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Weblogging

Tin cup is out

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 […]

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Weblogging

CNN article: Crap? Or clever?

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, […]

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Weblogging

Ethics?

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 […]

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Weblogging

Nice little pats on the head

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Isn’t it special? All these publications coming out with articles about weblogging, such as the new one at CNN. Don’t we feel precious, all these nice little pats on the head? Why is Josh Quittner the definitive authority on weblogs, do real people use the word “cool” that much in their […]

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Diversity

Say What?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeneane Sessum just posted a note that had me going “say what?” about half way down. I can sympathize with Jeneane that she misses her husband while he’s working in Japan, but I can’t agree with her when she generalizes her own personal sense of lonliness and temporary loss of his […]