Few things could have cheered me up more this week then to hear from my old friend Chris, otherwise known as the great Stavros the Wonderchicken, terror of weblogging and MetaFilter, both; and to read that he’s started his weblog again. Welcome back my friend. We Birds need to stick together. Kick butt, and take no prisoners.
Category: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
