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October 30, 2002
A Start Over As with Chris this weblog could go dark around the 4th of November if I can't get everything moved and set up at a new host quickly enough. I still don't have a new host yet and a few I...
Posted by Bb at 02:20 PM
October 29, 2002
Can anybody hear me? Anil Dash wrote about the battles he's had with depression and encouraged other webloggers to discuss their own battles. Pretty gutsy thing to do, and smart -- making good and healthy use of the increased exposure he received after his...
Posted by Bb at 05:19 PM
October 17, 2002
Blogs, Bucks, Ethics Me? Blog for bucks? There is absolutely no way that I would violate the trust of my readers by blogging for money. My readers know that I'll always be honest with them, and would never sell out for filthy lucre....
Posted by Bb at 01:13 AM
October 12, 2002
Still Standing My server is surviving the increased activity. Considering that the page getting hit is photo intensive and PHP-based, not to mention the strain the Perl-based comment system is adding, I think the server -- and my host, Interland -- came...
Posted by Bb at 07:26 AM
October 03, 2002
Spam Comments One of the advantages of going with MT comments is that I can see comments from older postings. And I'm finding out that a posting I did quite some time back when I was still living in San Francisco, is...
Posted by Bb at 08:38 AM
September 28, 2002
The Hunt for the Wild MT Documenters Jonathon Delacour and Allan Moult have started their Movable Type Documentation posts. If ThreadNeedle had existed, this tool would be perfect for tracking their work, as well as ancilliary writing and posts related to their generous efforts. I know it's...
Posted by Bb at 06:59 PM
September 07, 2002
Note from Management I get private email communications all the time based on my postings, and most are great. Sometimes people will write because I have made a typo or a grammatical error, and I really appreciate this. I prefer not to make...
Posted by Bb at 04:24 PM
August 30, 2002
No matter what you call it, it's sexism Dictionary.com - Sexism: attitudes, conditions, or behavior promoting stereotyping of social roles based on gender. Merriam-Webster Online - Sexism: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex With regards to the Say what post...
Posted by Bb at 02:27 PM
August 22, 2002
Tinker Tinker New tagline, by mutual dare with Dorothea. What the hey? I'm now going by Burningzilla and I have a blazing toad for an icon. (No, that is NOT a Jersey torch!) Now, if I can effect sweetness and light throughout...
Posted by Bb at 02:26 PM
Doc screwed the Pooch Doc must be tired from all that traveling when he wrote today: Oh: when you get tired of all the male kinda shit that seems to comprise 5/4 of the blog world (techblog or warblog... now there's a sexy selection),...
Posted by Bb at 09:17 AM
August 21, 2002
Free Link Well, since love is out ("all you need is love..."), I guess I'll have to focus on links, instead. Speaking of links, in a posting earlier this week, I didn't link to the webloggers that I referenced, and I noticed...
Posted by Bb at 10:43 PM
Previous Posting None of this will make sense unless you read this first. The content of the previous posting was directed at the Open Letter to America from a Canadian. I was, I will admit, a bit hurt when I read Allan's...
Posted by Bb at 09:05 PM
August 18, 2002
Dark matter posting Today for lunch I had homemade tacos, with fresh lettuce and tomato, cheddar cheese, and spiced beef, served up in a hard corn shell. I always put a sweet-spicey tomato dressing on top rather than salsa. Afterwards, I played with...
Posted by Bb at 02:17 PM
Idiots Proliferate There's yet another article out about weblogging, this one Living in the Blog-osphere by Steven Levy at Newsweek. It started out with promise, though mixed with the usual condescension: So what kind of Weblogs live in the dark matter? There...
Posted by Bb at 02:08 PM
August 16, 2002
Pull the link or Li'l Burning Lizard gets it If Davezilla doesn't pull my weblog from his "fucked weblog" web site, kiss Li'l Burning Lizard good-bye. I've sent an email to Mr. Davezilla, but have received no response. So I'm taking drastic measures. To view same, go to the...
Posted by Bb at 05:55 PM
Becoming Zillafied Eric Zilla is collecting weblogs who have become "zillafied", in support of Davezilla. If you become zillafied, send Eric an email, let him know your weblog. Current Plutonians who have zillafied: bumrzilla EmptyBottleZilla Pet Rock Zilla Momentary Lapzilla of Dilution...
Posted by Bb at 03:20 PM
August 14, 2002
Debate at the Eye of the Needle As noted yesterday, Jonathon had suggested that if I was interested in a debate about Iraq, I should focus on Steven Den Beste: Although I don't have any interest in discussing an invasion of Iraq on my weblog, it occurs...
Posted by Bb at 10:40 AM
August 12, 2002
Wow, thanks, Glenn All of that material and effort that went into the cross-blog discussion with Eric Olsen, and Glenn Reynolds doesn't link to any of it. However, Professor Reynold's comes through today by pulling a quote out from another one of my...
