

Today’s Blog of the Year Picks: Ask the Wizard and Fortuitous . Between these two blogs, there have barely been twenty posts this year. Yet either o...

Today’s Blog of the Year Picks: Some Bits: Nelson’s Weblog and RC3.org . These two are just for me, some real old-school-blogging nerd picks. Some B...

Today’s Blog of the Year Pick: Serious Eats . I love food, but I could never quite put my finger on what was wrong with the food blogs I’d tried to re...

Today’s Blog of the Year Pick: Ill Doctrine . Put simply, Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine is the best video blog on the web. (At least the best one that’s i...

This week, I’ll be highlighting the sites that I think stood out this year. July marked the 8th anniversary of my blog, and over these past eight and a half ye...

It looks like I wasn’t the only one having a Gawker reckoning ; A remarkable post revealed that both Emily Gould and Choire Sicha are leaving the site. (Tha...

From lolcats to goatse to the Zidane headbutt , I’ve been at least tenuously linked to some of the web’s most notable and notorious memes. Naturally, when...

From Paul Ford’s “ $5 Chocolate Bar “: Brooklyn has squandered the treasures she brought with her when she burst out of her father’s brain. She’s thinking,...

Phew! A warm welcome to my regular readers, now that I’ve had the misfortune of being visited by the worst of the rest of the web’s audience. I should have kno...

The Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge that I wrote about a few weeks ago is almost over, and that means you only have a few days to help support the Notes fo...

I added this thing to my site (the HTML version, which most of you never see) a while back, and it’s gotten some interesting responses. I’ll reproduce it here...

I’ve been doing a good bit of speaking lately, and have some more coming up, so let me share it with you if you’re interested. I was flattered to have my...

Put these in your browser, and shake well. Facebook apps are not a long tail . So says Chris Anderson, who oughtta know. The tougher question is: Since th...

I’ve had the chance to follow Gawker Media since before it launched, really, and so it’s been interesting to see a couple of items pop up recently about the di...

I’ve seen a number of people make reference to Facebook’s application platform without knowing a lot of background about some historical examples that might be...

In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry a...

I’ve gotten a lot of really good questions (and some fantastically generous donations!) about the Donors Choose blogger challenge I wrote about yesterday , bu...

I’ve been a big fan of Donors Choose for some time. It’s a charity my readers may well have heard of, which helps students in public schools by letting regul...

I get a little self-conscious about the fact that I’m so earnest on my blog sometimes, since I’m kind of a smart-ass in person. But I figure I’ll never regret...

I try not to ramble on too much about my work, except for a little “I love the people I work with!” post every few months, but I did want to point out one sati...

A Brief Message seems interesting: Essays about design, in 200 words or less. Khoi explains some of the thinking , and the idea of a new design for each upd...

I’d intended to post a correction to this NY Times story’s recounting of the history of blog book tours, but was pleased to see that my friend, and intermitt...

I found Nelson Minar’s thoughtful look at Larry Craig’s arrest to be very moving because of its deeply empathetic perspective. I find one of the things that...

Mitch Wagner has a provocative, comprehensive, and entertaining look at the recent conversations about Apple and the enterprise over at InformationWeek entitle...

Rule #1 in nerd blogging: jwz said it first. If you enjoyed The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition last week, you’ll want to read Jamie Zawinski...

I’ve found some nice responses to conversations I’ve had recently that are probably worth checking out. First, and most importantly, Soundwave: The Touch ,...

I try to keep my social network as open as possible. Here’s the thing — I’m not talking about web applications that mimic real-world behaviors. I mean the rea...

Before I crash for the night, I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate my incredibly talented and passionate coworkers and thank our unbelievable community....

The Premise: Anyone who creates technologies that aspire to have significant cultural or social impacts on the developed world has to focus on both our lives...

I moved back to New York City at the end of last year because of my wife’s work , and despite my love for my coworkers and the work they do. But the decisio...

Daniel Lyons, author of the heretofore-anonymous Fake Steve Jobs blog, which comments extensively on companies in the technology industry, was also the author...

