kottke.org posts about weblogs
You can now post from Microsoft Word to your Blogger blog. More interesting to me is how former Pyra folks remember this old idea. Matt says it was “something we talked about building back when the blogger api was brand new” and that Anil Dash, then a Blogger enthusiast, knocked up a working prototype (which I also remember). Ev says it’s “a product that I first thought about five years ago”. Both accounts are no doubt accurate, but how they’re remembered is interesting.
Positive review of Flock, a new Mozilla-based browser with drag and drop blogging and Flickring built in.
Jeremy Heigh makes an interesting observation about a recent thread on kottke.org, which I think applies broadly across the blogosphere:
…we were trying to understand how to better leverage all the great, individual thinking being done on blogs because what Kottke hosted wasn’t a conversation at all. It was nearly 80 people carrying on their own conversations with themselves while others watched. That’s not a conversation — that’s philosophical voyeurism spiced with a hint of insanity.
I think choice of topic, the way in which the question is posed, and the pace of the commenting[1] has a lot to do with it. Despite the large number of comments, there are some threads on kottke.org which have been more conversational in nature and from what I hear, there’s still the occasional MetaFilter thread that’s worth reading for the conversation. But as Jeremy notes, there’s still a ton of chaff out there obscuring the wheat.
[1] Sometimes I’ll get 30 responses to a post in the first hour…that’s one every two minutes. That can be a velocity and volume not conducive to conversation.
NYC Craigslist computer services offered: “Will read and comment (semi-intelligently) on your blog for $2”. There’s a five comment minimum with future comments for free (!!) if your site is entertaining enough. (via lia (rhymes!)) Update: doh, the page has expired. It was pretty funny though, sorry you missed it.
I love that Davenetics still shows up in these graphs of the top blogs on Technorati. I read Davenetics daily but the only reason it is on the list is because it’s linked in a default Blogger template. If T’rati actually looked at their “statistics” instead of just using them to market to us, this sort of thing is pretty easy to spot (if the ratio of the # of links vs. the # of sites linking is close to 1.0, the site may not belong on the list). (Oh, and Binary Bonsai is suspect as well…its high rank is at least partially due to a default link on a popular Wordpress template.)
Two bloggers get married via their blogs. Texas law requires a public declaration of the marriage with local witnesses and their blog posts satisfy that requirement. (via mr)
Eater is a new NYC food/restaurant blog. Looks a bit too gossipy for my taste, but that’s me.
First Pullover is a new blog about footwear design and development. The editor works as a product manager for Hummel, a Danish shoe company.
“Right and left wing blogs are both crap”. “The left is full of crop circle paranoids. The right is full of stupid angry people. The sheer volume of information in both does manage to strip things to bare bones facts, but not by virtue of intelligence, just volume - like a colony of bacteria feeding on a corpse.”
The Guardian’s NewsBlog has pretty good coverage of the London bombing. “Four explosions are confirmed. One on a tube train between Aldgate and Liverpool Street, one on a bus, one in the tube at King’s Cross, another at Edgware Road.”
Jorn Barger, homeless in SF?. Barger denies this version of the story; he’s the editor of the still-excellent Robotwisdom.
Great ongoing collection of old mall photography. Includes shots of Southdale in Edina, MN, the very first mall ever built.
Eliot’s presentation has some great thoughts about photoblogging and where it’s going. Overproduction, overconsumption, and inappropriate audience participation are some of the pitfalls of photoblogging. This probably goes for regular blogging as well.
The Morning News redesigns a bit. It looks a bit fresher, contemporary, and more like what it should look like (if that makes any sense at all).
Panel on food and weblogs tonight. “Panelists include Adam Kuban of SliceNY, Alaina Browne of A Full Belly and Josh Friedland of The Food Section. Andrea Strong of The Strong Buzz moderates.”
Hossein Derakhshan, founding father of the influential Iranian blogging movement, is visiting Iran and needs your financial support. He’s going to cover the trip as a citizen journalist but warns that he may be detained, questioned, thrown in jail, be forced to make false statements, etc.
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