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Weblogging

A vacation of sorts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Work continues apace on the first Weblogger Co-op server. We’re starting with a goodly mix of people in the test phase and I’ll post the weblogs who have moved with me to the new server when we’re up and running. I can tell you that we will be hosted on […]

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Weblogging

Guest Blog #4

Originally published at Corante Many-to-Many and now archived at the Wayback Machine. One of the most pivotal weblog essays I’ve read was Jonathon Delacour’s Alibis and Consistent Lies. In it he wrote: That’s it: where my own interests lie. In other words, hardly anything to do with telling the literal truth; and everything to do with […]

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Social Media

Jabber and Decentralization

Originally published at Many-to-Many and now archived at the Wayback Machine One of the most pivotal weblog essays I’ve read was Jonathon Delacour’s Alibis and Consistent Lies. In it he wrote: That’s it: where my own interests lie. In other words, hardly anything to do with telling the literal truth; and everything to do with fashioning […]

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Weblogging

Let the sentiment drip

Joeseph Duemer published a wonderful poem online and then later added a perfect annotation: The lines above attempt to camouflage their sentimentality with words like slurp & gulp & drool, but it is the barest trick. Better to just let the sentimentality be itself or keep quiet, no? We are cosmopolitan and sophisticated, wearing black silk rather […]

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Weblogging Writing

Write Redirect

Nicholas, aka Aquarion is another weblogger going on leave in order to spend time on other things. He writes: I’ve spent three and a half years this week doing this weblog. That’s two and a half years of diarizing my life, and a year of “Weblogging” propery, discussing stuff with people far better at this than I […]