A rollicking poke at our convention webloggers
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The rollicking tale of an Internet
entrepreneur
The rollicking tale of an Internet
entrepreneur
11/02/2003 07:33 AMSan Jose Mercury News Nov 2 2003 6:32AM ET
Booble takes a poke at Google
Booble takes a poke at Google
01/22/2004 02:12 AMParoding Google, the world's largest search engine, a US entrepreneur
today launched Booble, a new search engine for adult material. ...
Residents Poke Fun at Topeka With
Slogans (AP)
Residents Poke Fun at Topeka With
Slogans (AP)
08/03/2004 10:47 AMAP - The city of Topeka is looking for a new slogan, but some
residents just couldn't resist poking fun at their city's image.
Opera begins next act with poke at
Google
Opera begins next act with poke at
Google
05/13/2004 03:31 AMSilicon.com May 13 2004 7:53AM GMT
"I Encuesta a webl0ggers"
"I Encuesta a webl0ggers"
06/02/2004 01:07 AMI Encuesta a webl0ggers
I Encuesta a webl0ggers
05/31/2004 06:52 PMI Encuesta a webloggers y lectores de
blogs
blogpocket.com/encuesta
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DevDays Webl0ggers
DevDays Webl0ggers
12/05/2003 12:36 PMSashi Corti points to webloggers covering the European
DevDays.
Top Five Tips for Webl0ggers
Top Five Tips for Webl0ggers
07/18/2004 06:56 PMG4 Tech TV Jul 18 2004 11:10PM GMT
Webl0ggers Suck
Webl0ggers Suck
03/13/2003 10:23 AMYou're all a bunch of sad, lonely hosers and I've only been blogging
for the last 18 months to work my way into your affections in order to
get to a position of trust from which I could then undermine you all
with my real thoughts and opinions on the subject of blogging. Just to
make you feel bad about humanity. Blow me.
A Firefox Hack for Webl0ggers
A Firefox Hack for Webl0ggers
06/27/2004 01:29 AMAll of this time at the house on my back has allowed me to do more
surfing the net then what should legally be allowed. I have been
digging around looking for ways to improve my productivity. With some
terrific extensions available to Firefox users I am going to outline a
way to save your self some time..
I user Newzcrawler when I used to use IE I would have 20 or 30
browser windows open. The desktop would come to crawls and that always
aggravated me. On top of that I would have to wait for the browser to
open and the click on the Newzcrawler tab to bring it back to the
front.
When I started using Firefox I faced that same aggravation. The Tab
browsing was great when it came to looking at referral links within
the current browser window, but I wanted a way to load all of my
articles in one browser using multiple tabs. I kicked myself in the
ass today as I took about 15 minutes looking at some of the extensions
and wanted to start beating my head against the wall for putting up
with it that long.
Install the Tabbrowser
Extension and then follow these Instructions<
/a>. Once you have completed step 4 I want you to keep the tabbrowser
extension preferences open.
Step 5. Click on Focus and then choose Links with Normal Action in
top set of selections. Second click Other applications In the "Keep
browser in the background when tabs opened by"
That's it, so now when you are in your reviewing headlines in your
aggreator and you see a article you want to review it will load in a
tab while keeping the browser in the background. So you can find the
articles you want and they will all be loaded in one browser keeping
the clutter down on your desktop. You may nor find this handy but I am
thrilled.
I would love to hear from any of you that have developed your own
time saving tricks.
How Apple is going to screw webl0ggers!
How Apple is going to screw webl0ggers!
01/06/2005 04:47 AMMost of you should already know that Apple is suing several sites that are devoted Mac
fans. They have decided that because someone either at Apple or a
contractor is spreading juicy information to these sites, that they
are going to sue them into telling who is giving them the information.
If Think Secret decides to
fight Apple I am going give them a donation to help them with their
legal cost.
Why would I do that, well how long will it be before someone passes
me a juicy tip and I write about it and piss some company off. As has
been mentioned around the blogsphere if this had been the New York
Times or PC World they would not have touched them with a 10 foot
pole.
One thing I can do immediately is this, I will no longer purchase
any iTunes music or purchase any sort of Apple product as a consumer I
can also make a statment with my pocket-book.
APPLE CEASE AND DESIST YOUR LAWSUITS AGAINST
WEBLOGS!
On how journalists write about
webl0ggers...
On how journalists write about
webl0ggers...
06/05/2005 10:48 PMThere's an article in the Sunday Times today called Go
lden rules for blogging clever which features a few choice morsels
of salient quotage from some bloke not a million miles away from this
weblog. For this reason alone I recommend you buy the paper in
question. Possibly you should be so impressed that you should consider
sending me some naked pictures of yourselves?
