Category: Blogosphere

TDavid of Things that … make you go hmm has recorded another rendition (partial) of Blogistan Pie. If these keeps up I may have to make my first audblog post ever to contribute my own a capella version. You’ll wish I hadn’t!

Yes, I would call it an obsession. I have added a series of clarifying (or obfuscating, as the case may be) hyperlinks to the worst song parody to come along since Being for the Benefit of Mr. Tim, Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, or even We Didn’t Start the Weblogs.

The “On this date” feature in my sidebar (effectively a “one year ago today” listing) has been really fun since I put it in place on this weblog’s one-year anniversary. For one thing, I can’t believe how much blogging I was doing a year ago. Some of those days have eight to ten substantial substantial…

Jonathon Delacour has concluded his blogging hiatus and is back blogging up a storm. He leads off with a nuanced take on the topic of weblog ethics.

Why didn’t anyone tell me? From Off the Streets of Cleveland… Comes Harvey Pekar’s Official Blog.

Well, what do you know. I finished my painfully ridiculous parody of Don McLean’s American Pie, going all Bob Dylan on the rhythm sometimes to squeeze in max nerd humor.

Ready or not, I’ve posted a fifth verse of Blogistan Pie. One to go.

OK, I’m on a roll here (I guess, in a lame sort of way). I’ve posted third and fourth verses for what I’m now calling Blogistan Pie since The Day the Blogging Died just really doesn’t trip off the tongue. The Day the Weblogs Died may have been a better choice but it’s all pretty…

Equal time positive balance song-fragment.

A terrible parody of American Pie (the song, not the movie), now with hyperlinks!

Sam Ruby is planning dinner on thursday somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Should be an interesting crew. Besides your humble reporter, it looks like RSVPs already include Joe Gregorio, Simon Fell, Marc Canter, Kevin Burton, and possibly David Galbraith.

So, Gnomedex is underway. Have there been any good reports yet of the proceedings? The Gnomedex Updates blog is a little behind the times. I went over to Dan Gillmor’s eJournal but so far there’s just some reminiscences about Iowa and a note that his talk was left out of a newspaper program. I’m sure…

I’m still in the process of unifying my blogroll and my subscribed news feeds. Just added Gawker (and its excerpts will appear on the Mediajunkie page) for that New York expatriate feel. Now I just have to remember to add plasticbag.org, another one that escapes me for days at a time till an inevitable link…

I signed up and uploaded a wrong-shaped photo to the new Technorati feature the other day but still have to add the code to my weblog to confirm. The lazy thing is to post it here, but I should add it to my template if I want to keep it around. I didn’t do that…

Last time I checked, BlogHog hadn’t updated any of its feeds since February 10, 2003. What up with that?

According to the latest information from BlogShares Radio Free Blogistan is worth somewhat less than half a Zawod. Then again, even Jeremy Zawodny’s blog isn’t worth one whole Zawod at this moment. That’s inflation for you.

After his untimely disappearance, John Robb has resurfaced in the blogosphere at a new location. Of the link breakage from his old UserLand-hosted account, he has this to say: The bad news: a huge number (probably over 30,000, not even counting Google) of inbound links that have been broken, as well as nearly 500 RSS…

Via Hylton Joliffe I’ve clicked through to an AOL Journal called sound & fury. The branding at the top (below the generic AOL nav) reads “AOL Journals: Your Thoughts. Your Blog.” I was hoping I could find my way from that blog to other AOL blogs but there doesn’t seem to be any central jumping-off…

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!)…