BurningbirdIn all the fuss about realtime blogging yesterday, I missed a realtime event:
Bill Simoni and his wife had a baby boy – Christopher Michael Simoni!
Big baby, too — 8 pounds.
Take a moment to go over to Bill’s weblog – Binary by Accident – to drop a note of congratulations!
BTW, since Dave Winer only pointed to the Radio chapters (?) when he mentioned the Essential Blogging book from O’Reilly, note that the book covers Movable Type, Blogger, and Blosxon weblogging tools, as well as other material.
If you’re a Blogger user, I wouldn’t mind your input into my chapters — what should I cover in more detail? What should I leave out?
And the other authors would appreciate your feedback on their chapters.
In debate, when your opponent is reduced to attacking your character rather than your words, you know you’ve won.
I should have remembered this yesterday when I became so angry. Blame my reaction a bit on the move. And the fact that I’m not called Burningbird because I coo like a dove.
I had a note from Sheila Lennon from projo.com, who wrote up a nice summary of the realtime blogging phenomena. I particularly like:
An image arises of tourists who photograph everything but experience little of what they record. They collect the present, rather than create it.
I do not like using technology just to use it. I don’t like seeing good technology being badly or inappropriately used. And I don’t approve of mediocre technology given prominance because a group of people dance up and down, clapping their little techie hands together in abandoned glee over a new toy.
And when I write about the technology and its use or misuse, and you respond by writing about me, I will always win, and you will always lose.
Coo. Coo.
After phone call with friend, I am calmer. Sort of. Enough to spend time on more important things. Such as wishing Mark Pilgrim half-a-Happy Birthday!. He’s 29.5 today.
(Mark, I have a clue for you — when you hit 40, you start celebrating birthdays biennially, rather than semiannually.)
Secondly, Jeneane asked folks to link to her co-worker’s weblog. He’s a techie, and the first line I read at his weblog was:
What ever happened to VRML?
I’m partial to VRML – I created a VRML animated lava lamp. Great idea that just never lived up to its potential. Shame that.
Say hi to another VRML fan, Anthurian.
BTW — thanks to you, my weblogging buddies, for your support.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
Just in case my previous posting doesn’t piss enough people off at me – and it will – may I pass on to you this link to an entire page that the person known as The Head Lemur has written because I expressed my opinion about realtime blogging.
Shelley Powers wants to be the Center of the Universe.
But let’s not stop there. Please, feel free to use my comments to add links to other postings that discuss my vanities, my inabilities, my lack of objectivity, my paleo-leftist tendencies, my anti-Semitic nature, my pro-terrorist nature, that my weblog sucks, and I don’t give a shit about the people around me, my life, all of you, and the world at large.
No, seriously, I haven’t been dumped on enough this week. I need more. You would be doing me a kindness to donate to the pile. Get out your hammer and nail the lid down, tight.
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Jonathon, you’ll be heartened to know that kitsch is alive and well and living in the blogosphere. And I’m it.