Since everyone’s sending it to me, I’ll post the prescient Onion video from last week. The highlight, for me, is two minutes into the clip. Breaking News: A...

Dunstan Orchard is a really nice, talented (and attractive!) man who is a terrific designer. But he has no sense of taste . Discuss....

Two of the posts I’m most proud of having written last year are Making Something Meaningful and How do we judge our tools? . It looks like the sentiment beh...

Pentagram, the designers of the website, signage, marketing materials, and stationery for the new New York Times building , have a fascinating blog post...

Reflecting on toread is tobehuman : Dave Coustan says , “I use [this is good] to mark things I find particularly excellent.” Me too. Heh. And Ed Kohle...

John Scalzi shares a gem and kicks off a predictably stupid comment thread, based on an overheard coversation: “The problem with using the Web as a model for...

Andre Torrez : “My little experiment in tossing links out of the main blog didn’t work out so hot. I like linking things, but I don’t like the lazy feeling...

I was very flattered and a little bit surprised to be interviewed by Claire Zulkey for her site. I’m a fair bit geekier than most of her regular interviewees...

Back in 2001, I got laid off from a job right around the same time as Sam Brown, the creator of Exploding Dog . Over the course of that year, as I looked for...

Corey Spring has broken the details of a story that no one in traditional journalism had figured out yet. Wrestler Chris Benoit’s murder-suicide seemed to ha...

There’s no better link-bait than science fiction where you’re one of the characters. See Kevin Fanning’s “ How Everything Turned Out ” in The Morning News. O...

There’s been a (mostly boring) conversation going between some blogs over the past few days regarding the line between editorial and advertising. Largely, this...

The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a “real” news story, being treated as fa...

When Matt Haughey first described his new site Fortuitous , which just launched two weeks ago, I was particularly excited because this is a new blog tha...

Following up on the conversation about accountability, january one discusses the dark side of blogging from the perspective of the knitting blog community....

Five years ago, I got my first death threat for something I wrote on my blog. The same week, some of those readers called my boss and tried to get me fired. A...

Are you in New York for the PodCamp NYC conference ? Well, I’ll be there representing Six Apart and if you’re podcasting with Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJourn...

A little while ago, my friend Michael Sippey, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing the other day , sent me a link to the new Google Voice Local Search ....

A couple of months ago, I got to talk to Lynne about business blogging for Fast Company’s podcasts series . I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, though...

One of the reasons I admire my friend Mena is that she is remarkably prescient. I think it’s worth revisiting these posts that she wrote a year and a half ago....

I’ve found some interesting articles around the web recently that mention me or my blog, and while I don’t try to be comprehensive in linking to everything tha...

The exact thing you are looking for is out there on the Internet, if you just know where to look. So here are some hints. Making the connection between Gi...

It’s not the funniest joke in the world, but I’m very proud to have a tradition on my blog that is in its 8th annual incarnation, so here goes again: It’s the...

I would just like to say thank you to all of you for supporting my site for almost 8 years now. This is an unbelievable honor....

When I first heard that Kevin Shay was working on a novel, it struck me as a little bit unfair. I know Kevin from his work with Movable Type ; as we said o...

I was very flattered last week that GeekSugar post an interview with me and my wife Alaina that they did a few weeks ago. It’s strange enough to be asked to...

A few months ago, I spent a lot of time trying to show the tech community I belong to that diversity is essential to our survival . Not just to the Web 2.0 wo...

This weekend, I’m making my first trip to Vancouver (and my first trip to Canada in over 3 years) to speak at the Northern Voice 2007 blogging conference. I’...

Sure, Microsoft Word is fine for kids who want to write papers for school, but serious professionals should be very worried about using this dangerous tool!...

I hate the abbreviation “MSM”. It’s almost always used by those who are lacking in perspective. We’re all either too lazy to actually differentiate between the...

I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying the conversation inspired by Marshall Kirkpatrick’s TechCrunch post about tech companies hiring well-known bloggers to he...

