MetaTalk posts tagged with weblogs

The digg black market {via John Gruber}

evariste — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:53:00 -0800

The digg black market {via John Gruber}. This is a bad omen for mathowie's community weblog.

Is MetaFilter really a weblog?

tuxster — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:22:37 -0800

Is MetaFilter really a weblog? I know that Matt calls it a community weblog and Wikipedia lists it as a collaborative weblog. However, I've always seen a weblog as a single entity's (person, organization, or corporation) views and comments on something. If anyone who registers can initiate threads, how is it different than a bulletin board or web forum (other than simpler style and somewhat different formatting)?

Metafilter observations presented at 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism

thatwhichfalls — Thu, 13 May 2004 07:38:42 -0800

When the Audience is the Producer: The Art of the Collaborative Weblog (pdf), a presentation at the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism by UT journalism grad student Lou Rutigliano has things to say about Metafilter. [more inside]

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.")

metafilter stopped pinging weblogs.com

anitar — Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:51:07 -0800

Is metafilter no longer pinging weblogs.com a few times a day? looks like the last time was june 16.

"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

"What's up with blogspot?"

mlang — Tue, 21 May 2002 08:20:49 -0800

what's up with blogspot? many of my favorite blogspot-hosted weblogs are down (as is the homepage), but some blogs just won't go away. there's no mention of an outage or server crash on the blogger website or on evan's weblog. anybody know anything?

A picture of weblogs

Ufez Jones — Wed, 08 May 2002 15:24:11 -0800

A picture of weblogs shows a cool gridded pattern of many weblogs and the incoming, outgoing, and shared links. Not all blogs listed (but you can add yours, or request that it be taken off). A cool representation of the blogging community. (via daypop top40)

Would it be possible/feasible to share stats among web logs?

dchase — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 05:54:24 -0800

Maybe you will even be mocked in a medium that people actually read. Ouch! I wonder if it would be possible/feasible to share stats among web logs. I'd bet that the combined readership a few blogs would beat the readership figures of mid-size newspapers like the Boston Globe.

Blogs and pagerank

RobertLoch — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:09:03 -0800

The Google Time Bomb- how weblogs are increasingly influencing the algorithms of Google's search engine. It looks like fun could be had with this. (From Microcontent news)

Hotmail has started pinging weblogs.com

blackholebrain — Sat, 02 Mar 2002 21:05:26 -0800

I just noticed that Hotmail has started pinging weblogs.com, just like it's a blog that's been updated. To me, it's a sign of things to come -- corporate creeps in weblogs clothing. Should we care?

NYTfilter - is weblog technology here to stay?

owillis — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:56:03 -0800

NYTimes: Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad? You have to wonder how many times they can write the same damn article.

how to send a ping to changes.xml

lostbyanecho — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:36:26 -0800

Having recently switched from Movable Type to b2, I was wondering how I can send a ping to changes.xml over at weblogs.com. b2 is flexible, easy to edit and most of all, a good learning tool for PHP but no ping option.

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?

Free weblog services? Opinions please.

zeb vance — Sun, 02 Dec 2001 15:05:53 -0800

Free weblog services? Opinions please.

I've had a pitas.com page for close to two years.

Unfortunately, pitas seems to be collapsing under it's own weight. Outages and "page not found" errors have become rampant. It's become too damn frustrating to use anymore. My requests for an explanation as to exactly what the problem is have been met with a deafening silence.

I'm not going to sit here and complain. It's a free service and you get what you pay for. Are there any weblog services out there that are reliable and relatively simple to use for those of us who are somewhat HTML impaired?

Thanks in advance!

Now xml-rpc compliant

mathowie — Sun, 04 Nov 2001 21:09:06 -0800

MetaFilter now conforms with the new Weblogs.com xml-rpc interface. I used this xml-rpc client/server for Coldfusion to wrap a simple request/response sent to weblogs.com whenever a new thread is made at MetaFilter.com.

weblogs.com is no longer useful

sylloge — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:03:12 -0800

weblogs.com is no longer useful (since I can't set favorites and have to scroll through a list of X hundred weblogs to see if the ones I am interested in have updated). Question: what else is there?

Kuro5hin dogs blogs

owillis — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:06:59 -0800

The utter failure of weblogs as journalism.

Library weblogs: some media hotness

jessamyn — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:08:00 -0800

Library weblogs are in the news this month in both the major librarian print publications: Library Journal [linked] and American Libraries [print only]. I have nothing special to say about this, but it's one more notch on the keyboard for webloggers.

[reg required, user: melvildewey@hotmail.com pass: librariansrule]

I could script my own blogging tool, couldn't I?

mecran01 — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:17:47 -0800

It occurred to me today that I could take a simple web discussion board script, modify the interface a little bit, and turn it into a blogging tool. I guess archiving would be a drag, but otherwise it would probably work. Anyone try anything like this?

Blogger vs. LiveJournal Webby War

owillis — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:36:52 -0800

Ev declares "war" on Livejournal. Yeah, they're pricks - but it may also smack of crass self promotion. Whaddya think?

What is Dave Winer talking about?

mathowie — Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:39:03 -0800

Can anyone figure out what Dave's saying today at Scripting?

Is there a French version of MeFi?

ParisParamus — Fri, 25 May 2001 17:55:53 -0800

Does anybody know of any French Web logs? Not Metafiltre--there's only one!

Is it just me, or is weblogs.com down?

Neale — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 04:11:44 -0800

Is it just me, or is weblogs.com down?

Future of weblogs? (Posted 06/22/00)

magnetbox — Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:50:12 -0800

Will the future of weblogs be due to the issues people have with the current ones, or will it take an entirely new breed?

One problem always given is that there are too many. Too many what? Thoughts? Opinions? Are people supposed to read a certain select set of weblogs and agree to disagree because they don't have more options? Or is it just a popularity issue? Maybe it is just the people involved are concerned because since it is spread so thin, there is a lesser chance of someone reading their weblog. Maybe it is just an issue of categorizing them. If I want a weblog where the author posts often about horror movies, how do I know how to find it? Right now, I don't have the facility to find it, except for word of mouth. Right now all I have are weblog directories that either have a one sentence marketing blurb, or have generalized posting categories. Bleh.

One problem brought up recently is infinite recursive linking. Is everyone in the world truly linking to the same things, or is it just the circle of weblogs you happen read? Maybe it's time to explore new places. Personally, I think it is that weblogs are too generalized. When 10 people start their own weblog and have the same interests, they are bound to find and like the same kind of content many many times in the future. When 10 of those weblogs' readers then make their own weblog on the same topic, they may have a new perspective on the same links, but not actually different links. Don't complain about the person who just posted the same link you saw elsewhere and didn't comment on it. Don't read their log. Read and celebrate and discuss and argue with the people that have actually written a perspective on that same link.

Unless the issues people have with the current state of weblogs are rectified by some magical app or system or person or computer, &c., it will take a new breed. I think the future of weblogs will lead towards specialization. I hope it will be with lengthier, better writing. It will be hiking weblogs, cooking weblogs, c++ weblogs, rocket from the crypt weblogs, &c. Two of my current favorite weblogs are xblog and goodexperience.com. Why? Because I know exactly what kind of topics will be covered, and I won't have to wait a week for a topic I like to finally crop up.

Oh, and they won't be called weblogs.