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October 7, 2005
My friendly host’s sys admin tells me Joho is getting hit with about one trackback per second. I guarantee you that Joho is not that popular. The trackback spam has gotten so bad that it actually affected my host’s performance the other day. He has accordingly shut down trackbacks for now, and I’m removing the trackback link at the end of each entry.
Too bad. We need ways to discover the webs we’re spinning. [Tags: blogs trackbacks spam]
October 5, 2005
Isabel Walcott’s new blog runs the second great dog-and-Internet cartoon from The New Yorker… [Tags: IsabelWalcott NewYorker]
September 25, 2005
Tom Evslin has begun serializing his murder mystery at Hackoff.com setting during The Bubble. You can read it for free. You can get it as a feed. You can comment on it. You can visit the faux company web site. Beginning next year you can buy a hard copy version. You can even win prizes.
Is this what Dickens would have done? Well, only if he got paid ahead of time. Per word. Tom’s more generous than that. [Tags: TomEvslin books mysteries blogs]
September 20, 2005
Jeneane has an excellent article explaining why CEOs should blogs. She’s talked with a whole lot of CEOs and their moral equivalents… [Tags: blogs JeneaneSessum]
September 14, 2005
Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, blogs a welcome to Google’s blog search beta with a paragraph of genuine respect for the Google team and a paragraph of things Technorati does that the Google blog index doesn’t. [Note: I am an advisor to Technorati. I’m emotionally attached to it and to Google.] [Tags: technorati google blogs]
September 11, 2005
Wow. JuicyFruit shows us decisively what blogs aren’t. [Tags: blogs]
August 24, 2005
Jeneane Sessum
CoreStreet Software’s president and blogger Phil Libin:
Blogging is my golf game
It’s where he hangs out and converses with his peers and other interested parties. Exactly. Especially for those of us who tend toward the George Carlin side of the golf spectrum.
BTW, the quote is from a story Jeneane’s writing on CEOs and blogging for next month’s Global PR Blog Week 2.0, an online conference about the effect of the Web on PR. Jeneane’s and other articles will hit the site September 19-23. Here’s a list of authors. [Tags: pr JeneaneSessum]
August 19, 2005
Rob de Jonge is blogging about moving to Asia from Amsterdam because he fell in love with Asia. Pretty good reason to move somewhere, if you can.
August 11, 2005
Jim Howard writes (in the comments on my posting about Ben Hammersley’s light-hearted claim that Richard Steele wrote the first blog in 1709) that he (Jim) might be considered the first blogger. Jim writes:
in June of 1982 I setup Howard’s Notebook, a bulletin board system, and people could dial into my BBS. At first they had to connect at 300 baud.
I posted the sort of stuff you see here now.. information and comments and what was going on in my life. I posted the comments that people sent to me about the BBS and subjects of interest. I had “links” to other information on the BBS. Things like list of ham clubs, ham repeaters, satellites in space and stuff like that.. plus I had a list of other bulletin board systems.
Later I added more phone lines to the BBS. A bit later I got connected to the Internet. Remember this was still before the WWW. So people could send and receive Internet email and read and post to newsgroups. I had some Internet email addresses setup as links so that a person just had to click on the link and it would enter the email address. (Because people could not understand how to address an email at that time.) Also I did things like add a phone line so that a person could click on another BBS from the list and my computer would dial out and connect and then the person was on my BBS but connected to a BBS someplace else.
So I think I had everything in place to be a blog and I think that Howard’s Notebook was the first blog and it was June of 1982.
Was it a blog? It depends on the outcome of a really uninteresting argument about the definition of “blog” that I’d rather not have. Nevertheless, I thought I should note Jim’s claim for the record. (And where can I get a copy of The Record anyway?) [Tag: blogs]
August 9, 2005
JD Lasica has posted seven video interviews from Blogher. I haven’t viewed them yet, but it looks like a terrific assortment of people. [Tags: blogher jdlasica]
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