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Sunday, May 28, 2000

on vacation
Loyal webloglog readers, I regret to inform you that due to extenuating circumstances, I will not be updating the webloglog for one, possibly even two weeks. Don't misunderstand me, I still realize the importance and power of the webloglog to help forge a better tomorrow, but I also realize the critical importance of cramming for finals during the next few days can have in "not failing out of school" - or something like that.
I did consider looking for a temporary guest updater, and yes, in the past, I have said that both Neale and Brig could guest-host if I ever took a week off. But I'm too much of an anal-retentive bastard to let anybody else touch this thing. So no guest-hosts for you, suck it up dammit, and move on with your life.
If you desperately need need weblog-logging, then I whole-heartedly recommend my crazy uncle joe's metacubed.
Or, just try surfing random weblogs, because all they ever fucking do these days is link to other weblogs anyway.
Webloglog should be back, neither new nor improved and with the same lack of design, somewhere between June 7 and 14th.
Thank you for your cooperation, you dirty little bastards.
posted 5/28/2000 9:37:36 PM | perma-link

Saturday, May 27, 2000

weblogging 101
project blog :: wishgirl.com
"You know.. blogs are neato and stuff, but why do they all link to other blogs. Isn't that kinda defeating the purpose?"
You're new, so I'll give you a couple days, but I guarantee you'll quickly come to realize that either

that is the purpose or

there is no such thing as a purpose to weblogging

posted 5/27/2000 4:12:50 PM | perma-link

Thursday, May 25, 2000

hell has frozen over
Ben Brown's Nifty Weblog
Ok, so it's not a benbrown consumer product, just a weblog by some other guy who has the sheer audicity to share a name with everyone's favorite internet rockstar. [via the happy fun brad]
posted 5/25/2000 8:46:25 PM | perma-link

this is my (poor) re-run impersonation
Best of the new new BLOGGER blogs subtitles -
orsomething
4 web-girls logging. woo! visit us! we have boobs!
Now, I know what you're thinking, well, sure, they might have boobs, but they won't be showing them, but you'd be wrong.
I think we have The Breast Chronicles to thank for convincing women the surest, easiest way to hits and exposure are a focus on breasts. God bless that Charlotte girl.
posted 5/25/2000 5:34:06 PM | perma-link

i'm monkey million and one
A Million Monkeys Linking, Part Deux at ANTI-CONTENT@spoonfed.net begins with -
"When someone compares blogging to Jack Kerouac's On The Road, you know there's something seriously fucked up. And when Derek Powazek posts it to his blog, you know it can only get worse. I'm going to say this once, and that's it. Don't write me, don't criticize me, and for God's sake, don't link to me."
All right, I won't. Ok, I will, I have to, because I can't resist quoting this -

"I mean, for fuck's sake. "WE ARE BLOG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE." When Zeldman talks about the "independent content scene," he is not referring to you. You are the matchbox twenty of content."
God, I love the spoonfed guy.
posted 5/25/2000 2:20:22 PM | perma-link

Wednesday, May 24, 2000

the blog-fast - back and better than ever
Ariel -
Such an accomplished mischief-maker could at least try to spell
(Now, the easy joke would be, such an accomplished speller could at least click the little safe mode button in blogger and close their tags, but that would just be too easy, just go with me, the following is funnier...)
So, I looked, and looked and looked... and dammit! I spelled "riveting" with an extra t! Now, I could say I'm just a big idiot and blame myself, but that would just be silly. Instead, I'll do what every other weblogger does - blame the free tool I use and bitch and whine and moan about blogger. (And of course, use blogger to post it.)
So where's the damned spell check Ev "sorry blogger users i'm too busy reading diaries of college girls to add new features" Head?
There's only one thing to do. Yes, I've done it before, and I think I can safely say that beyond any shadow of a doubt I was single-handedly responsible for getting perma-link support in blogger.
That's right it's another blog-fast. I will abstain from updating the webloglog until there is an integrated spell checker to prevent the sort of tragic misspellings noted above.
Oh, wait.
more of the juju -
"That post below, which Blogger won't seem to let me edit really goes like this:
Such an accomplished mischief-maker could at least try to spell her name right.
It's E-L-I-S-E, not E-L-S-I-E. For chissakes, they don't even sound alike!"
My apologies to Elise. And thanks to Areil for taking the time to point out my errors.
posted 5/24/2000 5:05:23 PM | perma-link

delusional
From the sidebar of not a blog - super ultra power mecha complete transform!
"so why is this page not a blog? just because i don't like the word 'blog'"
Whatever gets you to sleep at night pal.
posted 5/24/2000 4:44:34 PM | perma-link

