Tag: memes

  • Tweney on a mass-amateurization precedent (from my comments)

    Seems like today is all about followups and conversations among blogs. (For example, Mark Byron noticed my unfisking yesterday and wrote about it in his blog. My response to his response to my response to his original post can be found in his comments.) So I wanted to elevate an interesting thread from my comments.…

  • 'Weblog Handbook' slashdotted

    A positive front-page review of Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Handbook at Slashdot generates a range of responses, most of which we’ve seen before from this quarter (weblogs are over, the writing is terrible/self-indulgent, who cares what you think, what’s so hard about updating webpages, etc.). Some choice comments: Why would I care to read your stupid…

  • Take the 1990s lyrics quiz

    from Art of the Mix (via MZ): Do you remember a band called Blind Melon? Can you still rattle off the words to “Shoop” by Salt-n-Pepa? Visit this site to test your knowledge of pop and rock lyrics from the 1990s. Hint: look out for appearances from a few hip-hop and country crossover artists. From…

  • 'We only fisk the stoopid ones'

    Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well. As I study warblog jargon, I’m fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a speech by Senator Paul…

  • WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

    WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

  • And in the darkness bind them

    Allow me to acquaint you with this moment’s meme: (via plasticbag)

  • 'Who is our enemy' meme crosses to email

    An old philosophy buddy of mine sent me this e-mail message this morning, with the subject “Help me before I get hawkish”: Despite some fatuous chest-thumping about the greatness of American culture herein, I find this indictment of Arab/Islamist culture hard to argue with, along with the claims about possible Arab responses to the situation.…

  • 'Twas ever thus

    Cracking down on a thing just makes it more desirable. How many readers would have have slogged through Ulysses if it hadn’t have been banned as obscene? It looks like BEACHtechie is getting his day in the sun, following the school suspension re-reported here earlier. (“Yesterday I had more unique visitors to my blog than…

  • The case against (most) weblogs

    Charly Z of Driver 8 tipped me off this morning to a few interesting threads. First is this biting essay called either “Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs!” (according to its top header), “Why I Hate WebLogs” according to its filename, or the punch-pulling “Why I Hate (Personal) Weblogs” used in its title bar. It veers…

  • Raven spikes with tales of Irish Travellers

    In an entry called Candid Camera Raven discussed the Irish Traveller background of the caught-on-video daughter-beater named Toogood. This entry of his shows up on the first page of results of a Google search for Irish Travellers and the like. Hits ensue. Quoth the Raven: The coverage over at ABC news and also at CNN…

  • Cat meme update

    So Essential Blogging has cats on the cover, eh? Is this that the cat meme again? I’ve been trying to note when I see that meme in use these days. In print it’s hard to capture, but I have snagged these arbitrary online appearances of the cat meme: The Blog Phenomenon (PC Mag): The vanity…

  • Law firm out $2.1 million in African fraud

    Collateral damage from the Nigerian scam: The FBI said Poet, a bookkeeper for a small Berkley law firm, embezzled $2.1 million from the firm’s accounts between February and August, after scam organizers persuaded her to wire huge amounts of money to bank accounts in South Africa and Taiwan to expedite the transfer of money to…

  • 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…

  • Blogosphere Discusses Salon's Forbidden Thoughts

    Here’s the first concrete dividend from Salon’s blog initiative: Scott Rosenberg’s massively credible blog could serve as a coequal (with Instapundit) staging place for the extensive blogotastic discussion of the Salon article on forbidden thoughts about 9/11 as Glenn’s. The feedback loop provided proves to me that Salon has joined the blogosphere and is not…

  • Learning from Weblogs

    In Building New Communities: Learning from Weblogs (a PowerPoint file), Tom Coates of plasticbag.org maps out the role of personal weblogs in community-building online. He has even broken down the communities surrounding a blog into three typical categores: online shared interests, geographical commonalities, and “real life” friends and family. Why am I not surprised that…

  • Weblogged Conversation: Slow Academic Adoption of Weblogs

    Seb closes the loop on an interesting multi-weblog conversation about why weblogs have not (yet?) been widely adoped by academics as a research tool: Stephen over at Blogging Alone mentions Sébastien Paquet’s reasons why blogging has failed to become a widely accepted research tool among academia. I disagree with nearly all of these reasons. Below…