Tag: memes

  • Blogging, Trust, and Spam

    (via scriptingnews) Some thoughts on the mainstreaming of blogs and the definition of spam in this essay, Blogging, Trust, and Discovery by Bob Frankston. A sample: I find the more interesting change is in the process of discovery. Being heard against the din of all the voices is hard and we have a large industry…

  • Also Crawling the Ecosystem

    Via Backup Brain another ecosystem crawler, this one called organica.

  • Instant parody: History of Michael Jackson's Face

    The History of David Weinberger’s Face

  • Spamradio So Soothing

    I have these tapes of John Lennon reading the newspaper, making it sound like a blues or a Dylan tune. Listening to spamradio read the ads to ambient accompaniment puts me straight into an alpha state. Please specify shoe size and color … Now you can have hundreds of vendors compete for your loan ……

  • Techdirt.com

    Back when I started talking about business applications of (or lessons from) blogging, Mike Masnick sent me an interesting message about Techdirt.com, a multi-author (slashcode) technology/business news blog that’s been running continuously since 1997 (that is, since before the word blog was coined). One interesting thing is that Mike and his team managed to monetize…

  • TopStyle Blog Information

    Not working on Windows most of the time lately, I haven’t had a chance to try TopStyle yet. I wish they’d port it to OS X! Anyway, I went from some blog to the Eatonweb portal and then through the TopStyle text ad where, after reading press-release type information about using TopStyle with Dreamweaver MX,…

  • Dave Winer on Radio vs. Movable Type

    As someone else pointed out in my comments, I left out some Radio features that MT lacks. Radio’s news aggregator provides an easy way to keep up with other blogs and cross-reference them. That’s really just the tip of the iceberg, because of course Radio opens up onto a scripting environment, the OPML shared outlines,…

  • Another Blog Hiatus

    Derek Powazek writes in his personal log that he’ll be taking a break from it for a while, to pay attention to his many other irons in the fire. I respect this. Knowing when not to blog is as important as knowing when to. The daily-or-more habit is great but only if it’s working for…

  • Statements by Company CEOs and CFOs

    Last night Gwen Ifill on The Lehrer News Hour mentioned how “we” (the newsmedia, I suppose) had been glued to the SEC website all day watching the CEO and CFO filings come in. These are the certifications required by the Sarbanes law, in which the company officers must swear that their balance sheets are accurate…

  • Gizmodo: New Blog Experiment

    My agent told me yesterday that one of her other clients, Peter Rojas, was involved in a new blog called Gizmodo.com, a project of Nick Denton‘s. Because he’s getting paid (or at least partly for that reason) this new blog is the talk of blogdom. Nick has rounded up some of the latest discussion at…

  • Creatures From The Web Lagoon

    Visiting the blogging ecosystem stats page for this blog today I found some interesting in-bound links I hadn’t known about, I gather because no one has clicked on them yet. One of them features an entry linking to an article about weblogging from August 2 in the National Journal that discusses Chris Matthews’ weblog as…

  • biker magazine ads from the early 80s

    Get one fer yer favorite bitch

  • Radio vs. Movable Type

    Each of these comparisons seems to take more time than the previous one, and I’m sure as always that I’ve missed some crucial features, but this entry should serve as a good starting point for anyone making a decision. Here are some of the differences between Movable Type and Radio UserLand: Where the Client Lives…

  • More Loaded Pilots

    CNN.com reports that Mesa Airlines fired a pilot who tested positive for drinking: The incident follows two other cases involving commercial pilots allegedly drinking before flying.

  • Teardrop in Space

    An ex-coworker just sent me this site’s address by IM. Reading some of it I am reminded that not all idiosyncratic self-published writing on the Internet is in blog format. I know that’s obvious, but with blogs getting all the heat and light lately maybe I was tending to forget it. The blog is one…

  • Another 'Blog Martyr'

    Catching up at nickdenton.org I see he identifies a second “blog martyr” (after Steve Olafson): Other blog martyrs Brian Sobalak writes in to remind me that Heather Hamilton of Dooce was fired when her company discovered she’d been bitching on her site. Here’s Heather’s post on the subject. One of the most popular Google searches…

  • How to Stop Blogging

    Ben Brown (of So New Media) thinks we’re due for a book about how to stop blogging: Isn’t that the thing that like 50 people are writing 100 different books about? Seems like overkill to me. What I’d really like to see is a book about how to STOP blogging. With twelve steps. I’d really…

  • Blogging Increases Brainpower —Film at 11

    Meg’s recent column (see previous post) sports a cross-link to a May 31 item by science-fiction writer and bOing bOing editor Cory Doctorow that is also part of O’Reilly’s Blogging Essentials, due out any day now. In it he describes the benefits he derives from blogging, calling his blog his “outboard brain” (much as Dori…

  • Do We Need 'Professional' Bloggers?

    In her Megnut column at O’Reilly Net, Meg suggests that the time has come for companies to hire professional bloggers to project their news and outreach into the blogosphere: It’s time to take blogging to the next level and that starts with paying people to produce high-quality, focused blogs for commercial Web sites. Until that…

  • Lawrence Lessig's Copyright Talk

    I finally got around to playing back Lawrence Lessig’s copyright talk from the Open Source conference, following a pointer from bOingbOing. Cory is right. It’s a great talk, well honed, and one of the best slide decks of that type that I’ve ever seen. Not sure why I like it so much. Anyway, he says…

  • Keyboard for Those on the Move

    In one of my (ironically, typo-laden) earliest entries in this blog I discussed the difference between typing and writing, and the fact that I write with my left hand but type with both. The New York Times today covers a patent for a one-handed “stealth keyboard” that is more like a glove and a cylindrical…