Tag: memes

  • A Reader Writes…

    I almost feel like I have to click on you, just in the hopes you can outscore ‘pornographers picks.’ My reply: Thanks, although I hope I can attract readers based on my content, too! I see I lost ground to the pornoblog over the weekend. Well, when you’re number four you try harder! I’m not…

  • Everybody Jump Aboard the Blogtrain, Hoo-wa Hee-ya Hee-ya

    Doug Kenline: “Jumping on the blogtrain.” New meme! [Scripting News] Can the blogwagon be far behind? And “I fell off the wagon” for those dry spells when you have nothing to blog?

  • You're Soaking in It

    Hard to Know if This Would be Nice or Icky. I think I saw this Jelly Bath site at Rebecca’s Pocket. I especially enjoyed reading the Frequently Asked Questions. Current Music: Hobo Chang Ba::Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band::Trout Mask Replica

  • LiveJournal Slighted by the Blogosphere?

    decafbad follows up on Dylan Tweney’s aside (“…LiveJournal.com (which most weblog news stories overlook for some reason) boasts more than 650,000 [users]…”), asking why is LiveJournal largely ignored in coverage of blogging? But 650,000 users… that’s a lot. More than Radio and rivalling Blogger.com. Is there a real qualitative difference in writing between the groups?…

  • Play Ball

    Baseball deal reached, games on [USA Today]

  • Darwin: Reload: The Blog Days of Summer

    Darwin Magazine offers some conventional wisdom on this moment in hype/backlash about blogging. (That doesn’t look like a permalink.) Mentions Andrew’s Dreaming of China blog.

  • Zeldman Recommends Tables

    Let the religious war end. With the wit and panache we’ve become accustomed to, Zeldman discusses real-world pragmatic choice for commercial web design or the development of any site that wishes to be presentable and accessible to as wide an audience as possible. As ugly as hacking and debugging nested tables can get, let’s admit…

  • Ego is Latin for I

    I seem to be breaking a cardinal rule of starting a lot of sentences and paragraph with the word I and using the I-word frequently throughout my posts. I lost count of the number of times I used the word I in the previous entry. I seem to remember reading somewhere that overuse of the…

  • Cultivate Interactive Issue 5: A Vision of Improvements

    Onward toward the semantic web! Here’s an article proposing methods to make the Web more structured and more personalized. Any article that includes the concept of meta-meta-services is all right by me, even when the author’s first name isn’t Christian. Here’s the tip of the iceberg: Users (other than the author) and groups of users…

  • Quoting, Proofreading, Attribution

    Much of my browsing these days start in my referrer logs. If someone has linked to Radio Free Blogistan then there’s a chance they’re writing about stuff I’d be interested in. Today this practice took me to Seb’s Open Research, an immediate keeper, with links to good pieces about why certain professions (journalists, educators) have…

  • What Ever Happened to Walter Miller?

    Does anyone remember Walter Miller’s hilarious website? That was kind of a blog, wasn’t it? It was updated regularly with accounts of a supposedly true life. It may have been fiction (at least I hope it was: Walter’s grandfather sounded pretty evil) and it predated the blog boom and all, but it had that same…

  • Looking Up Blogs at Eatonweb

    Brig at Eatonweb posted to this comment thread about where and how to find philosophy blogs and she admitted to being a bit miffed both by my original post and by the fact that no one in the comment thread had suggested Eatonweb. I did not mean to give offense. I was really just being…

  • If I Ever Get Tired of Doing This

    I could always just sit back and read boingboing, let Cory do all the work. I don’t know Cory, by the way, I just like calling him by his first name so it seems like I know him and so must be cool like him. I haven’t read his new story at Salon yet. Is…

  • Blogging Network Debate at Daily Pundit

    William Quick announced Daily Pundit Premium and introduces the business model of Blogging Network. (Subscribers pay $2.99 for unlimited access to network blogs. 50% of this goes to upkeep. The other half is prorated among the blogs the subscriber actually reads.) The interesting part is the extensive comments section. Collectively, people are grasping with two…

  • Clarifying IP Metaphors

    Jonathan Peterson weighs in at way.nu on the debate about intellectual property, copyright, and source code pinging around the blogosphere these days: I think Doc’s tendency to not pour any more legal epoxy on top of the sand foundation of our software intellectual property is a good idea. Technical solutions and protections are one possible…

  • The Web Credibility Project: Guidelines – Stanford University

    Reading Spartaneity drew my attention back to Stanford’sWeb Credibility Project where you can read detailed explanations of and research behind these guidelines: Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there’s a real organization behind your site. Showing that your web site is for a legitimate organization will…

  • One-a-Day Plus

    I was surprised to read that Wired chastised Michael Rogers for only updating his Practical Futurist blog once a day. Isn’t once a day plenty? I don’t promise to even manage that. Sure, I’ve been posting four to seven times a day in this blog, but face it: I’m in the enthusiastic phase and I’ve…

  • Tracking and Graphing Memes

    Waxy.org demonstrates how to use Google’s Usenet archive to track memes, in this case, the “All Your Base’”meme. This is precisely what I intended to do with memewatch.com. I think the phrase I first wanted to plot this way was “six degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Here’s the tricky thing: not all memes equate to phrases.…

  • Memetics Experiment

    It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it. A memetics experiment — pass it along. Life in the Aggregator. An Experiment: Life in the Aggregator. How far can it travel?  Please play by passing it along, including all source links… [jenett.radio] I’m willing to play [McGee’s Musings] There we go. [via Seb’s Open…

  • Reports of the Death of Publishing Greatly Exaggerated

    Don Park responds to Ray Ozzie’s obituary for publishing, saying “Publishing is not dead.” I would tend to agree. Publishing is definitely sick, buffeted by unfamiliar pressures, in disarray, due for some changes, racing to keep up with technology changes, slow to adopt technology. Publishing is many things. (I feel mildly qualified to comment myself…

  • Tweney Understanding Weblogs

    Dylan Tweney has summarized some of the recent thinking on weblogs (overlapping with many of the recent links posted here) in an article in which he also discusses realizing the personal knowledge-management benefits of keeping a weblog: In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for personal knowledge management as…