10 month ago
plasticbag : Lovely little BBC News piece on the tenth anniversary of weblogs which—probably for the first time—gets pretty much everything right! - In late 1998 they say there were only 23 blogs in the world. By the time I started plasticbag.org in late 1999 there were probably somewhere in the high hundreds. Things have changed a lot since then.
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10 month ago
nelson : Anil likes my blog! - Tooting my own horn, but a weblog endorsement from Anil Dash is pretty damn flattering
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11 month ago
philgyford : Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot | The Register - 'Power of Nightmares' etc creator on the BBC and other media being scared, the faults of blogs, user-generated content. "It's a time of great technical invention but it's a time of [artistic] stagnation."
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11 month ago
gleuschk : An Entirely Other Day. Returns. - all tumblry
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14 month ago
plasticbag : A nice supportive message from Stowe Boyd... - "Tom expresses the feeling that most well-known bloggers share: a learned avoidance -- if not physical disgust -- of PR folks who bombard us with PR."
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15 month ago
Simon Willison : How Top Bloggers Earn Money - How Top Bloggers Earn Money. Interesting numbers on BoingBoing, I can has Cheezburger, TechCrunch and more.
philgyford : How Top Bloggers Earn Money - I'm fascinated by people making decent amounts of money from this stuff, particularly when it happens almost accidentally. (via Daring Fireball)
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plasticbag : Yesterday I stumbled upon this fairly comprehensive list of decent weblogs circa March 2000. plasticbag.org was called barbelith.com back then... - I found it via a post on my site from the time that basically read, 'Wow, I never knew there were so many blogs in the world'. Funny thing, perspective. I remember with fondness most of the names on the list.
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17 month ago
plasticbag : The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards is about celebrating the best in European weblogs... - It's a pretty good way to see what people are writing about and to discover some new sites, and if you want to vote for me in the 'Past his best' category, that would be fine too...
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17 month ago
jimray : Jezebel is the latest Gawker blog - For women too smart to put up with women's magazines
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17 month ago
jimray : Vallyewag "unmasks" fake Steve Jobs as Leander Kahney, gets it wrong - I've read both for a while now and thought that the Kahney guess was way off. Let the mystery continue!
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17 month ago
jimray : Beware the 'blogola' - Since most media organizations have rules around accepting gifts from those looking to curry favor, Hollywood has aimed its spin zone at bloggers. This should be fun to watch.
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18 month ago
jimray : Tumblr gets a redesign and some social features - Add friends, reblog, better mobile support. I just want 'em to fix the fact that the cookie never seems to remember me.
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18 month ago
jimray : Radically, transparently stupid - More on transparency and bloggers from Fake Steve. "The truth is, all this "radical transparency" and "naked conversation" horseshit from Rubel and Shel Israel and Robert Scoble is just a way for PR flacks to feel more important t
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18 month ago
jimray : Dan Gillmor has a more reasoned response to Interview-gate - Seriously, though, these bloggers sure are a humorless bunch.
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18 month ago
jimray : The obsolete Jeff Jarvis - That man continues to prove how out of touch he is. Completely blows the Calacanis/Vogelstein thing *way* out of proportion in order to prove some idiotic point about how A-list bloggers make journalists irrelevant. Or something.
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18 month ago
jimray : The Triumph of Bullshit - Ben's tumblring. Rock.
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Everything Good is Bad For You - Everything Good is Bad For You: "Looking at photos of sunsets or reading one-liners takes no cognitive effort. It's the mental equivalent of snack food. You start eating one and before you know it you've gone through two cans of Pringles...&q
jimray : Aaron Swartz has some pretty cogent thoughts on how microcontent (blogs, twitter) is dumbing us down - "But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world's most popular timewaster, it doesn't seem like anyone is going t
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19 month ago
jimray : The only show on MTV that still plays music videos has a blog - With lots and lots of videos, thankfully
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19 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : The Criterion Contraption - watching and reviewing every DVD in the Criterion Collection [via]
jimray : The Criterion Contraption - Some dude is watching every Criterion Collection DVD. Sorta reminds me of the chick who blogged The Joy of Cooking.
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19 month ago
WillPate : Foundphotos - Photograhps found by searching P2P networks for common digital camera file names. An amazing peek into people's lives.
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20 month ago
jimray : 71Miles - All travel is local
factoryjoe : Hotels, vacations, restaurants and activities - 71Miles - Most getaways are short, local trips. 71Miles is a growing network of travel sites focused exclusively on regional travel, nothing else. Tags: travel, northern california, trips, vacation
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20 month ago
jimray : Docs for creating custom Tumblr themes
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20 month ago
jimray : Tumblr - Wicked cool hosted tubleblogs. Everyone seems to be talking about this the last 24 hours
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20 month ago
jimray : Fake Steve is now sponsored by Wired - Still one of my favorite Mac blogs - sometimes, fake can be so, like, REAL, man.
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