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Friday, March 31, 2000

i hate april 1st
It's not even here yet and I hate it.
Anyway, metafilter looks great! zooom!
And really Mark was right, the design looked better in blue, kottke was a fool to change it.
posted 3/31/2000 10:56:38 PM | perma-link

d-log-elicios
Keithey -
"arrogance unbridled
from the "who the hell do you think you are?" department: there's a new guy in town. he's got a list, and he's checking it twice. and although i fully appreciate the unmitigated gall and ego-manical-ness (i know it's not a word, but it's all about flow, g) of it, this endeavor seems to me just unnecessarily self-absorbed. personal is personal. period."
Yeah, g, it's all about the flow and those phat beats!
I envy Andy. Ahhh, I remember way back when people said mean things about webloglog all the time. Oh, those were the days. Now all I have is kevvy calling webloglog a "rinky-dink gimmick" that only "works" because of the "burgeoning blognation." snicker It's just not the same.
posted 3/31/2000 6:19:29 PM | perma-link

it's all about the Cam
Dori -
"Hey, if Cam's going to be in town early April, why don't we have a Bay Area weblogger get-together? Anyone interested?"
Yeah! Kick ass! I can finally meet the Cam! My life will have new meaning!
The cam comments -
"Dori wants to have a Bay Area weblogger get-together early next month. I'm game, but I can't organize it. I'm far too busy.
You'll never guess what room (hint: it's a very small room with a sink) of my apartment I'm updating this page from right now. Let's just say that Apple's wireless ethernet rocks!"
And then the idea of meeting the Cam immediately became a lot less intriguing.
posted 3/31/2000 6:04:39 PM | perma-link

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

more meta meta
With the death of Blog Frog, I was getting pretty worried about my uncle joe. Dedicated blog logging isn't what it used to be... Joe has been forced to highlight blog logging on "real" weblogs. I don't think I can handle the monument of responsibility that being the only regularly updating bloglogger entails.
So it's a good thing Orbiting has started Planet Weblog. Now if I get sick and miss a day of blogging Joe will be ok. Well, I mean, he'll be ok for a crazy uncle.
posted 3/29/2000 9:19:42 PM | perma-link

dinner's going to be mighty tasty tonight
That's right, Fried Blog Legs! My favorite!
Somebody cook Blog Frog so we can all have some tasty blog legs. It's wrong to let blog frog meekly hop around now that it's over. But if we slice it up and cook it quickly.... mmm mmm good.
Oh, and I think this post may have to do with my inability to communicate with my mother.
posted 3/29/2000 6:05:12 PM | perma-link

it's just so beautiful...
It's all good now. For real, not for fakies. Come on, group hug, people. *hugs for everyone!*
posted 3/29/2000 2:10:39 PM | perma-link

i just wet myself
Kevvy criticizes Bloat -
"After reading the latest Bloat, I was irritated enough to fire off the following e-mail:
Hello there, Sally,
While your column has always seemed to me like a Pravda for the blogger cabal, your most recent top ten confirms it."
Huh? I guess I must've been asleep that day so I didn't get mr. smarty-"I know Russian History"-pants attempt to sound "intelligent." So, by mocking popular webloggers bloat is like The Pravda for the blogger cabal? The blogger cabal? Did I miss a memo? You'd think someone would have told me about that one.
"It's obvious you only visit about thirteen sites to determine your top ten."
Which would mean that of the thirteen sites she visits, only two didn't make bloat since 11 weblogs were listed. Uh huh. Right. You're really helping your point with that argument.
"Mind you, I'm not writing this because you didn't pick my loathsomely designed site. It has much more to do with the fact that, while all the most interesting activity on the blog front (aside from the ever-unique Neale and the always consistent Brig) is coming from either the youngbloods - jish, phish, firda, ooine, dumbmonkey, and/or zannah, to name only a few - or the forgotten elders: lake, kingston, medley, kempa, and, naturally, tom/barbelith; nevertheless, you continue to hype the either the blogger cabal and their yesmen (ev, meg, and mark) or the rest of the decomposing old guard (Cam and Winer? CAM and WINER? Are you kidding me?)"
At this point I was laughing at loud. Awww, I'm sorry, Sally didn't put the "youngbloods" on bloat for you. Geez, I'm sure everyone is real disappointed Zannah and Tom didn't make bloat this week because Davey Winer made an ass of himself this week.
Everybody... awwww. And since when was bloat supposed to be about your idea of "interesting activity?" I don't remember seeing anything about "interesting activity" on the bloat rankings. As far as I can tell the only criteria for making Bloat is "will allow Sally to make some rude comment about your blog." Or more generally, whatever the fuck Sally wants.
"Look, if you don't have time to surf all the blogs, then by all means give the column back to the Dutchman. The last thing the burgeoning blognation needs is another shrill and smarmy cheerleader for the status quo."
At this point I pissed my pants I was laughing so hard. I think it was "burgeoning blognation" that finally did it for me. And the thought of Sally as a "smarmy cheerleader for the status quo..." by then I had definitely wet myself. Yeah, because the "youngbloods" are really pushing the boundaries and refusing to accept the status quo... right... and Sally is just a tool of the "decomposing old guard" white men...

