Craptcha

February 15, 2005 @ 11:21

I can understand that some bloggers feel they need to implement a CAPTCHA to curb comment spam, but that doesn't excuse that a legitimate commenter...

Number One!

August 11, 2004 @ 10:21

Okay... I complained yesterday that Google was sucking up loads of bandwidth from my server, but at least it's returning the favor... This site is...

Google's big bad appetite

August 10, 2004 @ 15:33

I'm not particularly interested in the stats generated by my website. I have a generous hosting plan and I don't generate that much traffic. Today...

Visiting webloggers

August 5, 2004 @ 09:02

I had a rather weird dream last night. I was visiting some of the best known bloggers on this planet, although, as it often goes...

Changes and language switching

July 27, 2004 @ 13:15

I haven't been all that happy with this site for quite a while... for several reasons. One is that for an extended period of time...

Comment blank

July 23, 2004 @ 09:48

I don't leave a whole lot of comments on other people's blogs, but I've noticed that I regularly forget where and on whose blog I...

Bibliomancy/Memery

April 16, 2004 @ 15:14

Alex points to a fun meme on Long Story Short Pier. Here's what you do: Grab the nearest book.Open the book to page 23.Find the...

Company weblog

March 30, 2004 @ 10:03

Even if you're only remotely interested in weblogging you should check out Mena's Corner. Not only is the first post an interesting peek behind the...

Collect a star

March 19, 2004 @ 07:43

Seeing that star hover over Cory's head, I strangely feel the compulsion to jump on his head Mario-style and collect it. Nothing personal, I like...

The Internet is English

January 20, 2004 @ 17:57

It's time again for the 2004 Bloggies weblog awards (via Liz). There are only four non-English weblogs nominated. Three Spanish weblogs and one Portuguese weblog...

Say my name

October 30, 2003 @ 13:34

The Register reports that Blogger/Google might get a subpoena to reveal the identity of pseudonymous blogger Atrios (link 2). As the Register notes, interesting to...

What do you read?

October 23, 2003 @ 11:08

Q: When you first visit a new weblog, what do you read? Of course, you take in the whole design, maybe scroll up and down...

Ev interviewed

October 22, 2003 @ 09:15

For future reference, an interview with Evan Williams on the future of blogging and moving to Google over at cnet.com. Q: Isn't blogging just creating...

Meeting a blogger

October 7, 2003 @ 09:11

I've met bloggers before, but they were also researchers, so when meeting I always felt we were two researchers, who also happened to blog. Yesterday...

Fremdkörper

October 1, 2003 @ 23:13

I just posted a comment in English to a German language weblog. I read German just fine, but with all those cases and conjugations, I...

Blogmatcher revisited

August 27, 2003 @ 17:45

I've mentioned Blogmatcher before, but I just found it again in my referrer list, and it seems to have been updated and polished since I...

Blog is now an official word

August 21, 2003 @ 14:17

Apparently the latest Oxford English Dictionary now has entries for words like "blog," "egosurf," "hacktivist," and other techie neologisms. Reported by TechDirt who refer to...

Overload

August 18, 2003 @ 14:43

Bloglines

August 14, 2003 @ 22:14

Taking a cue from Alex Halavais' blog, I took Bloglines.com for a spin around the block. Bloglines is a free (for how much longer?) web-based...

Blog census

June 30, 2003 @ 15:07

Now this is just the kind of information I was looking for! Blogcensus.net is creating a current database of weblogs, as far as that is...

Woordlog

June 26, 2003 @ 11:49

Woordlog, where they log only one word at the time. You get to comment on it though, using as many words as you want. In...

Sort order

June 26, 2003 @ 10:53

One of the core definitions of a weblog is that entries are posted in reverse chronological order. However, when you have a monthly archive, doesn't...

The world as a blog

June 18, 2003 @ 16:04

The world as a blog is really quite an amazing application. This shockwave file keeps an eye on weblogs.com, crossreferences with GeoURL and then displays...

High and low photography

June 10, 2003 @ 09:47

Interesting analysis of the Fotolog site/community over at Wired. They take a high/low perspective, contrasting "kids with webcams" with more "serious photographers." Also of note,...

How personal

June 4, 2003 @ 09:02

How personal is too personal? I guess most webloggers ask that question sooner or later, maybe not all webloggers actually blog the question though. When...

Feedster images

May 22, 2003 @ 13:32

An assortment of most images from a day in the blog world. Feedster images, brilliant idea, wonderful!...

Gibson's blog

April 29, 2003 @ 11:02

The last couple of months, the first thing I read online every day was William Gibson's weblog. Now Wired reports, after interviewing Gibson, that he's...

Blogmatcher

April 23, 2003 @ 23:16

Intriguing: Blogmatcher, read the FAQ if you're puzzled by that bare one line form (hint... it wants an URL!)....

MovableType on the move

April 23, 2003 @ 22:03

Whoa... that's great news. Ben and Mena, also known as Six Apart, the company that makes MovableType, are launching a hosted version of MovableType, called...

Got game?

March 29, 2003 @ 21:24

Today we've been helping our friends fix up the apartment they recently bought. It's a pretty four room apartment with high ceilings and loads of...

Anonymous

March 22, 2003 @ 01:18

Someone leaves a link to an anonymous blog with a twist on an old entry. This time it's not so much the author him/her/itself who...

Warren's weblog

March 21, 2003 @ 12:25

Some of Warren's posts are quite brilliant in their contrasting imagery. Too bad he doesn't host all the images himself, because some of his posts...

There goes the neighborhood

March 19, 2003 @ 16:56

I've resisted for a long time, but starting with this post, I'm pinging weblogs.com and blo.gs. MT makes it simple and unlike a while ago,...

Researching weblogs

March 13, 2003 @ 17:55

Today I stumbled across two studies on weblogs and weblogging. With weblogging growing more and more visible, it was bound to get some academic treatment....

Quiet evenings in the blogosphere

March 10, 2003 @ 17:56

Not that it ever really is all that quiet, but the past two weeks or so, I've noticed a, ehm... certain stillness. Calm before the...

Anonymous blog?

December 2, 2002 @ 12:38

[This entry updated and edited after I'd taken it off my site. Why? Read below...] After Dave wrote: A promising new anonymous weblog. Check out...

Neighbors

November 27, 2002 @ 17:06

Yikes... Leuschke discovered the other day that his upstairs neighbor is reading his blog. Check the comments for that post, hilarious and creepy, just like...

Photoblogs

October 28, 2002 @ 13:12

Photoblogs.org...

Pivot blogging

October 17, 2002 @ 17:43

Just stumbled into Pivot, a Dutch homegrown piece of blogging software. Looks pretty cool and workable. One of the biggest pros would be that it...

More blog, more pictures

October 2, 2002 @ 11:16

JaceHerring.com, who can resist a blog that publishes cat pictures like this one....

Photologs

September 9, 2002 @ 11:30

It's a link day: photologs. quarlo.com alifeuncommon.org madorangefools.com (love the polaroids!) photogeek.org lomogeek.org milov.nl lightningfield.com phonezilla.net/phlog mood-indigo.net lay-c.com ellessu.net nycasd.com Feel free to drop some...

Blog-o-sphere

September 3, 2002 @ 10:25

For future reference: Living in the Blog-o-sphere by Steven Levy....