Comments on: mathowie and BlogRoots?

mathowie and BlogRoots?

riffola — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:20:49 -0800

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?

By: ltracey

ltracey — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:30:16 -0800

Well if it's not him, there's an amazing resemblance to him on the right of that image. (I recognize the glasses.)

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:34:44 -0800

L-R megnut, pb & mathowie

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:48:07 -0800

ding, ding, ding, ding!

You are correct, sir. Should be launching in some form next week.

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:53:35 -0800

Excellent!

By: evanizer

evanizer — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:54:15 -0800

A beautiful idea! I can't wait...

By: bittennails

bittennails — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:58:49 -0800

Are you all old enough to do this?

By: bittennails

bittennails — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:04:40 -0800

:) huhuhmmm

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:16:18 -0800

Riffola, where did you come up with that? Zounds.

By: bittennails

bittennails — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:26:34 -0800

I know, baap re baap, yaar, kahan se dhondha...I am constantly amazed by Metafilter...

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:28:54 -0800

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.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:59:35 -0800

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?

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:02:30 -0800

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.

By: Dean King

Dean King — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:44:10 -0800

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.

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:57:20 -0800

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.

By: BlueTrain

BlueTrain — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:03:04 -0800

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.

By: Dean King

Dean King — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:13:13 -0800

thanks for that pointer, bluetrain

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:57:52 -0800

*Gets in line at the ticket window, unrolls sleeping bag, pulls out flask*

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:34:31 -0800

*turns to stavros*

Don't Bogart that Flask, My Freind....

By: rcade

rcade — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:20:38 -0800

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.

By: mlang

mlang — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:32:58 -0800

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.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:40:26 -0800

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?

By: mlang

mlang — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:05:52 -0800

oh. wait. scratch that. it appears that matt has already fixed it (didn't doublecheck my own links).

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:48:22 -0800

I fixed it on monday, mlang.

By: OneBallJay

OneBallJay — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:18:21 -0800

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

By: jaden

jaden — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:19:18 -0800

What did the #8 user spot sell for?

By: OneBallJay

OneBallJay — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:48:18 -0800

What did the #8 user spot sell for?

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

About $175.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:58:09 -0800

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.]

By: rcade

rcade — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:25:16 -0800

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.

By: OneBallJay

OneBallJay — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:57:52 -0800

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.

By: ericost

ericost — Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:13:44 -0800

They're pioneering a new tag: <body /> !

By: kindall

kindall — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:03:20 -0800

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.

By: kindall

kindall — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:03:49 -0800

That is, if they're going to use <body />.

By: rodii

rodii — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:10:06 -0800

Huh? <body>'s not an empty element. Isn't that what <body /> would imply? How is that in the spec?

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:56:29 -0800

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.

By: kindall

kindall — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:09:21 -0800

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.

By: ericost

ericost — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:43:01 -0800

kindall's right, I was drunk.