August 2, 2005

According to Weblog search engine portal thing Technorati, a new Blog is born every second, meaning that by the time you finish reading this sentence,…

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May 24, 2005

Maybe I should stop making fun of those people who feel compelled to update their Blogs with every tiny detail of their boring lives, particularly…

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May 12, 2005

As for the blog revolution, Mr. Denton put it this way: “Give me a break.” Aieee! It’s the apocalypso! In a drooling, fawning, icky sort…

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March 31, 2005

It’s official, Weblogs, Inc. “publisher” Jason Calacanis is 15 points more loathsome than Gawker founder Nick Denton. The battle for most loathsome Blog advocate was…

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March 31, 2005

Big, juicy (or as big and juicy and pointless) scandal in the blog world brewing over Wordpress wunderkind Matt Mullenweg’s decision to hide Google-unfriendly search-term…

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March 24, 2005

It’s been almost a year since wildly popular geek site Boing Boing stared into the abyss and saw their bandwidth bill staring back at them….

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March 22, 2005

With the recent acquisition of Flickr, the defining characteristic of successful Web 2.0/Blooom companies is becoming clear. No, not usefulness. No, not design. No, not…

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March 20, 2005

Due to recent technological developments, Glassdog World Domination has revised its Terms of Use. Please read and agree to the following: Glassdog World Domination (“Glassdog”)…

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March 10, 2005

Google news search for “bloggies” 8 results Google news search for “SXSW Web Awards” 3 results (one is a press release) My prediction is that…

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March 8, 2005

Businessweek analyst Jessi Hempel sounds off on this week’s Blog item of interest, “Are Bloggers Journalists?” In light of a judge’s ruling in California against…

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January 19, 2005

Blog comment spam is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. It’s screws up comments (which is why we no longer allow comments on most posts…

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January 4, 2005

Readership of weblogs surged 58% in 2004, and 7% of all U.S. online users — 8 million Americans — are now blogging. At the same…

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December 2, 2004

Microsoft has launched a beta weblogging site called MSN Spaces. Anyone with a free HotMail or MSN Messenger account can now publish their own words…

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December 1, 2004

Bloggers all over the blogosphere are blogging about ‘blog’ being chosen as “word of the year” by the Mirriam-Webster online (i.e. not the real one)…

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November 24, 2004

There is a cancer — warm and angry — metastasizing in the belly of the blogosphere. It grows, thrives, fed by the deluded, the self-satisfied,…

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November 2, 2004

In what is surely a sign of the times and/or another indicator that Wall Street bears more resemblence to Vegas than it would care to,…

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October 6, 2004

That’s blog and boom, see. “Blooom.” Man, if bloom.com wasn’t already registered, I’d grab it and start accepting VC money. Yes, the heady, yeasty days…

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October 6, 2004

Think your office is a hellhole of flotsam, jetsam and assorted chaos? Compare the piles you’ve carefully organized to Esther Dyson’s cubby and see how…

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October 5, 2004

Multimillionaire Blogger founder Evan Williams is leaving Google and the Blogger application behind as he cashes in and checks out, deciding to become a monk…

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September 13, 2004

As I was walking home this evening, a little girl was riding her bike in the middle of the street. She still had the training…

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August 25, 2004

Perhaps one reason you enjoy visiting weblogs is that they’re unsensored and uninhibited and uneverything. Even when you attach Google ads to a page, you’re…

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August 20, 2004

With the rapid expansion of Six Apart — the company responsible for Moveable Type and TypePad — and their hiring of a handful of old-school,…

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June 29, 2004

What? Anonymous bloggers are self-loathing, inner-directed, borderline suicidal downers? Yeah, OK, I’ll buy that….

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June 25, 2004

I think I’ve finally got Dave Winer figured out. It’s taken me years — quite literally years — but the weblogs.com hubbub has spawned a…

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June 18, 2004

If you wait long enough — and whine loud enough — you eventually get everything you want. That can’t possibly be a good lesson….

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June 14, 2004

Fuck corporate weblogs, all the really cool stuff is being done by kids. As usual. Schools in Britain are starting to put Weblogging on the…

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June 3, 2004

Jeffrey Zeldman, waving his cane, bemoans the devolution of Glassdog from a “experimental narrative powerhouse” to a mere blog. That he does this from his…

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June 3, 2004

In the ongoing battle between the Gawker and WeblogsInc mini empires, Jason Calacanis tries to make nice with Denton while still getting a little self…

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June 3, 2004

I know it’s an old story now, but sometimes I just can’t help myself: I am not the only one who noticed that Nick Denton…

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June 3, 2004

When I list the number of people I’ve had sex with, do I get to count myself? Because it turns out to be statistically significant….

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June 2, 2004

Leave it to the idiot wonks on Capitol Hill to make bloggers look downright cool by comparison. This is what happens when you don’t have…

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June 2, 2004

Blogging, blogs, bloggers and moblogging are mentioned 42 times in the CNN.com article about Joi Ito. There’s nothing there you haven’t read before, since you’re…

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June 1, 2004

Until the people who write feedreaders get off their collective ass and manage to stumble across USENET and killfiles, I can only dream of the…

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June 1, 2004

Until the people who write feedreaders get off their collective ass and manage to stumble across USENET and killfiles, I can only dream of the…

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June 1, 2004

Nokia’s new 7610 cellphone (currently available in Europe and Asia) comes with “Lifeblog,” a Windows application that ties in to your new Nokia so you…

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May 30, 2004

Henry Copeland of BlogAds ran a survey to fill out his media kit gather stats on blog readers and — surprise! — it turns out…

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