Sunday, May 21, 2000

joe, do you still have that bucket?
non-negative blogging - oh geez. Excuse me while I make retching noises.
How am I supposed to point out the hilarity of inter-blog squabbles if everyone acts like mature adults and there are no inter-blog cat-fights?
I do, however, agree with joe's pledge
"I pledge to use my weblog for entertainment purposes only. If I can't entertain others, I will endeavor to entertain myself. I will try not to make personal attacks unless they further the purpose of entertaining myself and others. Sometimes, I may even include pictures of myself flipping off other weblogs."
Except for that last part. I would never make rude finger gestures to another blogger. It's just inappropriate. Well, I mean, unless it's to Joe or me, in which case, I, and I would encourage others, to flip away.
posted 5/21/2000 9:36:25 PM | perma-link

fanning and encouraging needless hype
Mike (at least, I think that's his name) -
21-MAY-00
POD2 is coming. It moved from a silly creative parody to a major software development effort that will rock the blogging community. It will strip everything you love out of blogs as we know them.
You mean it's going to selectively get rid of people's links to me?
Oh, and Pyra has the best press releases.
posted 5/21/2000 2:34:38 PM | perma-link

doing my part to raise the meta bar
joe -
Several people, including Considered Harmful, have mentioned wren's "five stages of weblogging" post. The beauty of considered harmful's link is that he suggests the logical next step - a listing of weblogs based on the stage they're in. He suggests that the subsequent screaming and moaning and wringing of hands will last at least a month. While I have no interest in creating that listing, I anxiously await the handwringing
Ahh, nothing like good old handwringing. I would do it myself, but it doesn't sound that interesting to me. Besides, it would require me to read weblogs, and well, we all know what a gigantic waste of time that is.
posted 5/21/2000 12:42:15 PM | perma-link

Friday, May 19, 2000

LanceLog2000
What can I say? Lance currently has the most interesting and well written weblog on the net.
posted 5/19/2000 2:38:13 PM | perma-link

Thursday, May 18, 2000

hey, i bet you're just dying for some more commentary on weblog popularity, aren't you. i know i am.
Misty joins the popularity "discussion" -
"Why are the most popular blogs so popular? It sure as hell isn't about content, because Eatonweb, Metagrrl, and Evhead are some of the dullest reads on the planet, in my opinion. Some of those "top" blogs lack complete imagination when it comes to design, are stale and are as overplayed as a Britney Spears or Backstreet Boys song on your local Top 40 radio station.
I think that people link to those "big" blogs in the hopes that one day they will link back, providing them with five minutes of web fame. Have you ever seen the way people react when they're linked to by Ev or Derek? They get all tingly, and mention how honored they feel, or try to act nonchalant while still letting everyone know hey... the numero unos of the blogging community linked to me... so nana nana na-na. That annoys me greatly."
Well, gee, I'm sorry, Misty we can't all write about how our sex life isn't fulfilling because our husband isn't into BDSM, some of us are stuck just linking to web sites and making commentary.
Brig - (5/17)
"um. see the thing about blogs is that if you don't like them (for whatever reason) you don't have to read them. popularity is meaningless. but, making a nasty comment about the "most popular blogs" usually guarantees "that one day they will link back, providing" you "with five minutes of web fame". isn't that as annoying as the people who say nice things to get a link back? 19:31"
I will give Brig credit for the excellent snappy comeback and double bonus points for using Misty's own words so effectively. Wow, next time I take a vacation Brig can take over webloglog. However, I would like to point out that I stand as living proof that there is no guarantee of linkbacks or five minutes of web fame. Although there is a high probability you will piss people off and make enemies. I also stand as living proof of that.
yeah, Misty "apologized", but let's not get too caught up in the details, ok?
posted 5/18/2000 10:23:26 PM | perma-link

the fun just doesn't stop tonight
Even more from the wondergurl regarding this -
"i worked 12 hours again today. i'm not whining about this. i often do it, and it's my choice. it's just a statement of fact. i don't feel well. i'm not whining about this. i think that i may be coming down with something and it's just a statement of fact."
When little girls say, but I'm not whining in their whiny little voices, people usually don't believe them. Not that I'm making any judgment. It's just a statement of fact.

