Blogging

A Tragedy of the Electronic Commons

It's a bit like having a conference about literature filled with printers and refusing to invite Shakespeare or Keats or Milton because they aren't technical enough.

Emperor Norton: Friend of Blogs

Blogging is my greatest passion after my wife, so is it not fit that I train Emperor Norton to talk about some of the better ones that I know?

Wishy Washy Joel?

Principled stands in the middle often get attacked by both sides as "sell-outs" to the other side.

Change Revisited

None of us can hold back the tide of stupidity, but perhaps we could be the grunion coming to shore that make getting their feet wet worthwhile?

Rwanda Blackout

This blog shall observe a blackout tomorrow, April 7, 2004, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide

Intimacy

A common trend among the blogs I like is that the people who write them don't just spew off about politics.

The Milk of Paradise

Even a "fuck you" would help.

Immortal Topics

I like to keep this blog as a place where sufferers of loss aren't chided for their materialism, but given solace for their pain.

Temptation

I get to say all the naughty words around here. F*ck off.

Pseudonyms

I reject this thinking as unethical and as a capitulation.

Politics vs. What is Important 2

Politics must be seen in perspective. To make rational decisions, we must calm our anxieties.

Politics vs. What is Important

Everyone talks Fear: the Bushites tell me that terrorists prowl the streets, armed with nuclear-tipped balsa-wood gliders; the Kerry-outs tell me that four more years of Bush will destroy the nation and offer no plan for reversing the situation.

Crazy Tracy Goes and Comes Back

What can I say? Welcome back, Tracy. Come and go as you please. It's your life, dear.

Goodbye Crazy Tracy

Goodbye, hon. Follow your pen. It's the way to the heart.

The Drum Beat

When I look over Drum's commentary on the war and Kerry's let-Bush-have-his-way-votes, I find ample room for embarassment in both matters.

Never may Happen

In a year, I will be waving my hands trying to stop the Buffalo Herd from jumping off some new cliff and they will be there, doing it to me again.

Lillies of the Field

These are not awards. They are nonawards.

A Blogger's Bill of Rights

My weblog policy is consistent with these assertions of rights.

More than a Tempest

it is precisely because Wizbangblogs is attempting to position itself as an authority on what is good and what is bad that challenging the award category is important.

Michael Jackson

What I've missed in all the discussion about Michael Jackson is reference to his pathetic self-destruction aided and abetted by American attitudes towards people of color.

Blogchalking

...it doesn't seem to believe that there are any Californians with blogchalks.

Enraptured Spamming?

Is this really "comment" on the article or just hubris-fired personal spam?

Photo Blogroll Being Updated
I'm revising my photography blogroll. If you happen to have a photoblog or know of a good one, could you...

Non-co-optation

I've made a point to frequent blogs where the material roves with the mind of the writer. I prefer not to worry about those people who can't take the fact that I think for myself and choose my own subjects. I don't make it a ritual to open the newspaper and comment everyday -- what matters most to me is charting where I am.

Political?

I don't have time for people who don't have a clue about what they are doing, who don't make an effort to understand the criticisms that are lodged against them, who don't ask themselves "what have I done here?"

Post Nine Eleven

We often say 'Live for today'. That's America's problem these days. We're all still standing at the Battery watching the twin towers come down.

Gender Genie Feels You Out

In the wake of these revelations (more evidence that I have an enlarged clitoris), I went down the list of blogs in my daily walk. I discovered that according to Gender Genie, many people weren't what they seemed to be.

Standards of Failure

"The community?" I ask. "Hell, I'm part of the community, too." And if I am smart, I just get back to work.

Dead Blogs?
Shall I sing obsequies for the following? Vinman's Verbosity A Life Less Ordinary Artichoke Heart Chris Crosdale Sinister Sister Sunlight...

Talking to Burningbird: Getting in Fights

Nearly any sincere blogger has encountered at least one roach: sometimes they swarm -- if someone told me that they sent email to each other to say "Hey, we've got a mark" I would believe it to be true.

