Is "community weblog" still a good description of Metafilter? The word "weblog" is just a long form of "blog," according to
Merriam-Webster, and all other dictionaries I checked. "Blog" has come to mean "a Web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other Web sites." (from
here) But you don't really need a dictionary to tell you that "blogs" tend to be about people's personal opinions and experiences. So "community weblog" doesn't strike me as an apt description of a site where posts on the main page are required to be impersonal. Might it be time to change the name "community weblog" to something else?
posted by Net Prophet
on Dec 6, 2011 -
214 comments
i'm looking for articles/opinions summarising (self-)regulatory processes of community weblogs such as MeFi, as orientation for the latest bouts of
antville soul-
searching.
posted by progosk
on Nov 23, 2006 -
14 comments
Fun idea? Or... not so much? Inspired by Fuzzy Monster,
here, I was thinking of a metapoem blogthing wherein anyone who wanted to participate could post a poem from any particular day, made up of three or four lines created from post "headlines" (first few words — the ones that typically constitute the initial link) from that particular day. If it seems like a fun idea, I have some questions inside...
posted by taz
on Apr 3, 2005 -
45 comments
Another metafilter-like site, this time in Russian, which I don't think has been noted here before:
Dirty.ru. It looks like a well-established place & claims over 7,000 users.
posted by misteraitch
on Feb 25, 2005 -
38 comments
European (and EuroLovin') MeFites:
IRC (irc.turlyming.com:6667, channel #euro) chat tonight at 9:30 GMT about "Vewropa" new community Euroblog in the making. If you haven't seen it yet, the
AskMe question that kicked it off is here. The Wiki that will get you up to date is
here. Have a look around, and show up tonight to share your opinions.
posted by taz
on Sep 29, 2004 -
34 comments
Just a note to future posters to MetaTalk, I've removed the option to make new posts about "general weblog-related" items, as
Blogroots is a much better place to do it, and designed for that subject matter. The site is just getting off the ground but will turn into a resource that is much more fully featured than anything MetaTalk can offer. I also took the "ticketstubs related" category out as I've languished on that idea for two years and it didn't make much sense to keep it around for now. I'm planning on going back to it this summer with the hopes of finally launching it, between the code here, at sportsfilter, and blogroots, I've got everything I need already written somewhere for it.
posted by mathowie
on Jun 13, 2002 -
19 comments
Request for opinions: What free weblog site would you recommend?
posted by signal
on Jun 13, 2002 -
23 comments
Of all the blogs out there, I've been unable to find any relating to a field that I'm very interested in: medieval history (or history at all, for that matter). Anybody else out there share this interest or know of any weblogs like this?
posted by charlesv
on Jun 11, 2002 -
13 comments
Morgens from seven to nine is Joerg Kantel, 48, to speak for nobody. The breakfast igelt itself right after the EDP leader citizens of Berlin of the institute for Max-Planck for science history with half-breed dog Zebu at home in the work room. Then Kantel surft by the World Wide Web, fishes important and funny out and spreads its booty, with comments and left garniert, over the web page "shock wave rider". Kantel loves the net Anarchismus: "pressefreiheit for all", demands the ex publisher of an underground newspaper.
posted by pracowity
on May 5, 2002 -
15 comments
Although
Anil's post is mostly rah-rah for metafilter, he makes some great points about weblogs and the web in general. Maybe this
is the people's medium afterall.
posted by mathowie
on May 3, 2002 -
27 comments
Kuro5hin's implementation of
dynamic threading almost makes threading easy to follow and use. Impressive use of technology to solve a usability problem (reading deeply threaded conversations online is a real bear, requiring many page loads).
posted by mathowie
on Apr 24, 2002 -
8 comments
I've said it before and I'll say it again, but world leaders could take a lesson from the firm yet benevolent way in which
Andrew admins his web community. And I'll save you the trouble, the "tractors are sexy" link is
here.
posted by luser
on Apr 24, 2002 -
15 comments
hey, remember when matt when on vacation and he posted a list of all the sites of all the users?
does that page still exist?
posted by jcterminal
on Apr 12, 2002 -
21 comments
I was reading a month-old issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review after dinner tonight and found -- surprise, surprise -- an article on weblogs that I don't remember having read about here. The article isn't available for free on the FEER site anymore, but thanks to the magic of Google caching you can all read it:
"Here's Where The Party Is" by Jeremy Wagstaff. Short and sweet.
posted by lia
on Mar 3, 2002 -
1 comment
Surprised this hasn't surfaced here, but Dennis Mahoney has written a
"Write A Better Weblog" article. He makes some good points, some of which many (myself included) MeFi'ers could stand a lesson in. And, you've gotta love the great Hemingway quote.
posted by Ufez Jones
on Feb 22, 2002 -
42 comments
Eureka! A couple of weeks ago in
this thread I pleaded for some help in setting up my browser so that it would load a random website each time I started it up. Now that I've cracked it, I thought I'd share the link with you as a thank you to all those who pitched in ... it loads
mostly weblogs completely at random ...
posted by feelinglistless
on Feb 17, 2002 -
15 comments
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?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jan 15, 2002 -
15 comments
Winer's weblog down temporarily to plug new product. I was quite surprised to see the weblog gone.. and a product ad in my face.
