BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Just had an earthquake — my first San Francisco earthquake. Strange experience! Not a biggie — but shook the apartment. I’ve never been through one of the Seattle quakes, so this was my first earthquake. The ground does roll, doesn’t it? more on the quake at USGS and SF Gate. Update — I was the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At first I thought the Weblog Foundation was a joke, but additional reading showed me that, no, this guy’s serious. And so are the people who’ve been responding to the suggestion. A Foundation that will do, among other things: Provide honorariums for deserving webloggers Provide hardware and software to support webloggers Provide […]
The more I read the CNN article, the more I think that every last bit of it was deliberately contrived to generate noise among weblogging users. And a quick peek at Daypop and Blogdex only supports this. If you deconstruct it, the interview is perfectly created to push at least one buzz button within each weblogger, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the comments attached to my previous posting on the weblogging’s influence on Google, I found the most telling line from Elaine: So, with Googlewhacking, like lobbying, our sense of what’s ethical should prevail. Our sense of what’s ethical? Our sense of “ethics” is ruled by bias, prejudice, bigotry, elitism, self-interest, and […]