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posted by mph, 07/11/04, 09:58 PM

Once upon a time, I was the boss of a site that pulled in 500,000 page views a day and had a readership that was... (more)

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The Trouble with Comments (Updated)

posted by mph, 07/09/04, 06:40 PM

I spent some of last night helping Michael B. get MTBlacklist installed. The past few days have seen a real jump in comment spam here... (more)

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Worthy Causes

posted by mph, 06/16/04, 03:14 PM

Belated but worth noting: Portland Communique is now an official Google News source. Knowing that makes me feel better than any ten bloviating diatribes about... (more)

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6A Announces New MT License/Price

posted by mph, 06/16/04, 07:29 AM

Six Apart has made some changes to the license and price of MovableType. The license seems more clear, and the pricing is a lot... (more)

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DevSite, Now With the Flavor of Resignation

posted by mph, 05/31/04, 09:10 AM

Having resigned myself to not making any moves to MT3 anytime soon, I'm repurposing dev.puddingbowl.org as my testbed for changes to Puddingtime!. There are so... (more)

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Tardy But With Good Intentions

posted by mph, 05/29/04, 10:31 AM

Final word on MT3 (for now) over on the devblog. At some point, they shuffled the bit on their page about donating out of easy... (more)

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A Pudding Duckling Leaves the Nest

posted by mph, 05/27/04, 07:51 PM

As mentioned yesterday, Ed is headed off to MetaEd: The Blog That Goes Ping, his new venture on his new, cool domain. I've known Ed... (more)

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This, That From SixApart

posted by mph, 05/26/04, 08:37 PM

For anyone following along, the MT licensing thing (along with my quest for a few straight answers) trudges on over at the dev blog, this... (more)

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Memo to the Blogosphere: Whatever

posted by mph, 05/25/04, 07:26 PM

Ed's over on MetaEd asking for some help from his visitors so he can figure out which way to take things. From a while... (more)

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Guerilla Joking

posted by mph, 04/01/04, 12:21 PM

Doc Searls says someone from Google told him that gmail (currently noted over there in last night's blogmarks with a trailing hint of uncertainty) is... (more)

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Anything to Stay Out of a Browser Text Box

posted by mph, 03/31/04, 01:02 AM

I accidentally opened up the BBEdit "Default Worksheet" stationery today and discovered what a BBEdit worksheet actually is: It's a text buffer that processes shell... (more)

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He's a Friend of Ours

posted by mph, 03/25/04, 09:37 AM

(or "Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta: Web Nerd Edition") kur05hin is moving to a "sponsored user" system: The idea is this: someone... (more)

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People Considered Harmful (TypeKey Edition)

posted by mph, 03/23/04, 06:57 PM

Some quick "Post-TypeKey FAQ" linkage. I'm leaving aside the technical commentary: Mark Pilgrim: TypeKey? You Blow Me: The first fact to consider is that TypeKey... (more)

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I Would Prefer Not To: More on TypeKey

posted by mph, 03/22/04, 11:26 PM

SixApart released a FAQ related to TypeKey tonight. I'm pretty satisfied with most of the answers, to the extent I'm from Oregon and we've got... (more)

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Passport Comes to Frogtown? Quick Jotting on Discussion Censors, etc.

posted by mph, 03/21/04, 03:08 PM

A lot of people are weighing in on SixApart's recent announcement of TypeKey, a service meant to provide a way for people who like to... (more)

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Blogmarking with MovableType

posted by mph, 03/14/04, 03:39 PM

Update: Since typing this up, I took a cue from Phil Ringnalda's take on this and dropped the cutesy icons in favor of a... (more)

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Show Us Your Fishing Hole

posted by mph, 03/05/04, 12:15 PM

For some reason, a Slashdot editor bemoaning blogger "plagiarizing" strikes me as a hair goofy. Slashdot isn't a blog according to most of the... (more)

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I Promise to Call if My House Burns Down

posted by mph, 03/04/04, 02:12 AM

O.k.... so I probably wouldn't like the average literary magazine editor, but this little rant about the social burdens non-bloggers bear was pretty worth my... (more)

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Blogmarks

posted by mph, 02/20/04, 03:50 PM

Less time for writing, less will to play echo chamber, and a dollop of constructive laziness have led me to make the blogmarks page... (more)

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The Pitchosphere

posted by mph, 02/16/04, 12:07 PM

Doc Searls commented on "Technorati Bombing," the point of which, according to the person who suggested the practice to Doc, "is to do the equivalent... (more)

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Snappy, Meet Jeff Lebowski.

posted by mph, 02/15/04, 03:43 PM

I'm glad someone's still got the energy to link to A-list silliness, mainly because I've given up. The most savage attack is deflected with an... (more)

