She cannot be for real Over the last few days, I've been decidedly less amused by SaveKaryn.Com, the site where Karyn Bosnak has asked the world to pitch in and pay off her $20,000 credit-card debt. As I wrote today on MetaFilter, Karyn's gag takes money, time, and attention from people who legitimately need the kindness of strangers. People like Christy Corum. [Workbench] I don't even wish I had that kind of nerve. At least she is inspiration for comic material: dontsavekaryn.com "need a bmw looks like karyn, of savekaryn.com fame has a new friend. this guy asks someone to be generous and 'find it in the goodness of your heart to make his dream (of owning a $33,000 car) a reality." posted by reb at 8:40 AM PST [trackback] (35 comments total) 10:23:38 PM    comment []

Thanks Brett Morgan Many names. Zillamania. An answer to *Zilla, thanks Brent thanks Brett Morgan:). Well, the browser that became Netscape was always called Mozilla IIRC. As to the recent fad of blog renaming, it all comes down to Toho Vs Davezilla. Toho being a clueless bunch'o'lawyers representing the owners of the Godzilla franchise. Call it a touch of civil disobedience. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla] [Blogfish] Hmm. Brent. Brad. I wonder what other names I could adopt? :) [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla] 10:08:10 PM    comment []

test 4 post again to flush test 3 2:47:52 PM    comment []

Weblog Handbook's links are online: http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/urls.html. 2:24:08 PM    comment []

Testing, part two: Post this item and then turn upstreaming back on. 2:16:17 PM    comment []

Post and Publish Testing Post only without Publish button. Upstreaming is off. 2:15:27 PM    comment []

Adding this to RadioDocs list and reading list: Jon Udell's Radio Tweaks. 12:49:05 PM    comment []

Google: I'm Feeling Lucky Google Features Aha! That's what Google's I'm Feeling Lucky Button is for. Thanks to [Ernest Svenson: Knowledge Management] for pointing this out. 12:42:56 PM    comment []

I suspect that beginning bloggers and kloggers are often inhibited. This could be a problem. When I started this weblog on July 30th, my objective was to post items that were notes to myself. I thought that the chances of someone looking at my site were slim to none. Then my referrer page would show a few hits, and I was both flattered and nervous. Once I realized that the community was smaller and kinder than I had assumed, I posted more frequently. If we set up a k-logging community for our company intranet, I suspect there will be an initial _hump_ of hesitation among the employees. Maybe having a few designated posters at the beginning would ease the transition. Must think on this. Lessons learned from a large scale K-logging implementation. Most people don't like to write. We've had a difficult time designing interfaces that encourage adding information instead of just reading. There's no substitute for good, accessible writing. We have several people who write consistently for the system. The logs show that postings from one writer get far more attention and prompt far more linking than those from the other writers. " [Seb's Open Research] 12:26:34 PM    comment []

To Michael Rogers who asks how frequently a person writing a weblog should update (I hate calling these people bloggers, as Rogers does, that's a trademark). My answer is As frequently as something happens and you have the time or inclination to write it up. Rogers then says something provocative: "The kind of article that a writer produces after a week of thought is fundamentally different than one produced after a few hours." True. But you can keep lots of ideas in your head, and think about them for hours, days, weeks, months, years or decades; and even repeat them and expand on them, and (rarely) change your mind about something. Even great writers like Hemingway repeated themes. People who blog do this even more. It helps fill the space. Every event is an opportunity to "prove" ones' pet theories. I do this a lot. It's okay because everyone else does it too.   [Scripting News] 12:23:56 PM    comment []

Writing Inhibitions Writing inhibitions, the causes: It is a public display of facility they may not feel they have, and may not have; one correspondent was afraid his spelling was bad. It makes folly as clear as wisdom, but is more persistent than a comment made in the hall It takes time and thought (and a little hubris—per Larry Wall) to put words out for others, and to make them—and think them—good enough for public consumption. [Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog] 12:18:44 PM    comment []

Zillamania An answer to *Zilla, thanks Brent. Explanations of Zillaness. Does anyone know where *zilla originated? I thought that Mozilla, the open source web browser, was an original name. Since then I've seen Bugzilla, Davezilla, Clagnut changed to Clagzilla, now A Klog Apart has been changed to A Klogzilla Apart. Does anyone know the origin of these *zilla terms? [Blogfish] Well, the browser that became Netscape was always called Mozilla IIRC. As to the recent fad of blog renaming, it all comes down to Toho Vs Davezilla. Toho being a clueless bunch'o'lawyers representing the owners of the Godzilla franchise. Call it a touch of civil disobedience. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla] Ooooh, I want to be disobedient. Someone should change their name to Starzilla or *zilla. Maybe I could be BlogZILLAfish. 11:53:17 AM    comment []

IBM GSA Who is using Tomcat or Jetty in production. Interesting stuff. Lots of companies seem to be moving away from IBM and BEA to the open source alternatives. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog] Back when I worked for a new media offshoot of an old media company, we got quoted something in the order of 2 million bucks (aus dollars admittedly) for an install of webfear. The quote came from GSA tho ... [Brent Morgan's Insanity Weblog] 3:12:25 AM    comment []

Steven Levy Has A Blog About Writing About Blogs. says [Ernie the Attorney] Steven suggests that we need to be more self displined about our categories, separating different kinds of writing: Sharing interesting links and insights. More or less original content. Pundit commentary on what we see in the news. For the moment, my focus is on separating my stuff by type of subject content - computers, history, using this technology, etc. [Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog] I love the three styles of weblog writing listed above. What would be really cool is to come up with a way of formatting the weblog posts that indicates which of the three types of posts it is (sharing link discoveries, original content, pundit commentary).  Oh, so much to do. Save this goal for a later date. 2:39:04 AM    comment []