Category: Weblog Concepts
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Radio silence
I’m bringing my server down for maintenance. You can only hack my home page so many times (three, to be exact) before I decide to do something about it. My sysadmin/friend/host Jeff Tiedrich will be updating our Linux install from an old Slackware version to a more recent Red Hat version said to have more…
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Sell, sell!
Tom Coates has de-listed RFB from his coveted small blogroll over at Plasticbag. Thus we may have reached a high point in our blogshares standings after a fairly steep runup this past month or so. Hey, I warned y’all work was going to cut into my blogging!
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Dave damns Six Apart with faint praise
Dave often complains when people praise Six Apart products that Userland offered whatever feature in discussion years ago. Maybe that’s not the point? Or maybe people are just jealous because he’s rich and influential? (He also likes to use Manila sometimes as his counterexample against Movable Type when people make comparisons, but Manila is not…
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Nevermore?
One of this space’s favorite blogs, more of a daily news commentary column really, is going at least on hiatus: Death and Blogs. In this case, it’s us. The Raven bows out now, and hopes you’ve enjoyed reading this Weblog as much as we’ve enjoyed writing it. For now, it’s time to focus on other…
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metageneric antiblog spot
Heading making clever pun on ‘blog’: i’m a journalist. see my daring posture vis-a-vis blogs: they are too influential to too small a group of people. popular bloggers are bad and the taste of the blogosphere is incorrect or corrupted. google is making things worse. it’s giving me opinions when i expect primary sources. me…
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Get your facts straight
I’m getting tired of these “anti-blog screed so please, bloggers, all link to me” pseudcontrarian protobacklash articles. Most of them are as glib and boring as the worst blogs and they don’t tend to even get the facts right. For example in, Blog eats blog, the author talks about ETCon and A List bloggers, writing…