Tag: memes

  • Merholz on the Panel

    In petermemes, Peter Merholz captures his impressions of the panel and dinner afterward, finding much of the discussion old hat and the journalists jaded about their own profession, except for Rosenberg: He was possibly the first “journalist” to write about weblogs, and definitely the first to do so intelligently. Scott “gets” the formal quality of…

  • Embarassing self-revelation of the day

    It was only the other night, at the weblog panel, than I finally learned how to pronounce Kuro5hin. By the way, I’d love to run some comparisons of Slash, Scoop, and Nuke sometime but I don’t have the expertise or experience to do it myself. I’ve worked with a PHP-Nuke installation, but I still don’t…

  • Nailing Jello to the Wall

    Thank goodness tweneyblog ran it down. Scot Hacker alerted me to the LJ threads where the (now familiar) anti-weblog “what’s the big deal?” backlash debate was taking place, in the blog context. I mentioned it the other day, something that made me want to start cataloguing frequent utterances about blogs (blogFU’s) such as “They just…

  • Fetish Map

    (via Rebecca’s Pocket) I can’t wait to hear reverse cowgirl’s analysis of this map.

  • Veronique De Cock explained (in English)

    Thanks to our feedback loop, Michel Vuijlsteke has cleared up the feeding frenzy around Ms. De Cock and her now-famous natural breasts (go directly to his entry to follow the many hyperlinked keywords) Veronique De Cock is a 24 year old model, former Miss Belgium (1995), sometime singer and TV presenter, organiser of Miss Antwerp…

  • It Ain't Just Berkeley

    My referrer logs today show a link from a handout (in-progress) on weblogs from a course called Introducton to Information Design at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan: One of the ongoing assignments for CM 541 is to keep a weblog. As stated on the syllabus, the point of the weblog is to provide a…