Jan Haugland: Blasphemous MetabloggingSecular Blasphemy is blogging about bloggingAnother milestone- August 31, 2005 Sometime yesterday the number of total page-views on this blog rounded 700,000. A sincere thinks to all my readers! Your feedback and readership makes blogging a great reward in itself.http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/08/31.html#a8089 - Nobody's talking about blogs- August 26, 2005 Blog reality check: When I step out of the office at the end of the day and rejoin the pedestrian masses, I am quick to notice that nobody's talking about blogs. Just using the word "blog" in conversation is greeted with blank stares, or at best, a squinty "I heard something about that on the news." We're not ready to take over the world just yet.http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/08/26.html#a8054 Blogs to take over the world (one blogger at the time)- August 23, 2005 WaPo columnist Joel Achenbach, who also blogs, has a hilarious article called the tail that wags the blog. The blog is hungry. The blog will not be ignored. It is an insatiable little beast, a creature still unclassified by science -- hairy, warty, slobbering, with its own fiendish agenda. I often fantasize about killing the blog, but I worry that it will respond just like the crazed computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey": It will try to kill me first. There is a lot of truth in this, I...http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/08/23.html#a8026 Google addresses spam blogs- August 21, 2005 From Slashdot: "Recently, Mark Cuban of Icerocket made the accusation that Blogger is by far the worst offender when it comes to Spam Blogs. Now Google Blogger is introducing Word Verification for user comments to prevent comment spam and another feature called Flag As Objectionable where users can report blogs with questionable content. Google appears to be listening." Spam blogs, or splogs, is a serious problem for the bloggosphere already. If we guide by developments in email, it is...http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/08/21.html#a8012 |