Category: Blogosphere

Shelley Powers has posted a nuanced exploration of the persistence of presence on the net and in weblogs. Without reducing the issues involved to the bipolarities so common in online discussion and debate, she manages to tease out a lot of important ideas in her entry, On Identity and Edits. Here’s the crux of the…

Just unsubscribed from Scripting News in my aggregator. I was finding myself consistently worked up and upset after reading it. I have no doubt that the enthusiastic fans of the weblog will disseminate any useful information into the parts of the blogosphere I enjoy. I’m not trying to make a big deal out of this,…

It’s nice to see a female face (OK a female name) on one of these blog conference panels. Had an egg cream at Veselka on 9th St. and 2nd Ave. in the east village last night, my old stomping grounds. Fun to catch up with Greg Severance (note to self: add link to bulldog breath!)…

I like the suggestions Zempt’s spellcheckers came up with when puzzling out the word Blogistan:

Ralph Brandi reminds us (in light of AOL Journals) that here are differences between the blog world of today and USENET of ten years ago: Blogistan is already much larger than any one person or cabal can get their heads around. There are hundreds of thousands of Blogspot weblogs, Radio weblogs, and LiveJournals that are…

In I remember Usenet, Burningbird weighs the pros and cons of the coming deluge of AOL users into the blogosphere, and recalls the USENET analogy that others have brought up recently. On balance she predicts it will be a good thing, helping the blogosphere outgrow the petty bickering and nanocelebrities that have sprouted in it…