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Weblogs.com Needs HelpWebl0gs.com Needs HelpWebl0gs.com Needs Help 12/17/2004 06:37 PM As anyone who pings it knows, weblogs.com is not holding up well under the strain of the blogosphere’s growth curve. Today Dave Winer is asking for help in getting it re-engineered. He seems to be convinced that it has to be done in C; I wouldn’t be surprised if a smart PHP or Java (Velocity maybe?) implementation could carry the load just as well. On the other hand, for someone who’s never written an Apache module, this would be a simple one, it’s a useful skill, and that’s about as close to the metal as you can get. In any case, I’m pretty sure Dave’s right that it wouldn’t be a good idea for a big company (like Sun, for example) to step up and say “we’ll do it” because the suspicion of cheating from outsiders, and the temptation to tilt the table a little for insiders, would both be a real issue. A pity, because a big company (like Sun, for example) already has the infrastructure to support this and wouldn’t even notice the bandwidth. And a pity because I already know how to write Apache modules and would like to learn Velocity. I’m dubious that the notion of “one central place that everyone pings” is going to hold up for the long term, but for the time being it’s useful and would be a good project for anyone with the cycles to spare. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Weblogs.com Needs HelpGrok Headline matches for Weblogs.com Needs HelpMore on the webl0gs.com/rssMore on the webl0gs.com/rss 03/13/2003 10:16 AM Dave Winer again:: "Second, I believe it was a mistake to spec the new element as part of the blogChannel... old.webl0gs.comold.webl0gs.com 06/14/2004 03:50 AM old.weblogs.com How many webl0gs are there in the UK?How many webl0gs are there in the UK? 12/09/2003 10:54 AM Right. For a whole range of reasons, I'm getting increasingly interested in finding out how many weblogs there are in the UK. If we could demonstrate that a large number of UK-based webloggers exist, then it could have a whole range of effects: it could encourage publishers to find constructive ways to engage with the community, could encourage UK-based people/companies to get more involved in building weblog-based software (or to spend time thinking around Denton-esque micro-publishing ventures like Gawker, Fleshbot and Gizmodo). All kinds of stuff. Now there's no really useful way of effectively measuring these things, but it occurs to me that we'd probably be able to motivate a good number of people to make themselves known as weblogers if everyone who read this post stuck up a mention/plug for one or more of the major geographical portals onto their sites. So I'm going to wander off now and check that I'm listed on:
And please - if you've got ten minutes and are interested in helping to uncover the lost continent of UK webloggers out there, then stick something on your site about this too. "Webl0gs.com""Webl0gs.com" 02/17/2004 08:53 AM "certain webl0gs""certain webl0gs" 06/05/2004 09:07 AM Webl0gs, Inc.Webl0gs, Inc. 04/15/2005 04:52 AM Weblogs, Inc. Home Page - www.weblogsinc.com .. weblog 'trade-publishing' .. Jason Calacanis .. weblogsinc .. blurb .. WIN .. It weblogsinc.com webl0gs come webl0gs gowebl0gs come webl0gs go 06/16/2004 01:23 PM The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating. Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him. I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity. My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him. I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/. Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster: Subject: php.weblogs.com From: "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com Date: Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am To: jlim#natsoft.com Priority: Normal Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either. For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine. I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.
"old.webl0gs.com""old.webl0gs.com" 06/17/2004 11:32 AM "Webl0gs in Journalism""Webl0gs in Journalism" 01/26/2004 09:50 PM "Webl0gs der TU-Mnchen""Webl0gs der TU-Mnchen" 03/27/2005 06:21 PM Google Webl0gsGoogle Webl0gs 05/17/2004 10:25 AM Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines: Google: News and Media: Weblogs: Behold — a DMOZ category specifically for Weblogs about Google. Slicing that taxonomy a little thin, aren't we? Click here to comment on this entry Webl0gs and authorityWebl0gs and authority 05/24/2004 12:54 PM cam reminds us all what actual blog science looks like Are webl0gs being read?Are webl0gs being read? 05/29/2004 09:36 AM That is a question I get a lot and when I let them look at the
stats they say yeah I guess so while giving me a slap on the back. The
conversation usually turns to how in the hell did you accomplish that.
