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Comments are not always a joy

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It wouldn’t be fair of me to push both comments and trackback without mentioning the downside of both. Well, the downside of comments primarily. It’s funny, but people think that comments are nothing more than a way for yay-sayers to stroke the weblogger, and this can be true with some […]

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Weblogging

Sticky strands

I received a trackback ping from Jonathon Delacour who writes about tracking and lies:   I have no idea—to be honest, I don’t really care—whether TrackBack will enable us to establish a more “truthful” web but it does seem to hold out the promise of allowing us to create more nuanced and inclusive relationships than a web […]

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Weblogging

See? Told ya

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Writing

Season

Loren Webster has been providing reviews of poetry by Archibald MacLeish, interspersed occasionally with lyrics from Van Morrison. These have become my calm, quiet moments in an otherwise stressful, somewhat jagged-edged day. Not being one for poetry, or at least, I assumed I wasn’t one for poetry, I found myself surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed […]

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The year of linking dangerously

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I feel it it my bones: 2003 will be the Year of Linking Dangerously. It will be the year that we reject page ranks and popularity-based ‘s/he with the most links bubbles to the top of the heap’ skimmers. It’s in the air. It’s viral. It’s contagious. Hold your breath or […]