Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Time for the healthy paranoia backlash?

    I was wondering when the recent PageRank, SearchKing-inspired, and homeland-security aware “Google as Big Brother” tremors in the force would converge on the Blogoogler deal. I started seeing it in my too much blog reading over a long Valentine’s-Day weekend and in my aggregator: Google buys Blogger. Okay – we have to feel good for…

  • Denton on Blogoogle

    Nick Denton is all over the Bloogle story. I especially like his suggestion that Google should support and open standard for weblog updates and indexing.

  • Standing Room Only at Live from the Blogosphere!

    Preliminary reports are coming in from SRO (see the entry following the one I’ve linked here as well, although he mentions sighting me—or another xian?—there when as far as I know I was still here up north at the time): Dear Bloggers: Well, the jig is up. I’ve seen you. I went to the Live…

  • Bloggle? Googer? Google buys Pyra

    Why am I always the last to know? Dan Gillmor reports that Google is buying Pyra. In the short term, the main effect will be greater stability for Blogspot users. Over at his blog, Dan is also collecting commentary from bloggers about this move. Most seem to think it’s a good fit. I wonder if…

  • xian's 115th dream

    I think I can safely file this under “blogging too much lately.” I had one of those long, convoluted dreams last night, much of which I can still remember even as the internal dream logic has started to tatter. Near the end, I was in a motel room with Mark Pilgrim. We were discussing Shirky’s…

  • Imminent death of Salon predicted —Film at 11

    Yesterday I was tipped off by the Raven about this news story in which Salon warned that it might not survive past this month (February, 2003) and that it hasn’t paid any rent on its office space since December. I dropped by the Well (which predates but is currently owned by Salon) to check in…