Folk Revolution

I want a world where even rants, bad poetry freely posted, personal punditry, and pictures of cats can ripple forth from the fall of the smallest pebble to lick the edges of the big pond and make the reeds along the shore tremble

The Other Side

On the other side of the monitor -- through the wire and optical cables -- is you, my reader.

Rewriting Blog Entries

I want to make it clear that I rewrite blog entries. I don't do this to avoid being nailed for impropriety: I do it to either correct a fact, strengthen the style, or clarify what I said by fixing the syntax.

Punditry as Avoidance of Self Examination

Is no one alive out there?

Why Blog?

There seem to be two reasons people give for blogging: to change minds and to get laid.

Of Blogging and Sticks: A Ramble

I'm having one of those days when contempt for the blogging world is at its high.

Principles of Blogging

When I go to other blogs, I strive to observe a few simple rules of decorum.

Fucks Up: Yours and Mine

Shelley's remarks mirror my own on this matter. Both of us have been accused of being contentious and irritable.

Attacks and Belief in Comments

Those who want to just attack strike me as a species of roach deserving classification or perhaps a variety of sock puppet with nothing but a fist inside of it.

The Method

They might call this plan "evil": tell them to tell that to Christ, the Buddha, and the rest of the great men and women of spirit.

Bloggers Can Be Sued for Libel

Don't let this man mislead you into thinking that you can get away with what radio stations, television stations, newspapers, novelists, and others who publish can't.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick has apologized for this at his own blog. I think if he is sincere, he should come here and to Writing in Orange to apologize at the other places where he did the damage. I now suspect that he saw a blog about Writers in Orange County and thought "Conservative meat!" I hate to inform him but I am probably well to the left and more libertarian than him.

I Have Never Walked Down this Street Before

The results I get for my Blogstreet neighborhood vary depending on which of my two possible URLs I punch in. Radically.

One Year Minus Nine Days

Tupperware comes off the line without blemishes, all looking alike. When you write as I do, you get balls of raw wax, misshapen boxes, and, now and then, the stuff of weird science -- things that crawl.

Hug and Keep Hugging Other Bloggers
Comments seem to be slow on many blogs. I've toured a bit and identified some active blogs that aren't so...

Coming at You Live and Past

I create radio.

Some say....

I write about both of them because if I don't, the one dark angel will silence the other and there will be no light.

A Wide Open Letter to Leftist Bloggers

I think many of you are spending too much time and focusing too exclusively on politics.

Another Open Letter to Jeanne d'Arc

I respect the right of news organizations to function as units and to act as centralized distributors of information. But every center point needs forces on the edges controlling its spin.

Crop Rotation

Call this a time for crop rotation, a change of topics or just a rest.

Personality as a Casualty of War

It's dead stuff, lifeless, removed, experience that isn't experience at all.

Inclarity and Paranoia

But I deserve neither the flak, the silence or the uncertainty that many of my readers have given me. Clarity is a responsibility that no one who writes should shirk. The reader is not always the one to blame.

Puzzled

How could they not have noticed?

The Dilemma

There are two opposing schools of journaling on the issue of moods.

The Manatee Speaks from the Bottom

Thank you for your comments: they cheer me. Thank you for your links whether you put them on the first page or on the last: they help me find a few more people like you.

Observing States of Mind

Are my friends who believe in the Not in Our Name statement but won't sign paranoid or did I make a mistake to come out? It happens in my life, in my mind. Therefore, I note it.

Pundit or Poet?

Good blog is a bit like The Picture of Dorian Grey: there's no moral, just art. And yet does not the art say a lot about the decisions that lead one towards good or towards evil, about being in this world with its issues and conflicts?

The Blog Obsession!

Obsession seems to be a common syndrome that bloggers fight.

A Place in History

I've been through all of these phenomena and a few more besides, but I think that it was my experiences on the abUSENet and mailing lists that truly drove me to the variety of online writing in which I now indulge.

Perfection
Damnation! Damn the Internet! I put my heart and soul into this journal entry and Explorer crashes! Let me attempt...