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'Round the Blogroll Redux

posted by mph, 12/29/03, 01:11 PM

Early start on resolutions this year by cleaning out my NewzCrawler and NetNewsWire lists and adding a few links to the sidebar. New on the... (more)

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Communique Fully Operational Again

posted by mph, 12/23/03, 10:39 PM

Good to see Portland Communique is fully operational again.... (more)

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Then the Iceweasels Come

posted by mph, 12/23/03, 01:38 PM

I was wondering why everything seemed to be crawling today, then I noticed iceblog, which runs on the same connection as everything else around here,... (more)

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'Round the Blogroll

posted by mph, 11/23/03, 11:28 AM

Well, we don't really have much of a blogroll, but here are a few changes: b!X's Portland Communique has some new design stuff going on.... (more)

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Exclusionary

posted by mph, 11/06/03, 08:56 AM

I've been avoiding it for assorted reasons, including its owner calling it a "miserable hack," but in the past few days I've dropped in... (more)

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Companies Behaving Badly

posted by mph, 11/03/03, 02:19 PM

Surprise, surprise. Yahoo!'s hosed yet another customer. This time, though, it happens to be someone I know. (more)

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Death of a Mailing List

posted by mph, 10/22/03, 03:03 PM

Sometimes blogging is like writing ex cathedra without the cathedral. It might be time to find another way to strike up conversations over the ether. (more)

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The Forms They Are a Changin'

posted by mph, 10/15/03, 02:47 PM

A Maryland paper has one of its reporters filing blog-like entries as he covers the John Muhammad sniper trial. It'll no doubt be hailed... (more)

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Spam Comes to Frogtown

posted by mph, 10/12/03, 01:04 PM

Sorry to report that there's a wave of spam sweeping MovableType blogs, including this one. I haven't bothered to check the logs out too closely... (more)

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Iceblog Lives

posted by mph, 10/12/03, 09:05 AM

Beth's headed back to Antarctica.... (more)

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Get Your Feed On

posted by mph, 10/07/03, 10:21 AM

:tpm: now has a real RSS feed all its own. Works great in :nnw:, but the plugin I use to parse feeds for the sidebar... (more)

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No Cluetrain Whistlestop Here

posted by mph, 10/07/03, 08:37 AM

There's now an Official Bush/Cheney '04 Blog. Not one but four RSS feeds, and entries by George W. Bush, er, GeorgeWBush.com him... itself. Having... (more)

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Looking for Mr. RSS

posted by mph, 09/17/03, 11:08 AM

Patrick Hayden's looking for a Windows RSS aggregator along the lines of NetNewsWire. What he wants, I think, is NewzCrawler. It doesn't have a... (more)

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Birthday Ambivalence for PuddingTime!

posted by mph, 09/08/03, 11:39 PM

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Puddingtime! as it appears today (mostly). I had a few blog/journal things, including a sort of bloggish collection... (more)

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Death to the Blogroll As We Know It! A Modest Proposal

posted by mph, 09/05/03, 07:59 PM

It's been a while since I metablogged, too. Seeing as how the only things I'm particularly worked up about lately would involve throwing elbows and... (more)

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Islam-O-traitors of the abominably mollycoddling liberal elite

posted by mph, 09/03/03, 07:14 AM

R. Robot is a jim-dandy blog that makes use of a generation of RMS emulation technology to spare me having to visit Andrew Sullivan's... (more)

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No, Dave, It's a Fleecing

posted by mph, 08/13/03, 05:45 PM

There's an entertaining takedown of BloggerCon penned by Andrew Orlowski up on The Register. You can tell it finds at least part of the... (more)

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Exemplar

posted by mph, 08/06/03, 11:22 PM

Best. Weblog. Ever.... (more)

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Swelling

posted by mph, 08/06/03, 06:03 PM

The Puddingbowl got a little bigger recently. Ed Heil's edBlog is here now. There's a little about everything, including games, comics, and the surprising similarity... (more)

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Map Blog

posted by mph, 07/25/03, 08:57 AM

The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps turned up in the logs today. It's the kind of blog I'm all for: focused, detailed, and it... (more)

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New Toy

posted by mph, 07/22/03, 05:57 PM

Blog Change Bot makes this happen: Whee!... (more)

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After a Bit of a Hiatus

posted by mph, 06/30/03, 05:12 PM

. . . Jorn is back. He's got a link to horrifying article about a kiddie reeducation camp that's been making the rounds.... (more)

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Anyone know...

posted by mph, 06/27/03, 07:52 AM

where Jorn went?... (more)

