Categories
Weblogging

Long blonde hair

Related to the Kicking Butt panel, an audience member who made reference to her long blond hair and pretty dress wrote an original response basically calling all the panel members lesbians because they were wearing pants and had short hair. She has since edited this out after a couple of panel members and one of […]

Categories
Weblogging

To serve webloggers

My favorite lunatic wants us to know he’s better looking than Steve Rubel, but doesn’t make as much money as Hugh MacLeod. You may not make as much money, Alan, but I bet it’s raining right now in London. The Head Lemur is writing about the new Technorati Popular Favorites List. I guess the new popular weblogger […]

Categories
Technology Weblogging

We interrupt this commercial break with a word about RSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It had all the makings of a true Real Life Drama: In an effort to defuse what could only be termed mutiny in the ranks, otherwise known as the ‘Atom Effect’, Dave Winer turns the copyright of the RSS 2.0 specification over to Harvard, attaching a Creative Commons License reflecting something […]

Categories
Weblogging

No, I own the new gatekeepers

While I work on both the Johnson Shut-Ins post, in addition to trying to wrap my head around ExpressionEngine modules, there have been some writings too good to miss. Seth Finkelstein writes New Gatekeepers are still Gatekeepers: This world is exactly the same as *every* *other* *media* *world*, in that there’s a few participants who have […]

Categories
Weblogging

Weblogging is not tech

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Weblogging is not ‘tech’. Weblogging uses technology, but is not, in and of itself, ‘technology’. Weblogging conferences are not technology conferences — not unless the focus of the conference is building software, not using it. When you’re a weblogger, this doesn’t mean you’re a ‘tech’. You might be both a […]