MetaTalk posts tagged with blogs

Bueller?

Joe Beese — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:41 -0800

Ask MeFi's "Felon Bueller" thread gets picked up by Mental Floss and Jezebel.

Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Readin

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:26:14 -0800

#23: Every year I sneak a reference to Metafilter onto this list. And every year a Metafilter post ridicules its inclusion -- can't wait to see this year's! Have at it, inclusoridiculists.

Seeking Hurricane Katrina Blogs

bamassippi — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:39:20 -0800

I need all of the major blogs that are set up for Hurricane Katrina.

General blog-related stuff on MetaTalk?

me3dia — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:46:31 -0800

Note: if posting about general weblog-related items, please post to Blogroots.com instead.
Since Blogroots is dead, does that mean we can talk about weblog-related stuff here again?

Which (Currently active) Metefilter member has the most popular blog

growabrain — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:01:22 -0800

Which (Currently active) Metefilter member has the most popular blog (judged by hit-count)? How about a non-blog site? Who is the most (web-influental) Mefi-member?

I would like to donate the domain name weblogs.info

tranquileye — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:22:38 -0800

I would like to donate the domain name weblogs.info for some useful purpose. Any suggestions or proposals?

Blogging software promotional post

kirkaracha — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:46:41 -0800

MoveableType is cool, but this post is just three generic links and a press release. Just because it's cool software that some of us use doesn't make this a good post. (And from the Post a Thread to MetaTalk page, "if posting about general weblog-related items, please post to Blogroots.com instead.")

you'll be happy to see that Stan Chin's blog is finally live

jonson — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:40:43 -0800

It's entirely possible that everyone already knows, but for fans of one of our funnier commenters, you'll be happy to see that Stan Chin's blog is finally live, and is a welcome addition to the blogosphere, despite what some might think.

blogs talking about interesting jobs?

Irontom — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 06:54:23 -0800

Does anyone know of sites/blog sections that let people talk about interesting jobs? My question springs from the IT Workers Get Back to Basics thread, particularly the guy who turned to music, the guy who wants to move to France and learn to make wine and the archeologist's assistant. I tried a couple of google searches, but didnt come up with anything that really yielded anything interesting.

I grew up in small towns and wasn't terribly outgoing, so I never got to talk to a wide range of adults about what they did and how they got to doing it in the first place. To me, it's one of the most interesting conversations you can have.

What's the scoop on Andrew Sullivan and the Times?

me3dia — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:01:44 -0800

"The New York Times Magazine contributing writer Andrew Sullivan has been banned from the mag indefinitely."
This from Bulldog Reporter's Lifestyle Media Relations Reporter, a newsletter that keeps tabs on media personnel shifts for PR pros. Unfortunately, that's all they said. Anybody got the goods?

"A New Book Scratches At A Weblog Wound" (NYT)

rschram — Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:56:33 -0800

(NYT) A New Book Scratches At A Weblog Wound
Should Bookblog, a project to collect 9/11-related blog entries (e.g. opinion on WoT events, not day-of reactions), exclude those veteran webloggers. Jason Kottke and others say no. I suppose I could have read a response on the Op-Ed page, but Ariel Sharon sent one in that week too. More here

Weblog FAQK

GaelFC — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:28:39 -0800

As always, the Brunching Shuttlecocks nail it, with their Weblog FAQK (spelling theirs.) Excerpt: "Weblogs cover a wide range of topics, such as other weblogs, what the mainstream media are saying about weblogging, new weblogs, advances in weblog publishing, books about weblogging, the future of weblogging, and that one naked guy painted up like Spider-Man."

How do I deal with a cease and desist letter to my blog?

popvulture — Wed, 29 May 2002 02:00:15 -0800

After 5 years online publishing hundreds of pages of content, my personal site poprocks.com has received a cease and desist letter from Barcelona candy company Zeta Espacial. I write about pop culture, and I am identified with the domain, personally and professionally. I have never tried to sell the domain to anyone, nor have I ever had its value appraised. Do I have any hope?

