Category: Weblog Concepts

  • I use an aggregator and I vote

    Yesterday, JD Lasica published an introduction to news aggregators (“News That Comes to You”) at the Online Journalism Review. He discusses the article in his New Media Musings blog, and—as an experiment in transparent journalism—has posted the full responses of all his interviewees on two story pages also at his blog. (I am one of…

  • And then we were 9…

    Brava to the Julie/Julia Project foodie blog, which passed me yesterday in the rankings, moving me to number 8. Sometime today, the Devil’s Excrement (damn! I forgot to post the 1/23 Venezuela blog-day badge in time!) will pass me as well, leaving me in 9th place. There I will probably rest for a while, waiting…

  • Bloggers 'control' poetry?

    Ron Silliman writes on the curious interaction between the blogosphere and the poetry world.

  • 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…

  • What's the opposite of a bullet?

    I know Hugh had advised me to avert my eyes from the Salon blogs rankings, and he’s right. Any kind of RankingWatch is just bad for the soul, but I still feel inclined to note that RFB has now officially dropped to number 7 all time (and is likely to drop a few more in…

  • You Googled me?

    I get all sorts of strange search terms landing at my page, especially lately since a few of my posts on Pete Townsend’s land on Google’s first page of results when people search for him by name. Here’s an odd one, today, coming from Google’s Belgian server: Dick Cheney pedophile I assume this is just…