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Tyler Cowen should have a talk with John Gruber.
After reading about the kerflufle over who was the first weblogger, I was amused to hear an appreciation of director Chris Marker on Fresh Air that describes his 1983 film Sans Soleil as blog-like. Bonus: a transcript of Sans Soleil.
Ed Vielmetti writes 10 Things You Need To Know When You Start Your Next Blog. In comparison to Mark Bernstein’s Writing the Living Web, Ed’s piece has more tactical advice: matching blog software to your style of writing, picking good titles, writing for an audience that will drop in via search. But they agree on [...]
If you had told me, nine years ago, that there would be a print magazine on weblogs, I would had have laughed and asked, but why? [via Melinda Casino]
As you’d guess, people are already using Monday’s massacre as a bloody shirt for their causes. Teresa had to delete one such cause from a comment thread.
Comment Policy: I’ll use s/[aeiou]+//gi on your comment if warranted.
My belated congratulations to Dave Winer on ten years of blogging. Scripting News inspired me to create my own blog, and the larval form of this weblog was generated by a Frontier script I’d run after updating an outline of links.
The threats made against Kathy Sierra are vile, disgusting, and not uncommon. For instance: Ginmar, an Iraq war veteran, receives hateful comments and threats every day. Min Jung Kim writes about the constant barrage of stalkers and creepy comments she receives. I heard about Ms. Sierra canceling her ETech presentation when Liz Henry IM’ed me [...]
Liz Henry: Ted Nadeau says our non-monetary assets are: Identity, Attention, Intention, Influence, Reputation. (In addition to Str Dex Int Wis Con Cha.)
Congratulations to Dan Lyke and crew at Flutterby. Their site turns 9 this month.
You see, since I don’t run Google ads on my blog, I’m letting orphans starve. The stupid. It burns! [ Via Chuq Von Rospach] ETA Ob Cat and Girl Cartoon.
Rafe does the right thing: To make a long story short, I’m not taking the money. I love the Web too much to take money to improve the search engine rankings of spammers. I’ll have more to say about this later.
Anil Dash mentions the rise of the term TL;DR: the self-describing acronym for short attention spans in “social networking.” The antecedent to that one is RAEBNC, from APA hacking (what we did in fandom before rec.arts.sf.fandom and Live Journal). It’s not new, Anil, it’s just that the cycles are shorter.
Hearing about Chris Clarke shutting down his blog reminded me again of why I’m ambivalent about comments on weblogs, though not as adverse as Mark Bernstein. If a site focuses on a community, or if the readers care about reputation and relationships with the other readers, then comments can add value to a weblog. If [...]
During all this recent excitement about using hAtom to generate feeds, I’d forgotten that I wrote about the concept nearly three years ago when I was getting ready to talk about syndication at Seybold SF. While providing a purpose-built (ahem, Atom) feed remains the best answer, hAtom offers two things we didn’t have three years [...]