Muskblog: the sad, pathetic truth

As part of the setup for the new Greening the Inner-city blog I’m helping some folks get up and running. I’ve been asked a lot of questions about WordPress, specifically what differentiates it from Blogger, Drupal, self hosting, plugins, the importance of well chosen categories, the rise of tags… etc. etc.
Blogging, at least blogging [...]

They mean it this time! Guy Kawasaki’s guest blogger didn’t go quite so far, but some are saying that a blog is the new resume, Resume 2.0 if you will. Maybe in some industries, but in some countries and industries writing online, especially non-anonymously has risks. Doubly so if you tell the [...]

MyBlogLog is one of many companies and websites that have sprung up to serve the blogosphere. It doesn’t hosts blogs like Blogger, but like Blogger you create a profile. It is not a blog search engine nor a feed aggregator. They are closer to an online social network based around bloggers.
I learned [...]

At least according to Kevin Burton, Vox will ‘kill‘ WordPress and MySpace. I took a quick look but I didn’t sign up. I just don’t care to be a member of another blogging/social networking website. I don’t even have a WordPress.com account and that is what I generally recommend to people [...]

Although not the most electrifyingly original posting title, I’m running with it. I’ve written before how people actually read the crap I write, no matter how trivial or dubious, especially the dubious… Now people have expectations, they are actually encouraging me to blog about events that they were present to observe. I’m [...]

As a service to the blogosphere and also so I can possibly meet fellow bloggers, I’m going to compile a list of Tsinghua bloggers. I found these blogs through a series of Technorati searches over several days.

A Chinese student writing in English
Julia’s blog, half in Russian
herdcool’s blog
Jo Bananas: Malaysian living in Beijing
Tsinghua student who [...]

Now that I’ve settled in Beijing I’ve joined the small group of people who blog inside the People’s Republic of China. This can be harder than it sounds as the government monitors all incoming and outgoing packets to prevent subversive information from entering the country and to prevent the truth from exiting the country. [...]