Tag: memes

  • Happy Birthday, Blogger

    Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, you sparked a revolution, happy birthday to you: Is today the third birthday of Blogger? According to my archive, it is. Congrats! [Scripting News]

  • Ping Pong with Cruftbox and Book Blogs

    After speculating that one of the precursors of blogs was the ubiquitous .plan files of the early Unix-heavy Internet, Cruftbox has posted a roundup of sites that linked to the theory: I was also surprised to see links from two places I had never heard of before, Weblog Bookwatch and All Consuming. Both sites appears…

  • NY Times: A Nation of Bloggers

    For the quickdraw file: With B back from her writing retreat I’m in full domestic mode this morning, grinding coffee beans, squeezing oranges, and making up some oatmeal from steel cut oats. She’s reading the New York Times and calling out interesting copy (“Bush calls for more logging to prevent wildfires,” etc.). She notices in…

  • Electronic Literature Directory Again Open to New Listings

    The ELO’s Electronic Literature Directory is now once more allowing authors to log in and update their listings: If you’re not yet listed in the Directory but should be, please request a listing and an account. In the past we’ve been very slow to respond to requests for accounts, but we now have a staff,…

  • Chronicle Looks at Hollywood Blogs (Sort of)

    In “Weblogs of the Stars” the S.F. Chronicle discusses Wil Wheaton and RuPaul along with some clearly not-really-blog fansites for a few other celebrities

  • Why Does Newsweek Spell Blog-osphere Like That (With a Hyphen)?

    Just got around to reading

  • Bruce Sterling's Contrarian View of Open Source

    More required reading here for keeping up with the ongoing dialogue in blogspace. It doesn’t surprise me that science fiction writers like Sterling and Cory are playing such a big role in shaping the emerging philosophy of this internetworked world we’re building. I’ve always felt that my hypergeek years of reading sci-fi from Bradbury, Asimov,…

  • Correction: Christian X Never Wore Yellow Star

    Pushing rectangles takes exception with my “to the ramparts” melodrama about the plight of Davezilla: I am not a lawyer… but I don’t know that any of these chuckleheads are, either. The way trademark protection works, you need to actively police the usage of your marks. This is in contrast to copyright where protection extends…

  • Everything Burns's Memetracking 'Zeitgeist' Page

    I love the way this page illustrates numbers-of-hits as font size! The search terms are great too. I have to ask him how he does it.

  • Is This How My Mind Works?

    One the first page of Google results for “Radio Free Blogistan” yields an entry in the Fierce Highway blog, about an online music format. Now here’s the weird thing. The post immediately before that is called Navel Gazing. So now I’m wondering. Is this (a) a coincidence, (b) something I picked up subliminally on earlier…

  • New Derivation from 'Wardriving' and 'Warchalking': 'Warstorming'

    All this war- stuff is making me nervous! Warflying or warstorming: spotting networks from the air: Over Perth, they spotted 90 networks. Does this mean we now need warweatherballoons to mark networks? Jason Jordan wrote to note: I reckon we’re the first to brag about going “War Storming”. That’s a phrase I’ve coined to describe…

  • Freudian Typos (Recursive)

    Scanning my headlines page just now I noticed for the first time an inadvertantly suggestive error* (what I’ve called in the past a Freudian typo): Gnosis Coints Masturblogging Put aside for the moment the philosophy-major angle that I am masturblogging right now by linking to my post about the word masturblogging. Ignore my oh-so-clever James…

  • Latent Meme?

    I’m a little surprised that no warblogger has yet coined the term blogshevik to redbait the vast left-wing conspiracy in greater blogistan. At least, the Goog has never heard of it: Did you mean:bolshevik

  • I get it

    It just clicked for me. Many facets just snapped together into focus. One, explaining why I post in so many different blogs (channels, brands), that almost promiscuous thrill of starting a new blog at the drop of a hat. Another, some recent conversations with business people who understand blogging and are using its process-flow as…

  • Differences between Weblogs and Bulletin Boards

    I had an interesting conversation with Dave Winer the other day, partly prompted by the drafting of my product comparison into the vendetta of his anonymous detractors against him. The ability of commenting visitors to attack, highjack, or derail a weblog have led Dave to conclude that the two media (weblogs and online discussions) are…

  • The questions Jeeves is answering right now

    Where “right now’” is defined as a 30-second envelope around the time I posted this: Where can I buy Amish products online? Where can I learn about the sexual practice oral sex? Where can I find a map of the state California? Where can I find tour information for the band or musician Eminem? Where…

  • Google Search: navel gazing

    Doing my homework (reading blog reviews of Rebecca Blood’s weblog handbook), I encountered Cruftbox passing off a disgression as “navel gazing.” Having just titled a recent post with that phrase, I went into memewatching mode and decided to Google it. Lo and behold, a table of contents from Enterzone was on the first page of…

  • Bloggers on the Air

    Uppity-Negro notes that James Lileks (Bleat) and Rebecca Blood (Rebecca’s Pocket) were both recently interviewed on radio: The similarities of the questions, and the basic content of some of the answers, is actually a bit scary. Except when Rebecca says it, it makes sense. Not that I’m biased or anything. [via Uppity-Negro.com]

  • We Are All -zilla's Now

    Stavros the Wonderchicken has rechristened his site emptybottlezilla.org, rewriting all the supporting copy in a lawyer-baiting frenzy. Remember how the King of the Danes (or was it the Dutch?) had himself televised wearing the yellow star the day the Nazis (forgive me mnemonic) rolled them out? When they came for the -zillas I said nothing,…

  • Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp

    As I just posted about in my artsflow blog, Andrew Stafford has built a fascinating Flash website called Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp, in which he employs this interactive medium to illustrate and contextualize the works of one of the 20th century’s most penetrating artists. The navigation for the site is a timeline, and Stafford…

  • Virtual We've Got Blog

    plasticbag rounds up the webby versions of all the essays in We’ve Got Blog. Just one entry later he also defines blogrolling (thiat is I think plasticbag.org is a ‘he’—I should check that), particularly for the U.K. blogging audience (and cites what is also my own preferred folk etymology, from logrolling).