BurningbirdA last note on the comment controversy of last week: another problem with the weblog owner annotating what they consider the ‘flame’ portion of a comment is that their interpretation of what is a flame may differ from others. When it looks like the application of annotation edits is inconsistent, when the owner doesn’t annotate […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The server’s operating system has been reinstalled back to a nice clean pristine Linux install. Without the network management software, must start from scratch – which means take hands off keyboard and think about what I’m going to do, and in what sequence. I’m impressed with the ISP, Rack Force […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Work continues apace on the first Weblogger Co-op server. We’re starting with a goodly mix of people in the test phase and I’ll post the weblogs who have moved with me to the new server when we’re up and running. I can tell you that we will be hosted on […]
Originally published at Corante Many-to-Many and now archived at the Wayback Machine. One of the most pivotal weblog essays I’ve read was Jonathon Delacour’s Alibis and Consistent Lies. In it he wrote: That’s it: where my own interests lie. In other words, hardly anything to do with telling the literal truth; and everything to do with […]
Joeseph Duemer published a wonderful poem online and then later added a perfect annotation: The lines above attempt to camouflage their sentimentality with words like slurp & gulp & drool, but it is the barest trick. Better to just let the sentimentality be itself or keep quiet, no? We are cosmopolitan and sophisticated, wearing black silk rather […]