Moving on though - the article itself is very strange. It seems to
wend its way between a number of different registers - starting off in
a 'weblogs and online communities are important' area and then wanders
directly into a 'who the hell do you think you are to think anyone
cares what you think' kind of space. I find this very odd, given that
the article is supposedly about giving people tips for writing a
weblog. It's been a while since I read a cookery book, but I'm pretty
sure they don't start by telling people that they're worthless and
they'll never amount to anything. That kind of motivational speech
seems more commonly left to parents. (Of course the article isn't
actually aimed at people starting a weblog at all, but at
people who want to observe it from the sidelines with a cup of tea and
a raised eyebrow while slowly dying inside.)
From having apparently smacked down the reader for their
nerve - their very presumption - that they might find
value in self-expression, the article moves on to slightly
self-satirise. Now the mockery is a bit ironic - it knows we don't
really want to be boring and that we're all able to see the
funny side of the whole thing. To support its case, it brings in a few
of the classier webloggers (Heather
Armstrong and myself) to comment. And what do we say? Well,
basically we say that all this stuff about being boring is rather
missing the point and it's not about getting a huge audience and that
self-expression is really important and stuff and that if people
derive value from their weblogs then that's good, right? Right?
Well, all I can say is that it's lucky that our brief comments
don't distract from the main thrust of the article! No hippies are
going to distract from the relentless pursuit of traffic, after all.
So we get a humourous take on giving your weblog a sexy name, a patch
on how to pander to other weblogs to get hits, a bref paragraph on
Googlebombing and a few words on the apparent incestuousness of the
culture. The article recommends writing about your sex life, getting
fired for writing a weblog and peddling extreme opinions. All of these
things will get you a book deal and only then will people want to get
you naked because they've heard your name on television.
I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because
it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs. Its
every word exposes the assumptions and prejudices of journalists and -
I think more widely - the British. So you've got the censorious
attitude to people expressing themselves in public (self-expression
isn't really proper), then you've got the whole
amateur-versus-professional argument that neurotically restates
only proper journalists are worth reading. These journalists,
who - we are reminded by the rest of the article - really assume that
(i) the only reason to write is to get famous, (ii) there's
no value in community or discussion or debate and (iii) normal
people would sell their granny for dog meat to get famous. And to
cap it all off, the examples that they use are all the ones that
reveal the bankrupcy of the news media - that a culture of millions of
webloggers can only really be understood by the tabloidish stories
that make it across into the 'proper' media. The whole thing is
gloriously cock-eyed.
I'm being a bit unfair, of course. It's not nearly that clear-cut,
and there's some really interesting stuff here. I like that Simon
Jenkins expressed an anxiety about the role of the newspaper columnist
in the amateurised opinion space. I don't think he's got an enormous
amount to worry about - in fact he should be delighted, he could be a
giant in that space if he wanted - but that all depends on viewing
changes as opportunities rather than threats. Here are a few more of
my thoughts - good and bad - in the form of an unordered list:
- I love the fact that the word hippo-griff is used in this article.
For that alone, I will give you one billion dollars. You heard me. One
billion. Although I'm a bit surprised by the hyphen. Maybe I won't
give you a billion dollars after all. Damn sub-editors.
- "The absolute golden rule of blogging - it is literally made of
gold - is: Do not blog", says our journo. It's literally made
of gold? What, really? Dear God, man - misuse of 'literally' in this
way is pretty much the first thing that you get smacked in the mouth
for at journalism school. What are you doing!? Unless of course there
really is a golden rule cast in gold somewhere - on a mountain or
something. In which case, I want to see it. While we're at it - who
the hell made up this rule? I've never heard it before. It's not even
a parody of 'Don't talk about Fight Club'. I don't get it.
- If you read the article in print, then you get confronted with an
enormous picture of that bloody berk who got (as far as I can tell)
fired from Waterstones for being a bit of an idiot and not reading his
contract. I've never felt a lot of sympathy for him - even though
the relationship between a weblogger's site and their working life is
a complex one that I've been coming up against a bit recently -
because he just seemed to have been such a twit about the whole thing.
I'd recommend reading two things about this subject: Anil
Dash's expansion on his assertion that no one gets fired for
blogging and a Tech Station article called The Unbearable
Rightness of Nick Denton.
Ah, that'll do. I'm bored now. Fun article! Took me ages to respond
to. Probably better than I'm giving it credit for. Seeya!
On the UK Webl0ggers Christmas Party...
On the UK Webl0ggers Christmas Party...
