Christian Crumlish (xian): memewatchblog memes, meme blogs'Twas ever thus- September 26, 2002 Cracking down on a thing just makes it more desirable. How many readers would have have slogged through Ulysses if it hadn't have been banned as obscene It looks like BEACHtechie is getting his day in the sun, following the school suspension re-reported here earlier. ("Yesterday I had more unique visitors to my blog than any other day, ever. Thanks to everyone.") A few things from his blog struck me. The first is funny: They don't know what the hell a blog is, they kept on calling it a "b-log".http://www.sammydman.com/ The case against (most) weblogs- September 25, 2002 Charly Z of Driver 8 tipped me off this morning to a few interesting threads. First is this biting essay called either "Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs!" (according to its top header), "Why I Hate WebLogs" according to its filename, or the punch-pulling "Why I Hate (Personal) Weblogs" used in its title bar. It veers from incisive observation to silly scatalogical excess (may not be suitable for all readers), but manages for the most part to tweak the blog "movement" for its foibles and raise a few..http://mama.indstate.edu/users/bones/WhyIHateWebLogs.html Raven spikes with tales of Irish Travellers- September 23, 2002 In an entry called Candid Camera Raven discussed the Irish Traveller background of the caught-on-video daughter-beater named Toogood. This entry of his shows up on the first page of results of a Google search for Irish Travellers and the like. Hits ensue. Quoth the Raven: The coverage over at ABC news and also at CNN both featured the department store video clip (viewable provided you subscribe to their video feeds), which raises the question of whether it is ethical to provide a streaming...http://blogs.salon.com/0001381/2002/09/21.html#a69 Cat meme update- September 23, 2002 So Essential Blogging has cats on the cover, eh Is this that the cat meme again I've been trying to note when I see that meme in use these days. In print it's hard to capture, but I have snagged these arbitrary online appearances of the cat meme: The Blog Phenomenon (PC Mag): The vanity page is dead; long live the Blog. The vanity Web page has lost momentum. People who posted one have already done so, and the growth has slowed. Most are uninteresting and uninspired. Cat pictures dominate too...http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/categories/memewatch/2002/09/23.html#a481 Law firm out $2.1 million in African fraud- September 23, 2002 Collateral damage from the Nigerian scam: The FBI said Poet, a bookkeeper for a small Berkley law firm, embezzled $2.1 million from the firm's accounts between February and August, after scam organizers persuaded her to wire huge amounts of money to bank accounts in South Africa and Taiwan to expedite the transfer of money to the United States. Detroit Free Press (via Philm Freax)http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/checks21_20020921.htm Merholz on the Panel- September 19, 2002 In petermemes, Peter Merholz captures his impressions of the panel and dinner afterward, finding much of the discussion old hat and the journalists jaded about their own profession, except for Rosenberg: He was possibly the first "journalist" to write about weblogs, and definitely the first to do so intelligently. Scott "gets" the formal quality of weblogs, which surprisingly few do. I'm trying not nitpick, but I do disagree with some of the specifics of peterme's comments and I detect a touch.http://peterme.com/archives/00000284.html Embarassing self-revelation of the day- September 19, 2002 It was only the other night, at the weblog panel, than I finally learned how to pronounce Kuro5hin. By the way, I'd love to run some comparisons of Slash, Scoop, and Nuke sometime but I don't have the expertise or experience to do it myself. I've worked with a PHP-Nuke installation, but I still don't have total mastery of it, and I've never worked with Slash or Scoop. If anyone wants to do such comparisons and let me know I'd be happy to link to it or add the content here. I've been thinking.http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/categories/memewatch/2002/09/19.html#a456 Nailing Jello to the Wall- September 18, 2002 Thank goodness tweneyblog ran it down. Scot Hacker alerted me to the LJ threads where the (now familiar) anti-weblog "what's the big deal" backlash debate was taking place, in the blog context. I mentioned it the other day, something that made me want to start cataloguing frequent utterances about blogs (blogFU's) such as "They just link to teach other" or whatever (that was made up but there's a public record to sift through). I was feeling like I should put in the links (reading Rebecca's..http://dylan.tweney.com/weblog/mt/archives/000173.html#000173 Fetish Map- September 18, 2002 (via Rebecca's Pocket) I can't wait to hear reverse cowgirl's analysis of this map.http://www.deviantdesires.com/map/mappics/map81002.gif Veronique De Cock explained (in English)- September 17, 2002 Thanks to our feedback loop, Michel Vuijlsteke has cleared up the feeding frenzy around Ms. De Cock and her now-famous natural breasts (go directly to his entry to follow the many hyperlinked keywords) Veronique De Cock is a 24 year old model, former Miss Belgium (1995), sometime singer and TV presenter, organiser of Miss Antwerp beauty pageants.... has nice breasts.... a rumour going around that she has implants.... denies the rumour.... ever more insistent cries that she has ... ever more...http://blogs.salon.com/0001236/2002/09/17.html#a804 |
