Montag, 4. August 2003

I hereby create the word 'shlogging'
Shlogging = a word to identify Shock Blogging, or blogging for shock value.  It's not necessarily a bad thing and you've got to admit it's everywhere and usually fun, to say the least.  And it's not always the shlogger's intent to be shocking.  Sometimes, it's just the subject matter that induces that ol' kneejerk reaction.  Here's a few fresh posts from my subscriptions, which I humbly offer as examples of this exciting genre: If you must shoot the messenger, please use those soft, cushy bullets, thank you... [jenett.radio]
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absurdity going mainstream?
Battle of the blog [jenett.radio]
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Medlogs
A weblog aggregator for medical weblogs.  Medserve, another aggregator, has medical RSS and scroll boxes available. [John Robb's Weblog]
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Negative analysis of Google's attempts at localization and AOL's weblog product
(via Microdoc News) [John Robb's Weblog]
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The Way and How of Blogging by Nick Finck
[Der Schockwellenreiter]
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The Birdhouse
Ben Kerschberg's Blog on Mental Health:
Ben Kerschberg is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Virginia. Since graduating from law school, he has clerked for a federal court of appeals judge, practiced law, and worked as an industry analyst for a public software company in Silicon Valley... He will spend the next two years as a Fellow at Yale Law School, where he hopes to write a book about the manner in which American society stigmatizes mental illness.

Ben Kerschberg knew at age seven that he would one day attempt suicide. ... It was not an idea he toyed with. He just knew. And he was right.

In (his book) Piercing The Veil, Kerschberg takes us with unflinching candor on a journey that begins in his sophomore year of college, when he suffers the first of a series of repeated and calamitous nervous breakdowns precipitated by daily suicidal ideations. His lifetime battle with his inner demons culminates, at age 30, in a failed suicide attempt and hospitalization in a psychiatric institution. His astonishing tale opens the eyes of those who have never suffered from mental illness and empowers those who have but feel that their truth must be bottled, corked, and sealed with wax. At times disarmingly funny, but more often poetically tragic, Kerschberg’s account breaks onto the scene with a powerful voice that will leave people reaching out to their friends and loved ones.

The weblog is a labor of love, doing a good job covering mental health-related media items. I haven't looked at the book but it is available for free download here. [Follow Me Here...]
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The Power of Personal Publishing Software
by Luigi Canali De Rossi [thomas n. burg | randgänge]
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An article in News.Com
while extremely incendiary, may be seen as the last gasp in the Great RSS War of 2003. [Scripting News]
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Sunlog lite
YA Weblog tool ... [thomas n. burg | randgänge]
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Easyjournal
Yet another new blog service[thomas n. burg | randgänge]
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Firebird's next killer
Forget weblog posting popups and textareas the future is Web Panels and XUL. [phil ringnalda dot com]
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