A couple Clay Shirky links for you today, one of which I just linked to, one of which I should have linked to last week, and all worth reading. In D...

How could I still give a damn about blogs, about the web, after all day, every day for eight years or so? Well, how could I not ? Let me show you what it look...

Last night, I had the chance to attend the WNBC New York City Bloggers’ Summit . I’ve got a lot of different opinions on the event, some positive and some mor...

Here are the things to look at on the Internet today. India’s President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, asks Yahoo Answers, “ What should we do to free our planet fr...

Last time, a rumination on video quality. Today, a look at [Ze Frank going Hollywood]( http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=14010&ic=The Transom &quo...

One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to write posts for some of our dozens of company-run blogs. I’m particularly pleased with two that went up today:...

Every four to six months, Stewart Butterfield updates his website, whether the Internet is ready or not. This time, Sylloge ruminates on John Adams’ thoughts...

There’s a fascinating conversation taking place across a couple of blogs, which Steven’s post on leaving Brooklyn alterted me to. Douglas Rushkoff was mugge...

It’s almost like all I do is talk about blogging all day. Debbie Weil hosts the Corporate Blogging show on VoiceAmerica’s business channel, and the other day w...

Andy Plesser of Beet.TV stopped by our offices at Six Apart a few weeks ago, and I had the chance to talk to him for a few minutes. Andy recorded the conversat...

Jason describes the blog commentor’s gaze , a rumination on how people who act unreasonably on the web fit some parts of the scientific definition of a psyc...

A few days ago, I foolishly described a table of my blog archives as my favorite view of my blog . As with all posts that I only spend 30 seconds writing, it...

From the New York Times story about Stallone’s new Rocky Balboa , Peter Sealey, who is a former film exec-turned-marketing prof a UC Berkeley, offers: I...

One of the great things about having been a blogger for a long time is that I can present my old posts in interesting ways. I’ve been experimenting with a big...

Rex has compiled a fantastic list of the Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading . I’m flattered to be mentioned as a see-also suggestion, but most...

Those who know me well know that I never really loved being in a classroom while I was in school; The whole experience, combined with my own lack of discipline...

One of the most common questions I get from people who know about Six Apart is “What the hell do you actually do there?” These days, that question’s easier...

Update: The fellow who asked the question actually doesn’t want to participate in the lawsuit against Cohen. Wonders never cease! On Ask MetaFilter a m...

I’d mentioned that talking to regular people about the potential of blogging is one of my favorite parts of my job, and that’s probably reason enough to paus...

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 p...

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...

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...

There are lots of different corners of the web, most of which have the good graces to be supportive and interesting and to act like, well, a community . Peopl...

I launched a new design for my blog about two weeks ago, but I’d been waiting until I had a chance to shake out a few of the more egregious bugs to mention the...

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...

Just a little geek note, there’s now a box that will appear the first time you visit my site (it disappears after the first visit) that will let you subscribe...

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 othe...

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, ha...

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 ove...

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...

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. Especiall...

Mr. Henninger, I had the good fortune to review your column , in which you express, at length and in some detail, your extreme distaste for people publish...

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 y...

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...

I guess I’m not the only one thinking about copy and paste . Ray Ozzie is way, way ahead of me . In a development that’s clearly been brewing for some time,...

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....

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 bet...

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 bec...

I was startled by this phenomenally wrong-headed editorial in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond exposes his insecurities by arguing that Craig Newm...

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...

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...

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 Assimila...

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 me...

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...

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 re...

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 Apa...

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 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 do...

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 s...

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...

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 blog...

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, b...

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...

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

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 Jas...

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 "...

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 figur...

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

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...

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...

I’ts a BLOG revolution ! For, uh, a mere $3000....

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 fin...

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...

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...

" Some quick background research on the CBS Memo scandal, the resignation of The New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines, or the recent resignation...

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...

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 i...

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...

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...

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...

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 2...

