Year: 2005

  • See you at Blogher!

    I won’t be there this evening for any pre-schmoozing, but I will be driving down to San Jose bright and early tomorrow a.m. to take in the splendor that will be Blogher. I’ll bring the camera and try to post some shots during the day or soon afterward.

  • Another productivity sink

    Check out this very very very very very very very cool Flickr Related Tag Browser.

  • GoingOn will be a network of social networks

    Lots of buzz around this week about Marc Canter et al. announcing the GoingOn network, a meta social network that will provide a platform for stitching together existing social network and digital identity systems and standards, or something like that. JD Lasica interviewed Valerie Cunningham for a better explanation of what’s going to be going…

  • Yahoo 360 adds feeds

    Frances Pabon over at Good Bloggin’ alerts me that

  • Ad hoc blog workshop at the Sierra Summit?

    When I posted about my panel at the Sierra Summit, Philippe Boucher wrote in suggesting we try to arrange for bloggers to meet at the conference or to offer some sort of workshop or hand’s on event for people interested in blogging: Maybe this conference deserves more than a half hour on Saturday about the…

  • Geodog notes the inverse relationship between blogging and work

    Quoting from Geodog: Work is the curse of the blogging class: I suspect that historians looking back at the rise of blogging will see the tech depression of 2001-2004 as a critical factor in getting blogging started. The stage was set by the 1996-2001 internet boom where content had been hailed as king, and by…

  • More on canned invitations

    Laura Lemay just sent me a LinkedIn invitation that made me laugh out loud (or LOL), although I realize that it would only be funny to a geek: #include <linkedinsuckup.h>

  • Allergy season

    I don’t know what’s in the air but for the last two days my eyes have been dry and itchy. I’m trying not to be irritable about it and I’m trying not to rub my eyes, because that’s just been making it worse. Next I’ll scratch my cornea with an eyelash or something. Too melodramatic?

  • Last week's Onion

    Picked up a print copy of the Onion in a coffee bar yesterday and saw they had taken the piss out of online social networks (The Onion | 13 July 2005 | Infograph). Because the link will rot eventually, I stole the graphic, too.

  • News Corp acquires MySpace

    Quoting from Waxy.org Links: News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million: holy cow Lots of kids and bands on that site.

  • Rove-o-matic blog robot

    Tired of coming up with new synonyms for “treason”? Let Night Light’s the rove-bot pen your next screed for you.

  • Macromedia blogger survey

    It looks like Macromedia is exploring or considering the idea of providing some sort of blogging products or services or features. If you want to help them gauge the needs of bloggers, take their Blog Authoring Survey. (via deeje cooley)

  • Thirty-six years ago today

    One small step for a man, one giant leap for moonkind. Be sure to zoom all the way in.

  • Is that really news?

    Didn’t read the article. (Couldn’t be bothered.) But the headline made me chuckle: “Announcement of Supreme Court Nominee May Be Soon”

  • Principles of social networking

    The always-insightful How to Save the World blog by Dave Pollard (repeatedly misnamed in my book as “How to Change the World” for I don’t know what reason – brain damage, most likely) recently published an entry abstracting seven principles of social networking. It’s one of Dave’s shorter posts, too, so don’t be afraid to…

  • Tour de France blog

    One of the blogs I host in the Telegraph collective on the Mediajunkie server is The Philter, by Bill Cassel. Bill’s been blogging the Tour de France diligently, day by day. Just sayin’.

  • Some dursn’t call it treason

    But the Editors have no such delicate scruples: If Rove were working for the CPUSA, the Constitution Party, or the Black Panther Party, I doubt anyone would have a problem calling him “traitor”. But he doesn’t: he works for the premier establishment political party, a party with tens of millions of blindly loyal partisans. Somehow,…

  • Was Ari Fleischer the second leaker?

    Salon reports that, at least, it’s possible, even plausible.

  • Six Apart release MT 3.2 beta

    I’m looking forward to testing out the new version of Movable Type (Movable Type 3.2 Beta) – if only for the new administrative features.

  • Treasongate primer

    Tired of listening to mealy-mouthed Republican apologists for treason? Check out the Left Coaster’s Response to GOP talking points. Print out, stick in your pocket, speak truth to power.

  • Carnival of the Rovegate

    Tony Pierce holds Glenn Reynolds feet to the fire, the Editors point out that the Washington press corps isn’t having an attack of conscience right now, Frank Rich analyses the Watergate analogy, John Aravosis asks the musical question, “If Karl Rove is fully complying then why does the president have to wait for the investigation…