mathowie and BlogRoots?

April 17, 2002 6:20 PM

Matt said, "I hope to soon be launching a site that deals with weblog-specific issues, and it will act as a community site to discuss weblogs in general, taking this category away from metafilter entirely." Is BlogRoots it?
posted by riffola to General Weblog-Related at 6:20 PM (36 comments total)

Well if it's not him, there's an amazing resemblance to him on the right of that image. (I recognize the glasses.)
posted by ltracey at 6:30 PM on April 17, 2002

L-R megnut, pb & mathowie
posted by riffola at 6:34 PM on April 17, 2002

ding, ding, ding, ding!

You are correct, sir. Should be launching in some form next week.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:48 PM on April 17, 2002

Excellent!
posted by riffola at 6:53 PM on April 17, 2002

A beautiful idea! I can't wait...
posted by evanizer at 6:54 PM on April 17, 2002

Are you all old enough to do this?
posted by bittennails at 6:58 PM on April 17, 2002

:) huhuhmmm
posted by bittennails at 7:04 PM on April 17, 2002

Riffola, where did you come up with that? Zounds.
posted by iconomy at 7:16 PM on April 17, 2002

I know, baap re baap, yaar, kahan se dhondha...I am constantly amazed by Metafilter...
posted by bittennails at 7:26 PM on April 17, 2002

I saw the link at Matt's blog (in the box on the right, linked as "this other thing"), did a search on google, didn't find much, then I remembered Matt mentioning it a few days back. Put two and two together.
posted by riffola at 7:28 PM on April 17, 2002

Cool Idea, as a rookie blogger I shall be hanging out, soaking up knowledge and pestering the vets for advice...

[echo]

Hey, where'd everybody go?
posted by jonmc at 7:59 PM on April 17, 2002

I hope I get a lower user number this time. I'm pitching a tent in front of the ticket window right now. The illio of pb looks a lot like Zeldman.

Zeldman, Zeldman, Zeldman.
posted by iconomy at 9:02 PM on April 17, 2002

feature request: as in the links in riffola's L-R comment up there, if we were all username.mefi/name instead of user.mefi/# there would be no more worries about user numbers.
posted by Dean King at 9:44 PM on April 17, 2002

there would be no more worries about user numbers.

Yeah, but then we'll get Sneetches with 'a's in their names,
Who don't care at all about fun and games
So someone will make an 'a'-on machine,
And those of us with low numbers won't feel very keen.

The current number system causes some strife,
But it's an integral part of our metafilter life
As sad as it is, the usernumbers must stay
But that's no reason not to stay happy and gay.
posted by j.edwards at 9:57 PM on April 17, 2002

Hey Dean King, your idea has been discussed before. My honest opinion: people like being judged based upon their number. A type of seniority like in real life, we wear our age on our sleeve, most of us anyway.
posted by BlueTrain at 10:03 PM on April 17, 2002

thanks for that pointer, bluetrain
posted by Dean King at 10:13 PM on April 17, 2002

*Gets in line at the ticket window, unrolls sleeping bag, pulls out flask*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:57 PM on April 17, 2002

*turns to stavros*

Don't Bogart that Flask, My Freind....
posted by jonmc at 11:34 PM on April 17, 2002

Dean: Matt auctioned off a low user number on EBay last year (and has plenty more to sell -- I've got my eye on this one). For this reason alone, I think number-based prejudice is here to stay.
posted by rcade at 5:20 AM on April 18, 2002

fwiw, there's a bug in username.mefi:

the profile page displayed doesn't list metatalk comments. see for yourself: user.mefi | username.mefi.

if matt doesn't see this and respond here in this thread, i'll repost it to the metatalk main page as a bug.
posted by mlang at 7:32 AM on April 18, 2002

I can see the comment count on your username.mefi, mlang, using IE 6 pc - 2 threads and 149 comments. What browser are you using?
posted by iconomy at 7:40 AM on April 18, 2002

oh. wait. scratch that. it appears that matt has already fixed it (didn't doublecheck my own links).
posted by mlang at 8:05 AM on April 18, 2002

I fixed it on monday, mlang.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:48 AM on April 18, 2002

rcade: What does that have to do with number-based prejudice?
posted by OneBallJay at 3:18 PM on April 18, 2002

What did the #8 user spot sell for?
posted by jaden at 10:19 PM on April 18, 2002

What did the #8 user spot sell for?

Peace of mind that I supported a website that I love.

About $175.
posted by OneBallJay at 10:48 PM on April 18, 2002

OBJ feels the love.

Do you feel the love?

[Disclaimer : I feel the love, but I haven't as yet kicked into the server fund. This I hope to rectify soon.]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:58 PM on April 18, 2002

What does that have to do with number-based prejudice?

We can't rank each other based on our membership numbers if Matt hides the numbers.
posted by rcade at 3:25 PM on April 19, 2002

We can't rank each other based on our membership numbers if Matt hides the numbers.

I guess my point is that I didn't buy it for better 'mefi cred,' or to escape any number-based prejudice -- I wanted to support the site, and I thougt it was a cool way to do it.
posted by OneBallJay at 8:57 PM on April 19, 2002

They're pioneering a new tag: <body /> !
posted by ericost at 11:13 PM on April 20, 2002

Can't say it's "pioneering" to use a tag that's in the spec. Still, if they're going to use they should specify an XHTML DTD.
posted by kindall at 9:03 AM on April 21, 2002

That is, if they're going to use <body />.
posted by kindall at 9:03 AM on April 21, 2002

Huh? <body>'s not an empty element. Isn't that what <body /> would imply? How is that in the spec?
posted by rodii at 11:10 AM on April 21, 2002

In this case, the body *is* empty, I think. Weird, though - I can't imagine that the empty body tag comes up all that often.
posted by gleuschk at 11:56 AM on April 21, 2002

Yeah, if there's nothing between the opening and closing tag, you're allowed to write it with the trailing slash. That's just an XML thing, it doesn't matter what tag it is.
posted by kindall at 2:09 PM on April 21, 2002

kindall's right, I was drunk.
posted by ericost at 11:43 PM on April 23, 2002