Besides being super cool, the new TypePad wishlist feature generates these beautiful tiled thumbnail versions of your wishlist images that just seem like 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 Ba...

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.a...

Now this is my kind of site: Andrea’s just launched modern pooch , your daily doggy fix. My dog is already subscribed to the feed....

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...

Five years to the day after he stopped blogging, thus becoming the first person to dramatically exit the blogosphere, Jesse James Garrett has resurrected hi...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 bl...

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...

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 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 totall...

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 7...

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 o...

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 noth...

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

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

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...

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 the...

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 set...

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...

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...

[ 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...

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 re...

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...

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,...

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...

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 mag...

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 mi...

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...

I guess the beginning of a new year is when you’re supposed to look back and be reflective. Looking at my weblog, the thing that’s most striking to me is that,...

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 th...

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 e...

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...

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 M...

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 yet ....

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 butterflies.)...

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...

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 g...

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...

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 blog ....

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 hu...

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...

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 thinks....

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 tr...

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 f...

It seems, as in years past , an annual summer tradition has returned to Manhattan. No better way to celebrate the end of the Month of Rain than with this sar...

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 floo...

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

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 version?...

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...

Ladies and gentlemen, Scott Andrew must be stopped !...

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 sideb...

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 bl...

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 underm...

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 there....

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. "D...

Just wanted to leave myself a placeholder about the exceptional Gel Conference I attended today. Haven’t had a chance to write up my notes yet, (I’m so used...

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...

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...

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 “realtim...

About two weeks ago, I did a panel at SXSW with a couple of friends , and the topic was the future of personal publishing. There were a handful of point...

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...

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 ever...

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...

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 wer...

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...

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 clien...

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...

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 wr...

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...

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 SXS...

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...

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 month...

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 s...

So, yeah, everybody’s gonna be buzzing about Google buying Pyra , but my take is that it’s not really that great a fit. Of course, Google bought Deja, which...

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 i...

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 anyo...

So, after we’ve all graduated to using microcontent clients to navigate through websites, people whose weblogs are primarily read through their RSS feeds are...

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...

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...

Since I’ve already started to get a good number of people emailing and asking questions in regards to the Media Matters segment on weblogs, I thought I shoul...

It may not be too late for TiVo to learn a lesson from Segway ‘s success in lobbying legislators through the use of technology that’s compelling enough to sel...

So, I’m gonna be on this TV show in a week or so. (It’s on PBS, so air times vary, you’d have to click the "check local listings" to find out when...

I mentioned earlier that the best way to protect your privacy is to control your identity . But, while proactive publishing of one’s identity is a necessary s...

Another benefit you accrue by publishing your creations with more open licenses like the ones at Creative Commons is that when you get unanticipated surges...

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 int...

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, ju...

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...

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,...

Microcontent is information published in short form, with its length dictated by the constraint of a single main topic and by the physical and technical limita...

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...

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 litera...

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...

Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It’s browser-accessible from any...

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

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...

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, lin...

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 ta...

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’...

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...

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 c...

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...

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 p...

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...

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,...

I support letter-writing campaigns ....

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?...

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

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...

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 environm...

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...

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 natura...

Dan Bricklin weighs in on Small Business Blogging ....

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:...

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...

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

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 later....

Happy seventh birthday to Stating the Obvious . Push is the future! Speaking of The Obvious , the occasion of the publishing of a second edition of Inform...

freshblogs is a great little tool that checks a list of weblogs that you submit, and keeps a list of when they’ve updated. Even cooler, it’ll publish the lis...

“ The blogs are just a wonderful thing about the Web–you know, individual people just starting up their own Web sites ,” former editor of Slate , Michael Kins...

Ev gets some crap about IsDickCheneyDeadYet.com , which serves him right, since he stole my IDCDY link for Blogger ‘s “Blogs of Note”. Along with Four Sto...

More gone, at least for now: Loobylu and MegNut and Alison and hell, Peter and Lane barely update anymore anyway. And RCB . And me, I guess. Remin...

So blog*spot is up now....