16 days ago
Anil : First! - Jay Smooth, "Please stop calling everyone and their mother 'The First Rapper'": U-Roy may be one of rap's predecessors, and among the influences that laid the foundation for rap, but he did not invent it...any more than Jocko Henderson, Gil Scott Heron,
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on the first rapper vs. the first blogger - "all of blogging is hip hop"
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Anil : First! - Jay Smooth, "Please stop calling everyone and their mother 'The First Rapper'": U-Roy may be one of rap's predecessors, and among the influences that laid the foundation for rap, but he did not invent it...any more than Jocko Henderson, Gil Scott Heron,
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tehu : Blo.gs ceased to Automattic - Happy to know that blo.gs will survive to Yahoo
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Richard Rutter : Jeremy Keith live on TIME - Playing at the Bloggies.
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Andy Baio : Obsession Times Voice - John Gruber, Merlin Mann, and Jonathan Coulton on writing for a living
philgyford : Daring Fireball: Obsession Times Voice - This "do the thing that interests you" advice (see also Tim O'Reilly) is all very well, but if you're interested in lots and lots of things it doesn't work nearly as well. You get spread too thinly.
# copy4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Magazeen magazine-like Wordpress theme - I don’t normally pay much attention to themes, but this is impressive.
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deusx : Where's your data? (Scripting News) - "Pay attention to what Craig says, and don't store anything on anyone else's server unless you know how you're going to get it off when you need to. Even better, don't store the original on someone else's server, keep that in
# copy6 month ago
philgyford : The Printed Blog | Home - A trial of a twice-daily very local newspaper in some US locations using content from blogs. It would be difficult to be any worse than, say, Metro, London Lite, Evening Standard, etc. in London.
# copy6 month ago
nelson : LiveJournal on the skids - LJ is a great example of a hugely valuable service that has never quite been a hugely valuable business
Andy Baio : Livejournal's engineering and support staff laid off? - looks like a job for the Archive Team
# copy6 month ago
deusx : 20 signs you don’t want that social media project | qwghlm.co.uk - "As some of you know, I now work in social media PR advising clients on how to best practice relations with bloggers and other aspects of social media. Most of my clients are fab and get it. Some clients (or potential clients) are less so. "
# copy7 month ago
Linkorama : The uncertain future of Blogging - It seems at times that blogging is becoming the domain of those people who still have something to say. I am now subscribed to more blogs than I ever have been, but at the same time I would say that I am getting real value from fewer blogs than ever.
# copy8 month ago
Anil : Actions Are The Body Language - If the words I write in these blog posts are my acts of speech, then the trail of actions I leave around the web must be the body language that accompanies them. So I made a page to capture what I'm doing around the web. If you read my blog in HTML (as o [via]
# copy8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Classy comeback - Jon Tan responds in kind to Joe Clark.
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Richard Rutter : Classy comeback - Jon Tan responds in kind to Joe Clark.
# copy8 month ago
philgyford : Sweetcron - The Automated Lifestream Blog Software - Self-hosted aggregation of things you do elsewhere on the web. Not convinced about the design of the example. You have to sign up to find out more. Oh well.
# copy9 month ago
Linkorama : Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 - @WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?
# copy9 month ago
Anil : Actions Are The Body Language - If the words I write in these blog posts are my acts of speech, then the trail of actions I leave around the web must be the body language that accompanies them. So I made a page to capture what I'm doing around the web. If you read my blog in HTML (as o [via]
# copy9 month ago
Anil : Actions Are The Body Language - If the words I write in these blog posts are my acts of speech, then the trail of actions I leave around the web must be the body language that accompanies them. So I made a page to capture what I'm doing around the web. If you read my blog in HTML (as o [via]
# copy9 month ago
Anil : Actions Are The Body Language - If the words I write in these blog posts are my acts of speech, then the trail of actions I leave around the web must be the body language that accompanies them. So I made a page to capture what I'm doing around the web. If you read my blog in HTML (as o [via]
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9 month ago
Linkorama : BuzzGain List of 20 blogging objectives - ...and how to measure them with examples
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10 month ago
43folders : 43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders - "I want to help you identify and remove any obstacle that keeps you from making things that you love. And then I want to help you figure out how to make those things even better. That’s pretty much it."
philgyford : 43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders - This post and a couple of other recent ones by Merlin Mann about his refocusing have been really inspiring. Great stuff. (via Kottke and Daring Fireball)
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10 month ago
Anil : On Exposure - I started blogging when I was 25, and it was a much smaller blogosphere back in 2000. I was able to make my mistakes in oversharing, overexposure, and unmitigated egotism in a smaller pond, without the entire New York media world and Jimmy Kimmel staring
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10 month ago
Anil : Sippey, Superstar! - One of the most satisfying and fun things I've ever seen in my job was the sight of my friend and coworker Michael Sippey onstage with Steve Jobs and the Apple crew, showing off TypePad for iPhone. In our line of business, Apple keynotes are just about th
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10 month ago
Anil : Mayor Mike's Not Wearing His Pajamas - Today Newtalk, a site dedicated to substantive political discussions, hosted a conversation asking "Is it possible to fix government?". In his response to host Philip Howard, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg reveals that it's his first time responding to a con
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