Why do people engage in Google-bombing?

Irontom — Wed, 15 May 2002 09:47:30 -0800

Why do people feel so thoroughly justified about engaging in Google bombing?

Why is your opinion about something so important as to justify monkeywrenching the best search engine (if not the best thing) on the net? Why is your self-righteous indignation more important that leaving well enough alone?

If it is so important to you, why don't you build something equivalent with the specific aim of "educating the people" and stop piggybacking off of Google?

I am interested in Matt's opinion on this, since he's one of the ones that set this whole thing off.

Where to find blogs to read?

Voyageman — Sun, 12 May 2002 07:48:53 -0800

Besides Google and Eatonweb, any suggestions for weblog directories sorted by category/popularity? How do people narrow down what weblogs to actually read (rather than scan) regularly. Any helpful discussion/suggestions for readers, instead of writers ? Many thanks.

On Salon.com, two new articles

mattpfeff — Thu, 09 May 2002 23:20:54 -0800

On Salon.com, two new articles by Scott Rosenberg and Steven Johnson weigh in on, you guessed it, weblogs -- Rosenberg's on blogging itself (and how the mainstream media have reacted to it); and Johnson's on his vision of weblogs as components of an "emerging superbrain". Johnson has some interesting ideas (though who knows if he's right), and Rosenberg probably gets it as well as anyone.

Webmonkey blogging article.

rex — Thu, 02 May 2002 06:07:13 -0800

Webmonkey (which I constantly forget still exists) has a new piece up today that seems like it might be of interest here: The Weblog Tool Roundup.

What are some good photo blogs?

Voyageman — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:35:01 -0800

(Not too be a brown nose but) Matt's use of photographic images in a.wholelottanothing.org is beautiful (and central to the content it seems to me ?) Besides photographica.org, any other photocentric weblogs anyone would recommend? Thanks. PS Do you think there will there be more of these? Will soundtracks happen too?

The Globe and Mail on community blogs

mcwetboy — Sat, 02 Mar 2002 04:54:05 -0800

The Globe and Mail on community blogs and blogging as the new intellectual model for the web: "But, in fact, another kind of intellectual-content site has survived, one that makes much fuller use of the Web's unique structure. And the new model is flourishing." It seems that the new model is us.

Austin Chronicle covers MeFi

ColdChef — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 06:51:48 -0800

"You may have never heard of "weblogging," because it never yet made anyone rich, but blogging is a way cool deal, man"

In preparation for SXSW, MeFi gets a shout-out in the Austin Chronicle.

Phone number in-joke on blogs?

hincandenza — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:12:16 -0800

So, okay, what's the in-joke on this thing popping up in all and sundry weblogs yesterday: "What is real? 415 564-1347". I assume this is some new Jason- Kottke- as- Laurence- Fishburne thing (I've never met him, but I get such a 'David Wooderson' vibe from that guy).

WinerLog has moved.

rcade — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:47:14 -0800

WinerLog is no longer being hosted on EditThisPage. Film at 11.

Is Weblog Nation still the best selective web site to keep track of interesting blogs?

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:15:04 -0800

Is Weblog Nation still the best selective web site to keep track of interesting blogs? Was it ever? It seems a bit staid and badly classified. The last category, for instance. is a mess. Yet, for rookies like me, it delivers.

So does anyone know of a better, more critical and more up-to-date one-step guide or portal, that cuts out the dross and concentrates on what's good?

What exactly is it that just happened to Blogger?

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:43:15 -0800

What exactly is it that just happened to Blogger? I saw hints that there had been some sort of security breach, and now everything is inaccessible. (And the Blogspot server is outright offline as I write this.) There was some sort of password break?

Q: what is the best designed weblog?

ecvgi — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:03:21 -0800

Q: what is the best designed weblog? For me, it's either what Kottke.org used to look like or DiK.