Category: Weblogging

Huh?

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date June 9, 2002

We’re getting a corporate bias in our news and we allowed it to get this way.

And people wonder why I read weblogs now. I think the news aggregator in Radio, and on OReilly, and other places is the most important new technology of the decade.

Do you use a news aggregator? Why not? Stop watching TV news. Stop reading your local newspaper. Get a news aggregator and tell a friend.

As more and more people use news aggregators the news business will be forced to change.

Stop watching TV news, and reading newspapers and we assume magazines and online sites for same. Instead, get a news aggregator. What does the news aggregator aggregate? News from the weblogs. Where do most of the weblogs get the news?

From local newspapers and TV news, magazines and sites for same.

If this was code, it would be an infinite recursion error.

AKMA meets Ferret Face

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date June 9, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I wanted to point you to a Pixelview interview with AKMA that went online this week. I thought AKMA did a nice job with the interview questions.

I hesitated to link to the interview considering that it was conducted by my old friend, Head Lemur, a man who has been less than complimentary about me on two separate occasions. However, though the Head Lemur is a weak brained, bottom dwelling, ferret faced, dull witted amoeba, I decided to let bygones be bygones.

Now, AKMA, about those weblog postings on forgiveness…

Head Lemur responded.

His previous responses to my writings here and here.

I stand by my initial description, twenty years later.

Weblogging

New Blogrolling categories

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date June 9, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Rather than go with a single list of people in a blogroll, I grouped my virtual neighbors according to specific categories. I think this makes the whole process MUCH MORE INTERESTING.

I pulled the categories.

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Weblogging

Technology updates

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date June 3, 2002

Blogicon’s new home will be blogicon.blogrolling.com, and the new caretaker is Jason DeFillippo.

Note that the move is still in process – check later today or tomorrow to see if it’s complete. When the move is finished, I’ll redirect Blogicon requests to the new home, but you’ll want to change your links.

Also, I have updated my LINK tag to meet the newest change. Note to aggregation folks – can you change your beasties to poll less frequently? I post throughout the day, but not every five minutes.

Constant hits by XML aggregators, tired am I to quote Yoda.

Weblogging

Erotica

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date June 3, 2002

Chris Locke posted a powerful piece of erotica to his weblog on Sunday. As a fair warning: if explicit sexuality offends you, don’t click the link.

It’s interesting, but weblog links to the Daniel Pearl decapitation video dotted Daypop 40 when it first appeared, RSS absolutely dominated Daypop and Blogdex this weekend, but post a note containing sex and the silence is deafening.

Prudes.

(UpdateChris’ permalinks are all screwed up. Pun not intended.)