Well it seems that there is some debate out there sparked by a NYT
article that in essence says that most bloggers are talking to
themselves. I know my personal blog is only read by a few people but
It is also not targeted to the general public. This site is read by a
significant number of you. But it is worth a closer look and I think
the commentary over at A Small Victory sums it up very nicely. [A Small
Victory] "d2r: an introduction to webl0gs""d2r: an introduction to webl0gs" 11/02/2003 03:13 PM On Collaborative Webl0gsOn Collaborative Webl0gs 05/31/2004 12:33 PM WWDC Webl0gsWWDC Webl0gs 06/03/2004 03:39 PM Jonas Luster is collecting links to weblogs of people who will be blogging from WWDC. Of course, as Jonas points out, like Vegas, “most things that happen at Moscone West, stay in Moscone West.” www.venturpreneur.com/webl0gs/arcwww.venturpreneur.com/webl0gs/arc 04/26/2004 10:57 PM Carnival of the Capitalists venturpreneur.com/weblogs/archives/000335.html What webl0gs are news?What webl0gs are news? 10/29/2003 01:13 AM Every so often I hear from a person with a weblog who has asked to be included in Google News, was turned down, and is not happy about it. I understand this must be difficult for Google, how do they decide? Some of their choices are puzzling. And it seems to matter what CMS is used. If it's weblog software, it can't be included, if they use a more expensive CMS, they can? If it's one person writing, they can't; if there's more than one they can? Here's what they say when rejecting a site for inclusion in Google News: "Thank you for your email. We have reviewed [url] but can not include it in Google News at this time. We currently do not include news-related blogs. If there is a non-blog news site associated with this movement, we would be happy to review it. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us and will log your site for consideration should our constraints change." Has your site been turned down by Google News? Comment here. Doc Searls is also interested in this question. Webl0gs to the rescue!Webl0gs to the rescue! 12/30/2004 09:17 PM And to all of those people out there that claim that blogging is nothing more than a venue for mindless rants, check this out. According to the BBC, Webloggers from all over southern Asia region have come together to help show both the devastation they have endured as well as the best ways people can help them with their plight. While you may have heard that a picture can tell the tale of a thousand… Direct and Related Links for 'Weblogs to the rescue!' Unicode and webl0gsUnicode and webl0gs 04/19/2004 08:33 AM Hossein Derakhshan: We should promote Unicode standard among English speaking programmers. Many tools do not work well with Unicode and this sucks. Spread the meme Please test your clients, servers, comments, and feeds. ... "Me repatean los webl0gs""Me repatean los webl0gs" 01/25/2004 08:35 PM Internet Course WebLogsInternet Course WebLogs 01/27/2004 09:13 AM The Internet Courses - Weblogs http://www.hi.is/~Eanne/w eblogs.html An excellent resource by Dr. L. Anne Clyde of the University of Iceland. The site includes links to the following resources on Weblogs: Information and Articles About Weblogs, Weblog Software and Resources, Directories and Guides to Weblogs, Other Weblog Resources, Examples of LIS Weblogs, Examples of Other Weblogs, Weblogs About Blogging and RSS. The FCC, Webl0gs, and InequalityThe FCC, Webl0gs, and Inequality 01/07/2004 02:54 PM Yesterday, the FCC adjusted the restrictions on media ownership, allowing newspapers to own TV stations, and raising the ownership limitations on broadcast TV networks by 10%, to 45% from 35%. It's not clear whether the effects of the ruling will be catastrophic or relatively unimportant, and there are smart people on both sides of that question. It is also unclear what effect the internet had on the FCC's ruling, or what role it will play now. What is clear, however, is a lesson from the weblog world: inequality is a natural component of media. For people arguing about an ideal media landscape, the tradeoffs are clear: Diverse. Free. Equal. Pick two. - More at http://shirky.com/writings/fcc_inequality.html Just don't call them webl0gsJust don't call them webl0gs 02/11/2004 12:07 AM Lots of people who write weblogs seem to take great pleasure in debating what a weblog is, and more importantly for some, what a weblog isn't. While trying to understanding what the new tools enable, and how they are changing the nature of the net, journalism, and public discourse, seems like a worthwhile enterprise, I never saw the point of spending a lot of energy debating what was a weblog and what wasn't. One might as well debate how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin. I saw a great example of this today. One of the more interesting sessions at ETech today was a presentation by three people from different units of Disney, describing how they are using three of the tools customarily