mowabb: meta-bloggingWhat is it and why do we do it?Will Blogs Improve the World- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Hello. If you're visiting here through Dave Winer's link to David Watson's response to one of my questions: Hi, and welcome. Please check out Illusions of Freedom, part 1, the first half of an investigative paper I recently completed on the political efficacy of blogs. The paper generally argues that blogs will not make much difference to the real world, but I have to say that I'm still highly ambivalent about that, and I hope I'm wrong. At any rate, this first half is just the introduction...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/07/27.html#a347 Bush and the Dark Side- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Will Leshner picks up on the connections between Bush's foreign policy and "Attack of the Clones," similar to what I mentioned yesterday. Speaking of which, check out the of The Nation. It also links to the Nichols' piece about Aaron McGruder, which I also mentioned yesterday. (Leshner is the creator of Radio Poster and he says a new version should be out shortly. I can't wait!)http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/29.html#a263 A Better Aggregator- (Found July 2, 2008 ) How many times do you see stories in your Radio News Aggregator that you'd like to be able to save for later For me, these are usually things that I'd really like to read andor think about a bit before I post something about them. Yet often when I'm running through the pile-up in the aggregator I'm in a hurry, just trying to thin things out. So wouldn't it be great if there was a second check box that would allow you to "save for later" Those stories would go to a "saved" page completely...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/28.html#a261 Great Strip- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The Boondocks is the best comic strip around these days. Those of you who think the media is not doing a very good job these days (that would be lots of people with blogs, I imagine) should check out Sunday's strip -- good stuff. For more: John Nichols did a great piece about "The Boondocks" and Aaron McGruder (the strip's author). McGruder has been doing a lot of strips about "Attack of the Clones" recently -- too many, I was thinking. But that...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/28.html#a260 Imagineering Example II- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Global Justice supporters have created a sort of example of Imagineering (see previous post) with this site, which makes you think that the WTO is admitting it's responsible for a lot of human and ecological suffering. Of course, the page is a spoof, and I'm not sure whether the fact that it's so hard to tell it's a spoof makes it a more successful example of Imagineering, or less. To be fully successful, it seems it would need to clearly tell readers that this is the truth that the WTO...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/26.html#a258 Imagineering the Web- (Found July 2, 2008 ) If you're still not sure what all this copyright, intellectual property, Napster-related hubbub is all about, just ask Doc. He seems to be a BigMedia ventriloquist. Here's what BigMedia is saying to Congress (according to Doc ): The Web is a content distribution system that needs to be protected by digital rights management hardware and software, through every cog in every conveyor belt that runs from producer to consumer. The only beings that matter are companies. The Web was a nice...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/26.html#a257 BlogRolling- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Have you tried the great service offered by BlogRolling.com Just create an account (you can lie about who you are if you'd like), grab the nifty little bookmarklet and install it on your browser's toolbar, then every time you find a site you'd like to read regularly andor recommend to your readers, just click the bookmarklet and add the new site's URL to your blogroll. What could be simpler Later you can go back and edit your blogroll when you decide you didn't really want to link to Junk Food..http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/25.html#a256 Jonah Goldberg Wants You to Be Lazy- (Found July 2, 2008 ) In the process of predicting that blogs will have little effect on Big Media, Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review Online, also summarizes what being a "conservative" means for him. Now, I'm a small-c, big-C and even a bouncy-c conservative. And one requirement for being any kind of conservative is that you have faith in the adage "there's nothing new under the sun." It is this faith that has always made me a bit of a skeptic about the Internet, even though I make my living from it. .http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/25.html#a252 A Little Break- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I've got to cut down on the couple of hours a day I've been spending surfing and posting. I'm also reconsidering my approach to political news -- I suspect many potential readers leave my pages when my politics are screaming at them rather than attempting to have a conversation with them. I'm a teacher, so one of my instincts is to spell things out the way I think they are, which often ends up sounding didactic and offensive. I've seen students completely turn off to this before, and I've...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/24.html#a248 Backlinking Back Again- (Found July 2, 2008 ) David Watson has been keeping tabs on the backlinking thread and has collected some great links on the topic. rjsjr offers several different ways to access the backlinks of sites you visit, as well as giving readers easy access to the backlinks for your own pages. His bookmarklets poll Blogdex, Daypop, and Google, so they cover the bases pretty well. rjsjr also offers some good links to coverage of backlinking in its sidebars. Meanwhile, drop.org fills in some history of backlinks, with...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/categories/myOrganization/2002/05/23.html#a245 |