Blogging effortlessly

December 10, 2003 8:22 AM

Want a blog that does the work for you? Why waste time filling your blog with the same pointless posts, when with a few clicks you can know that the blog will take care of itself. No need to change your current tool, it supports Blogger, Movable Type and even Nucleus. Zeldman has one, looks like Starvos has one, filepile is in the mix and it looks like Metafilter has been using it since August.
posted by jonah (16 comments total)

michael jackson
posted by angry modem at 8:48 AM on December 10, 2003

Now if you could get it to actually post to your own MT installation, that'd be great ...
posted by bwerdmuller at 8:58 AM on December 10, 2003

I don't get it. Someone please explain this to me.
posted by ashbury at 9:04 AM on December 10, 2003

It's actually pretty funny how it works. It scrapes blogdex, imdb, etc and auto-generates posts that sound believable using a dada engine and this script.
posted by mathowie at 9:06 AM on December 10, 2003

[this is bad]
posted by suprfli at 9:10 AM on December 10, 2003

ahem

nothing is in the mix

move along
posted by websavvy at 9:32 AM on December 10, 2003

I was wondering how the comments on the MovableType templates showed up with the correct cgi urls. That is clever.
posted by jonah at 9:32 AM on December 10, 2003

R. Robot was the first self-writing weblog (2002), and has an easier interface. But this looks clever...
posted by inksyndicate at 10:03 AM on December 10, 2003

I'm sure I would dig it but every time I try to load up the page, it comes back as a connection refused. I hate being rejected by web sites. It just knocks my self esteem that much lower.

That and R. Robot is a better writer than I am.

DAMN!
posted by fenriq at 10:09 AM on December 10, 2003

[this is bad]
posted by spslsausse at 12:43 PM on December 10, 2003

But, what's it for?
posted by dg at 5:06 PM on December 10, 2003

Programmers don't need a reason, just a challenge. I think it's pretty damn cool.
posted by perplexed at 6:25 PM on December 10, 2003

This morning I couldn't spell blahgguh, now I are one.
posted by HTuttle at 9:53 PM on December 10, 2003

I just liked the domain name. My doppelganger is an idiot!

Well, even more than I am, I mean.

But, what's it for?

It's a new, C2F (customer-to-fuckwit) service to help the busy executive prioritize and upshift his value-chain deliverables while monetarizing downtime in a time-sensitive fashion.

Or, a weblog that writes itself.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:47 AM on December 11, 2003

This is a cute parody of the tendency in blogdom towards quotidian banality and homogeneity (your blog and mine exempted, of course), not to mention a clever bit of programming. I'm not sure why people don't like it.

I linked to my new faux blog from my real blog, and received a complimentary email shortly thereafter from a friend. This indicates to me that my friends don't think I'm above writing a first entry that reads, "This is my first weblog entry," which wounds me. Still, it's good to know where you stand.
posted by cobra libre at 12:27 PM on December 11, 2003

It's a new, C2F (customer-to-fuckwit) service to help the busy executive prioritize and upshift his value-chain deliverables while monetarizing downtime in a time-sensitive fashion.
Ah, now it is clear. I may have to shoot myself to get the concept out of my head, but at least I understand ;-)

I suspect that the zenith of this tool will be when a completely automated, scripted site wins "Best New Weblog" in the next Webby Awards.
posted by dg at 5:18 PM on December 11, 2003