Since it's his work and his site, it's fine ;-) But it made me think.. is there such a thing as a weblog becoming
too self-promotional? Or is this a perfect use for weblogs in a society where we're all screaming for attention?
posted by wackybrit
on Jan 11, 2002 -
32 comments
I have Mefi set as my Home Page on IE but sometimes I wish I could just randomly have a different weblog (or website for that matter) each time I start the browser from a list I can specify (perhaps using a section in 'favourites' or a file on my hard disk). Is this possible? Anyone want to take a crack at it?
posted by feelinglistless
on Jan 6, 2002 -
10 comments
Are we ready for
Blogcon?
From the FAQ: "
What is BlogCon?
It's not really a Conference, it's not really a Convention. It's more of a gathering, a meet and greet fest for bloggers. We may have panels or workshops, but nothing formal, perhaps a roundtable discussions (especially if we are gathered around a table in a bar or restaurant), but no vendors or booths... "
It's scheduled for August 23-25, 2002 and in Las Vegas.
Thoughts?
posted by Hackworth
on Jan 2, 2002 -
19 comments
Russlog. The best weblog ever. (I've got this scary, Friday-the-13th feeling about this. Is judgement day upon us?)
posted by gleemax
on Nov 10, 2001 -
11 comments
There will be a
Francophone weblogger get-together to discuss ways of promoting French-language weblogs in Paris November 22. On va avoir
un dîner pour débattre des opportunités de promotion des weblogs francophones, le 22 novembre.
FAQ. [Also,
there's a discussion, in French, of the
proper terminology for weblogs and webloggers. On the table is "webillard" for weblog and "joueb" for blog, a distinction not really made in English.]
posted by Mo Nickels
on Oct 22, 2001 -
7 comments
I'm looking for some webloggers to contribute to my new "indie-music" weblog. I'm looking for weblogging of the most journalistic kind here. Visit
my weblog for more information.
Are you passionate about music? Do you read a lot of websites? Give something back.
posted by tweebiscuit
on Aug 21, 2001 -
4 comments
I was just thinking (but only briefly): What if you took a simple guestbook script, tweaked it so new entries went on top, then password protected it. Oila! Instant weblog software! Granted, you would have to hand code the templates and such, but it seems like it might work.
posted by mecran01
on Jul 6, 2001 -
4 comments
i was thinking of a team type weblog ... not really a metafilter type thing ... and not quite just a discussion board. but more like a place for whoever happens to stop by to post their thoughts ... (more>)
posted by a11an
on Apr 24, 2001 -
12 comments
The San Francisco Chronicle tech critic on weblogs.
As the pool of blog writers has grown, perhaps inevitably so have complaints about quality. It's true that some bloggers seem to feel the need to log every sneeze.
But even drivel has its readership, Fake says. "Sure there are a hundred teenage boys typing, 'I'm bored. School sucks' every three hours, but their friends read them -- and that's their intended audience."
Amen.
posted by bradlands
on Feb 28, 2001 -
1 comment
I could have sworn that when I first created an account on MeFi there was an option on the
Customize MetaFilter page that allowed you to get this funky bar on the front page with links to some weblogs. Whatever happened to it?
posted by pnevares
on Jan 2, 2001 -
2 comments
Okay this isn't really about the weblog format, but more about these sites in general. I am really curious to know as to why most of the web-designers here do not use customized 404 messages? So far I have only seen Glassdog.com, & 37signals.com use their own 404s, saturn.org used to have a custom 404, but it no longer does.
The reason I ask is because in general most webloggers are great web-designers, and I would've figured that they would all be using it. And I think it would be really interesting to see what everyones 404 would look like.
posted by riffola
on Aug 18, 2000 -
2 comments
has a good discussion of weblog community formation and cross-weblog interaction. There's
a good discussion going about the piece, and
I asked the author how I should deal with the problems he mentions that MetaFilter my eventually face, and he offers several possible solutions.
posted by mathowie
on Mar 3, 2000 -
13 comments
