MetaFilter posts tagged with weblogs

Daily Heroes

brownpau — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:23:55 -0800

The Daily [Batman / Superman / Wolverine] Oh, and Bad Spock.

small is beautiful!

kaibutsu — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:37:26 -0800

Blosxom is an ultra-lightweight piece of blogging software that uses the existing structure of a file system to index and date your posts. The program itself weighs in at a scale-tipping 16.4 kilobytes, and does everything you need to tell the world about your navel. And for those things it doesn't do, there are plugins. At the other end of the weight scale is the >160 page annotated source code.

Dipnote

brownpau — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:33:37 -0800

Dipnote. Official weblog of the U.S. State Department. "Dipnote" means "diplomatic note." Their first entry.

Universe, by Jonathan Harris and the world

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:23:49 -0800

Universe is the newest project from Jonathan Harris, who was also behind the amazing WeFeelFine, and the Yahoo Time Capsule. Here's a talk he gave about his projects at TED 2007.

Death Threats in the Blogosphere

zabuni — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:01:17 -0800

"I've been getting death threat comments on this blog." Kathy Sierra, of the Creating Passionate Users blog, has currently canceled a talk at the ETech conference because of death threats on (and off) her blog. Scoble's mad, and so is everyone else. But isn't this what happens when we bring anonymity to the Internet?

Humble beginnings.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:41:40 -0800

F i r s t p o s t !

Micropayments: just my, er, one cent.

jack_mo — Tue, 09 May 2006 03:00:45 -0800

IndieKarma micropayments: automatically tip the weblogs you favour 1¢ each time you visit. (Via Kottke, perhaps unsurprisingly.)

LJ tarts itself up, puts on high heels...

insomnia_lj — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:31:46 -0800

LiveJournal adopts banner ads. SixApart has broken a longstanding promise/agreed-upon principle (recently deleted) and is adding banner ads to the service, which will be visible to the general public and approximately 95% of their users. Last year's April Fool's joke suddenly not very amusing anymore. Is SixApart's bubble a bit overinflated?

That's how much per link?!?

clevershark — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:45:40 -0800

Does AOL's acquisition of Weblogs, Inc. make financial sense? Yet another excellent quantitative analysis from Tristan Louis, who seems to spend a lot of time digging for numbers relating to the so-called blogosphere -- see also his granular analysis of what distinguishes A-list from B-list bloggers and another analysis more specifically examining Technorati links, as well as his analysis of the sort of cash Gawker is paying out which was discussed here earlier. Whatever the price investors don't seem to be hitting the panic button at the deal.

You've got Weblogs!

braun_richard — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:53:03 -0800

AOL is buying Weblogs, Inc! Reuters and Paidcontent.org say it's for at least $25 million.

Weblogs Inc Contract

jonah — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:04:03 -0800

WeblogsInc Contract for Bloggers. If you have ever been curious what the writers for Weblogs Inc are held to, and get paid. I imagine that there are contract tweaks here and there for more in-demand talent, but it breaks down to $500 for 125 posts a month.

Mmmmmmm...

braun_richard — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:41:34 -0800

A new food blog! Slashfood. Looks like a good one. They seem to be covering pretty much everything. Instant bookmark!

Stop torturing yourself, you silly bastards!

FunkyHelix — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:07:00 -0800

A nonist public service pamphlet. Here you will find a 6 page pamphlet meant as a public service to help educate bloggers about the growing problem of blog depression. ;)

Greasemonkey, Ajax, and the future of the web

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

The web gets mashed up.

Your Daily Art

sciurus — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:21:35 -0800

Your Daily Art is a weblog that provides a short and sweet art history lesson on a daily basis.

save your posts? why not

omega — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:15:59 -0800

the simplest ideas are usually the best ones. Its easy to forget that the internet is a relatively new medium. Whats the bet that in the future that we will all be wishing that we still had all of our content that we contributed to "cyberspace" such as reviews, comments, posts... Who knows if 10 - 15 years from now, if the sites we post on will still be up, even stable sites such as MetaFilter may not exist in the future. sites have shut down before, taking everyones content with it. Its a simple idea, why not just store your content, be it on your desktop or a web application? So who wants to start a MeFi label over at bulletin board buddy.

Get your own damn blog, indeed!

Lush — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:41:21 -0800

Blogging is good for your health? [via] Despite all the open hatred and backlash against online journaling (not to mention an infamous study indicating that diary-keeping could be bad for your health), there may be actual merit to telling someone that they should get their own (damn) blog!

The Black is Back

portage — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:58:30 -0800

Robot Wisdom is back.

Will the Media Survive Weblogs?

Steve_at_Linnwood — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:49:06 -0800

CNN Executive Eason Jordan has resigned. He says he is leaving the news network before his comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos "unfairly tarnish" CNN. Sources allege he said at a panel on "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" that American servicemen are intentionally targeting and killing journalists in Iraq. Congressman Barney Frank, who was also on the panel at Davos, was one of the first to criticizes Jordan. Oddly Jordan, who claims his comments are being misunderstood, has resigned before a transcript or video of the event has even surfaced.

While there has been very little coverage of this in the "traditional media," motivated people mobilized quickly across the Internet(s). All of this very similar to the recent controversies with Dan Rather, and "Jeff Gannon."

Both Left & Right, has there been a power-shift in the media to the general citizens of this country? What does this say about the accountability of the media in the future?

Microsoft Blogger

Mwongozi — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:05:34 -0800

Microsoft does blogging Standard features, standard ugly MS design. Will "integrate" with MSN Messenger.
Via /.

Blogs Illustrated

taz — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:29:08 -0800

Blogs Illustrated: Webring of illustrated blogs. Very, very cool - via Michael Nobbs.

The BOBs

ronsens — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 05:57:33 -0800

The BOBs - Best of the Blogs DW-WORLD.DE, the online portal of German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, is looking for the best online diarists. With "The BOBs - Best of the Blogs" awards, we plan to honor the best Weblogs in 11 different categories, including Best Weblog, Best Topic, Best Design, Best Weblog Innovation and Best Journalistic Weblog. A total of seven of the Best Journalism prizes will be awarded -- one in each of our competition languages. Weblogs from all over the world can be nominated for the awards, provided they have been written in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese or Arabic. You can nominate your favorite sites or even your own blog during the open suggestion phase from Sept. 17-Oct. 17, 2004.

all hail the bbs

reklaw — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:05:27 -0800

Blogumentary? Pshaw. BBS: The Documentary, directed by Jason Scott of textfiles.com, is where it's at.

Beware the Thought Viper

euphorb — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:06:28 -0800

A gallery of inexplicable objects like a fridge magnet warning, a U-haul truck, a moist toilette, medicated cream, and many more. *Bonus Link* The same guy also has a review of the steaming pile of movie known as Gymkata.

not even good looking

plexi — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:04:08 -0800

Meet the Weblog. Time Magazine describes the trendy fascination with online digests.