Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Me, I'm voting for lazy

    Jim Henley hoists the witty-yet-frequently-insufferable James Lileks by his own petard.

  • Apologies for the reruns

    For readers of my X-POLLEN blog via (an RSS) news feed, which includes LiveJournal friends reading the xpollen user Mark Pasc setup for me, I apologize for the way the feed just resent something like seventeen recent posts. I just made a minor administrivial change to this blog’s archiving nomenclature. Posts are now stored in…

  • The daily dish

    Hugh of SRO has some words for Andrew Sullivan: You’re like Joan Rivers, so enmeshed in this “Personality” you’ve created that you’ve burned your bridges and any other side of you would be a betrayal to your Fans. The fans you obviously believe you have and feel compelled to spoon feed, even when it makes…

  • Halley and Larry, sittin' in a tree…

    I’ve long been absolutely transfixed by the picture of Professor Lessig on his blog. I love that picture. Deep in thought, working like hell to get the words out on the net, pensive, focused, serious…. …dreamy? But she really loves him for his mind: It’s just about the most perfect picture of someone in the…

  • Sometimes I wish I were smart

    Then I’d really understand the apparently cool thing Sam Ruby is doing with RSS feeds to grab incoming links and excerpt them on his blog.

  • Blogware malfunctions?

    For some reason a few automated processes I rely on for my blogging are failing me today. First, when I post to a Movable Type blog and include a link to another Movable Type blog, I expect MT to “autodiscover” the ping URL for the linked post and automatically send a Trackback ping. It’s worked…