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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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....