Tyler Cowen’s Open Secret

July 30, 2007 – 9:15 pm

Tyler Cowen should have a talk with John Gruber.

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Chris Marker invented Blogs, so there.

July 17, 2007 – 12:15 am

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.

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Ed Vielmetti on 10 Things You Need To Know When You Start Your Next Blog

May 2, 2007 – 11:16 pm

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 not getting [...]

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WaJaGDH

April 29, 2007 – 10:22 pm

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]

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Virginia Tech

April 17, 2007 – 1:53 pm

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.

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I’ve got a badger on my site now.

April 10, 2007 – 10:05 pm

Comment Policy: I’ll use s/[aeiou]+//gi on your comment if warranted.

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Scripting News at Ten

April 2, 2007 – 8:27 pm

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.

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It’s Not Funny

March 26, 2007 – 9:57 pm

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 this [...]

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I’m a 10th Level Link Blogger

March 11, 2007 – 12:10 pm

Liz Henry: Ted Nadeau says our non-monetary assets are: Identity, Attention, Intention, Influence, Reputation. (In addition to Str Dex Int Wis Con Cha.)

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Flutterby Anniversary

February 22, 2007 – 12:24 am

Congratulations to Dan Lyke and crew at Flutterby. Their site turns 9 this month.

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This Machine Kills Orphans

December 13, 2006 – 9:10 am

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.

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Saying No to Noise

December 6, 2006 – 2:51 pm

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.

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Acronym Convergence

November 2, 2006 – 10:26 am

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.

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Scale and Community Matter

October 24, 2006 – 10:09 pm

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 I [...]

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The State of Screen Scraping

August 8, 2006 – 11:14 pm

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 ago:

A [...]

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