CNN:
Your blog can be group therapy. I think friends [whom one experiences face-to-face] are better therapy, personally.
NY Times Fashion & Style:
Not on Our Blog You Won’t. Behind the screens at Jezebel.com.
Oh, even better ... Jezebel’s commentary on the NY Times article. Meta-blogging.
Ed Bilodeau
expands on some of my thoughts on social networking for small organizations.
Site’s getting a lot of hits
from an outfit called ”Proximic." If it widens the selection of contextual articles, it might assist me. Take a look, see what you think.
Ghost in the Machine:
Looking back five years after our ’glorious victory.’
Veer
has completely changed their “Ideas” section. Very nice.
RC3:
Is the personal Web site a thing of the past? Contrast this with WDES’s Too Much Suckage. Tough queries to answer. Causes a certain amount of navel-analysis, for an old-school weblogger like myself. Particularly: “What actual value do I add to the already overcrowded metacosm, and is it worth the time I spend?” I’ve concluded my ‘human aggregator’ bit is woefully tired, passé. Such newsreading incrementalism is counterproductive to health, happiness and living a compelling life [unless you can do it in some gorgeous exotic location and get paid gobs of cash for it]. It’s devolved into automatic habit, rather than an eagerness to jump upon the issues of the day. Splitting hairs daily, only to find them pulled out whole later on - making such effort worse than useless. The old Taoist Chuang-tzu would say I’m just adding noise to the already-cacaphonous world; to do so is inauspicious, unwise, and fruitless. Perhaps I should drop to the one-comprehensive-post-a-day model, and see how that fares. I’ve talked about it multiple times, but having encountered these posts, I think I may undertake a sea-change this weekend.
Acquia …
commercially-supported Drupal.
If I’d had more time,
I would have wished Rebecca a happy 9th. I still do, of course, just a couple of days late. I always believe it means more to express things on the actual day ...
Inside Higher Ed:
Making Wikis Work for Scholars. “A good number of college professors “work on Wikipedia pretty regularly, and of course their work is one of the main reasons why Wikipedia is as good as it is ...”
Shared code snippets …
Snipplr. Some EE and other weblog stuff in here.
Offhand, general observation.
I long for the days when weblogs weren’t spattered with corporate graffiti, and bloggers spent more time on actual weblogging than on self-promotion ...
Coding Horror:
Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs. As the man says, if you’re using WP, consider yourself warned.
Washington Post:
Bethesda Start-Up Makes Writing a Little Less Lonely. “WEbook, which launched last week, invites writers, editors, topic experts and anyone else who has something to say to put their virtual pens together to work on literary projects.”
Why does everything suck?
The Money Losing Conundrum of Twitter and Other Communications Apps. I’ve been wondering myself when the metaphoric yachts of the big players will lose interest in purchasing such little outboard motors. They use fuel but don’t necessarily add to the major thrust of the ship. Eventually they’ll stop buying ‘em, because they’re pure drag and no revenue. How many times have we heard that ad revenue will drive these neat little apps? More and more, ad revenue seems like a house of cards waiting to collapse. It can’t support every keen idea out there.
NY Times Technology:
“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts.” Blogging may be hazardous to your health?
Of interest.
Theory. I believe I can plot various Twitter peaks against a loss of readership on dangerousmeta!. Sharp in the beginning of ‘07. I’ll bet other webloggers can, too. Attention span shorter? Less time? More personal? Lower barrier to posting? The danger of becoming cloying or dull hovers, and the clever soundbite beckons. Since joining a few days ago, I’ve been surprised at how popular it is ... I’m a very late adopter, obviously. It is more immediate - but not more compelling. I suppose I need more time to ‘get it’. But this solves my ‘mystery loss’ of readership pretty conclusively, along with possibly explaining the lower posting frequencies I’ve seen in other weblogs I follow over this same time period.
NY Times Fashion & Style:
Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal. “If I contact someone or someone is put in touch with me, chances are they’ve already been contacted by another agent ... [snip] ... Or they’ve at least thought about turning their blog into a book or some kind of film or TV project.” You really do have to be a specialist, and work your vertical market, if you want to succeed in that fashion. Generally, no publishers pursue a generalist.
A landmark of sorts.
March 2008 (so far) is the first month in which RSS reads of this weblog have surpassed home-page reads. By about 2,000 visits.
Washington Post:
“Would you be willing, as a sign of compassion and empathy, to do the unthinkable and broadcast right now, as a Valentine to me, 20 seconds of blessed dead air?” If you’ve ever been a linkblogger, or ever aspired to be one, read this.
Ellis Labs:
Expression Engine 2.0 Sneak Preview. Significant use of Ajax to make things more efficient. Can’t wait to see the rest.
Wall St. Journal:
Appropriate after that last link ... Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data.
ReadWriteWeb:
The Best Tools for Visualization. Visualization/mapping tools for just about every interest.
Happy ten,
Smashing Mag:
You knew the cartoony Web 2.0 look wouldn’t last long. Grunge is making a rapprochement.