Posted by Bb at 03:29 PM
You Free Blogging Shits Snippets: "During that weekend, I came to the realization that I've been mulling over ever since: a lack of money is hindering the growth and potential of blogging. Free -- or personal -- blogging can only take us so far."...
Posted by Bb at 01:38 PM
August 11, 2002
War Shit Tom writes today that he's bowing out of war blogging: I think I've finally got the Iraq blogging out of my system. I wish I hadn't allowed myself to get sucked into it. It's not what people read my blog...
Posted by Bb at 06:37 PM
Pulled posts Sorry for the pulled post earlier. I'm having a bad post day. Time to take my hands off the keyboard and back away slowly. Go for a drive. Stop cluttering up weblogs.com with unfulfilled pings. Does that make me a...
Posted by Bb at 10:31 AM
August 08, 2002
The Debate falters, lying broken in the dust Yesterday I accepted the challenge issued by the so-called warbloggers to engage in an ongoing debate about war in Iraq; to put forth arguments without recourse to personal attacks. I believe that I accomplished this, writing up both legal and...
Posted by Bb at 05:21 PM
August 07, 2002
The Argument in Defense Oddly enough, two separate threads related to two totally different subjects and both leading to this posting. As stated earlier, B!x posted a reference to the Weblogging Consortium idea to Blogroots. At this time, I rather wish this hadn't happened...
Posted by Bb at 03:11 PM
August 06, 2002
Consortium cont. B!x posted a link to my previous posting, Weblogging Consortiums, at Blogroots. I recommend that you read the comments attached to the posting. In particular, Matt of MetaFilter fame believes that the concept of weblogging consortiums is too idealistic, and...
Posted by Bb at 09:20 PM
August 05, 2002
Weblogging Consortiums This afternoon I was visiting Mike Golby and Jeneane Sessum when I realized that Blogspot was down. Again. I am not unmindful of what Blogger has provided to the community these last few years -- a free and easy way...
Posted by Bb at 08:58 PM
August 04, 2002
The Dubious Distinction of Being Shelley Saturday, Jonathon posted that he's now the top Jonathon in Google. He's also the top ranked Delacour. Mark Pilgrim is top score for Mark as well as the top ranked Pilgrim. I checked my Google rank and found that I've...
Posted by Bb at 09:39 PM
Homeless Blogs Mike Golby ended one of his exceptional weblog postings with a rant: seems as if Blogger is misbehaving. Again. And when I clicked the permalink to copy the URL, the page below showed up. As Mike might say (just might,...
Posted by Bb at 05:47 PM
August 01, 2002
Well, that was a short good-bye A scant two weeks ago I bid you all a tearful farewell, and now here I am again, in your face, on your blogrolls (I hope, still), and cluttering up weblogs. com. Wait, though! Before you dismiss me as yet...
Posted by Bb at 02:31 AM
July 14, 2002
When Part A doesn't fit into Slot B To continue my work on ThreadNeedle, I needed to update my server's Berkeley DB installation to take full advantage of the persistent features of the Redland RDF Application Framework. Since Berkeley DB is also used with our Movable Type installations,...
Posted by Bb at 09:48 AM
July 11, 2002
The World's Smallest Postings Steve Himmer (or should that be Opt Himmer? 5 Himmer?) subtly started something yesterday* that was intriguing to say the least: Is brevity really the soul of wit? Or, more precisely, am I capable of saying anything without rattling and...
Posted by Bb at 08:49 AM
July 08, 2002
Weblog spam bot It looks like the evil email spam bots have discovered my little virtual neighborhood. Tom Matrullo received a junk email seemingly addressed by me today, at the exact time I also received an email from me with the same subject....
Posted by Bb at 10:54 AM
June 16, 2002
Wrap up I found out this morning that one can still have ADSL without having phone service. My phone is disconnected but the ADSL is still active. Once the internet has you, it doesn't want to let you go. This posting was...
Posted by Bb at 01:33 PM
June 14, 2002
Technology to enable Community Serendipity is such a major component of my life, never more so than when I read Gary's attempt to manually connect the multiple threads to the whole discussion about Identity. While I'm on my long journey through distance and time,...
Posted by Bb at 10:11 AM
June 10, 2002
Categorization and Identity I tried an experiment yesterday: I organized my blogroll into different categories of webloggers, such as Really Scary Smart People, Huggables, Life Twisters, and so on. The intention was to have a bit of fun, and also to hopefully encourage...
Posted by Bb at 09:59 AM
Rifting Away The buzz is all about the NY Times article, A Rift between the Bloggers. Dave seems to be happy about it because the article called webloggers journalists. He would like to see complete transcripts of the interviews, though. (Sorry, Dave....
Posted by Bb at 09:34 AM
June 09, 2002
New Blogrolling Categories Rather than go with a single list of people in a blogroll, I grouped my virtual neighbors according to specific categories. I think this makes the whole process MUCH MORE INTERESTING. <update> I pulled the categories. </update>...
Posted by Bb at 04:25 PM
Huh? Scoble: We're getting a corporate bias in our news and we allowed it to get this way. And people wonder why I read weblogs now. I think the news aggregator in Radio, and on OReilly, and other places is the...
