MetaFilter posts tagged with wired and blogs

An editing refrain.

the fire you left me — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 18:55:18 -0800

Flame on. Bloggers gain libel protection .

Evan Williams could not be reached for comment.

tranquileye — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:52:10 -0800

Evan Williams could not be reached for comment. "Evan Williams, Pyra's co-founder, blogged his day-to-day life for the last three years right up until it got interesting. Williams pulled his blog offline earlier this week." Leander Kahney at Wired asks Why Did Google Want Blogger? and thinks it might have something to do with that slippery idea of a semantic Web.

Blogging to stop the logging.

maniactown — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:58:39 -0800

Treetop Bloggers Protest Logging A group of anti-logging activists are now ready to maintain their own blog 130 feet up in an ancient redwood. I've considered tree sitting, but find myself much more inclined to do so if I could continue working (or reading MeFi, as the case may be). Interesting intersection of technology and activism. Doncha think? (via /.)

jedro — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:55:39 -0800

Somebody is going to link to this Wired article about blogging, so lets get it over and done with.

preguicoso — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:31:31 -0800

Another blog-tracking tool... Although I am braced for mefi attack for posting this one ("non-story - there are other web log trackers" etc, etc), I'm interested to hear what me-fier's think about the ultimate viability of such a product. Is a comprehensive weblog crawler a viable product? Would google-like algorithms work? What would this mean for said "memes" and their proliferation on the net? Further, is there a potential for a "commodification of the meme?" Would the corporates, in the style of viral marketing gimmicks ("I Kiss you!"), use such a "meme tracker" to identify and exploit net culture "hot spots?"