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Define

posted by mph, 06/06/03, 02:23 AM

meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a: noun 1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.... (more)

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Bait

posted by mph, 06/01/03, 08:18 AM

Andrew Orlowski tosses out more red meat for the blogosphere as he reports "Most bloggers 'are teenage girls.'"... (more)

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Why Blog? Mix Tapes and Manners

posted by mph, 05/31/03, 03:29 AM

As a top-of-my-head number, I decided 95% of the blogs in the world die after their first week, or maybe month. A friend wrote to... (more)

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You Might Want to Reach...

posted by mph, 05/23/03, 09:19 AM

...for the "blog free" button at this point, if blog analysis is wearing down your will to go out and enjoy the sunshine, but OneMan... (more)

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When Worlds Collide

posted by mph, 05/21/03, 06:40 PM

Yesterday, Doc Searls wondered why JupiterMedia analyst Jared Blank wasn't getting any Technorati love for his blog, which just isn't getting any attention. Dan Lyke... (more)

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Blog Noise Revisited

posted by mph, 05/21/03, 03:28 AM

Eric Snowden Snowdeal looks at blog noise in a pair of entries in which he considers Google less as a "one click solution" for Web... (more)

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Point Counterpoint

posted by mph, 05/18/03, 08:43 AM

(Heavily updated and concluded) Doc rebuts the "Googlewash" meme with a little homework, pointing out that Andrew Orlowski's original sample case has a problem... (more)

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Interesting Theory

posted by mph, 05/17/03, 05:23 PM

The Scobleizer Weblog says the Google/Orlowski/blog noise thing was a trial balloon, pushed out the door under pressure from advertisers, who aren't pleased that personal,... (more)

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Back to the Table

posted by mph, 05/17/03, 10:44 AM

The NYT on the intersection between blogging and privacy has a good quote: "All writing is a form of negotiation between the reader and writer... (more)

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. . . we regret the error.

posted by mph, 05/17/03, 02:48 AM

Holy cats, it's late! So, apropos my earlier post about corrections/updates and blogs, I came up with a quick solution by creating the category "reruns"... (more)

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Working It Out

posted by mph, 05/17/03, 01:51 AM

More from Doc: "Here's a thought. What would happen if the archives of all the print publications out there were open to the Web, linkable... (more)

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Above the Fold? Where's the Fold?

posted by mph, 05/16/03, 11:49 AM

Doc popped up in the comments a few items down both defending his choice of approaches to posting updates, and raising an issue I expect... (more)

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Above the Fold? Where's the Fold?

posted by mph, 05/16/03, 11:49 AM

Doc popped up in the comments a few items down both defending his choice of approaches to posting updates, and raising an issue I expect... (more)

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Well, It's a Dead Issue Now

posted by mph, 05/16/03, 10:49 AM

Someone needs to write Andrew and tell him the blog noise story has been approriated by the slow kids.... (more)

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Let Them Eat Internet Appliances

posted by mph, 05/16/03, 02:14 AM

Update: Doc expounds on the entry I cite here, and provides a spirited defense of weblogs vs. print in terms of accountability to readers.... (more)

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No Totebags, Though...

posted by mph, 05/13/03, 01:59 PM

Slashdot's getting more aggressive about pimping its subscriber services, but I find it pretty hard to get all excited about early access to a... (more)

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Tooltime

posted by mph, 05/10/03, 01:42 PM

Sam has released Parasite Version 1.0. It's a nifty piece of blogging software that's fairly easy to install and configure (if you're competent to maintain... (more)

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Clearing Out the Blogwebs

posted by mph, 05/09/03, 10:32 AM

I have a blog. I help other people have blogs. I am a blogger. And yet, it's with supreme happiness that I read Google might... (more)

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One Link Per Customer . . . Please

posted by mph, 05/06/03, 08:45 AM

Jorn Barger has taken up the good work of teaching people how to write Slashdot blurbs. His common sense re: the amount of linkage in... (more)

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Your Mark of Quality

posted by mph, 05/05/03, 12:37 PM

The logo that almost was:... (more)

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Pardon Our Dust

posted by mph, 05/05/03, 12:42 AM

Made a few changes here and there, mainly to simplify maintenance and allow for less blabbing/more linking. The "notech" page is gone (no one used... (more)

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Remoter?

posted by mph, 04/28/03, 08:32 AM

I don't know how Antarctica stacks up against Mt. Everest in terms of remoteness, but Me-fi has a thread on "blogging from the top... (more)

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Pecked By His Little Bird

posted by mph, 04/07/03, 08:56 AM

This blogger is still posting away after getting busted for plagiarizing to pad out his entries and lying to his readers, who are, on balance,... (more)