Posted by Bb at 12:33 PM
Out and About but still not in St. Lou It's amazing how much one can accomplish if one stops weblogging for a week. I finally finished my writing for Unix Power Tools and am now in the editing and production stages. In addition, I've been working quietly in the...
Posted by Bb at 11:21 AM
June 03, 2002
Technology Updates Blogicon's new home will be blogicon.blogrolling.com, and the new caretaker is Jason DeFillippo. Note that the move is still in process - check later today or tomorrow to see if it's complete. When the move is finished, I'll redirect Blogicon...
Posted by Bb at 12:14 PM
June 02, 2002
R-E-S-P-E-C-T A few days ago I wrote in a posting that I was taking a short break from weblogging. This is not a big deal. I take breaks, you take breaks, we all take breaks. Weblogging isn't a job or a...
Posted by Bb at 10:23 AM
Blogicon needs a new home The Blogicon needs a new home. The work to maintain it is minimal - add a new entry every once in a while (I have 3 pending now), using standard HTML. A better approach would be to have an application...
Posted by Bb at 09:14 AM
May 29, 2002
SFSU "Blog Burst" Several bloggers have gotten together to express their opinions of the SFSU pro-Palestinian/pro-Israel clash. You can view a summary of this event at Winds of Change. Of particular interest to me was Facts of Israel claims of bias at the...
Posted by Bb at 11:05 AM
Blogging as Journalism and other modern myths I'm not sure if webloggers buy into the whole "weblogging as a new and better form of Journalism" because they truly see themselves in this light, or because they seek some form of justification for all the time they spend...
Posted by Bb at 12:01 AM
May 25, 2002
Dave Winer's "help" with Book Wow. Generosity itself. Dave wants to try and "salvage" O'Reilly's weblogging book, by putting together his own mailing list rather than let O'Reilly go through the usual editing process. According to the intro page at the list, Dave writes: I...
Posted by Bb at 12:29 PM
May 24, 2002
And another shot... Just in case my previous posting doesn't piss enough people off at me - and it will - may I pass on to you this link to an entire page that the person known as The Head Lemur has written...
Posted by Bb at 03:09 PM
May 23, 2002
pay attention! Sometimes I agree with Dave Winer, other times I don't, and boy do I disagree with him and his concept of realtime blogging. Consider this -- you're a speaker who has spent days carefully crafting a presentation, rehearsing it, creating...
Posted by Bb at 04:26 PM
May 16, 2002
Lock the Door, Close the Browser Due to problems at provider, my DSL connection was choked down to sub-modem speeds. Painful. And basically unworkable with Movable Type -- all those buttons... Thankfully, back to working speed today. Yesterday, I was sitting in my favorite chair, listening...
Posted by Bb at 06:41 AM
May 13, 2002
Tin Cup is out At first I thought the Weblog Foundation was a joke, but additional reading showed me that, no, this guy's serious. And so are the people who've been responding to the suggestion. A Foundation that will do, among other things: Provide...
Posted by Bb at 07:15 PM
Ethics? In the comments attached to my previous posting on the weblogging's influence on Google, I found the most telling line from Elaine: So, with Googlewhacking, like lobbying, our sense of what's ethical should prevail. Our sense of what's ethical? Our...
Posted by Bb at 12:25 PM
CNN interview: Crap? Or Clever? The more I read the CNN article, the more I think that every last bit of it was deliberately contrived to generate noise among weblogging users. And a quick peek at Daypop and Blogdex only supports this. If you deconstruct...
Posted by Bb at 11:02 AM
May 12, 2002
Nice little pats on the head Isn't it special? All these publications coming out with articles about weblogging, such as the new one at CNN. Don't we feel precious, all these nice little pats on the head? Why is Josh Quittner the definitive authority on weblogs,...
Posted by Bb at 05:00 PM
May 09, 2002
In support of content In support of Content
Posted by Bb at 04:07 PM
May 08, 2002
Never having to say you're sorry... "Love means never having to say you're sorry" The lamest line in the lamest movie of all time. If you don't recognize the line, count your self lucky. Sorry, but I cheered when the babe died. I consider this movie...
Posted by Bb at 07:09 PM
May 07, 2002
Two more bloggers come over to the MT side... The Movable Type Virus continues its growth
Posted by Bb at 10:40 PM
May 05, 2002
Weblogging Community Technology is an enabler of community in weblogging, but, ultimately, it is dependent on the community rather than the community being dependent on it.
Posted by Bb at 01:59 PM
May 04, 2002
Dishma-what? The viral nature of weblogging
Posted by Bb at 10:56 AM
April 28, 2002
Welcome to my new home Weblog has permanently moved...
Posted by Bb at 07:27 PM
April 10, 2002
All back I had a lot of fun with the Australia Day at Bb. I am also, as you can see, testing out new color schemes. Feedback requested. Hopefully when I move to MT I'll be able to change the template and...
Posted by Bb at 08:00 AM