12/02/2003 01:35 AMI'm pretty much promoting this one to death at the moment, but just
in case someone using RSS feeds to read my site has missed the
enormous plug I'm giving this event on my site at the moment, there's
a UK Webloggers Christmas Party to be held in London's
fashionable Farringdon district this coming weekend. Details
follow:
→ Venue: Downstairs at
the Well
→ When: This coming Saturday 29th November from 7.00pm
→ How do you find it? There's a helpful map!
→ Organised by: That lovely chap from Funjunkie.co.uk
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I Encuesta a webl0ggers y lectores de
bl0gs
I Encuesta a webl0ggers y lectores de
bl0gs
06/01/2004 08:17 PMResultados de la I Encuesta de
Webl0ggers hispanos
Resultados de la I Encuesta de
Webl0ggers hispanos
07/20/2004 07:40 PM"Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball:
More Distortions From Michael Moore
(They Effectively Poke A Lot Of Holes In
The Movie)"
"Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball:
More Distortions From Michael Moore
(They Effectively Poke A Lot Of Holes In
The Movie)"
07/01/2004 08:50 PMJorn Barger, one of the earliest
webl0ggers, is missing
Jorn Barger, one of the earliest
webl0ggers, is missing
12/03/2003 03:01 AMHave You Heard from Jorn Barger?
ericwagoner.com/whereisjorn
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Shock horror - webl0ggers taking a break
Shock horror - webl0ggers taking a break
03/13/2003 10:25 AMHmm, despite the magic of WiFi at conferences these days, very few of
the Bloggerati present at SXSW seem to...
What webl0ggers are reading this summer
(Phil Gyford: Writing)
What webl0ggers are reading this summer
(Phil Gyford: Writing)
07/10/2004 04:58 AMSpeaking of
which
gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/07/09/what_webloggers_.php
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The Consumer Electronics Show opens
Minus Webl0ggers
The Consumer Electronics Show opens
Minus Webl0ggers
01/05/2005 03:59 PMI would have went to CES instead they have banned all webloggers,
thus I am flipping them the middle finger and will be going somewhere
else besides Las Vegas for vacation. See not only will CES miss me, so
will Las Vegas miss my wallet and my wife at the Blackjack table.
Sure I could have lied on the application but who wants to go where
they are not welcome. [Yahoo]<
/p>
The Scobleizer: A challenge for
webl0ggers: handling organizational
difficulties
The Scobleizer: A challenge for
webl0ggers: handling organizational
difficulties
01/28/2004 05:10 AMScoble talks about iPods, WMA, AAC, and choice ..
Scoble
radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/26.html#a6361
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Gothamist: Convention Convention
Convention
Gothamist: Convention Convention
Convention
08/28/2004 12:45 AMspecial coverage of the Republican convention .. Local media's
convention coverage .. gothamist roundup of RNC
NYC
gothamist.com/archives/2004/08/26/convention_convention_conventi
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"Children as young as seven in one
British school are using webl0gs as part
of their normal routine, and are doing
better than non-webl0ggers as a result,
their teacher says."
"Children as young as seven in one
British school are using webl0gs as part
of their normal routine, and are doing
better than non-webl0ggers as a result,
their teacher says."
06/14/2004 09:52 AMWebl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g)
Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g)
01/03/2005 08:22 AMWebloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too! .. dans
cet article de son blog .. Ander’s
list
jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2005/01/02/webloggers_give_to_
tsunami_victims_and_ill_give_too.html
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At the next convention
At the next convention
08/05/2004 10:40 AM
Chris Casey of the Democratic News Service asked, on the
Convention Bloggers mail list, what we would do differently for 2008.
Here's what I say.
In retrospect, it would have been incredible to have a BloggerCon at the DemCon. Off the floor. A room packed with big Democratic
icons, the candidates, the operators, the money, the press.
A discussion leader. Let's get to the heart of things. Let's
explain to the folks at home how this really works.
We've shown you what the convention looks like to a hayseed in
the big city. Now what does it look like from the insider
perspective.
And by the way, it's cool that you're all so excited about
blogs. Really cool. But what about your friends at the RIAA. They're
not our friends. Not because we're pirates, but because we love the
First Amendment, like Democrats do. The two positions are not
compatible. You can't love blogs and love Hollywood at the same time.
But this iteration was great. Next time let's give the people
what only they have. Power. Government of
the people, by the people and for the people. Shall not perish from
the earth.
The last convention?
The last convention?
