Tag Archives: blogs

But I don’t like spam!

By alex | Published: 10/23/2003
Woke up and spent some time cleaning up comment-spam. Bah! I guess I’ll have to take a look at MT-Blacklist. Now I just have to decide whether to try to dive into SourceID.Java, a framework to allow for multi-domain authentication. My guess is that the last thing I need is another project.
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Mainstream blogging

By alex | Published: 10/20/2003
At the final blogging pannel at IR4, someone wondered aloud whether blog research had “jumped the shark.” Meanwhile, Weinberger posted an examination of what happens “when blogs get really popular.” The latter does a good job of extrapolating current trends. But the truth is really somewhere in the middle, I think. Somewhere between 10% and […]
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e-democracy redux

By alex | Published: 10/9/2003
Joi Ito links to Ross Mayfield’s post on “Indirect Democracy” and complains that some seem to be confusing what he is calling “emergent democracy” with direct democracy. Of course, there is a rich and varied literature on democracy and networked technologies. While blogs are a hopeful technological move in the right direction, they are not […]
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BloggerCon == Bloggers?

By alex | Published: 10/6/2003
Oliver Willis recently took a poke at the hype that threatens to wash over the blogging phenomenon: During one of the Saturday sessions a member of the audience referred to the assembled crowd as “utopia”. Now, yes, I loved the blog camaraderie but quite frankly I don’t want to be the only black person in […]
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