Tag: memes

  • The Case Against Peace in the Middle East

    The news from the middle east over the weekend made me sad and frustrated and brought to a head some of my thoughts about the politics of the region, so I wrote a short essay at Junk Mail (The Case Against Peace in the Middle East). Then I copied it into my new “outspoken” category…

  • e-Coffee: Spend 25c to Save 5 min.?

    The Business Section of the the Rocky Mountain News has an article on Starbuck’s new experiment with online ordering in advance: In this latest version of clicks-and-bricks retail, customers order through the Internet or a cell phone, and in five minutes, their coffee’s ready at checkout. Charged to a pre-arranged credit card number, the drinks…

  • Confused by the Scandals?

    This flowchart should help you sort things out.

  • May the Best Meme Win

    Adbusters: Meme Warfare

  • May the Best Meme Win

    Seen in Adbusters: Meme Warfare suggests that it may be the memes of the western world that are outcompeting those from other cultures. Doesn’t this just shift the terminology? We’re still talking about Big Macs, the big screen, the Internet and porn, right?

  • To Blog or Not to Blog?

    Caveat Lector explores ambivalence toward blogging, also indifference to the terminology in “The Call of the Blog,” saying There is a malaise in Blogaria….

  • Instapundit.com: The Boy Who Cried "Politically Correct"

    I must sat that for a pinko-liberal I myself am leaning toward the “we must do something about Iraq” side of the equation, so that makes it double hard for me to stomach Glenn Reynolds’s put upon attitude in this post.

  • Who Inspired Your Blog?

    Who Inspired You to Blog? [xian] Might as well pump the blog meme of the moment.

  • Perfectionism = Procrastination

    Meme Trope Proof of Concept. the alternative is to hold out for perfection and omniscience at the expense of writing [Meme List] (x-pollen from my MT experiment)

  • why web journals suck: an essay

    Another classic for that online blog library (even though its name gives away its paleoblog origins) is why web journals suck.

  • TechTV | The World According to Blog

    Dave Roos, a self-described “blogging failure” wrote this amusing take on blogging for the website of the TechTV show “The Screen Savers”: Bloggers don’t appreciate press from ignorant, neophyte blog failures like myself, because blog failures like myself are prone to sweeping philosophical generalizations concerning the nature of blogging. I’ll be appearing on TSS this…

  • Meme Trope Proof of Concept

    the alternative is to hold out for perfection and omniscience at the expense of writing

  • BlogChalking

    Daniel P

  • MSNBC to Host a Blogspace

    I suppose Salon Blogs are to TableTalk as this new MSNBC blogspace will be to their bulletin boards (doubt they’re really “chat rooms” as that distinction is lost on most journalists): Blog’s the word at MSNBC.com. The news site will introduce a new Web logs section by the end of August, a move that will…

  • Great Googly Moogly!

    It’s interesting to look at who’s been googlin’ at my door. My referer logs each day list about 5-7 hits from google searches. They’ve included so far today: blogistan salon blogistan blogistan salon livejournal templates templates livejournal php mysql how to bloggers where to find lj livejournal templates Anyway, I’ve started referring to Google as…

  • Holding the Media's Feet to the Fire

    I think the bloggers vs. journalists, or bloggers = journalists, or bloggers keep journalists honest, etc., memes are well distributed and covered in the blogosphere, so I don’t know if I have much to add to that conversation right now, but Howard Kurtz at writes about the fact-checking angle in today’s WaPo.

  • Blogging Not "All That"

    To some people the flourishing of the blog meme is annoying. It’s not just the sound of the word, there’s also the ascendancy of a certain model of writing on the web. I’ve sometimes mentioned my breathing room experiment and how it was a sort of daily (if possible) meditation. An attempt at aware writing,…

  • The Case Against Blogging

    Sometimes you have to do something fully before you decide you do not want to do it. Browsing around today led me from diveintomark to zeldman and ended up reading burningbird’s farewell address. Despite a spelling peeve of mine (“compliment” where “complement” is called for), she makes a very interesting point how blogging is no…

  • PEP (Personal Expression Platform)

    For several years now I’ve been slowly spec’ing out an ideal personal publishing platform for posting a peck of pickled peppers…. Uh, sorry. No, actually I mean a system with a well designed content database at the core and a great deal of flexibility both in how to submit content (client, web, email, handheld, wireless?)…

  • "Market Fundamentalism"

    I’m starting to notice this term (market fundamentalism) cropping up more and more from the left. Did it take severe accounting scandals and a precipitous drop in the Dow to bring forth the idea that this flavor of absolutism has become gospel on the right? Speaking of the scandals, I remember when the mantra was…

  • Blog Making Sense

    Went to see Television Sunday night at the Great American Music Hall with three old friends, all of whom are fairly hip and web savvy, none of whom have ever heard the word “blog.” I explained what I could but it reminded me that while we may be around the tipping point, we’re still a…