07/26/2004 12:44 AM Will we ever do this again? Is 2004 the last year we're going to have
national conventions like these? I just came back from picking up my
credentials, which meant taking the T down to the Fleet Center,
waiting on the wrong line, being directed by a series of five polite
cops to the press office, and then being told that bloggers pick up
their credentials at the Westin Hotel five subway stops away. My fault
for not finding out ahead of time where to go. But the trip to and
then around the Fleet Center was instructive, for...
Convention
Convention
08/30/2004 05:15 PMReason's Blair & Welch .. Reason convention
blog
reason.com/convention
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Convention snaps
Convention snaps
07/26/2004 12:44 AMEntering the Free Speech Zone Inside the Zone Free speech on the
ground Shut up, kid, you're leaving the Zone! Jay Rosen and me,
wearing our Convention bling-bling. (This is a terrible photo of
Jay!)...
Counter Convention
Counter Convention
08/28/2004 01:20 PMcounter convention - prnc protest tools and resources .. Counter
Convention 2004 in NYC 9/2 .. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION .. people
are gearing up .. CounterConvention .. jackbooted thug .. resources ..
convening .. hectic
counterconvention.org
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Bricklin on the Convention
Bricklin on the Convention
07/21/2004 11:10 PMDan has a lovely piece about blogging and observing the Convention. I
find I have no coherent expectations about it or what I'll write
about. I bounce from thinking that I'll react to the Big Speeches to
reporting small anecdotes to reading the clips of Mailer's 1960s
political coverage and thinking "Take away the talent and incredible
insight, and what's he got that I don't got?" I can't even anticipate
how cynical or filled with spirit I'll be; I am, after all, perfectly
capable of crying at a good political speech. (It's hope that turns on
the ol' waterworks. Gotta...
Convention Bloggers
Convention Bloggers
07/26/2004 05:37 AMConvention Bloggershttp://www.conventionblogger
s.com/DNC 2004 Weblogs: News Aggregator. A community
site for bloggers participating in the DNC, July 26-29. The home page
of this site is now a News Aggregator, showing updates from all the
convention-blogger sites covering the DNC in Boston.
rnc convention bl0ggers
rnc convention bl0ggers
08/29/2004 04:00 AMRNC Blog Aggregator .. beginning
rnc.conventionbloggers.com
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More, and last, convention photos
More, and last, convention photos
08/04/2004 10:00 AMI forgot I had some photos in my camera, so I've posted them now. They
include some shots of the protestors on their way into the Free Speech
Jail (before they were arrested), the Daily Show taping their little
blogger segment, and assorted celebrities....
I'm not covering the convention
I'm not covering the convention
07/20/2004 08:08 PMJoe Gandelman responds to the LA Times commentary that takes us
Convention bloggers down a couple of pegs. Joe points to the
resentment journalists feel towards bloggers because we haven't "paid
our dues." True enough. Bloggers who think that just because they got
a free account at www.BlogYourAss.com, they can now displace
professional journalists are seriously underestimating the skills,
dedication and value of real journalists. (Yes, real journalists.) Of
course there are bloggers who are as skilled and dedicated as any
professional journalist. In fact, some are professional journalists.
But most bloggers aren't. That's by no means a criticism. Most...
Blogging at the convention
Blogging at the convention
07/06/2004 01:43 PMI just received a letter (paper and everything) saying that I've been
credentiaed to blog from the Democratic Convention. Woohoo!...
Blogging Against Convention
Blogging Against Convention
07/21/2004 06:13 AMTraditional media love to look down their nose at bloggers. But at
this year's Democratic convention, the 35 bloggers covering the
festivities could liven things up. Hell, a couple of them could even
become traditional media stars. By Adam L. Penenberg.
Blogging the convention
Blogging the convention
07/07/2004 04:38 PMJay Rosen: My advice to the hypothetical blogger with credentials for
Boston is fairly simple. (What's yours? Hit the comment button and
speak.) Know what happened to the first regime in convention coverage,
why it yielded to television and how it became a media event. Don't
join up with the second regime, whose story went dead a long time ago.
If in doubt on what to write about, ask yourself who sent you and your
laptop to Beantown, and post an account for them. Report backwards to
whatever place you came from-- including the opinions you came from.
Feed the...
Another convention on another coast
Another convention on another coast
07/26/2004 12:44 PMWhile the eyes of the nation are on a certain convention in Boston
this week, I will be counter-programming: Tomorrow I'm heading up to
Portland for the
O'Reilly Open Source
Convention. Although Salon started covering free/open source
software back in 1997, when I was editing Andrew Leonard's great
pieces on
Apache etc., I have never been to one of these fabled events,
so I'm looking forward to it, and hope to do at least some posting
from there.
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