SquatCrunch

Shelley over at the Burningbird is changing things again! Try starting at the top, or at Bb’s RealTech, or the consolidated site feed, and meander for awhile.

Amy has been “logging” on the internet in many formats over the years.

I started with BBSs over a 300 baud modem. I was on Usenet and Gopher. I remember sitting with a friend and having the OMG moment when Mosaic first came out. We could not believe it. Coming from the “Unix” community, many of us had our homepage on Apache/public intranet for links and “Tumblr” like updates, and/or used .plan to let co-workers know where we were, or what we were up to. I did not get on the WWW with a site until 1998

A decade of Scripting News. On this day, ten years ago, a weblog named Scripting News appeared for the first time … today (April 1st) its in “retro mode”

I have been reading Scripting News and strolling through DaveNet since 2004. Thanks Dave! Even though you have intimated otherwise, I look forward to the next 10 year celebration. And a personal thanks for the OPML Editor, Uncle Skippy, from a happy member of the peanut gallery.

Best Wishes,
Peggy

Since Scripting News is in “retro mode” today, Dave is blogging on twitter for the day.

Kent Newsome on the Joy of Not Blogging.

But blogging as a conversational medium is feeling extremely inefficient. Real conversations are conducted in real time. Blogging, on the other hand, often seems like a bunch of people independently throwing rocks into the air. Sometime those rocks collide and the resulting sparks look like conversation.

I do hope that Kent keeps throwing rocks into the air.

Update: 04/28/08 - “girl-geeks-fact-or-oxymoron” link (geek girls!) at Burningbird has moved. I know not where. Ask Shelley?

To link (geek girls!) or not to link, that IS the question. Heh, its a link-fest.

Should you join the WWFD (What would Frank Do) Meme? It is all about Frank Paynter and some link love. Hard to follow the link train, but I think McD over at the “I DID … but I wouldn’t recommend it” weblog started this post, comment, posts, comments, posts, comments, posts meme.

Does McD know that WWFD is also World Wide Future Development? McD? Isn’t he the one who keeps creating weblogs on wordpress, and then deleting them? mcdmcblog.wordpress.com

Update: McD did it again, he deleted his IDID site. We tracked him down though, at Blogocide. Update: He has since closed Blogocide too!

Link Frank to find out What would Frank do? Frank’s a nice guy and he loves links, I think.

There is also WWFD: ‘What would FUNDAMENTALISTS Do?’ Oh no, and ‘What would FEDERLINE Do?’ Does anyone really care what Federline would do? We ran out of links per post as allotted by our ISP, so you are on your own here.

Before August becomes a memory:

Need web traffic?

* Blog a list.
* Have 2 or more blogs in the Top 100.
* Learn Chinese, then write a blog in Chinese.
* Attack an A-list blogger with nasty words.
* Become an A-list blogger.
* Create several useless splogs on blogspot.com.
* Post P0rn not C0rn.
* Change your needs. You really don’t NEED web traffic.

Atariboy, aka Fishbitt Designs is yet another blogger saying:
‘I don’t want to blog anymore, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing things, I just don’t like what “Blog” represents now. To me blogs, at least geek/tech blogs have become a commentary on the current tech news on the web, I see the same kind of posts everywhere, Bloggers have become a flock of critics, pouncing on the newest release in an effort to get some hits from it, what’s the point?’

Fishbitt Designs is undergoing redesign and the site may be down, but you can also try TeaBass.

No, not us. First, this isn’t a blog. And second, this isn’t a blog. We are still slowly but surely crunching a whole lot of squat (er, data).

Update: 04-06-07 - the domain is for sale.
Kevin K. of Catch.com on ‘Why ‘m quitting blogging on Catch in an easy-to-digest FAQ format’.

What’s hip, what’s new, what is the latest in the blog world. For some long time webloggers, it appears to be ‘giving up blogging’.
Just a sampling, there are many more!

1. Russell Beattie put his weblog to bed.
2. Elisabeth Donovan quit blogging for the Miami Herald.
3. Awhile back Dave Winer of ScriptingNews said he’ll quit blogging (at the end of this year?).
4. Shelley Powers closed the Burningbird. Bye-bye Birdie!

Which of this list is still blogging. Well folks, that is your homework, hence the missing links.

Seth Godin is a smart guy. He recently posted an excellent tongue-in-cheek list of 56 items on how to get traffic for your blog. ‘Make a list, don’t make a list’. ‘Open comments, don’t open comments’, write about your kids, don’t write about your kids, were among some of the contradictions.

Normally commenting is closed on Seth’s blog, but he opened this post to comments. Only a few of the commenters seemed to get it. Of course Ross M. did and adds one to the list:

Mr. Godin’s contradictions are deliberate and enlightening. There are no rules for blogging—we are writing them as we go.

57. Try to let your cluelessness show as little as possible when you comment on Top Ten blogs.

Exactly, he got a lot of clueless commenting. Reading some of the comments, you could tell the commenter did not even bother to read past #7 in the list, and I think they commented only to get a comment on Seth’s blog.

Comments are a pain to moderate, and may be passe. If you need traffic, back away from your computer and go for a drive. Hopefully someday, conversations on the Web will flow in Gnu and interesting ways.

Seth later posts about “Why I don’t have comments”. Point, set, match to Mr Godin. Hee.

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