Am I the *only* one here who didn't realize

June 13, 2000 8:47 PM

Am I the *only* one here who didn't realize that Rob Malda was a weblogger, too?
posted by baylink (12 comments total)

No, but only because I have no idea who he is, either. Man, I sometimes long to get into a heated discussion of the relative merits of Herotodus versus Xenophon around here...those guys are my rock stars.
posted by Ezrael at 8:54 PM on June 13, 2000

One word... s l a s h d o t

he CREATED /. man. he is my hero. him and tigert.
posted by y0bhgu0d at 9:03 PM on June 13, 2000

What's slashdot itself? A very, very popular weblog. Links to stories, author's commentary, comments from readers.. all taken to the ⁿth.
posted by Freakho at 9:04 PM on June 13, 2000

Oh great. Now everyone will read and post to Taco Hell. Just as I was putting it into the list of "journals I read" for my weblog redesign.

Ya know, that was the only part of /. that was almost annoyance-free. Thanx! :o)
posted by Electric Elf at 9:05 PM on June 13, 2000

Oops.

Sowwy.
posted by baylink at 9:36 PM on June 13, 2000

Nice to see that someone else knows that purple is The New Orange.
posted by harmful at 6:16 AM on June 14, 2000

Maybe my idea on what constitutes a "weblog" is a little broader than most, but pointing to TacoHell as evidence that Rob Malda is a weblogger sounds like digging up a Tin Machine album in order to demonstrate that David Bowie is a musician.

-Mars
posted by Mars Saxman at 12:46 PM on June 14, 2000

Let's get Kottke to blog it!
He won't like it!
He hates everything....
Hey, Kottke!
posted by wendell at 2:25 PM on June 14, 2000

Herodotus kicks Xenophon's ass, but I'll take Diogenes or Thucydides over either of them any day.
posted by sylloge at 5:50 PM on June 14, 2000

Wow, Malda baring all ... very slowly. The only thing that gets me is that it seems integrated into the rest of slashdot (same "sections" box and links on the left, etc.), but I read Slashdot daily and I've never seen a link to this. Is he hiding it?

Yes, Slashdot should go in the weblog category, though. I believe it's the most popular weblog, no?
posted by billpena at 9:34 PM on June 14, 2000

Malda's blog looks like /. because he uses Slash (the code that runs /.) to run it. I think he uses his site as a testing grounds for new versions of Slash.

I always considered /. the first 'blog. It's been around for years, and it pretty much defined the logging style of news dissemination.
posted by cCranium at 5:34 AM on June 15, 2000

Tim Berners-Lee was writing a weblog in 1993. Glenn Davis was doing it in 1994. Dave Winer - 1994 or 1995? Not sure. Anyway, you get the picture.

Rob Malda's weblog looks like /. because Rob Malda designed /.
posted by Zeldman at 3:24 PM on June 15, 2000