Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Stroll through my neighborhood

    An odd referrer led me to Dive into Mark’s weblog neighborhood deriver (written in Python). My neighborhood is fairly star-spangled. As usual, I’ll chalk this up mostly to generous linkage from Scripting News, along with some recent links to and from megnut and Rebecca’s Pocket.

  • Turning data into information

    Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov’s Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information: Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or anything of the sort…

  • Comment monitor updates via RSS

    Also on the Driver 8 tip, another entry notes that Phil Pearson has “a new version of his comment monitor … that will update me on new comments on my blog… through the RSS aggregator.”

  • The case against (most) weblogs

    Charly Z of Driver 8 tipped me off this morning to a few interesting threads. First is this biting essay called either “Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs!” (according to its top header), “Why I Hate WebLogs” according to its filename, or the punch-pulling “Why I Hate (Personal) Weblogs” used in its title bar. It veers…

  • Subjective Transcript of the Panel

    Upstreaming problems defeated, the two-part transcript of the September 17, 2002, Berkeley J-school weblog panel is now available: Weblog Panel, Part 1 Weblog Panel, Part 2

  • October 5 weblog panel in Chicago

    All About Weblogs announces an upcoming program on October 5, at 2 pm, at the Sulzer Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 4455 N. Lincoln Ave.: I’ll explain what a weblog is, what types and genres of weblogs exsist, taking the audience on a short tour to a few of my favorites. I’ll explain…