MetaFilter posts tagged with internet and blogging

Air Flow

Artw — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:37 -0800

How to blog, or counter-blog, for the US Air force, in handy flow chart form.

An environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem

parmanparman — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:39:05 -0800

Time Capsule: the internet and E-democracy. “Peoples’ lives now are as dependent on the Internet as they are on the basics like roads, energy supplies and running water. We can no longer take that for granted and we must advocate for the Internet politically, and support its vitality personally.” - Susan Crawford, University of Michigan School of Law. In recognition and memory of the beginning and continuation of the political internet, they have organized a Time Capsule of e-democracy's beginnings - everything from using e-mail to plead your friends to vote to flash animations that set the web alight. It is to be sealed on September 22. Help tell the story of internet politics.

Woman escapes from jail, blogs about her jailbreak on Myspace

huskerdont — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:37:47 -0800

I just escaped from prison - and I'm blogging about it! Farah Damiji, 39, a former magazine editor from the UK, megawealthy scion of a real estate dynasty and "international conwoman", was given a 3.5 year sentence last year for credit card fraud and identity theft. She was given a day pass from Downview Prison in Surrey to attend an educational event and never returned. That's when an English magazine found out that Ms. Damiji was blogging about her jailbreak on her Myspace page. Her Majesty's Home Office is not amused.

"House to Vote on Political Blogging Rules "

celerystick — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:30:55 -0800

"House to Vote on Political Blogging Rules" How is this to be interpreted? What's yhe motivation behind this? Who would it help more, MoveOn , or Blogs for Bush, or whom else?

hotzone or notzone

pasd — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:13:53 -0800

In the Hot Zone Yahoo! have hired journalist Kevin Sites (previously discussed here and here) to 'cover every armed conflict in the world within one year... to provide a clear idea of the combatants, victims, causes, and costs of each of these struggles - and their global impact'. The NYT (reg required) quotes Lloyd Braun, Head of Yahoo! Media Group, saying that he hopes they can combat the "growing public distrust of network news... [with] a transparency I think the Internet user wants and the news audience is craving".

someone thinks you're all rubbish

rhymer — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:21:07 -0800

Bloglash Blogger: Term used to describe anyone with enough time or narcissism to document every tedious bit of minutia filling their uneventful lives. Possibly the most annoying thing about bloggers is the sense of self-importance they get after even the most modest of publicity..." and so it goes. Might bruise a few egos, but it is a very funny bit of ranting - with a few home truths.

A corrollary to Godwin's Law

baltimore — Sun, 15 May 2005 06:06:40 -0800

Blogs are bad, essays good. Yet another priesthood is taking defensive action, this time essayists. In this piece, the author argues, without much thought or precision, that the throughtful, precise essay is much, much better than those dirty blogs. With apologies to Bill Maher, NEW RULE: If you think Matt Drudge is a blogger and cite him as such, you've already lost the argument.

Greasemonkey, Ajax, and the future of the web

Tlogmer — Tue, 10 May 2005 00:59:44 -0800

The web gets mashed up.

Who needs a hug...

drpynchon — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:21:56 -0800

Grandfather of the personal blog freaks out at age 30, after spending 11 years writing about the most intimate details of his life. From the beginning, he was always brutally honest in a time long before it became so commonplace, before any of us knew where this internet business would take us. Naturally he recorded said freakout on video for the world to see, and more or less shut down his storied site. Can we take this kind of display at face value? Is it a bad case of someone substituting net life for the real thing? Is it all just effete whining? Or is this a genuine case of two loves colliding, and a man forced to make a difficult choice?

makes me hate teenagers

zelphi — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:41:22 -0800

Girl murders mother, posts about it on her blog. Oh yes, it's real. Many of the 1300+ comments on her last entry are defending her actions, or saying it's unfair to judge her. (via Waxy via Glassdog)

Clone blogs

moonbird — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:12:24 -0800

Clone blogs: spurious blogs that look real, but exist solely to purvey smut in a very shady way. They're becoming ever more clever, those spammers.

How old are you?

PrinceValium — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:26:52 -0800

How old are you? The Ageless Project lists 1,800 blogs, sorted by the blogger's birthdate.

First, do no evil...unless it costs us money

Mick — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:46:18 -0800

Sorry Matt, you can't post in this thread. Google changes its Adsense agreement so that anyone participating in the program is barred from talking about the program. First rule of Adsense, there is no Adsense.

Candidate Blogs

RubberHen — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:22:18 -0800

Dem Blogs This community is filled with bloggers and I wondered if anyone had seen Maureen O'Dowd's take on how the Presidential Candidates are starting to use, for better or worse, "blogging" as a method to get their "message" across. ( Registration required )

Tristan Louis's observations on the current state of blogging.

clevershark — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:19:41 -0800

With his own blog in place Tristan makes interesting observations on today's blogs. He's definitely got a point when it comes to the variety of information on most blogs... sometimes it seems I can visit 20 blogs and see the exact same source articles over and over again. An interesting read from tnl.net, as always.

ajr — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:28:39 -0800

Blawgs: Blogs from the legal world. Lessig is not the only lawyer sharing his expertise in the blog format. Blawgs range from individual lawyers (Ernie the Attorney) to entire firms using a collaborative format to focus on a single practice area (such as the Supreme Court). "Almost every law firm is trying to build a knowledge management system for itself to take advantage of the expertise within the firm," Svenson says. "But with blawgs, it happens organically. If you gave your lawyers their own blawgs, pretty soon everyone within the firm could see who knows the most about different topics." Are knowledge management systems feasible or practical yet?

brookish — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:22:20 -0800

Laurel Wellman thinks blogging is dumb. Well, you knew that was coming.

NortonDC — Wed, 08 May 2002 19:08:31 -0800

Backlinking approaches critical mass. Append the referreral history to the page served and illuminate another dimension of linkspace. Via flutterby

RobertLoch — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:24:25 -0800

What is the future of online news. Will subscription eventually win through? Is there a viable business model that will allow independent publishers (such as Salon) to survive, or will we see further media consolidation? Where does blogging fit into this spectrum?

Mo Nickels — Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:14:20 -0800

Stupid things I have done, a list by Heather and her readers.

MarkB — Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:07:54 -0800

Entertainment Weekly's current (September 28, 2001) edition begins its story on the Internet in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States with a paragraph stating that:

By 9:15 Tuesday morning, a link to a live webcam atop the Empire State Building with a clear view of lower Manhattan was posted on Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog (scripting.com). And dozens of other daily log writers, including the all-encompasing Metafilter.com, compiled the highlights from U.S. and foreign news sources.

The article goes on to mention many other links to relevant online sites including kottke.org, thefineline.org/tflblog, and camworld.com. Apologies if this is a repost. I couldn't find it in recent days listings or search results.

netbros — Tue, 01 May 2001 16:54:23 -0800

Blogging pay model hits the wires. Would you fork out $4 per month for Image Hosting, Spell Checking, and an xTools editor that lets you cut and paste, format fonts and colors? Think the Trellix eyes will be watching?

silusGROK — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:26:47 -0800

This link is copyright, Eric Costello... aka Glish. No, really, he's serious. Is this really necessary? Comments?

fpatrick — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:18:28 -0800

Blogs of Our Lives. There I was, enjoying a Burger King breakfast, reading the local Gannett paper, when I turn to their Tuesday technology section and find . . .

Neale — Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:19:37 -0800

One wo/man; many, many votes. From the seventh circle of hell comes the second-last sign of the apocalypse; the voting form for the bloggies. I know which site I voted for... you're reading the damn thing right now. Go MeFi!