BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Movable Type’s trackback, but the problem with it is that now there’s two areas whereby the popularity of a posting is judged – the comment count AND the trackback count. If a posting is a zip-zip, should it just quietly fold its tent, wonder off into the desert […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Gary asked an interesting question earlier in the week: I wonder how many people started blogging after receiving this dictat from Chris Locke. Seems that Chris, otherwise known as Rageboy is blogging papa to several people, including Gary, Denise, Jeneane and others. I didn’t start weblogging because of Chris. I blush to admit that I started weblogging in April […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Happy Tutor has written a longish weblog posting regarding my earlier posting, The Lost Art of Courtesy. Happy writes: I wonder, though, BB, are courteous blogs “scaleable”? If we want to reach an audience of 10-20 personable losers, and we all constantly comment on each other’s posts, then it would be cozy, […]
This is the first posting with Movable Type’s Trackback incorporated. Ah, I love the smell of new technology in the morning.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Along with our respect for freedom and our sense of humor and perspective, seems we’ve lost something else in this modern age of connectivity – our courtesy. And in its void, we’ve replaced it with various guises of non-courtesy masquerading as courtesy. For instance, there’s the lost courtesy of the […]