Category: Weblog Concepts

  • The big exhalation

    As the year winds down, I find I have a surfeit of interesting things to think, write, and talk about but an overwhelming desire to sit and stare at a fireplace warmed only by a string of chili lights. I’ll be in New York for about a week before Christmas, returning to Oakland on the…

  • Gender irrelevant to blogging?

    In The Aardvark Speaks, Horst Prillinger continues the discussion of blogging and gender prematurely declared over by Instapundit, taking issue with the Cowgirl’s assertion that “the ideal outcome in terms of blogs and bloggers in the blogosphere’s future would be the cultivation of more blogs that wholly transcend the very genders of their authors.” Nope.…

  • Are the sweepstakes closed?

    The Reverse Cowgirl was looking for a name for her blog’s upcoming TV show. She may have settled on Oh, Susannah! If the contest is still open, I have a new idea. How about Frighten the Horses? (Anyway, I like it better than my first suggestion, Ye Olde Pervert’s Almanack.) For what it’s worth, and…

  • Blogging my dog ears

    All my life, I’ve turned down the page at the corner of the book I’m reading whenever a passage of writing strikes me in some particular way: as writing itself, or because it confirms or disputes some ongoing argument I’m having with myself. The gesture is vestigial, the first step in highlighting or underlining, annotating…

  • Another dirty blog

    What do you call a garden blog written by two people, discussing their plans, decision, thoughts, reflections, illustrated with digital images of the two gardens or the plants in them, with links to other gardening resources and the few (very few) other easily-findable examples of literate garden writing online? Briggs and Rich call it True…

  • Cowgirl instalanched, coattails for Salon bloggers: minimal

    Dave Winer’s link to RCB’s take on Lisa Guernsey’s article (why does Guernsey have two blog addresses, one at Salon and one not?) got picked up by Instapundit, who declared it “the final word” on the subject. She’s a rawk staw I tell you. Meanwhile, I’ve been meaning to post about Halley’s Comment and SRO…