Category: Weblog Concepts

An HP Labs article called Semantic Blogging for Bibliography Management argues for piggybacking semantic metadata on “a very successful paradigm for lightweight publishing.”

While the power was off in Ann Arbor, Mitten was doing some analog blogging.

Radio Free Blogistan and most of my other sites are hosted on a server in New York City that is currently offline because of the blackout, and probably will be till Monday. Hence this site.

I need to read Shelley’s book, because I’m still fairly clueless about RDF. While I think it’s silly to harp on colons in the format (would <a:href> really be all that hard to type or understand if that had been the format for HTML?), I have some vague sense that resistance to RDF along the…

Looks like ABCnews is carrying some TechTV articles, such as this one about an unfaithful blogger who posted to a private anonymous journal about her infidelity but forgot to clear her browser cache. Personal to the author of the article, it’s Justin Hall, not Jason.

Rageboy describes himself to his fantasy woman and suddenly groks the true future of blogging, where it recedes once again out of the vulgar public sphere and returns once again to where it always belonged: sweet one-on-one pillow-talk lies, snuggled down deep and comfy between creamy satin sheets. Dig it.

I think no weblogger should ever feel the need to apologize for not posting something to their blog ever day, least of all the big Z.

While waxing prolix over on my personal journal friends and family deep thoughts and vacation schedules blog about hearing people singing words I wrote just a week or two ago (it’s freaky), I stumbled across the secret of blogging: By the way, you know what the secret of blogging is? You just put a stake…

In rules? i don’t need no stinkin’ rules!, Liz Lane Lawley questions the proliferation of ethical rules, guidelines, and suggestions for weblogging, seeing them as overly declarative and restrictive for a medium that is so self-directed and self-correcting: I don’t want a rulebook. I have my own sense of right and wrong in my head,…

Amit Kothari tells me he’s set up a weblog as a travelogue (a travelblog? travel(bl)og? travelog?) for his upcoming trip called Welcome to Europe 2003. This seems like a natural use for a short-lived or one-off weblog. I remember Philip Greenspun’s Travels with Samantha as one of the first proofs-of-concept for a creative interweb. Amit…

I wish there was some easy way to see if a bunch of TypePad users are commenting on the template builder since that’s the feature we’re allowed to discuss today? Has anyone built a bunch of links to such entries? I’d like to read other people’s opinions. I guess I’ll be messing with my design…

Scot Hacker’s getting the comment spam (such as a link to a zip-code lookup service) at his Birdhous blog and he thinks he knows why: So essentially someone is hijacking my comments system (and probably lots of other blogs’ comments systems) to abuse Google’s algorithms.

Chasing Daisy is propagating Robb’s Law: Quote of the day.

Sam Ruby has a policy for his blog’s comment section. He edits comments he considers flames with strikethrough and coloring and makes them link to his policy page. Mark Pilgrim uses a similar policy at his weblog. Danny Ayers’ policies sort of do the opposite. He boldfaces flames and obscenities because, “[t]hey’re likely to be…

Many webloggers have noted the value of blogging in support of a book (or a writing career in general). Ben Kerschberg, whose Piercing the Veil is a memoir of his experience with attempted suicide, mental illness, and hospitalization, is one such writer. As he puts it when describing his book: Ben Kerschberg knew at age…

Mark Siegel writes in his 19th Floor Blog about being disabled, blogging, and the importance of accessibility. I’m packing for my return flight from JFK to OAK, so no commentary, but I thought this lead (from the Reverse Cowgirl) was a good one, deserving of immediate notice.

Tom Coates (who has stealthily added visible titles to his blog posts recently) is having trouble taking the necho kerfluffle seriously. Jack Mottram says the side in any debate that most closely resembles darling little pixies must be right, and denies that this test was designed specifically with the Trotts in mind. (I’m sure Mena’s…

Does filtering or re-sorting the contents of a blog site make the sequence of entries any less a weblog if the reverse-chron order isn’t maintained? Anil Dash notes (and I believe there’s a consensus for this) that entries, or posts, are the fundamental weblog particle. Less clear, he says, is the question of the reverse-chronological…

Elizabeth Lane Lawley (question, is it overly familiar to refer to a weblogger by the name they sign their posts with – that is, would it be forward to have started my lead with “Liz Lawley writes…”?) writes in here mamamusings blog about the coming “aoling” of the blogosphere when weblogs hit critical mass an…

Chuqui at Teal Sunglasses (whom I first read when he was active in several Usenet communities) writes a “Dear Dave” letter expressing his own view of the personality politics in the weblog leadership world lately: Blogging has grown up. it doesn’t need a parent any more, it needs a friend.