25 month ago
plasticbag : Although nominated for best personality, I'm afraid I was not a winner at the Gay Bloggies - It went to the much more entertaining Towleroad instead. I always felt a bit out of place in the listings, not being quite A-Gay enough. Still it was nice to be nominated - gives you faith that it's not just the flamboyantly gay who get noticed...
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27 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC has an interesting article about the rise of weblogs at political events - It still sort of astounds me that seven years after I started my site, and when I kept trying to say to people, "no really, they're sort of interesting", with everyone looking at me like I was nuts, that thye've gone on to take over the whole bloody world
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Wikia is tracking the furore over the censoring of major weblog sites across India - This whole thing happened while I was on holiday, so I've missed a lot, but apparently geocities, typepad and Blogspot were affected by the ban...
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plasticbag : Medium-bunkish article about the role of weblogs in 2004 that compounds the old myth that blogs are more about publishing and punditry than they are about representing the voices of individuals online - "But it was in 2004 that debate about the role of the political blog and its impact on society really got under way."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : U2log.com - one of the first and best single-subject magazine-style weblogs - I'm not a great fan of U2, but it's still an impressive site - and more importantly was created way before Gawker media and the current fad for commercial webloggery. I wonder if it makes any money...
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50 month ago
Andy Baio : Threading related blog posts together with sparklines - more on Tufte's sparklines, or word-size graphics [via] [via]
Ethan Marcotte : Web-log Continuum Sparklines - Takin' a page from Tufte.
plasticbag : Inspired by Tufte - Weblog Continuum Sparklines - Tufte's sparklines are "intense, design simple, word-sized graphics that can gracefully and intensely narrate on-going results in detail" - and this site proposes a way of using them to illustrate posting activity around a specific subject...
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