Category: Required Reading

  • 'I get it' meme update

    We’ve recently started an independent blog conference on the Well, and Salon blogger Bruce Umbaugh reminded me of a klog-related epiphany I wrote about in an entry back in August called I get it. At time I asked people to link to it as “xian gets it” but while I was correcting the permalink and…

  • Shirky on blogging and inequality

    Internet pundit Clay Shirky writes about power-law distributions and the popularity of certain blogs. He disputes the idea that there’s a specific “A-List” but says that unequal distribution of readership is inevitable. Mark Pilgrim mostly agrees. Dave Winer mostly disagrees and thinks that Clay needs to start a blog himself to truly understand the medium.…

  • Some personal guidelines for web writing

    Paul Ford publishes a list of exhortations to himself about writing for the web (at his incredible Ftrain site): This list takes the form of a set of personal, first-person statements (“I do this,” “I do that”) rather than a set of injunctions (“Do this!”, “Do that!”) because these are my guidelines, a set of…

  • Have your tickets out and ready

    I’m so out of it. After returning from a week and a half in New York I’m still reading The Gawker but without that same sense of immediacy (not that it matters where you are when you read about New York, and not that that prevents me from reading the Times, the Nation, the New…

  • Journalism is harder work than blogging

    A week has passed since the J-school panel and I’ve just now completed my subjective transcript of the panel (in two parts). [Note: At the moment Radio is unable to upstream my story files for some reason so the above links aren’t working. I’ll remove this notice when they do work and post another update.]…

  • QuickTime webcast of the Panel

    Scot Hacker posts at the birdhouse that he’s “just finished titling and encoding Weblogs — Challenging Mass Media and Society in QuickTime format for our Darwin Streaming Server. Posted both Sorenson3 and MPEG-4 versions (but no modem-friendly version, sorry).”