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Saturday, March 18, 2000

Does this sound familiar?
Despite being smacked around by badjuju a little, event-horizons still makes this interesting analogy -
"Analogy: my life is like this blog.
1) It sucks.
2) It keeps going on, awkwardly, with no direction or purpose.
3) It's quite lonely.
4) It's got no style and is badly designed.
5) And like life, I really don't care about 1-4."
Wait, isn't that true for every weblogger?
posted 3/18/2000 10:27:14 PM | perma-link

inexplicable
I don't understand.
posted 3/18/2000 9:49:32 PM | perma-link

love is in the air
openlog - kottke.org's queer sister is so cute. I'm going to try and fix her up with blueblog in an attempt make a weblog version of Chasing Amy.
posted 3/18/2000 9:14:51 PM | perma-link

apologies
via netdyslexia -
"This joke getting boring. As far as I know the first one was Kottke, then Webloglog picked it up and now blogfrog.
Have you ever noticed that cool sites say things first and all the loser sites pick it up? Loser sites use the word 'via' quite often. There is a third way: say your mission is to pick up stories by other webloggers. Say your job is to be a loser. This will make you cool. Really!"
I would like to publically apologize to Jason for taking his "joke" and not crediting him. Before he made his brilliant insight and expressed it on his site, I never noticed the similarities across Manila, Userland, and Editthispage sites. I can't help it. I want to be cool like jason, but we can't all be jason kottke.
In my attempt to be cool, I tried talking about sexyness but people just looked at me funny. Maybe that only works in Europe, not the U.S. So I'll just have to say, "Hi. My job is to be a loser."
posted 3/18/2000 8:45:08 PM | perma-link

go q, go q...
q daily news sets up proper permanent archive linking, and Jason explains how to do it for other Manila users.
I'd say more but blogger might get jealous and leave me again.
posted 3/18/2000 8:35:28 PM | perma-link

"Well, last night I went over to Jeff's and bought some books. Afterwards, I stopped by to see Bill, Jay, and Mark... they're such kooks!
Don't you think it's just so cutting edge when blogs refer to other blogs by the first name of their owners? Gag!"
Because most weblogs are quite impersonal and faceless, just like large corporations, a certain detachment seems more rational than any of this "first name basis" linking. Excellent point Steven.
posted 3/18/2000 8:05:48 PM | perma-link

we're back together
blogger and I have made up. The cynic in me says this bliss is short-lived, that she'll just go and run away with some smarmy bastard and break my heart again. But I think things may have really changed, and our relationship is stronger now.
posted 3/18/2000 8:03:27 PM | perma-link

blogger has left me
my only true love has left me again. oh blogger, i'm sorry about those things i said about you thursday, i love you blogger, i never meant to hurt you. i was wrong to complain about you not remembering me. it was a difficult time for you. you had other problems - you were running out of memory, and disk space. i was only thinking of myself, when i should have been thinking about you, and your needs. we all need more space sometimes, i understand that now. but i still miss you so much blogger, please come back.
posted 3/18/2000 8:01:38 PM | perma-link

Thursday, March 16, 2000

Protest Part Two
In the second public extended blog-fasting protest, I will refuse to update webloglog until Blogger remembers me. (Fixes their cookie problem, for the two or three of you that don't know what I'm talking about.)
Where's the love, blogger baby? I remember you! Are all the beautiful, tender, sensual moments we shared worthless? How can you tell me you don't remember any of it? That hurts. That hurts a lot.

Of course, nobody will care that I'm on protest because 'bloglogs are sprouting like weeds these days. Hell, blog frog even has a t-shirt already.
posted 3/16/2000 4:28:28 PM | perma-link

Wednesday, March 15, 2000

...
neale reviews the 'bloglogs -
"At the head of the pack is webloglog. Why? Because of the small size of Adam's head. It's tiny."
Thanks? I think.
posted 3/15/2000 10:08:25 PM | perma-link

Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Sally was right...
Like the ShinyThings contest isn't just an attempt by the corporation to gather email addresses and products the readers are interested in to better sell "blogged" advertising... are we really supposed to believe anyone can be this nice?
posted 3/14/2000 11:26:50 PM | perma-link

she's so cute - and reads Kant
Stuff & Rot -
"I am not on this list.
I'm not surprised, seeing as how I didn't submit my site. I saw the little "Submit your new Weblog" message the other day, and I even clicked on Sally Tenpenny's address, but i didn't send a message. I don't know why; I guess it just felt a bit hypocritical, since lists like this, even funny ones like BLOAT, still leave a bad taste in my mouth.
But now the new list is out, and of course I'm not on there, and those people who didn't have a moral crisis and were able to hit their "Send" buttons are now getting a zillion hits (no, I'm not even going to pretend i do this for myself.), and i am, well, not. i don't even have a nice glow of smug self-righteousness, i just feel....left out, again."
You know you have "issues" when you feel left out because some anonymous cynic doesn't doesn't mock you in a public forum.
Adding insult to injury - I stuck with my strict "no whoring for attention" policy and did not submit webloglog. I am morally superior to all! The bad taste in my mouth is from bad chicken wings!
posted 3/14/2000 8:00:47 PM | perma-link

