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Weblogging

Singing the blues

Congratulations to Sheila Lennon who will be on the Flogging the Blogs: Debating Best Practices panel at the ONA conference in Chicago. She joins some well known luminaries such as Andrew Sullivan, Tom Regan, Jeff Jarvis, and Esther Dyson as they take apart publications and their online presence. Sheila has never been in Chicago before and is […]

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Connecting Semantics Weblogging

The value of human on a humanless web

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger responded to my discussion yesterday about semantic web compared to Semantic Web: So, if the semantic web means only that we’re learning to understand ourselves better on the Internet, or even that we often adopt similar terms and rhetoric, then, yes, the Web is constantly semantically webbing itself. And if […]

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Political

American comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I only show comments on recent posts in my sidebar, but I may change because I’ve been getting a lot of interesting comments on older posts lately. I think the pickup drivers who have a confederate flag in the back of their trucks have discovered weblogging. For instance, in Ladylike Behavior, […]

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Photography Weblogging

B-loglines and B-rocks

I’ve never been one for aggregators, until Bloglines. I love Bloglines, I really do. I can access it from both my Dell laptop and my TiBook, and even my roommate’s laptop if need be. The interface is clean and easy to work with, and there’s no fancy moving parts to get in the way of what […]

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Semantics

A semantic conversation

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When Clay Shirky’s paper on Semantic Weblogging first came out and I saw the people referencing it, I thought, “Oh boy! Fun conversation!” But that was before I saw that many of the links to Clay’s paper were from what are called ‘b-links’ I believe – links in side columns that basically […]