"i don't regret my post about people not responding to e-mail. i regret perhaps the way that it may have appeared, but i can honestly say that i have never felt a moment's judgement on either mark or derek. if you knew me, really knew me...you'd know that i don't judge people that i don't know. call it a character flaw. and i do. not. whine. the women in my family were brought up to be stoic, strong. and the people who know me, know that as well. the post down there? well, it was based on my emotions. my opinions. my feelings. i picked two people whom i didn't know. perhaps it was my mistake to pick people who are so revered. if it had been two lesser known people, would such a hue and cry have been raised? most likely not.
i am not sorry. i lived my young life being tortured for being myself. i lived through it, and i refuse to cow down now."
Stoic and strong are the first things I think of when I see people criticising strangers on their web site for not returning email.
"hue and crys" from Prol -
"By the way, I suggest we send her (by the way - don't ok, don't send messages), and everybody else (because I've seen this come up again and again) who moans about not getting e-mail back from others, a fuck load of messages and see how you cope. So a person isn't cool just because they didn't send you e-mail? That's a great way to go around judging people. Cop on to yourselves. You all sound like whiny toddlers, and 'no you can't have an ice cream right now!'.
Jeez prol, that's so unlike you, not very nice. Well, I don't feel very nice today - so blog off.
update: The person in question, and true, I don't know her so I shouldn't judge her, as she suggests, says she wasn't whining. OK then. She wasn't. Sure sounded like it though. Perhaps I don't understand the English language well enough. But let's all not judge. Let's all be fluffy and nice to each other. Like good people."
Well, apparently I don't understand English well enough either. I'd be fluffy, but I'm already scruffy. It just won't work. I tried though. For like a second. Ok, no I didn't. But I thought about trying to be nice. Remember kids, nice is boring.
UPDATED Friday 12:44am - i particularly liked the sitemeter buried way down on the angry i'm quitting page, although apparently now it's all gone.
posted 5/18/2000 10:04:25 PM | perma-link

the evil menace called SITEMETERS
Fred "Steal my blog!!!" solinger (5/17/2000) -
"sitemeters are depressing: hey, i'm grateful to the nice people at sitemeter for the free counters that they provide to folks like me. really, i am. it's just that watching the number of hits you receive is either elating or depressing, with no in between."
I'm no expert here, but here's free advice to anyone who feels the same way - then don't check your damned stats constantly.
"when i started out, it was with little fanfare, so i was appreciative of every visit that i got. as more and more people noticed me and starting linking to me, i saw a significant rise in the number of hits -- very exciting, indeed. when this past weekend came, i feared that i'd lose what little momentum i had gained. when i arrived monday morning, my fears were confirmed: i only had thirty or forty hits each for saturday and sunday. imagine my surprise, then, when monday would be my most popular day so far with 130+ hits!"
My god, this is rivetting, stuff... more, please... more...
"but now i'm getting depressed. yesterday, i dropped off to 100 or so hits, and as of noon today, i only had about thirty hits. when i look at the numbers now, i'm thinking, "hmm, that's a drop off from yesterday at this time. what's going on?" and thoughts like that continue: do people not like my writing? am i not good enough? is my picture scaring them away?!"
Well, I think there is a reason certain bloggers make sure pictures of themselves are buried deep in the site...
"if you wonder why people do the things they do to get links, read this one again."
Well, I'm a little confused. So people who have nothing to base their happiness on but their site stats will do anything for links in a pathetic attempt to increase traffic? Wait, i think I'm still confused. I'd better read that again. It seems kind of complicated.
posted 5/18/2000 9:48:53 PM | perma-link

Wednesday, May 17, 2000

Rebecca -
"Media Madness! Thursday at 11am EST (8am PST) Christopher Lydon's The Connection will be doing a show on weblogs! The one-hour show will feature Mad Genius Ev Williams, National Treasure Brad Graham, and me.

