Category Archives: Blogging and RSS

HP mpulse Article on Moblogging

By | August 6, 2003

m-pulse / a cooltown magazine / Blogging Goes Mobile Amy Cowen wrote a great article on moblogging for the August 2003 issue of mpulse, the HP Labs cooltown magazine. I remember reading about cooltown a few years ago when HP first announced the initiative. As the economy turned down and out, I had assumed that… Read More »

IndyMedia PhoneBlogging in Australia

By | August 5, 2003

[via Audioblog/Mobileblogging News via Smart Mobs] IndyMedia in Melbourne, Australia, recently announced PIMP, the Phone IndyMedia Patch system, as an automated system for anyone with a telephone to submit live reports to Indymedia. The first use of PIMP was to report on a demonstration. This is exactly what I imagined early on as a great… Read More »

Tracking News About Friends

By | July 18, 2003

It appears that the friend of a friend was the driver in the terribly unfortunate tragedy in Santa Monica. I’ve been thinking about possibilities for Friendster and FOAF lately, and for some reason this sad event triggered a tangential idea – automated tools for tracking news about friends. If many of your friends maintain weblogs,… Read More »

AOL Blog By Phone

By | July 13, 2003

‘AOL Journals’ To Bring Blogs To Millions (TechNews.com) AOL will give members three ways to update their blogs — through an online template with blank boxes for text input, through AOL’s instant-messaging system or by telephone. The phone option will be available only to subscribers to the extra-cost “AOL by Phone” service, who will be… Read More »

Undisclosed Cult of Personality Ads

By | July 10, 2003

ongoing – Pay For Placement Tim Bray writes: Adam Curry posted a note on Monday that I found pretty surprising. In the future, will you have to pay to get into RSS aggregators? Ouch. Apparently, about a year and a half ago Mr. Curry purchased Radio and Frontier licenses, and then paid Userland $10,000 to… Read More »

Nikkei IT Professionals Interview

By | July 1, 2003

Back in April I mentioned that Norri Kageki interviewed me for a column on Silicon Valley engineers who use weblogs for personal and business purposes. The June issue of IT Professionals containing this column came out about a month ago, but I have been slow about getting the text translated by a friend and then… Read More »

PhoneBlogger Documentation Update

By | June 2, 2003

While helping someone else setup their own install of PhoneBlogger, I realized that I had never gotten around to publishing much installation documentation on my website. The previous publicly available documentation was very sparse, as in the sense of providing virtually no clue as to how to install the dang thing. Well, I have mostly… Read More »