Tuesday, June 25, 2002

THE LATEST POST TO MY "TEDIOUS ONLINE DIARY" If You Were a Well-Paid Newspaper Columnist Covering the Silicon Valley, Would You Write This?: Wired magazine, a scout for all that is cyberhip, marked the change with a story titled “Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of.” My reaction? Whatever. Blogs reside at what these days is the busy intersection of technology, voyeurism and self-absorption. (Think “Survivor,” “Fear Factor,” “Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska.”) And in that way they are a fine measure of what we've become: people who think their warped relationships, car trouble and mental illnesses are of interest to a vast audience. Cyberhip? This column, which treats all blogs as tedious online diaries, was written by Mike Cassidy, who is very happy to tell his Silicon Valley readers that he’s “never been an early adopter.” The column ends with an unfunny fake blog post that has nothing in common with the last 2,000 blog posts I’ve read. This type of column -- the “I turned my back on a not-very-new trend of specific interest to my readers, so now, instead of catching up, I’m going to make fun of it” piece -- is a sub-category just dominated by monopolist daily newspapers. [Matt Welch's Warblog] 3:10:31 PM     Comments[]

MAKING MONEY WITH A WEBLOG - PART IV See also Part III Andrew Sullivan is asking readers to take a survey so that he can better provide demographic information to a potential site sponsor. Sorry, Andrew doesn't provide permalinks on his site. The post begins, "And now...A Survey." Sullivan's site reinforces the notion that there are four ways to make money operating a weblog. 10:14:47 AM     Comments[]

GREAT NEW LOOK I'm inching toward a move to my own domain. Hope of a "nice, clean new look" is still in the distance! Well done, James! James Snell: Coming soon.... www.snellspace.com.  Moving the blog to it's own domain.  Nice, clean, new look too. [Sam Ruby] 8:33:25 AM     Comments[]

LEARNING HTML FUNDAMENTALS ALONG WITH ACCESSIBILITY Day 12: Using color safely. This tip is a general rule that applies to many areas of web design, but I will focus on a specific example that is common among weblogs: link text. [dive into mark] 8:11:51 AM     Comments[]

NECESSARY TOOLS In the trenches of techno-rebellion. Although technologies have arisen to thwart programs piggybacking on free software, most consumers fail to protect themselves. [CNET News.com] 7:35:27 AM     Comments[]

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