You can listen on your local station (check your local air-time) or on the web. Call in live during the broadcast at 1.800.423.8255. I'd love to talk to you."
They're letting Brad on the radio? This is some seriously fucked up shit. I can't wait.
Tall props to the first weblogger who calls up as a teenage girl to profess their love to Ev.
posted 5/17/2000 1:59:03 PM | perma-link

weblogging really is an art form
And this proves it.
posted 5/17/2000 1:47:20 PM | perma-link

the truth about jason kottke
kottke @ waferbaby -
lastly, your favourite online pasttime, mr jason "500 positions" kottke?
jason:
you mean, besides porno?

posted 5/17/2000 1:32:26 PM | perma-link

Monday, May 15, 2000

return your fan-mail... or else
Melly -
"it seems that everyone has been talking about blog snobbery. i've seen posts in response to being accused of such, where the person swears that they are down to earth approachable and nice. however, when i sent this person, and this one, a nice, short, e-mail, some weeks ago, they were ignored. yep, that's nice and approachable for you."
Becuase we all know if someone doesn't immediately return your email, that immediately implies that they are a complete and total asshole. Powazekky responds -
"It's true. I suck. Here's a public apology to everyone I owe email to: I'm sorry! It's just hard to get out from under the avalanche sometimes. (I've been pretty busy lately � more on that soon....)"
Just for the record, I do manage to respond to the avalanche of daily fan mail webloglog generates, but clearly Derek doesn't have the kind of love for his fans that I do. I kiss you webloglog readers! And of course, where as Derek works for Pyra, I have, umm, lots of free time as I ditch class.
Markey -
"Melanie (btw, that's also my sister's name), I deeply apologize for not responding to your email. The truth is... I didn't see it. (I still can't find it in my Inbox) Please accept my apology... I insist that I am the down to earth, approachable, nice guy, that I swear to be! Please believe me!?! Isn't it ironic that on the same day (close enough) someone accuses be for being me, I'm also mistaken by sja and COMplex for being nice?"
"didn't see it"... oh my god is that lame. You'd think a 15-year-old aspiring web celebrity would respond to his fans' email... or at least manufacture a decent excuse. It's all a little disappointing. Oh wait, never mind, it's all good becuase Melanie is his sister's name too.
More from Melanie (who isn't Mark's sister) -
"good god. i should've titled today "how to make people feel guilty and increase hits while you're at it". remember to tune in for next week's lesson, "oops, that wasn't my intent.""
So, what exactly was the intent in "exposing" them and insinuating they're jerks for not returning your email? And really, isn't every piece of inter-blog-linky-love or hate or attempt to induce guilt just an attempt to increase hits? And really, isn't that what weblogging is all about these days?
posted 5/15/2000 10:35:33 PM | perma-link

oh, great, even more on popularity and ratings
Barbelithey attempts to explain why the linky-loved ones are so "popular," -
"I have a theory that for a weblog to be popular, it must i) have a definite focus for its writings, ii) be written well, iii) have a clear and appealing visual presence and iv) fabricate some form of online personality that people actually like (or be famous)."
Well, I clearly have iii down, but apparently that's just not enough. An "online personality that people actually like" - ahh, fuck, I'll never be popular like the cool kids.
As can be expected, this only encouraged others to talk about the always rivetting subject of linky love and popularity, but Ev "Big Brother" Headdy wins by reminding us all that popularity is all about the hits, links are kiddie stuff -
"I wanted to point out that the corollary between Beebo ranking (based, of course, on links from other blogs) and actual traffic or page views (which, to me, seems a more accurate measure of "popularity") is perhaps less than commonly thought. Having access to the logs of a few sites on the Beebo chart, because we host them -- as well as certain "unfair" insights into the traffic of thousands of other blogs, which load the Blogger button from our server -- I've noticed, for example, that Meg's traffic is close to mine these days, even though I continue to trounce her on the Beebo scale."
Bastards! So that's why Blogger changed their policy to require linkbacks... all in an attempt to get more people to load the button from their servers to better watch us. It's just wrong on so many levels... and yet genius... Oh, those Pyrates, they're sneaky little buggers.
But nobody has ever tackled the real problem with Beebo ratings -
"The score is calculated as follows: over 300 weblogs are retrieved and scanned for links to other weblogs. A link to a weblog is considered a vote for that weblog;"
A vote for that weblog? Vote? If there's one thing I avoid like the plague, it's voting. I mean, they can call you in for jury duty if you vote.
Elsie, after explaining how much the Barbelith post disturbed her -
"Having said that, I very much enjoy reading about personal favourites. Everyone has them, and when it comes to my peers (or basically anyone I find interesting or admirable or even just likeable), I enjoy nothing more than learning what they personally like and personally dislike and why. Which is why I found the Barbelith post so discouraging. A relatively detailed critique of the top how-many-ever from some next-to-meaningless hotlist with personal favourites noted in the last sentence as an afterthought? Buh?
...
"So how about it, people? Which logs do you read daily? Which logs do you enjoy the most? For ten minutes, forget completely about butt-sharking and hotlists and inter-blog-linky-love and who might find you as a referrer in his or her stats and share you personal favourites. Tell us what/whom you enjoy. Tell us why."
Yeah people, for ten minutes, forget all about butt-kissing inter-blog-linky-love... and umm, spread some inter-blog-linky-love.
posted 5/15/2000 2:06:58 PM | perma-link