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Subverting Google

posted by mph, 04/03/03, 08:11 AM

The Reg's Andrew Orlowski believes bloggers are gaming Google, producing a "Googlewash" effect that subverts meaning as "A-list" bloggers grab hold of memes and... (more)

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God Buys Blogosphere

posted by mph, 02/16/03, 10:34 AM

O.k., so it isn't exactly that... but it's close: "Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs , a San Francisco... (more)

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Upgraderation

posted by mph, 02/15/03, 09:26 AM

MovableType 2.6 came out a few days ago and includes some good stuff: Support for easy integration of Creative Commons Licenses Support for file upload... (more)

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Yay Shell Posting!

posted by mph, 01/30/03, 12:15 AM

New tools are always fun. mtsend.py is a Python script for command-line posting to Movable Type 'blogs. You just edit a plain text file... (more)

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More iceblog

posted by mph, 01/27/03, 08:06 PM

Over on iceblog, Beth reports that she's still at McMurdo. She's got a link to some pics from another McMurdoite, as well.... (more)

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Goofing Off With Amazon

posted by mph, 01/27/03, 04:52 PM

For no better reason than "I can," movie and book entries get a corresponding Amazon link now. It's courtesy MTAmazon and MTIfEmpty, which are Movable... (more)

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e-Monkey Newsletter -- Volume 1, Issue 6

posted by mph, 01/24/03, 11:02 AM

The latest e-Monkey Newsletter is out and available online.... (more)

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No Anti-War Resolution for PDX

posted by mph, 01/23/03, 12:12 AM

Indymedia reports that Portland's City Council torpedoed an anti-war resolution in a 2-2 vote in which 9/11 and Nazi Germany were invoked. Meanwhile, the... (more)

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Spattered Like Blurbs

posted by mph, 01/11/03, 11:35 PM

Ed's moved on to obBlog.... (more)

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Adult Supremacism pts 3&4

posted by mph, 01/08/03, 09:52 PM

Sven is back with parts three and four of his Adult Supremacism series.... (more)

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I Can'tWait for WikiFormatting

posted by mph, 01/06/03, 11:37 AM

The folks behind Movable Type earn a resounding and loud "yay!" from me for the Simple and Powerful Text Formatting they plan to bring... (more)

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More Fun in the Ice World

posted by mph, 12/29/02, 10:21 AM

Beth went exploring in some ice towers/caves and brought back some incredible pictures: (click for more)... (more)

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Creative Commons Blogs

posted by mph, 12/27/02, 10:13 AM

Lawrence Lessig reports that Creative Commons now has a weblog and RSS feed.... (more)

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NetNewsWire Pro Revisited

posted by mph, 12/23/02, 11:31 PM

A little poking around revealed the source of that crash bug in NNW Pro, which is that it needs a blog id (duh!) before... (more)

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Mmmmm.... Snotcicles...

posted by mph, 12/23/02, 08:18 AM

Beth Bartel's posted a Q and A on a few more details of Antarctic life regarding iced beards, weather change survival, and the comforts... (more)

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NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b1 Released

posted by mph, 12/21/02, 10:51 PM

Cool! Ranchero's NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b1 is out. It adds a weblog editor, a notepad, plus some other stuff. Crashes on attempts to post to my... (more)

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Geekroar Reborn (and DRM experienced)

posted by mph, 12/20/02, 11:10 AM

Leopoldo Marino has redesigned geekroar.com as a film blog. Film Talk already has a collection of things to read and some interesting links. One to... (more)

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All Monkey, All the Time

posted by mph, 12/13/02, 01:42 PM

e-monkey newswire is sort-of launched. Looks like it's still undergoing some design work, but the headlines are there and I'm going to use them... (more)

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Brace for Hypocrisy Impact

posted by mph, 12/12/02, 08:28 AM

Good Experience interviews Rick Robinson, AOL VP of Community Products: Q: AOL is getting into weblogs? A: In a way, we've had them for... (more)

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The Stark Fist of Blog Removal

posted by mph, 12/11/02, 02:00 AM

Jeff Jarvis offers some thoughts on Andrew Sullivan's "pledge week." (Not likely, buddy): So the net result of this development is that even the guy... (more)

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PoetryTime

posted by mph, 12/10/02, 10:45 PM

Michael and Sven wax poetic with 'Rainbows Through Sand' and 'Compass.'... (more)

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Snappy

posted by mph, 12/10/02, 01:35 AM

I really, really like Snappy the Clam.... (more)

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prehistory

posted by mph, 12/06/02, 01:48 AM

Jorn Barger's weblog FAQ was dealing with stuff that was a few years old in 1999. It looks dated now, but it's nice to... (more)

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