Loren Webster has been providing reviews of poetry by Archibald MacLeish, interspersed occasionally with lyrics from Van Morrison. These have become my calm, quiet moments in an otherwise stressful, somewhat jagged-edged day. Not being one for poetry, or at least, I assumed I wasn’t one for poetry, I found myself surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed […]
Day: January 5, 2003
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The year of linking dangerously
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I feel it it my bones: 2003 will be the Year of Linking Dangerously. It will be the year that we reject page ranks and popularity-based ‘s/he with the most links bubbles to the top of the heap’ skimmers. It’s in the air. It’s viral. It’s contagious. Hold your breath or […]
I’m firing on all (one) cylinder today. Sam Ruby references a citation at Simon Willison, who quotes Tantek: “…we now have Trackback and Pingback to help automate generating comment hyperlinks to blog-on-blog commentary. While I certainly applaud these efforts at automating the plumbing, I must ask – why is there any distinction in the presentation? I ask […]
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Tying communication threads together
A discussion broke out at Sam Ruby’s talks about weblog popularity. In particular, Jim Winstead wrote: The navel-gazing among some webloggers is pretty monumental, and systems like technorati, blogdex, and popdex reflect that. I agree with Jim. As I mentioned in my own post, Third Generation of Weblogging, following an analogy of human growth to weblogging generations, […]