quicky
"Power Bloggers" - or, "losers who have nothing better to do than update their weblogs 30 times a day"
posted 5/15/2000 1:57:43 PM | perma-link

Friday, May 12, 2000

for the love of god, just get a room
Current Oh Messy Life statistics -
75% of posts since May 9 related to Andrea
Current Naked Pictures of ~~Ricky Martin~~ Andy Pressman statistics -
38% of posts since May 9 related to Andy
But she did draw him a picture, and rename her site, which I think makes them about evenly obsessed.
posted 5/12/2000 5:10:59 PM | perma-link

the mass media finally gets weblogging
Egomaniacs.com? A new type of confessional emerges from the Web -
"Cyberjournalists update their sites almost every day and often include photos of friends and family, and a daily "Web log" (also called a "blog" in cyber-hip language; those who write them are called "bloggers"), which is a short blurb about, well, anything really. A Web log entry might be a snide comment, a random thought, a newsflash, a link to an interesting Web site or oftentimes, a link to another Web log or diary."
Yes, this is how blogs look to the outsider, just a bunch of short blurbs about, well, anything. Sure, it used to be all about the links to interesting websites accompanied with the snide comment. This whole excessive incestuous linking, it's just sick. I mean, really, how can a "web log" that only has links to other web logs hope to survive? Err, never mind.
"For example, a popular Honolulu-based blogger, Sarah Bruner of syrup.org, includes a blurb about the online journal of another blogger, Sarah Stroccia, on her own site, as well as providing a link to Stroccia's diary (www.geocities.com/sarah10975). The idea is that Bruner's entire audience now is turned on to Stroccia's site, which will eventually increase both their readerships."
Popularity, incestuous inter-blog linking, desperate attempts to increase readership. I mean, wow. Finally, the mass media is starting to understand the weblog phenomena. And they even mention jish's little webring, which apparently was a sign of the coming apocalypse.
Link ganked from blogger, which ganked it from syrup. Because really, I don't do any real surfing.
posted 5/12/2000 5:01:06 PM | perma-link

Thursday, May 11, 2000

i bet you thought i was going soft, oh no
"Digital Divas" - Microsoft's new "Digital Diva"
Confused?
Well, the Diva & Goliath (note the ms-centric geeks-are-already-laughing-at-the-irony index.HTM) explains the digital divas current legal fight against Microsoft to protect their trademark.
Now, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not going to comment on the validity of their claims, all I'm going to say is, the term "diva" used in conjunction with any of these self-proclaimed goddesses hovers somehwere between the ridiculous and hilarious. I mean, really. Grown women are fighting over the right to call themselves digital divas for providing the same "service" - which as far as I can see is providing supposedly easy to understand help for all those poor, clueless ungodly women of the internet who so desperately need a little touch of the immortal ones.
And, umm, this is relevant to webloglog because a bunch of them blog.
posted 5/11/2000 7:50:52 PM | perma-link