Please note that the last posts were not updates. The protest is still on.
Also please note that webloglog is properly pronounced as three distinct words - those words being "we", "blo", and "glog."
posted 3/14/2000 5:12:53 PM | perma-link

he's so swirlee
eleven seconds - "I had a dream last night that Digital Swirlee looked normal on my browser. I'm so fucked up"
Digital Swirlee - "I guess you know you've made it when people start to dream about your blog. Vanessa also comments on our generation's collective heritage, '80s Saturday-morning cartoons."
If "making it" means being in the subconscious of people who make posts like "Yay! Tom linked me. I had no idea that he even read me. I still have this weird notion that all of my favorite bloggers don't know i exist. Thanks!"
and respond to this like this -
"Oh, and mark's link last night doubled my stats for me yesterday *hehe* thanks mark! [hugs]"
then yeah - Jordan has definitely arrived. You heard it here first - designing sites that look like shit in Netscape is an instant way to fame in the weblog community.
Note to self - deny collective heritage with these people, burn Rainbow Brite and Transformers shirts tomorrow.
posted 3/14/2000 3:55:14 PM | perma-link

The old boys club
dead @ 32 - "The awards ceremony, don't get me wrong, wasn't all bad. Some of the people I met were nice and not all a bunch of stuck-up, little know-it-all young white boys. Although most of them were. If you want to see what's wrong with the Weblog community today, just notice those two things -- race and gender. White boys. More white girls now, but it's still mostly a young white boys club. And it is very much a club. If you're not in, then you're nobody."
Hey, I'm a shitty white guy. Where's my membership card dammit! Nobody ever invited me anywhere! Is this one of those anti-semitism things? I bet it is. Bastards.
posted 3/14/2000 12:31:56 PM | perma-link

so that's what "blogadelic" means
Ouch! - "There's a theory (ok, it's my theory) that the frequency of a male blogger's updates is directly related to .... well, let's just say it proves he has stamina. Ev is a perfect example of this. He's like the Energizer Blogger. He keeps going and going... [11:50]"
It's funny, I have this theory that it's inversely related but that's only based on my personal... err. Never mind.
posted 3/14/2000 1:15:19 AM | perma-link

Monday, March 13, 2000

trenchant dot org
trenchant.org/webloglog/
This is not an update either. And the last one wasn't even a weblog, so it doesn't count.
posted 3/13/2000 10:24:00 PM | perma-link

false advertising
By clicking on random blogger-powered links I've just learned pedro the lion tour journal is not a journal about a lion named pedro in a circus, as one might think. It is actually the tour journal of a band called "pedro the lion."
posted 3/13/2000 8:34:26 PM | perma-link

this is not a post
cough
posted 3/13/2000 7:56:10 PM | perma-link

Free Tibet!
Err... never mind. wrong protest
In the first ever extended "blog-fasting" protest - I will not update webloglog until blogger implements proper "direct-to-permanent-archived-version" linking. I want the link to point to the archived version right there and easily accessible so that years later when we all look at webloglog we can still click on the links and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Or cry, depending on who you are.
Jason has it. Hell, guys with homemade rebol hacks have it. Manila/editthispage sites can probably do this properly too - but who cares.
And from then on I will only link to weblogs that have some form of permanent archive I can link to. I just can't deal with the fleeting nature of all of this! I'm trying to do something really really important here that stands the test of time! Work with me dammit! Join the protest!
ok... maybe that's not exactly why i'm not updating...
posted 3/13/2000 2:13:41 PM | perma-link

Sunday, March 12, 2000

the reviews are in...
posted 3/12/2000 4:29:16 PM | perma-link

'bloglog's new slogan
netdyslexia -
"These meta-meta-blogs are linking to us. Logspotting has funny quotes. On the other hand Webloglog is just too ignorant to get it: "I'd mock editthispage sites too - but since they all look so damned similar I forget who said what, all the sites blur together, and all I'm left with is a distaste for anything with manila flavoring." Hint: read the second answer of our "FAQ"!"
sidenote - apparently all editthispage sites have winerosis - which causes people to end all of their posts with a needless exclamation point. but i digress
from their faq
are you lazy?
it is the opposite. we are pretty busy people. our time is really valuable. amazingly we have lives and we have jobs, friends and hobbies. we can not spend most of our spare time in the internet improving our site.
I'm sorry. I just can't respect any site that hasn't spent hours upon hours on its design. What kind of idiot just barely modifies a cruddy default template and thinks his work is done?
I think I've just found webloglog's new slogan -
Webloglog - just too ignorant to get it.
posted 3/12/2000 1:02:53 PM | perma-link