"Who knows? Perhaps I'm out of bounds by leveling such criticism at Ms. Tenpenny. I'm just sick to death of reading the same handful of names on Bloat each week, especially when so many fresh new voices are emerging on the Blog scene."
I know. Kev, buddy, if Bloat's rankings "irritate" you so much, then don't read them. Or go open another geocities account and do your own ranking highlighting "interesting activity" so you can kiss the asses yourself you so desperately feel need kissing. (Oh wait, looks like you already found a way to do that.) But don't tell Sally how to do her rankings. Because I think I can pretty much guarantee you she doesn't give a shit about how you think bloat should be run.
Oh yeah... and Bloat sucked ass when Sally didn't do it.
Update 6pm - Sally responds much more nicely than I did.
posted 3/29/2000 1:03:03 PM | perma-link

Tuesday, March 28, 2000

ye olde bait and switch
Blog Frog -
"Blog Frog has officially become passe.
It has gone the way that all blog-logging blogs are destined to do."
Ha! I scoff at your predictions!
"I have a theory.
Blog-logging is a way to compensate for the inability to adequately express one's inner emotions.
This inability manifests itself as snarky comments about other people's blogs.
I could be wrong.
You've been here before. It's gone.
Now go here."
Inability to express one's inner emotions? Have you been talking to my ex-girlfriend or something? Because I don't understand what the hell either of you are talking about.
posted 3/28/2000 11:13:39 PM | perma-link

please ignore our dust
You know the Powazek-ass-kissing has gotten out of hand when his page consists of the following -
brb
and people acutally post about their anticipation of the new design - Ed -
"12:10:53 AM I'm looking forward to seeing Derek's new design. (Right now, it's just a white page with the text "brb". The new design may be up by the time you read this.)"

posted 3/28/2000 9:49:19 PM | perma-link

i like pike
Even more fun from Davey -
"BTW, as long as you're here, Evan, how about wiring up Blogger so that people can use desktop text editors and outliners to edit their Blogger sites?
You know, like Pike."
Yeah. You can just hear all the blogger users screaming "Dammit Ev and pyra - we want to be able to edit our weblogs with a warmed over version of frontier and its mutant hybrid mac/windows interface! (from johnny's archives) Screw the ease and convenience of quickly updating from a browser, we need the descendents of 1980's outliners for our two sentence posts!"
posted 3/28/2000 3:40:37 PM | perma-link

i got your 3000 right here beotch
Neale lays down the smack on the ultra-long-personal-life-stuff in weblogs trend -
"You wanna write a journal, go ahead. You wanna create content, fine by me. But if you and yer redneck communist pals come round here and start messing with the blogs, there's gonna be hell and high water."
All I can say is, I've got Neale's back. I'm ever vigilant in the fight against the dirty commie bastards. Keep those dirty red journaling bastards away from us freedom loving, capitolist bloggers.

"If I were to read 3000+ words from the 20+ weblogs I read each day I'd be wading through a fucking novel every morning. I'd have to print them out and take them to bed with me. I could then feed the fireplace with their stilted prose and repetitive bullshit. No-thank-you.
They're different styles for different audiences about different things. If you're to employ the same styles to both, you'd have something like this:
Blog Style Journal "Freudian slip last night. Meant to ask wife to pass the salt. Instead said 'Fuck off bitch, you're ruining my life.'"
Journal Style Blog Hackers got hold of Bill Gate's Credit card. I remember once when I had my wallet stolen. I was on my honeymoon, and had just been wandering through a cinema when it happened. I was carrying my coat through a crowd and didn't notice anything, even though some dumb fuck's nimble fingers ran their way between the folds of my clothes, and made off with my wallet. I didn't realise until my wife and I decided to go to a restaurant for dinner, and yadda yadda yadda...
I'm not sure which one is worse."
Actually, that blog-style journal looks like it would be a damned good read.
Err... I mean... down with 3000! Stop the red menace! You hear that Ben?
posted 3/28/2000 1:10:50 AM | perma-link

