Category: Nanopublishing
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Beater tested
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, History of the Germans, and was surprised to hear the host refer to a King of the Romans’ plan as “beater tested” until I recalled that he lives in Britain and that “beta” is pronouced like “beet” there, and the “-a” sound on the end can…
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From the nation’s capital
Just got back from DC and boy are my rights tired! I still need to catch up on my “fitness journey” as I think they call it nowadays. Thinking about how to illustrate a total knee replacement without gruesome medical Butthole Surfer type aesthetics. I’ll figure out something but the #longstoryshort is that I feel…
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Dispatches from the edge
Microblogging never really found its way. Not like real protocols like email and such. Monopolizing status updates all in one place never made sense but it hung together chaordically for a long while between twtr and the nazi bar it became. Much like the yellow-pages style centralization that facebook rode to meta, this ultimately provided…
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My birdsite visits are getting shorter
As I move my online conversational focus to the more open federated spaces (rumors are Tumblr will be plugging in next), I am spending more of my time checking (and debating the cultural norms of) Mastodon, and connecting to folks there, and while I still feel compelled to check Twitter via its website (I removed…
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This thing on?
If I did this right, then my blog is now on the Fediverse at @xian@mediajunkie.com — do the double at signs bother any else? @@
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Music will continue until morale improves
More music coming soon!
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Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-14
designing # designing with a glass of red wine # Boot and Shoe Service on #Yelp: Wanted to try the new restaurant and see Pandora at the Grand Lake. Couldn't get in … http://bit.ly/8lNgb2 # making far-from-pixel-perfect mockups # This is how I do this http://flic.kr/p/7vzhVF # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-13
http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar so far i've just perused the workshops and they look fantastic # aw man, too many great sessions to choose from: http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar # Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12 http://tinyurl.com/yz5kk33 # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12
a new lazarus, i have cast off my boot and crutches # RT @inkblurt @louisrosenfeld @ferrarajc New Ning community exploring the intersection of #gamedesign and #ux: http://is.gd/64woL # RT @staciehibino: Awesome job by @nancyf on "Keys to Success as a Volunteer Organization" #baychi http://slidesha.re/871sOR # reid is to lott as insensitively blunt political handicapping is…
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hells yeah
hells yeah Originally uploaded by xian if it’s really him, why not?
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A new painting every day
A year and a half ago I posted an entry at Telegraph called Daily Practices, in which I linked to a blog called A Painting a Day and wrote: One of my favorite applications of the weblogging medium is a daily practice. My first bloglike thing was a daily journal called Breathing Room that I…
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Kottke's grand experiment flounders
Despite the first flush of support when Jason Kottke announced his plan to make his blog his full time job, News.com reports that Full-time blogger Kottke throws in the towel. Sorry to hear it. No doubt Jason will continue to make an excellent blog the way most of us do it, in our copious free…
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BlogHer launches group weblog
The BlogHer organizers have relaunched their website as an aggregated group weblog (these seem to be all the rage these days: BlogHer [beta] | Where the women bloggers are. It looks like a cool site, well worth reading and the stream of blog posts definitely adds more value than simply promoting the conference, which is…
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Beastblog dormant since November
I know what it’s like trying to get people to contribute to a group blog when it’s not their only bloggish outlet. They tend to forget about it, lose their passwords, stop coming by. It’s hard to establish a foreign-blogging habit. So I’m not entirely surprised that even though I believe a fair number of…
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Boing Boing publishes hearsay
Over at Uncle John’s blog we’ve been covering the recent Deadhead controversy in a teapot concerning the removal (or rather, prevention of downloading) of 2300 Grateful Dead shows from the Live Music Archive. There are many theories and suppositions floating out there about what motivated the change in policy, as well as a fair amount…
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Ken Layne's new gig
Sploid – I’ll read it (via Buzzmachine’s STOP THE PRESS(ES)! Denton v. Drudge! post): STOP THE PRESS(ES)! Denton v. Drudge! : Nick Denton launches his newest site today: News with attitude. Sploid will go live at midday with BIG HEADLINES! and TOP NEWS! and WEIRD NEWS! and a TABLOID MENTALITY — which is to say,…
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Glassdog challenges Boing Boing to come clean
Quoting from Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching: The thing is, it really is about love. They’ve been at it for too long for it not to be. Which is exactly why they need to come clean, why they need to explain themselves, to correct the lingering white lies. I don’t care how many ads the site…
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Kottke at the mercy of his readers
Jason Kottke, one of the best-loved personal bloggers, has quit his job and is soliciting donations from readers so he can pursue his dream, Doing kottke.org as a full-time job. It should be interesting to see whether his very large audience contains enough supporters to enable him to make a go of it. I’m not…
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Does blogging need an ethics committee?
Quoting from Blog Ethics Committee, Blog Publishers Association, and the evil Word of Mouth Marketing folks – The Jason Calacanis Weblog – calacanis.weblogsinc.com :  Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog ethics committee…
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RFB turns two
I have to check the date, but I’m pretty sure that today is Radio Free Blogistan’s second anniversary.