Not So Obvious

Google -blog Tool

Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:18:35 GMT

Blogwise Google -blog Search Demo You will need a Google API key, I got one for free here. From the site: The purpose of this tool is to demonstrate how removing blogs from Google's results affects the quality of the results. The suggestion that this could be done has been referred to in many places recently (Harold Bakker, The Register, Slashdot to name a few)... [The Lost Olive]

RSS: Chris Pirillo, owner of Lockergnome

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:03:13 GMT

makes the point, once again, that RSS will replace email as the way publishers will deliver content that their readers want to read.

He's the man. He had, at one point, 200,000 subscribers to his email newsletters. I'm sure he'll have more than that to his RSS feeds pretty soon. [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Blogs: Another Tool in the Security Pro's Toolkit (Part Two)

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:32:55 GMT

In my last column, I introduced you to blogging and blogs, and some of the issues that security professionals should consider before starting their own blogs. In this column we continue the discussion, and focus on blogs that specialize in security. [Scott Granneman: SecurityFocus]

Worth a 'Quote Unquote'

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:42:56 GMT

Thanks to Heiko, a controversy from the German blogging community has leaked into the Anglosphere. How should bloggers quote one another? Should a quote be immediately identifiable as a quote? Should a link always be permalink? I personally bristle at any rules that bloggers 'must' or 'should' do anything, except be true to their own principles and to themselves. I don't blog to share knowledge. I don't blog to be part of a community. I blog for myself, for my own enjoyment. I don't have an obligation to follow any rules with my weblog, except to please me. So Dave Winer is free to edit his posts during the day. Jörg Kantel is free to quote without attribution. (Although once you read his blog for a few days, it's pretty easy to pick out his words from the quotes, even without the quotation marks. And for all I know, maybe he didn't even invent his catch phrase "Allerschärfstes Willkommen".) And I'm free to quote and paraphrase in my Quick Links to get things to fit in the tool tip bar. And those who blog seriously, professionally, for business, or as consultants, just have to accept weblogs for what they are, namely mostly unserious and unprofessional. You might as well try to herd cats. Update It's appropriate to add a quote here, from Jonathon Delacour (welcome back, by the way), in regards to ethics and blogging: "I instinctively mistrust attempts... to impose rules or standards, no matter how well-intentioned they might be." [PapaScott] ' couldn't have put it better myself.

Metablogging

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:11:25 GMT

Hugo versucht sich an einer Kategorisierung von Weblogs. Er unterscheidet zwischen:

Linkhubs: diese bestehen zu 90% aus Links und Fremdzitaten, nur ein geringer Anteil ist Eigencontent. Dieser besteht meistens aus der Angabe warum ich einen Link sehen will, nicht was dort steht -- denn das steht ja schon am Originalort.
Contentblogs: Schreiberlinge die mehr eigenen Content produzieren als Fremdverlinken. Häufig stark Artikelformatig -- also längere Texte.

[Der Schockwellenreiter]

absurdity going mainstream?

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:28:25 GMT

Battle of the blog [jenett.radio]

The Way and How of Blogging by Nick Finck

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:49:02 GMT

[Der Schockwellenreiter]

What: Mob Scene. Who: Strangers. Point: None.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:44:11 GMT

Flash mobs, groups called into being by Web sites and e-mail to engage in organized spontaneity, have become Germany's newest fad. By Otto Pohl. [New York Times: Technology]

The Birdhouse

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:29:11 GMT

Ben Kerschberg's Blog on Mental Health:

Ben Kerschberg is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Virginia. Since graduating from law school, he has clerked for a federal court of appeals judge, practiced law, and worked as an industry analyst for a public software company in Silicon Valley... He will spend the next two years as a Fellow at Yale Law School, where he hopes to write a book about the manner in which American society stigmatizes mental illness.
Ben Kerschberg knew at age seven that he would one day attempt suicide. ... It was not an idea he toyed with. He just knew. And he was right.
In (his book) Piercing The Veil, Kerschberg takes us with unflinching candor on a journey that begins in his sophomore year of college, when he suffers the first of a series of repeated and calamitous nervous breakdowns precipitated by daily suicidal ideations. His lifetime battle with his inner demons culminates, at age 30, in a failed suicide attempt and hospitalization in a psychiatric institution. His astonishing tale opens the eyes of those who have never suffered from mental illness and empowers those who have but feel that their truth must be bottled, corked, and sealed with wax. At times disarmingly funny, but more often poetically tragic, Kerschbergâ€™s account breaks onto the scene with a powerful voice that will leave people reaching out to their friends and loved ones.

The weblog is a labor of love, doing a good job covering mental health-related media items. I haven't looked at the book but it is available for free download here. [Follow Me Here...]

An article in News.Com

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:20:29 GMT

while extremely incendiary, may be seen as the last gasp in the Great RSS War of 2003. [Scripting News]

RSSJobs

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:12:29 GMT

allows you to "create and save searches for Monster, Dice, HotJobs,and more in one location, then delivers the results to your favorite RSS Reader." [Scripting News]

Scott Reynen

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:11:48 GMT

"This utility will take a monster.com or hotjobs.com job search URL and produce an RSS feed of the results." [Scripting News]

Sunlog lite

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:57:23 GMT

YA Weblog tool ... [thomas n. burg | randgänge]

Easyjournal

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:48:44 GMT

Yet another new blog service[thomas n. burg | randgänge]

Firebird's next killer

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:33:48 GMT

Forget weblog posting popups and textareas the future is Web Panels and XUL. [phil ringnalda dot com]