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Weblogging

Tyranny of the commons

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Steve Himmer asks some good questions about weblogging community and sticky strands. In particular he writes:   What do we [have to] do with the blogger uninterested in linking, or more specifically to this conversation, uninterested in joining a wider web of community? … The blogger who writes, even cites, but does […]

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Weblogging

Comments are not always a joy

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It wouldn’t be fair of me to push both comments and trackback without mentioning the downside of both. Well, the downside of comments primarily. It’s funny, but people think that comments are nothing more than a way for yay-sayers to stroke the weblogger, and this can be true with some […]

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Weblogging

Sticky strands

I received a trackback ping from Jonathon Delacour who writes about tracking and lies:   I have no idea—to be honest, I don’t really care—whether TrackBack will enable us to establish a more “truthful” web but it does seem to hold out the promise of allowing us to create more nuanced and inclusive relationships than a web […]

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Weblogging

See? Told ya

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Writing

Season

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 […]