Blogger doesn’t have its own trackback feature and their comments feature doesn’t work well with a blogsite.

But these two features are both available via a service called Haloscan.

I enabled Haloscan for Gary G. Smith’s weblog a few months ago and now I’ve added it for Stephen Betheil’s Water Secret’s Blog on his OrderWaterFilters.com blogsite.

Here’s my [...]

Sekimori Design is a company in Florida, doing some of what I do: setting up web sites that include weblogs. And they’re using the term blogsite to distinguish it from a traditional website or a pure weblog site. I like it.

Competition is a confirmation of what I’m doing. Plus, I can probably learn something by [...]

I got this email from Michael Fraase today about yesterday’s post on the importance of categories. Mike has been blogging for years and is the managing editor and webmaster for Utne.com.

Categories are important for sites with lots of entries, and, as you mention, discrete “sections” or “departments.” But there’s a downside. If readers start [...]

I’ve been having an interesting email conversation with a marketing strategist who’s working with a client.

They contend that my client’s site needs more advanced weblog features that Blogger doesn’t provide but that Movable Type, Word Press, Drupal, and other server-based weblog platforms do.

I told them that Blogger has the best editing features and ease-of-use of [...]

From the Jan. 10, 2005 Issue of Fortune: 10 TECH TRENDS: #1 – Why There’s No Escaping the Blog Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product�or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a force business can’t afford to ignore.

Unlike earlier promises of self-publishing revolutions, the blog movement seems to be the real thing. A big [...]

Kent Nerburn, author and blogger, has a profile in the December issue of Minnesota Monthly: Kent Nerburn writes to bridge the spirits of two peoples, by Pat Samples. Alas, the article isn’t available online.

In the Dec. 20 issue of eWeek: Movable Type Fixing Bug as Spam Clogs Blogs

Movable Type 3.14, which includes a patch, was expected to be available by the end of Monday as a free download for users of Movable Type 3.0 or later

In Phil Windley’s blog last Friday:

I just got off the phone with Blake Harris who’s writing a story on blogging in the public sector for Public CIO. We had a great chat about the uses of blogs in state and local government. I pointed him at the blogs of the Chief of Police and City [...]

Four of my blogging clients are among those participating in a U.K.-led civic leader weblog project called Read My Day. (Project details in this previous post.)

L to R: City of Northfield Police Chief Gary Smith, City of Northfield Planning Commission Chair Betsey Buckheit, and Minnesota State Representative Ray Cox at an audio recording [...]

I posted on this issue of interaction to my Leadership Blogging weblog today.

It starts out:

There’s an inhibiting factor in getting many leaders to participate in online interaction (message boards, mailing lists, weblog comment discussion).

They easily get overwhelmed (or rightly fear they will) by the volume of communications and the subsequent expectation that they will have [...]

In the December, 2004 issue of Governing magazine, The Artful Blogger:
Blogs don’t have to be anonymous or racy. Scott Neal, the city manager of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, keeps a blog that offers readers an insider’s view of what it’s like to manage a local government. He doesn’t dish gossip the way the 4th Floor blogger [...]