Category: Weblog Concepts

  • It's like watching grass grow

    Scot Hacker points to this fella’s Daily Photo Project, consisting of a daily picture of his own face with roughly the same expression. Over time you see his hair grow in between haircuts. Cool idea, especially if he can keep it up. He’s been doing it for five years already! As Scot says, “The irony,…

  • Another deadline…

    …another slow blogging day. Go read Will Blog for Food by Heather there’s no way I’ll spell her last name correctly from memory and I’m too lazy to even cut ‘n’ paste it.

  • CalPundit interviews TPM

    Kevin Drum interviews Joshua Micah Marshall about his blog, journalism, blogging, journo-bloggers, and big media. His permalinks seem to be out of whack, but it’s the newest entry at the moment, so just drop by CalPundit and look for Friday, February 7. Here’s a taste (quoting Marshall): Clearly, a number of journos are starting weblogs.…

  • Don't buy this book

    Doing a little ego-surfing the other day I found my name on an unfamiliar blog. Turns out it was an item listing books about blogging with a link to my (since-canceled) book. (Note: the title was going to be The Hidden Power of Blogging, not The Hidden Power of Blogs, but whatever.) It seems that…

  • Conversational blogging

    Steve Bowdrick writes in the Guardian (UK), that the best blogs leave room for the reader and other bloggers to complete, refute, or expand on the ideas expressed: Weblogs produce a class of conversation that is, if it works, of the highest quality, fuelled by the open-mindedness of the blogger and continually refreshed by provocation…

  • Socal envy

    Let me be the last one on my blog to link to the upcoming “Live from the Blogosphere” panel/event in LA (February 15). Looks like they’ll be all wi-fi’ed out, so we’re expecting immediate instablogging throughout, OK?