Monday, March 27, 2000

they love me. they really love me
Well, maybe not me personally. In fact they don't like me. Not like is too strong. They probably don't know or care I exist.
But I digress. They love you guys.
Yup, permanent linking on blogger. Oh happy, happy day!
Umm, so my, uhh, I guess the protest is over and I'll start posting again. All the things from the last two weeks weren't posts. No. No they weren't.
posted 3/27/2000 11:37:18 PM | perma-link

I'm too suave for my blog
ev -
"Surprisingly, I got a 65 out of 100 on the suave-o-meter: "It appears that you are quite the charmer, and when your sensitive side kicks in, you can be irresistible. You have been taught very well." Hee hee."

Tom -
I'm a 69 in the Suave-o-meter. I think that means I beat Evhead. I think my mother would approve...

Way to make mommy proud.
The Daily Doozer -
"Okay, so I buckled under the pressure and took the Suave-o-meter test. 71, in case anyone was interested..."
Yeah. Thanks for buckling under the "pressure" to take the suave test. We were all dying to know your score.
Jordan -
"Yeah, I beat Mark by two points on the Suave-o-Meter. I got a 79, without lying. Of course, I've only had one first date in my life (followed by 10+ months (so far) of wondeful, blissful love), but.. well, who says you have to stop being suave after so many months? I never plan to stop."
Yeah Mark did it too but his archive is screwed up and there's no way you could expect the riothero to have 2 day old posts on the front page.
More tom -
"Can I ask you all something in complete seriousness? Do you REALLY think that Mark is more suave than I am? I mean, really?"
Are you insinuating that a three minute online multiple choice test isn't the best way to measure suaveness?
les of ~~p.p. blog~~ chocolatey shatner
"Ha ha, I beat all of you guys! I got an 87 on the suave-o-meter! And I promise I didn't cheat either."
Yeah. Mr Suavey. after that I'd probably change my blog's name too.
EARTH TO MALE WEBLOG GEEKS - any credibility you had in claiming "suaveness" was immediately shot the second you posted your score on the "suave-o-meter" to your weblog.
posted 3/27/2000 5:34:15 PM | perma-link

somebody kill me
Oh lordy. via bloggadelic boy evey
With a lead like this - "It's one of the hottest trends in Internet content."
And subheads like this - "From independent to corporate"
"Get loose! Do a Weblog!"
"Get focused"
"How to do a Weblog"
You know it's really all over after coverage like that. Weblogs are so 1999. Weblogs are now trendy and about to become tools of "the man." Nothing to see here, move along, move along.
posted 3/27/2000 5:20:15 PM | perma-link

in-depth, breaking news
is something you will never find here on webloglog.
ev -
"Say what you will about Dave Winer, you can't say he's not humorous. (This *is* a joke...right?)" 11:30 AM.

Finally, I thought, the first shot has been fired in the the ultimate battle between Dave and Ev for blog-tool-bad-ass dominance!
But no -
"I took this piece offline to rewrite it, unfortunately some people are pointing to it, so I shit-canned it. Sorry, there was a real point here, I'll get back to it later, busy busy busy. Sorry for any inconvenience. Have a great day Evan."
Note the "Last updated at 12:49pm."
Took it down for a rewrite? Have a great day? Giving Dave the benefit of the doubt, that was at least sarcastic. I'm still disappointed. Where's the bad mo-fo Davey comeback, dammit? Give em the old one-two Davey!
And I don't even get to read the original. It looks like I'm getting too old to cover weblog warfare. I'm just not fast enough to keep up.
UPDATED
More fun from Dave.
"Basic synopsis. There are some jerks floating around thinking that their shit doesn't stink. Nothing new. Back to work."
Yeah! Those jerks! Thinking their shit doesn't stink and stuff. You tell em Dave! Give them the smackdown! I can't wait to read it!
And no more "have a great day Evan." Awww. So I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone, including Dave and Evan, a great day. Don't we all feel a little better now?
posted 3/27/2000 1:01:16 PM | perma-link