100 percent pure
pbey -
"I would also like to be able to add silences to my blog. but I'm not sure how to add silence without saying something. sometimes silence says more. but not this time. obviously."
umm, yeah. i was going to say something like last time i checked, silence entailed not saying something. but instead, i'll just say
...
Even more fun from pb -
"There should be a blog complaint rating. So you could take a look and see a percentage of complaining in each blog. Then I could look at this rating and say, 'Oh, I see that my blog is 17.2% complaining about things. Interesting.' And then life would continue as it does."
Actually, I think a "navel-gazing" percentage would be more useful.
So, in my pathetic attempt to ~~generate more links back to webloglog~~ start an important meme, I'm beginning the "self-complaint and navel-gazing ratings." You should too bloggers! And then link back here! And I'll put you down on the big list I'll be making real soon now. It'll help promote community .
Webloglog - 100% complaint filled bitching and 100% navel-gazing useless blog-related crap.
posted 5/11/2000 4:29:29 PM | perma-link

Tuesday, May 9, 2000

snoooooze
Currently at the Blog Off - Swooopey is, ummm, doing stuff, and umm, Mikey is apparently not.
All the more reason to go and vote for Mike early and often.
posted 5/9/2000 10:34:17 PM | perma-link

Monday, May 8, 2000

finally
Pay attention webloggers, there is big news today. Big news. HUGE news! No, it's not the great blog off, or the impending POD2. No, no, it's something much more important than that. Something I know I've been waiting my whole life for...
Ev "dammit adam, i'll have a stinking archive real soon would you please shut up" Head -
"Hey, evhead™'s got permalinks! Finally, you can link to me with longevity (just click on the diamond). Aren't you relieved? Browsable (and searchable) archives will be up soon."
Let me be the first to give a big relief-filled sigh. Sigh I don't know about you, but this just made my day, no, this just made my week.
posted 5/8/2000 1:10:16 AM | perma-link

Sunday, May 7, 2000

blogging and the new celibacy
Eizabethey has a great poll up.
Somehow, I wasn't surprised by the results.
posted 5/7/2000 11:16:43 PM | perma-link

Friday, May 5, 2000

benbrown - consumer product and bad influence
benbrown - now available in original, blogger, and metafilter flavors.
Ev - "I don't need no stinking archive" Head -
"I play a minor role in Ben Brown's latest saga. (My favorite is in the chat transcripts, where she tries to play him against me: "ev says alot of things. he's said alot about you as well." Though, I have to admit, they were a little too painful/personal for me to read all of.) Perhaps I will write up my related story now. Actually, I was thinking about it, before I even knew Ben was involved. It would pale in comparison to his -- both in entertaining writing style and plot -- but it might be more interesting context for the morbidly curious spectators."
Ev - stop, put the keybaord down and back away from the weblog.
What can I say, that Ben, he's a bad influence on stupid bloggers
posted 5/5/2000 3:59:38 PM | perma-link

weblogging -- the only spectator "sport" more boring than tiddlywinks
Nealey -
"I'm going to get everymeeveryyou back up and running, and I'm calling for volunteers for The Great Blog-Off. The Great Blog-Off will involve two bloggers being given the same topic, and they will have 24 hours to find the best links about that topic. Afterwards a vote will be held as to who is the better blogger."
The first two with low enough self esteem and mental stability to get sucked into another of Neale's obnoxious linkslutterific attempts to garner attention - swooooopey - who is "Currently in training for the World Weblog Wrestling Federation's first pay-per-view championship match: It's BLOGGERMANIA!!!!"
Right, it's just like wrestlemania, except that we're all in disbelief that it isn't all fake and staged.
And, Mikey, who, not surprsingly considering his other insane quirks, has a bizarre fascination with Nealey -
"Speaking of Neale... Oh bother. Do you remember what it was like the first time you saw your big brother smoking? Caught your dad on top of your mom? The highschool drama teacher calling you "funny-looking" behind your back? Brought home the itchy-scratchies? Your sweetheart confessed that she was doing her dad? That first "Thank you, but no thank you letter" response to your application to college? Her laughing when she looked at your penis?
That's how it felt to see that wetlog is powered by Soggy. I was scrolling down to the archives and found this: all this and more powered by blogger�.
I'm still your little link slut Neale, but turn back now before they eat your brain. I'm not going to suggest that Neale is going soft. You know, it is almost like someone slipped something into his drink? Who was it that he had lunch with...? Damn. I forget, but I remember that it might have kottke, or evhead, or something. If you know please contact me. I NEED to know.
Remember POD and weblog junior high? We'll It's about T-minus 5 days to POD2: Judgement Day. I swear I almost pissed myself looking at my latest creation. I can't wait to share it with you. "
Don't worry, Brig - I won't tell him; I try to avoid aiding and abetting those who are clearly mentally unstable.
Just what the weblog world needs, another Piss off day. Wait, actually, that is just what the weblog world needs. This better be fricking good.
posted 5/5/2000 1:55:25 AM | perma-link

