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Blog Rolling
I’ve finally gotten around to taking a look at the free (donations welcomed) Blog Roll creation and management tool suite created by Jason DeFillippo. “Blog roll” refers to the links that frequently run…
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Teaching Again
Technically, I’m a humble Teaching Fellow (that’s a TA to you) so I don’t have to prepare lectures (though I do have the opportunity to lecture, and I am responsible for grading). I…
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Linking and Citations
In the various discussions of whether or not bloggers are journalists, or the distinctions between war bloggers and tech bloggers, or what we do when we blog, perhaps we’ve taken for granted one…
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The Rhetoric of Web Logs
Meg Hourihan, one of the creators of Blogger, and the author of Meg Hourihan (Megnut), wrote on essay for O’Reilly Network on “What We’re Doing When We Blog.” Meg makes a number of…
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Blog Etymology and Meaning—Again
I mentioned that the Oxford English Dictionary created an entry for the lemma “blog.” Now William Safire in the New York Times has a bit on the word “blog, though his is at…
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Blogs in the Mist
What’s up with Salon.com? First there are two articles on the value of bloggging— “Use the Blog, Luke” and “Much Ado About Blogging“. Then there’s this from SiT about Blogs.Salon.Com. Well, it’s kinda…
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Another Blog Tool List
Thanks to Jed Bowtell of urldir.com, I’ve discovered http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html the Weblogs Compendium, another annotated list of blogging tools, indices, and add-ons.
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Other Responses to Tim Rutten
A number of other interesting, thoughtful responses to Tim Rutten’s Los Angeles Times piece comparing bloggers to nineteenth century pamphleteers, in a less than favorable light. Thanks to Ken Layne I found Rand…
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Blogging and Nineteenth Century Pamphlets
Doc Searls points to this journalistic gem from Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times. You need to register to experience the full joy of Rutten’s “To Err Is Human, but to Think…
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On the Definition and History of the Lemma Web Log
First, I stumbled across this nifty post by John S. Jacobs Anderson, wherein he declares what is and is not, a web log. Second, thanks to Blog Roots, I learned that the Oxford…