Category: Weblog Concepts

While one technically savvy core of the blogosphere strives to develop structure and hierarchies and semantic richness, the leading edges of the churning cloud of webloggers is all about flow. One reason why blogging works as well as it does for a growing number of people is that the barriers to entry are low and…

True to his word, William Gibson has taken a hiatus from blogging to focus on his next novel. This interests me because I have ongoing fiction and other narrative projects of my own and I can’t figure out if I’m in the Cory Doctorow school of composting ideas in a blog or the William Gibson…

Dropping by Uppity-Negro, I learned of an ongoing discussion of black identity in the blogosphere that gets into a fairly sophisticated analysis of how A-List bloggers suck up memeshare in their perceived demographic. As with gay bloggers, as a formal outsider I generally don’t feel like it’s my place to discuss postulated subgrouping of bloggers…

Richard Soderberg picks up on something Joi Ito posted that posited the idea of Amazon blogs, writing: Amazon blogs would be a wonderful thing to watch, in the form of “25 most recent posts”; each post is a book review, with in-built Amazon linkage for easy wishlist access. As a side benefit, I’d be exposed…

This Pirate Kills Fascists: feed: URL Scheme Specification

Well, I realize that my tutorial from 1 PM to 4:30 PM today may be only for the diehards to stay at conferences through the final afternoon of the final day and risk their weekends to squeeze out some extra drops o’ learning. I’m hoping to put on a good show. I realized from Bill…