Tag: geekery

  • Don't mess with Oakland

    I told B I was going to wear my A’s cap in Austin at SXSW because it’s sunny there and I’d need an eyeshade and she thought that maybe Texans would be offended but I said that was silly. We can all represent our home towns without giving offense, right? Anyway, here I am blogging…

  • Hoder on 'Starting a Local Blogosphere' (via Joho the Blog)

    Compare Hoder’s advice (via [VBB] BridgeBlogging, an eventblog entry by David Weinberger over at the weblog of the journal of the hyperlinked organization, aka JOHO the blog) to the things Dave Pollard has been doing right here in the Salon community at his How to Save the World blog: Hoder: You can only start a…

  • No access makes the heart go flounder

    Been offline (mostly) since yesterday afternoon, with a few brief intermittent moments of access, during which I usually sent a big pile of queued up mail and tried to complete a few web-service-y actions. Line problems with my SBC DSL are the problem. I have to prove this every time by jumping through all the…

  • Insert quip about reverse-engineering USENET here

    Laura Lemay isn’t the first person to point out that the blogosphere seems to be gradually reinventing the USENET netnews feature set (feeds == usenet), but it’s fun to read her make these points: Why am I noting these things? Issues of distributing news in either a one-to-many fashion or peer-to-peer, or of uniquely identifying…

  • Cecil Vortex has a blog

    Best. Tagline. Ever.

  • Technorati synergy at bOing bOing

    Susan Mernit likes what Boing Boing is doing with their Technorati cosmos links. Mernit asked me and others to link to her entry, so that her example page at Technorati will be populated with incoming links. This also serves to demonstrate the central drawback to this innovation (that Mernit alludes to), which is that the…