Category: blogging

97,000 results on Google for “powered by blogger“. That’s pretty cool.

PhotoDude.com has been fascinating to read over the past few months. I used to go for the photos. They’re beautiful. Since 9/11, though, he’s turned his blog into a totally different animal. I don’t know quite how to explain the change, because I don’t really know him, but it seems that where there were once soft edges and humor, is all hard corners and harsh words. Interesting.

Wow, yes another cool blogger has linked to me! I don’t believe it! And it’s Open Brackets, one of my faves to boot!

PhotoDude does an excellent job of finding quotes about, and commenting on, the state of the world. A great source of small stories, larger ideas and scary concepts.

Somebody linked to me!! I didn’t think this would be so cool, but it is! I think this brings the grand total to TWO. I’m movin’ up in the world.

That’s a funny concept. In 1997, I had a cool site. I got 30k hits a week on a personal site chock full of backgrounds and stupid stuff. I redesigned it every couple weeks. I was hot stuff. Then, I left PrimeHost and moved out here, and lost the site. Since then, I’ve been working as a corporate whore with no real urge to recreate the joy that was wacky.org. Maybe once I get Dsl… but, maybe not.

Why can’t I write stuff like this? I don’t write enough, which is funny, because I write all day long. It’s just code. See, don’t you just love rhetorical questions?

I love smart people who find great quotes. Caterina has a bunch of them:

• “I will fight to the death for all men’s right to seek the truth, but I will shoot on sight any man who claims he has found it.” – Unknown
• “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

Open Brackets is always a good source of quotes and well-written and insightful commentary. Saturday’s quote is especially poignant: I am ashes where once I was fire. – Byron.

I’ve been watching the Open Brackets | Textism romance from afar for a couple months now, and it’s just the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s great to see the sloppy-romantic-fresh-love stuff from both points of view and watch as he moved to France. It’s like a serial romance in three paragraph entries with (I’m sure) lots of information left out. It’s just sweet and pure and beautiful. I hope it lasts for them. They’re both great writers, and from what I’ve read by them, swell folk.

Again, this brings me back to my curiosity about the whole bloggy-thing we’ve got going on now. After watching the Kaycee Nicole thing explode recently, and tons of BBS, e-mail explosions in the distant past, the power of the communal internet (you know, the non-selling crap part) continues to amaze me.

This list bothers me only because they’re all female and I’m not sure what that says about me:

1. Firda of Weblog Wannabe
2. Caroline of Prolific.org
3. Meg of Not So Soft
4. Meg of Megnut
5. Caterina of Caterina.net

What’s great is that Megnut and Caterina.net ARE two of my favorite blogs. I don’t know the other three, but hey, maybe thing this is right after all. Who’s your twin? (beware the popup ad).