Category: Blogosphere

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…

I am sad that I can’t make it to Gnomedex this year. As I told my friends going to the High Sierra Music Festival last weekend, it’s bound to be a great time because whenever I skip a year or don’t go to some event I was planning to go to, it always turns out…

Offers textads to finance a domain-name crisis: Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:53:39 -0600 … Ok, here is the deal. TWR is having major problems with the registration company. And unfortunatly the issue cannot be resolved quickly without money. Short version is that they are claiming I didn’t renew the domain. Now the site is…

Note: This CSS problem I’m having around linktext is really annoying. Somehow this entry was appearing as blank on the home page (even though it showed up just fine on the archive page). Go figure. Hmmm… I see it’s still happening. Please use the permalink to view this (very brief, aside from this note) entry.…

Congressperson Zoe Lofgren has posted an entry to the Howard Dean Blog for America: I was up on the stage with other California Congresspeople so I have a good view of the delegates. I could see that Dean did not use a teleprompter nor did he have written remarks. His inspirational comments connected with the…

Well, it appears that Salam Pax is posting again from Baghdad, which suggests that the Steven den Beste theory that he was a fellow named Raed arrested in New York the day his long hiatus began is probably not true. As Miguel Octavio put it, “I think his absence proves he was no fake.”

The original concept for memewatch involved a lot more than me just blogging trends, fads, and popular terms of expression. I was hoping to do some analysis of the rise and fall of expressions in various net domains. (The example I always pitched people was tracking the appearance of the phrase “six degrees of kevin…