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Radio Blog Entry First Day

Posts from throughout the first day testing Userland’s Radio blogging tool on January 17th, 2002. Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

1:42pm

Sneak in a little test of Radio 8.0 while Dave’s at InfoWorld. Trying out the Windows-based version first, Mac OS X later.

1:54pm

Dave and Userland’s interpretation of a cloud is virtually identical to Ray Ozzie’s in his implementation of Groove.

1:56pm

Two-Way-Web: SOAP meets RSS. [Dave Winer: Radio UserLand]

RSS, but not RSS 1.0…

2:21pm

Maybe it’s handy I have a back up blog since my web server has just gone down…again. I am very unimpressed with Interland – nothing but problems since they bought out hostpro. My web sites only get about 3000 visitors a day; that’s not an overwhelming amount.

Frustrating.

2:52pm

This post was deleted — deletes and edits are VERY easy. Data backed up somewhere? Have to look.

3:11pm

John, Dave – you all need a button a person could push that means

I really didn’t mean to do that!!!

Luckily, uninstall and reinstall works rather nicely to solve certain problems.

3:48pm

Dave caught me screwing around

…with Radio 8 that is.

This is my Id. My superego is at the Burningbird Network. I’m not sure where my ego is yet.

What do you call a person posting to multiple weblogs at a time? One sad puppy in need of a life. Sigh.

6:54pm

Going to try changing the template next. I also want to see about adding comment capability. Hits are okay, but I prefer chatting with visitors.

8:37pm

Dave, all in all a pretty decent tool.

You done good.

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Weblogging Jan 16 2002

graceful end to what could have been an ugly and unfunny blog war.

Well done.

(Yeah. Yeah. I’m going back to my writing. Just wanted to update a thread that needed updating. And NJ Meryl, a little tune just for you…just because I’m an evil woman.)

-earlier-

My apologies to readers for down time earlier (which is why I’m posting and not writing at this moment). I’m still waiting to hear from InterLand about the cause of the problems, this time.

Nex time I move, I swear I’m going to start hosting my own server. I may still have problems but I won’t have the following conversations:

 

    • Me: So what was the problem?

 

Them: There were latency problems

Me: Due to….?

Them: Problems

Me: And….?

Them: The problems have been fixed.

Me: And why were there problems?

Them: Latency.

 

Arrrgggghhhhh!!

In the meantime, there’s been a little sizzle related to Jonathon’s Blogicon item.

BTW – Winerlog, I gave you a little link-love…

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Blogging Manifesto

I read Chris Prillo’s Blogging Manifesto as well as the reactions to it such as Mike Sander’s and Jonathon’s.

Mike based a new question on this discussion — Who is the real you. Damn, Mike! Please promise me you’ll personally send me an email when you ask a simple question such as What’s your favorite ice cream flavor, would you?

The real me. I probably share more of myself online than many, but you all don’t know the real me. This isn’t an insult; I’m not rejecting the honor that you bestow on me by spending time out of your busy day to read my words, but what I write here isn’t the sum and total of me.

In college, I studied a theory called The Looking Glass Self. Simply put, from my perspective, this theory states that people can become what other’s see them as — in effect become a product of other’s expectations. Even the most complex of personalities can be thought of as a faceted diamond, with each facet the cut of yet another person’s view of oneself.

This theory fascinated me and fascinates me to this day. In fact, I even have a weblog domain called Mirror Self (www.mirrorself.com), that I thought I would use for something some day. (Come to think of it, the domain screams weblog, doesn’t it?)

From a weblogging perspective, I am concerned that my weblog can become a looking glass reflection rather than a forum for me to share thoughts, jokes, pain, happiness, and even trivia that happens to interest me. I find myself editing my posts more and more, because they “expose” more of myself, and would, perhaps, make readers uncomfortable.

Even with this trip there were things I wanted to write, to discuss, to share yet stopped because the emotions behind the same are raw, even primal, and there is a line that one approaches but does not transcend — not without sending the reader away.

At times I almost want to quit this weblog because I want to write things badly and don’t because I’m not sure myself where to draw the line of share or not share — how much of me goes into these pages?

So I have a follow up question to Mike’s: how much is too much? How much can a person share in their weblog before some line is crossed between a healthy catharsis and sharing of emotions and experiences, and a complete and uncontrolled dump of self. What’s your opinion? I really want to know.

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Meryl Evans interview

One other quick note before I got back to the writing that pays me a living (sort of, if I don’t eat):

Meryl Evans from Meryl’s Notes – had an online interview with the famous Head Lemur, which also got mentioned at Zeldman’s. Congrats Meryl.

See — joining hands on the ground floor. Meryl is a strong adherant of the web standards movement. And we all know that not everyone in the web standards movement is overally fond of me (i.e. said Mr. Zeldman and said Head Lemur). But Meryl’s still my buddy. Aren’t you Meryl. Meryl? Meryl?

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Blogicon update

Okay, time to update the Blogicon; I have a whole list of Blogicon entries today.

I’m adding the entries to the Blogicon column and page, in addition to adding hypertext named references so that you can link to individual items. Give me a couple of days to make the updates.

Let’s roll:

The first new Blogicon is from New Jersey Meryl (she’s from Joisey, don’t muck with her). Meryl’s entry is:

 

Lone Blogger:

    a blogger who doesn’t use any blogging tool
    Meryl, that’s kind of like shaving by pulling your hair out with tweezers, don’t you think?

    The following two items are a collaboration between myself and my *separated by birth twin sister, Sharon:

     

    Photog:

      v. Photoging – blogging with photos; n. Photog – photo-related weblog like Photographica

      Blister blog: weblog that uses adult terms/strong language such as, well, uh, uhm, never mind.

      I got the following idea indirectly from Gary Turner, aka Mr. Blogsticker:

       

      Stickless:

        generating blogsticker ideas and then not using them at your weblog
        Other BurningBird contributions:

        weblogmania:

          going to weblogs.com and accessing every weblog in the list

            •  – do not try while under the influence

           

          It’s a small world blog virus: posting a song at your site that people canNOT get out of their head – All Day Long – Ohhh, Roll me over in the clover….

          It’s been said that weblogs and Google go hand in hand like peanut butter and bananas. I should know; I have Google tatooed across my butt. Anyway, the next two entries are related to our favorite search engine:

          The Google Effect

            finding content via a search engine rather than using DNS aliases; letting domain names lapse and relying on Google style searches

              •  via Dan Gillmor

             

            Googlewhacking both a game and a phenomena: Precision Google searching Unblinking via Dane Carlson

            Last, but definitely not least, is a Blogicon item from Jonathon Delacour – in the spirit of fun and GSOH that all webloggers exhibit (if they hope to survive among the blogs for long…):

            Do a Dave:

              •  substantially editing or removing content after having posted it to the web

            I have a confession to make: I sometimes Do a Dave at Burningbird.

            (I don’t know; did that last sentence not sound quite right?)

            Anyway, that’s it for the Blogicon until the next batch. Thanks for the generous contributions!

            *separated by geography, birth date, and parents

            -earlier-

            I’ll have more Blogicon terms to add later today. I’m holding off as I’m unsure about one of them. I found it at Jonathon Delacour Unplugged yesterday, and thought it was perfect! The term is “Do a __(fill in the name)__”, and means substantially editing or removing content after having posted it to the web.. I think you know who’s name to use for the blank.

            The Blogicon tweaks, but only gentle tweaks – inviting those tweaked to laugh with us. I’m just not sure about this entry. Is it gentle? Is it mean? Is it funny? Is it art?