[yawn]
Reltonney -
"There will be changes coming to Le Blogeur next Monday. If you just can't wait, email me."
Oh, no, please, the suspense is killing me.
Ok, so it was, and I did email "relton," and well, I could tell you what the changes are, or I could just say, really, it's not exactly all that thrilling. Why don't you just go read a book instead?
posted 5/5/2000 1:38:31 AM | perma-link

Wednesday, May 3, 2000

i did it all for the...
Internooky, after taking down his riothero "parody" and blog-spam-broadcaster...
"Yes. Yes I am pissed off. I just want to be loved. Why won't you love me? The "in crowd" sucks. Really. If you are part of the in crowd rest assured that it is because a bunch of boring dolts found you non-threatening enough to exist amongst them.
Popularity contest = conformity contest. I can't stand the attitude that some people get when they start to feel popular or accepted. Suddenly the outsider is inside looking out (is that even coherent?). Suddenly other people don't measure up in your eyes while all along you have been trying so hard just to be accepted. To be liked. To stand out by being the same. You want to touch people. Take it from me... if your blog dropped off the face of the earth even the wind wouldn't wisper to the trees about it. In fact there might be a deafening sigh from the net as your bandwidth (or bandwaste, as the case may be) is set free."
There are definitely people I want to touch, but there's all these pesky "restraining orders" that have all these "severe consequences." And hey, the trees love me. They love all bloggers, in or out! We talk to them. You should try it too. Then maybe something will care if your blog falls off the face of the earth.
"So, Sally? You know we love your mind. Now show us some skin. We really don't care if you're a guy, a girl, or both. We just want to check you out. Mmmmm... Really, the best way to deal with people like me is to ignore me. Just get naked first , then ignore me. I think I'm in love with Sally Tenpenny. I'm quite confused, so I don't care if Sally is really an 80 year old Polish man."
Really, neither do I, I would still make sweet, sweet love... err. Never mind.
posted 5/3/2000 6:21:34 PM | perma-link

Tuesday, May 2, 2000

well, it was fun while it lasted
metafilter that is. when you can't read the top post without scrolling... you know there's problems, especially when it contains links to the poster's sites and the ultra-important, definitely needed to be posted on metafilter -
"IMHO this reveals an unserved need: Blogger et al. may make it possible to update your Weblog from any browser, but what we need is a way to automate discussion on topics blogged on individual pages."

Oh, if only such a system existed
posted 5/2/2000 5:24:57 PM | perma-link

I swear, I wasn't looking for Naked Pictures of Ricky Martin
Andreaey -
"I am so tired of people who have nothing to contribute but negative energy. I had an interesting conversation this morning about the future of personal webpages. I like the blog but I don't think the full power, the real power, has been released.
Right now it is the SNL sketch of the web. Some make you laugh. Some make you flip the remote.
None make you want to see the movie."
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Well, I don't know about you, but I'd be first in line to see Rebekah's film... err. Never mind. The important question is will the movie version of any of these lame sites turn a profit? But remember, studios never lose money betting on the stupidity and poor taste of the movie-viewing public.
Oh, and this seems almost negative to me, and in if there's one thing I'm an expert in, it's negative energy.
posted 5/2/2000 12:20:13 AM | perma-link

Monday, May 1, 2000

Rilke would have been the best weblogger ever
The new The WebLog Of J. Alfred Prufrock
Entry 1
"Primal entry: Ceci n'est pas une weblog."
Entry 2
"Grosse Pointe Blank is one of the best movies ever made. And how about that John Cusack? Gosh, he's cool."
Entry 3
"Ten minutes after weblog creation: I can communicate nothing of importance. I am contributing to NetClutter. Despair sets in. What the hell was I thinking? I shall become a despondent Russian novelist."

If only all webloggers could realize that after their first three posts.
posted 5/1/2000 6:13:42 PM | perma-link