Tag: memes

  • What She Said

    reverse cowgirl once again has the best critique around of the smarly little “chat” between Sullivan and Andersen at Slate: under the MSN umbrella, Anderson and Sullivan sit muttering about blogging before a pre-packed audience, waiting for a pre-decided upon paycheck, generating prose to be processed by a pre-ordained editor. in all its dull lifelessness,…

  • Daypop Down

    Not only does Daypop seem to be down (via blogpopuli via Spartaneity), but it also seems as though porno spammers have figured out how to use Blogger to ping weblogs.com.

  • Why I Love the Two-Way Web

    Briefly, my post about blogging over the modem here generated directions to a nearby cybercafe and an invitation to come over and use someone’s wireless/cable access. Pretty friendly town this Internet.

  • Myelin Blog Comment Monitor

    Cool, whatever Phil did to fix the comment monitor for non-IE browsers also fixed it for my IE/Mac browser.

  • Blogging and Writing ELO Chat

    Blogging and Writing September 15 featuring Doug Lawson, Mark Bernstein, and Adrian Miles. [artsflow]

  • Rough Survey of Greater Blogistan

    I am a johnny-come-lately when it comes to using “Blogistan” as part of a web site’s monicker so I feel guilty and glad when people like dave winer and dylan tweney add me to their blogrolls as just Blogistan, but it does appear that Google now thinks this site is the second most likely place…

  • Heady Company (Navelgazing)

    From blo.gs: related blogs: #1 Scripting News #2 Boing Boing Blog Blogroots megnut evhead kottke.org rebecca’s pocket CamWorld Theory. It’s all reflected glory from that number one association. (Dave is the only one among this A list who has linked to me…)

  • Times Daily Blogwatch

    As a memewatch project I’d love to see stats on the appearance of the word “blog” in the New York Times. It seems that there is an article with a blog angle just about every day. Today’s is about LiveJournal: All kinds of people maintain pages on LiveJournal, but the site’s own statistics show that…

  • Two Links from the Virtual Chase

    From explodedlibrarian.info (via Research News: The Virtual Chase) come two good blog-related links: On the Net’s The Blog Realm about blogs as a source of information for librarians, and as a content-management solution.(Basic stuff for any experienced blogger but good introa and a reminder that this stuff still requires explaining on a daily basis.) SearchEngineBlog,…

  • Boycotting Best British Blog Bake-off

    plasticbag offers a javascript tag for British blogs not participating in the Guardian’s “Best British Weblog” contest: The “Not the Best” project is really simple. It’s a tiny piece of code that post or stick in your template that will add the “Not the Best” box onto your site. The box includes a link to…

  • With Blinders On

    Still not getting it, in the second day of this shortened week of pretend email messages, Andersen responds to some conciliatory comments from Sullivan with a journalist-centric view of blogging pro and con: Proof that blogs are not scalable conceptually: As an informing principle for an entire daily newspaper, fear and loathing of the New…

  • Meryl on Blogging Communities

    If I weren’t traveling today (jetBlue to NY), I’d probably get beyond covering this one dialogue. Here’s a good contribution from Meryl Yourish: And you’re right that blogging is mostly an individual sport, but I think I probably should have explained “community” a bit more. Your site is part of what’s often called the “warblogger”…

  • Sullivan/Andersen Revisited

    reverse cowgirl has the best summary I’ve seen yet of the weblog discussion in Slate. Some excerpts: …then Mr Sullivan says he likes to blog because he hates people. and editors. then he says he would like to have sex with Moby… after that, Sullivan says that people are interesting … Andrew confesses he blogs…

  • Pingable Metablogs

    With the standalone Track Back release it should be incrementally easier to build metablogs like the KMpings page for collecting (aggregating) posts on a specific topic or theme from multiple contributors. I should be doing this already with my cat meme sitings page (and memewatch in general: just thought of what the sideblog should be).…

  • Oldest Living Blog Tells All

    Topic: Commentary and Essays on Life and Events, founded 1932. (via Ev’s head)

  • Dancing about Architecture

    Kung Fu Grippe has a surefire way of filtering meta-meta-meta-weblog discussions. Replace “blog” with “trampoline” and book with “breakdancing contest”: There were a few amusing essays in We’ve Got Trampoline—Julian Dibbell’s “Portrait of the Trampoliner as a Young Man,” and Tim Cavanaugh’s “Let Slip the Trampolines of War,” for example—but both these old-school throwdowns struck…

  • Ouch

    This is still sinking in: If we had put the capital we raised into Treasury bills, we’d have had $1.5 million a year in income, with which we could’ve employed and published our best dozen reporter-commentators forever. Idea for essay: How Writers Blew It During the Dotcom Bubble.

  • First Set of Weblog Books Criticized

    Charly Z tipped me off to this diss-cussion of the two Perseus blog books from Andrew Sullivan and Kurt Andersen in Slate today. Sullivan trots out most of the usual criticisms you hear about books that address online technology or trends: It’s almost silly to write a dead-tree book about blogs anyway, don’t you think?…

  • BlogHog > Top Blogs

    What does it mean that I’m no. 16 on this list (per datestamp)? It seems like heady company for shucks ol’ me. What is the profile of a BlogHog user? Is there a bias in the data? Does it reward recentness (all my youthful vigor vs. jaded just-you-wait-kid-ism)? Why do I never RTFM? For what…

  • Snapshot of Blog Tool Mindshare

    When Megan Morrone of the Screen Savers leaves a “stay tuned” note in her LiveJournal hinting at plans to change blog tools, the comments section lights up with posts praising Movable Type (including a “hard to install” “not rocket science” side argument), LiveJournal (but not many) and Radio. I didn’t see mention of Blogger or…

  • Radio Free Blogistan: China Bureau

    RFB accessible in China as of this date stamp: Starting testing… Stage one testing complete. Stage two testing complete. Testing complete for http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/. Result: Reported as accessible in China Is your site accessible in China?