associated with webloggers: weblogs, RSS and wikis. During the talk, Mike Pusateri described his secret for getting people to adopt weblogs as a tool for communicating information at Disney, "don't call them weblogs." He just told people working in Disney's 24/7 operations center that he had a better tool for a task they were already doing. They were already creating what they called shift logs to keep track of information that the people coming in on the next shift needed to know, using a proprietary application based on FoxPro. He told the op center staff that with the new tool (Movable Type) they would now be able to edit and revise and format their information, and that the information would be viewable on the intranet. They loved it, and, as he put it, they never knew that they were blogging. Similarly, he got the staff to start using RSS by having Movable Type generate the feeds, and having the staff all adopt Newsgator, an RSS aggregator that plugs into Microsoft Outlook, the standard email client at Disney. To the users of Newsgator, the updated RSS feeds just looked like email, and they could deal with the feeds they same way they were used to dealing with emails, filing them or forwarding them with comments, using the same interface they were used to dealing with for email. So the users didn't have to change any existing habits, and they had little new UI to learn, but they got a lot more functionality. All at a very low cost to Disney, compared with their traditional methods of developing custom applications. We technologists are often so... "Webl0gs Harvard Law""Webl0gs Harvard Law" 12/19/2003 11:55 AM "really doesn't like personal webl0gs""really doesn't like personal webl0gs" 01/08/2004 07:18 PM On comments and webl0gsOn comments and webl0gs 01/22/2004 02:18 PM I've thought a lot about comments on weblogs over the years, and for a mailing list I'm on, I finally summarized some of my thoughts. Since it might be useful for others, I'm reposting them here. They're a few questions I ask myself related to enabling comments on weblogs posts I make. With the proliferation of commenting-ability in today's weblog tools, it might make sense for people to think a bit before blindly turning on comments, whether for an individual or group blog.
1. Do I want feedback on what I'm writing? 2. Do I have time to manage a conversation right
now? 3. Is this conversation over? Rather than just having a blanket rule -- whether that's "comments on" or "comments off" -- it would be nice if we could consider these questions before posting. Turning on comments is an opportunity and a responsibility. MP3 Music Webl0gsMP3 Music Webl0gs 08/31/2004 05:56 AM I have been running the wget script we wrote about several months ago and I am amazed at the number of songs we are pulling down. Many are from artist I have never heard. Some are from cover bans and their re-makes of popular music along with music that has been ripped from a copyrighted CD. Thus far though it has been a interesting experiment in checking out all the new tunes. I am sure my Internet provider is happy with me as the run today pulled 1.6 gigs of music simply amazing. Here are the sites I poll and if you have any other MP3 weblogs that you know about drop me a line. http://senses.typepad.com/ New Apple Webl0gsNew Apple Webl0gs 12/17/2004 06:34 PM A couple of new(ish) Apple-related sites that I’ve stumbled across recently that may interest you :
Webl0gs for CapitalistsWebl0gs for Capitalists 01/22/2004 02:43 AM On February 5th I’ll be speaking at Fastlane Ventures "How to Capitalize on Blogging" seminar in Dublin, CA. My presentation... Are Weblogs A Threat or Opportunity For Enterprises? I’ll publish the slides for the talk after the conference. d2r: an introduction to webl0gsd2r: an introduction to webl0gs 11/02/2003 06:30 AM introduction .. blog .. d2R dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002399.html Webl0gs as AdvertisingWebl0gs as Advertising 03/11/2003 02:00 PM Project Blogger: doomed to fail. For now. Webl0gs.com RedirectsWebl0gs.com Redirects 06/15/2004 01:39 PM Tom Matrullo's blog has relocated for now to here. It's vintage Tom...... Webl0gs.com Goes DarkWebl0gs.com Goes Dark 06/15/2004 11:31 AM Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Bloggers: Three thousand blogs hosted at weblogs.com has gone offline because Dave Winer decided to shut the server down. ...some users protested that they had no warning of the shutdown, and thus were unable to download copies of their sites, including user comments. Winer said he will export a site's content if its owner makes a specific request, but would not do so before July 1. Dave provided free hosting to all these people, which is great, so he really owed them nothing. However, I think perhaps a little notice would have made thing easier for these folks. Click here to comment on this entry "article on webl0gs that actually gets
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